The Jewish Monitor · 22 August 1919
CP-1919-013
PEACE CONFERENCE COMMISSION TO HOLD INVESTIGATION.
from the Jerusalem correspondent of the Jewish Morning Journal
Transcribed from the clipping
“The very first question that was put to the spokesmen of Palestine Jewry was ‘What would be the attitude of the Jews toward the non-Jewish inhabitants of Palestine?’ … The Commission wanted to know how large a Jewish population in the opinion of the delegation could be absorbed in Palestine. The reply was four million… it was evident from the questions put by the Commission that the Palestine it had in mind was not limited to the territory west of the Jordan.”
Context added by this archive
The King–Crane Commission beginning work in Jaffa on 10 June 1919. Its opening question names roughly nine-tenths of the country’s population by what they are not — the Balfour Declaration’s own construction, reprinted in an American paper. One line of type in the third column is set upside down; the inversion is the paper’s. “accomodate” is the paper’s spelling.
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"PEACE CONFERENCE COMMISSION TO HOLD INVESTIGATION.," The Jewish Monitor, 22 August 1919. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1919-013. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1919-013
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