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March 24, 1921 The Palestine Mandate is Reduced by 75%

March 24, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill

The Palestine Mandate is Reduced by 75%

In an urgent letter to the Foreign Office, the Colonial Office explained that Article 25 (of the Palestine Mandate) had been framed in such a way as to enable Britain “to set up an Arab administration and to withhold indefinitely the application of those clauses of the mandate which relate to the establishment of the National Home for the Jews”

Source: Kleiman, Aaron S. Foundations of British Policy in the Arab World: The Cairo Conference of 1921, Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1970, p. 123

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