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After the riots of August 1929, public security in mandatory Palestine remained tenuous. Inter-communal tensions between Jews and Arabs persisted; and the external circumstances influencing Palestine in the mid-1930s contributed to the possibility of renewed disorder. The persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and the harsh economic situation afflicting Jews in Poland, Roumania and elsewhere in eastern Europe created large-scale immigration into Palestine. The United States, Canada, Britain, Australia and other countries of the British Empire would not accept more than a trickle of Jewish immigration. The relative ease of entry into Palestine, during the years 1933–36 therefore attracted unprecedented numbers, enhancing the size and confidence of the Jewish community.1
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See Chapter 10; see also Y. Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement, 1929–1939, Vol. II (London: Cass, 1977)
Ann Moseley Lesen, Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917–1939 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1979).
See Chapters 5 and 6 on Egypt; see also J. C. Hurewitz, The Middle East and North Africa in World Politics, A Documentary Record, Vol. 2, 2nd edn rev. and enlarged (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979), pp. 500–1.
See Martin Kolinsky, ‘Reorganization of the Palestine Police after the Riots of 1929’, Studies in Zionism, (10:2), Autumn 1989, pp. 155–76.
AIR 5/1244, Ch. 24, p. 1. See also Michael J. Cohen, Palestine: Retreat from the Mandate (London: Paul Elek, 1978), pp. 15–21
CO 733/371/1, f. 235, report of 30 October 1936. Wauchope attributed the calling off of the strike to ‘the obedience of the Arabs to the call of the Arab rulers’. CO 733 297/5, f. 259, Memorandum by HC on General Dill’s report. See Cohen, Retreat, pp. 22–4, and’ sir Arthur Wauchope, the Army, and the Rebellion in Palestine, 1936’, Middle Eastern Studies, 9 (1), January 1973, pp. 27–9; and Elie Kedourie, Islam in the Modern World and Other Studies (London: Mansell, 1980)
AIR 5/1244, Haining report of 24 August 1938, covering the period 20 May 1938 to 31 July 1938, p. 3. See Charles Townshend, ‘The Defence of Palestine: insurrection and public security, 1936–1938’, The English Historical Review, CIII (1988) p. 943
Haining, ibid., p. 6; see also Tom Bowden, The Breakdown of Public Security (London and Beverly Hills: Sage, 1977), pp. 245–6.
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Kolinsky, M. (1992). The Collapse and Restoration of Public Security. In: Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s. Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11880-9_9
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