At one of the sessions of the London Round Table Conference on Palestine (Arabs, Jews, and the British) Malcolm MacDonald openly told Chaim Weizmann … “If it came to a choice between Jewish or Arab support,’ MacDonald asserted, ‘he did not believe that, valuable as Jewish assistance would be, it would make up for what […]
Permanent Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign Office, Sir Alexander Cadogan wrote in a Foreign Office minute Lord Halifax: ‘Are we really trying to find a place for them (e.g. Jews) in Northern Rhodesia? It would help enormously towards an “Arab” solution of Palestine if we could find an alternative “home” elsewhere.’ Source: Gilbert, Martin. […]
“London- THE LONG-DELAYED CONFERENCES (e.g. London Round Table) ON PALESTINE, in which the British government will attempt to end the unofficial civil war waged by Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land, will be open by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain at St. James’s Palace Tuesday. IN ITS FAVORITE ROLE OF THE ‘HONEST BROKER,’ the British […]
“QUICK ACTION SEEN GUIANA IS STRESSED AS A SANCTUARY AS URGENT PLEA IS SENT TO U.S. OFFICIALS DENOUNCE NAZIS INSKIP DECRIES ‘APPALLING’ ACTS―CABINET AIDE PREDICTS THE OVERTHROW OF DICTATORS” “The British Cabinet is understood to have given tentative approval today to a plan for opening thinly settled parts of the British colonial empire as a […]
Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain “British Give U.S. Palestine Pledge MacDonald Bars Invitation to Parley, but Promises to Protect our interest ‘NEIGHBORS’ TO GET BIDS Arab – Populated Countries Asked to Send Delegates to London Round Table “Mr. Mac Donald (e.g. Colonial Secretary) also assured questioners that there was no possibility that the Jews in the […]
“With the fate of Czechoslovakia fresh in their minds Zionist circles in London tonight were fearful that the Jews of Palestine would next be “sold down the river” in fulfillment of the British policy of seeking peace with the Nazis. An important conference which may decide the future status of Palestine proceeded all day long […]
THE BRITISH APPEASE THE NAZIS BY SUPPORTING THE DISMANTLEMENT OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA The shame of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain ― “peace for our time” “The settlement of the Czechoslovakian problem, which has now been achieved is, in my view, only the prelude to a larger settlement in which all Europe may find peace. This morning I […]
Sir Sidney Waterlow the British Ambassador in Athens wrote: “Every British ambassador in Europe received instructions on July 21, 1938, that he was to press his respective government not to allow Jews to pass through their ports or towns on their way to Palestine. “The Greek government have, at my insistence, now instructed their missions […]
The Souther California Arab American Oil Company (SOCAL) struck commercial grade oil in Saudi Arabia Source: Wikipedia
Colonial Secretary Malcolm McDonald: “The government has to choose between its commitments to the world of Jewry and the world of Islam. This must mean that we do not contemplate even a distant future in which there could be a Jewish majority in Palestine.” Source: Sir Martin Gilbert: British Policy towards Jewish Refugees 1933 to […]