Anglo-American Committee's recommendations on emigration to Palestine

[Mandate Palestine]. A Survey of Palestine. Prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry.

€ 2,800.00

The full three-volume set of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry's Survey of Palestine, the scarce third volume being not the supplement (with which it is often confused), but an extra volume labelled "For official use only", with the tagline on its title-page, "Detailed analyses and additional information compiled by the Government of Palestine during March, 1946 at the request of members of the Committee or of their research assistants", and no price on its wrappers, as it was for internal circulation only and not for sale.

After World War II, the Anglo-American Committee convened to discuss the state of Palestine, then still a British mandate under the post-WWI system, and to evaluate the impact of sanctioning Palestine as a potential destination for the European Jews who had survived the Holocaust and were now classed as refugees. The Inquiry's report included the testimonies of representatives from various communities, and extensive documentation of life in British Mandate Palestine, down to the details of protected exports, living conditions, and legal distinctions made between Arab and Jewish citizens.

The third volume includes details on the identity card system, listings of hospital patients sorted by religious group, "Absorptive capacity and immigration", "Arab land holdings", lists of Palestinian newspapers, principal religious dignitaries, and discusses the involvement of Palestinian citizens in the Armed Forces. This third volume is quite scarce, with only one set of the Survey including it on OCLC.

The recommendations of this Survey were clear and their consequences far-reaching. The Committee recommended that Palestine take in 100,000 Jews, that the White Paper regulations restricting the Jewish purchase of Arab lands be lifted, and that Palestine should be neither a Jewish nor an Arab state.

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