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Faced with the increasing ferocity of the Arab rebellion in Palestine in 1938, as the threats to peace in Europe were becoming more menacing, the Chamberlain government sought to shore up its position in the Middle East. The problem was to crush the rebellion without losing the support of the Arab countries with whom treaty relations had been forged. The solution chosen by the government was to shift policy decisively: partition was rejected, and the development of the Jewish National Home was curtailed.
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See Arthur D. Morse, While Six Million Died ( London: Secker & Warburg, 1968 ), pp. 234–5.
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See articles by Martin Kolinsky: ‘The Demise of the Inter-University Council for Higher Education Overseas’, Minerva vol. 21, no. 1 (Spring 1983), pp. 37–80.
See also Martin Kolinsky, ‘Federation and Partition in the Transformation of Empire’, in Cornelia Navari (ed.), British Politics and the Spirit of the Age (Keele University Press, 1996 ), pp. 159–73.
See Ronald W. Zweig, Britain and Palestine During the Second World War (Boydell Press, 1986), pp. 47–54.
Yoav Gelber, ‘The Defence of Palestine in World War II’, Studies in Zionism, vol. 8, no. 1 (1987), pp. 52–3.
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Kolinsky, M. (1999). The Policy of Appeasement: the White Paper on Palestine and Jewish Refugees. In: Britain’s War in the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27636-3_5
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