(ZIONISM).

H.M. Stationary Office

London

1948

Palestine Act, 1948. An Act to make provision with respect to the termination of his Majesty’s jurisdiction in Palestine, and for purposes connected therewith. [British Act of Parliment]. pp. 4,(2). Lightly browned, chipped at outer margins. Unbound. 8vo. [11 & 12 Geo. 6. Chapter 27] London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 29th, April 1948. * Palestine: Termination of the Mandate, 15th May, 1948. Statement prepared for public information by the Colonial Office and Foreign Office. pp. 11,(1). Lightly browned. Unbound. 8vo. London, His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1948

“On the fifteenth day of May, nineteen hundred and forty-eight...declare to be the date on which the mandate in respect of Palestine accepted by His Majesty on behalf of the League of Nations will be relinquished. His Majesty’s Government in the United kingdom shall cease to be responsible for the government of Palestine.” Following the rejection of the Morrison-Grady Plan for the division of Palestine and the international scandal of the Exodus affair, the British Government announced its intention to hand the Mandate over Palestine to the United Nations. Thereafter, the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine recommended the partition of Palestine into two independent states- Jewish and Arab. Accepted by the Jew, the Partition Plan was rejected by the Arabs and the ensuing fighting was to be the nascent Israel’s War of Independence