New York Times · 8 July 1937

CP-1937-019

Text of Official Summary of the Royal Inquiry Commission’s Report on Palestine

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“The commission have no doubt as to what were its immediate causes. They were: 1. The desire of the Arabs for national independence. 2. Their hatred and fear of the establishment of the Jewish National Home.”

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The Peel Commission’s official summary, printed whole, with the partition maps. The paper gives the commission’s own ordering of causes and puts Arab national independence first. One of the founding documents of the partition idea, in full, on one page of an American newspaper.

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"Text of Official Summary of the Royal Inquiry Commission’s Report on Palestine," New York Times, 8 July 1937. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1937-019. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1937-019

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