Palestine: Statement of Policy. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty May 1939 [The “MacDonald White Paper”]
AUCTION 22 |
Tuesday, January 27th,
2004 at 1:00
Fine Judaica: Printed Books, Manuscripts and Works of Graphic Art Including Holy Land Maps, Illustrated Books, Photography and Graphic Art from The Collection of Daniel M. Friedenberg of Greenwich, Conn
Lot 96
(ISRAEL, LAND OF).
Palestine: Statement of Policy. Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty May 1939 [The “MacDonald White Paper”]
London: HM Stationary Office 1939
Est: $1,000 - $1,500
PRICE REALIZED $800
The infamous White Paper of May 1939: “His Majesty's Government now declares unequivocally that it is not part of their policy that Palestine should become a Jewish State." To achieve an even balance between Jewish and Arab interests in Palestine, the British Government curtailed Jewish immigration and prohibited any further transfer of Arab land to Jews. To expand the Jewish National Home indefinitely, believed the Mandatory Government, would result in "rule by force," and thus they declared over the subsequent five years, Jewish immigration would be limited to no more than 75,000.
Thousands of European Jews, fleeing for the safety of the Jewish Homeland, from a certain death in Nazi-dominated Europe, were sent back by the British Immigration officials of Palestine implementing the immigration restrictions proposed and subsequently established by the MacDonald White Paper