British Imperial Policy

The British White Paper of 1939 was a formal statement of policy issued by the British government in response to escalating Arab-Jewish tensions in Mandatory Palestine. Rejecting both the partition plan proposed by the 1937 Peel Commission and the eventual establishment of a Jewish state, the White…

The British White Paper of June 1922 clarified the interpretation of the 1917 Balfour Declaration and outlined British policy in Mandatory Palestine amid growing Arab unrest and Zionist expectations. It rejected claims that Britain aimed to create a wholly Jewish state and emphasized that the…