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The Government of Palestine was badly shaken by the riots and by the criticisms and accusations the Jews, both in the country and in the diaspora, levelled at them for failing to fulfil the primary duty of protecting the life and property of peaceful citizens. The Administration was on the defensive and, as will be discussed later in the chapter, tried to minimize the damage to its prestige.
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See G. Sheffer, ‘Intentions and Results of British Policy in Palestine: Passfield’s White Paper’, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 9, no. 1, January 1973; and ‘Introduction’ by Camillo Dresner to The Letters and Papers of Chaim Weizmann, series A, Vol. XIV (Transaction Books, Rutgers University, Israel Universities Press, Jerusalem, 1978), p. xix. See also Joseph Gorny, The British Labour Movement and Zionism 1917–1948 (London: Frank Cass, 1983), p. 89, for an interpretation which suggests that the Passfield White Paper expressed responses to the 1929 riots within the British Labour Movement similar to those after the riots of 1921.
See Norman Rose, Chaim Weizmann: A Biography (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1987), p. 280.
Pinhas Ofer, ‘The Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929: Appointment, Terms of Reference, Procedure and Report’, Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 21, no. 3, July 1985, pp. 352–3; see also Dresner, op. cit., p. xiv.
See Y. Porath, The Palestinian Arab National Movement: From Riots to Rebellion, Vol. 2: 1929–1939 (London: Frank Cass, 1977), pp. 114–18.
PREM 1/102, f. 227, CO memorandum of 20 June 1930. See also Yosef Gorny, Zionism and the Arabs 1882–1948 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987), transl., p. 186.
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Kolinsky, M. (1993). Controversy over the Riots. In: Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928–35. Macmillan’s Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375659_4
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