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IOR/L/PS/12/3351
- Record Id:
- 040-000558405
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000558395
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000602.0x000387
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100184391831.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/3351
- Title:
- Coll 26/9 'Palestine: Palestine Commission, 1937 and Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report) 1938: Reactions in the Persian Gulf Sheikhdoms'
- Scope & Content:
- This file contains correspondence regarding the Palestine Royal Commission, the Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report), and contemporary reactions in the Persian Gulf sheikhdoms [shaikhdoms]. The correspondence is primarily between the Foreign Office, the India Office and the Colonial Office, and covers topics including the following:
- The flight of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem [Ḥāj Amīn al-Ḥusaynī] to the Kingdom of Iraq, and British concerns about his continued ability to conduct 'anti-British and anti-Jewish propaganda'
- The plans of Dr Chaim Weizmann and the Zionists [Zionist Organization] for the foundation, population and protection of a Jewish state in Palestine
- The orders of the British High Commissioner for Palestine, Harold MacMichael, for the apprehension of the Palestinian activists Mohamed el Burnawi [Muḥammad al-Birnāwī], Sheikh Hassan Abu Saoud [Shaikh Ḥasan Abū al-Su‘ūd], and Sheikh Sabri Abdine [Shaikh Ṣabrī ‘Ābdīn]
- The supply of copies of the Palestine Report, through the Colonial Office and the India Office, to the Government of India, because of the 'dual need for haste and secrecy', and the dispatch of Arabic translations of the report to political agents in Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait
- The plans for the appointment and dispatch of a commission to Palestine to consult local communities and submit proposals towards a 'detailed scheme of partition'
- The plan to send the Grand Mufti to exile in 'some territory under French control as far as possible from Palestine' and prevent him going to 'Egypt, Iraq, or some other Arab country', where he would be 'well placed for continuance of his present activities'
- The assassination of the District Commissioner for Galilee, Lewis Yelland Andrews, and his bodyguard, Constable Peter Robertson McEwan, and the action taken by the Palestine Government against the Arab Higher Committee and its membership, including the deprivation of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem of the Presidency of the Supreme Muslim Council and Chairmanship of the General Wakf [Waqf] Committee
- The return of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem from Syria and the efforts of Ouni Bey Abdel Hadi [‘Awnī Beg ‘Abd al-Hādī] and Ahmad Hilmi Pasha [Aḥmad Ḥilmī Pāshā] to persuade Ragheb Bey [Rāghib Bey al-Nashāshibī] and his supporters to return to the Arab Higher Committee
- A request from the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Sir Trenchard Craven William Fowle, to the Secretary of State for India, Lawrence John Lumley Dundas, 2nd Marquess of Zetland for copies of the Arabic translation of the Palestine Report.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000558395
040-000558405 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/3342-3360 : Political (External) Collection 26: Palestine and Transjordan
IOR/L/PS/12/3351 : Coll 26/9 'Palestine: Palestine Commission, 1937 and Palestine Partition Commission (Woodhead Report) 1938: Reactions in the… - Contains:
- IOR/L/PS/12/3351, f 221 : A map of Palestine, showing the provisional boundaries after partition
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- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0027]/037-000558395[0010]/040-000558405
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (264 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1937
- End Date:
- 1939
- Date Range:
- 14 May 1937-1 Nov 1939
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- The main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 266; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- Coll 26/9
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Colonial Office, 1854-1966
Foreign Office, 1782-1968
Grand Mufti, Jerusalem, 1920-
World Zionist Organization, 1897- - Subjects:
- Partition
Royal commissions
Settler colonialism - Places:
- Iraq, Middle East, Asia
Palestine, Middle East, Asia
Persian Gulf, Asia
Syria, Middle East