by hadassah | Aug 27, 2017 | Uncategorized, Winston Churchill
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...
by hadassah | Aug 27, 2017 | Winston Churchill
March 28, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill at the Jerusalem Conference on March 28th, 1921:
by hadassah | Aug 21, 2017 | Winston Churchill
March 28, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill On March 1st 1921, On March 1st, I (Emir Abdullah) left Maan by train for Amman. I then received a note from Sir Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner, inviting me to Jerusalem to meet the British Secretary of State...
by hadassah | Aug 21, 2017 | Winston Churchill
March 28, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill Lawrence of Arabia in a letter to his friend Robert Graves: “… So, as I say, I got all I want [for other people (e.g. for the Arabs)] – the Churchill solution exceeded my one-time hopes and quitted the game. Whether the...
by hadassah | Aug 21, 2017 | Winston Churchill
April 2, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill to Prime Minister David Lloyd George “We consider it necessary immediately to occupy militarily TransJordania… As we cannot contemplate hostilities with Abdullah in any circumstances, there is no...
by hadassah | Aug 20, 2017 | Winston Churchill
March 28, 1921 The Shame of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill visiting the graves of World War I British soldiers in Jerusalem: “You had only to look on your road here this afternoon to see the graveyard of over 2,000 British soldiers, and there are many other...
