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Arabs or by the Jews, or to impose ourselves a solution of our own. We have, therefore, reached the conclusion that the only course now open to us is to submit the problem to the judgment of the United Nations. We intend to place before them an historical account of the way in which His Majesty's Government have discharged their trust in Palestine over the last 25 years. We shall explain that the Mandate has proved to be unworkable in practice, and that the obligations undertaken to the two communities in Palestine have been shown to be irreconcilable. We shall describe the various proposals which have been put forward for dealing with the situation, namely, the Arab Plan, the Zionists' aspirations, so far as we have been able to ascertain them, the proposals of the Anglo-American Committee, and the various proposals which we ourselves have put forward. We shall then ask the United Nations to consider our report, and to recommend a settlement of the problem. We do not intend ourselves to recommend any particular solution.
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60-member constituent assembly (representation of "important sections of citizenry" according to their respective numbers). The drafting of the constitution should embody the following principles: a unitary state of Palestine; sanctity of holy places in accordance with the status quo; 10 years of residence for naturalization; compulsory teaching of Arabic in schools; Hebrew as a second official language in districts with a Jewish majority; end of Jewish immigration until enactment of a new law is approved by a majority of Arab legislators; and rights of Jewish citizens guaranteed and amended only by a law approved by a majority of Jewish legislators.
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in the negotiations on the Palestine question with both the Zionists, on the one hand, and the Arab states and the Palestinians, on the other. As it turned out, this decision led to the British retreat from Palestine. The frustrated Foreign Secretary bluntly blamed Harry S Truman, the U.S. President, for blocking his efforts to solve the Palestine problem ... Bevin was furious at what he regarded as the President's bowing to American Jewish political pressure. The public accusations made by Britain's Foreign Secretary were unprecedented in Anglo-American relations.
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the High commissioner would endeavour to form a representative Advisory council. At the end of four years, a Constituent Assembly would be elected. If agreement was reached between a majority of the Arab representatives a majority of the Jewish representatives in this Assembly, an independent State would be established without delay. In the event of disagreement, the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations would be asked to advise upon future procedure.
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In his famous, controversial address in the House of Commons on 25 February 1947, Ernest Bevin, Britain's Foreign Secretary, told of the Govemment's decision to refer the Palestine problem to the United Nations. Bevin admitted the failure by the Government to break the impasse that had been reached
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The proposed terms of trusteeship would include provision for a substantial measure of local autonomy in areas so delimited as to include a substantial majority either of Jews or of Arabs. The High Commissioner would retain responsibility for protecting the minorities in these areas. At the centre,
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Speaking in parliament on 25 February, Bevin bitterly blamed President Truman for the failure of the London Conference, and expressed his hope that the disputing parties would be more willing to come to an understand in view of the British position. It is quite clear that at this stage Bevin still
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The new British proposal was rejected by all parties – the Jewish Agency, the Palestine Arab Higher Executive and the Arab countries. The Jewish Agency requested that Palestine should become a Jewish State, that Jewish immigration should be permitted up to the full extent of the country's economic
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The Jewish Agency rejected proposals that did not include an independent state. At the same time, the Arab representatives remained in the stance that Jewish immigration resulting in an independent state would result in "bloodshed." The Arab representative's counter proposals during the conference
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The congress described the Morrison-Grady plan as "a travesty of Britain’s obligations under the Mandate", unacceptable as a basis for discussion, and confirmed that the Zionist Organization could not "in the existing circumstances" participate in the London conference. The congress's demands were
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During a heated debate in the House of Commons on February 25, 1947, Bevin elaborated on the reasons why the conference had failed. Although a few days earlier he had stressed the near impossibility of bringing the Jews and Arabs together, Bevin now spoke of the conference in far different terms.
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The conference restarted in January 1947. This time, a Delegation representing the Palestine Arab Higher Executive joined the Arab League states, and Jewish Agency representatives engaged in parallel via informal conversations with the British government. On 7 February 1947 the British government
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The proposals describe the transitional arrangements that should be completed by 31 December 1948 and indicate the end of the Mandate and the independence of Palestine: establishment of a provisional government (7 Arabs, 3 Jews); preparation of an electoral registry (male suffrage); election of a
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Bevin blamed Truman for the failure of the conference in a speech a week after he announced its failure; according to Professor Arieh Kochavi, "Bevin was furious at what he regarded as the President's bowing to American Jewish political pressure." Bevin's speech was widely attacked in the United
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His Majesty's Government have of themselves no power, under the terms of the Mandate, to award the country either to the Arabs or to the Jews, or even to partition it between them. It is in these circumstances that we have decided that we are unable to accept the scheme put forward either by the
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Letter from Eliahu Epstein to Harry S Truman, May 14, 1948: "My dear Mr. President, I have the honor to notify you that the State of Israel has been proclaimed as an independent republic within the frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29,
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in 1942. The Biltmore Resolution was a declaration of a need for Jewish mass migration to Palestine and a creation of a commonwealth, with the belief that the rest of the Zionist movement would eventually agree. This led to the birth of the ultimate Zionist goal of a Jewish state in a portion of
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The Arab Delegates at once made it clear that they were opposed to this plan in principle and could not accept it as a basis for discussion. They criticized many of its features; but was clear that, fundamentally, their rejection of this solution was based on their conviction that any scheme of
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attempted to convince Arab figures such as Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam to publicly endorse the Zionists' proposal for the dispute. Previous conversations Sasson had with political figures had seem to have gone in his figure, so his team went into the conversation optimistically.
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Clipping from the era of Mandatory Palestine, published between the London Conference and the UN's decision. Vaad Leumi of Palestine issues a warning to Jewish terrorists two weeks before the UN partition decision. The Palestine Post (newspaper), Nov 17, 1947, page
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report which had been published on 20 April 1946; recommendations resulting from this conference were sent to the British government. The Arab governments invited the British government to meet in order to reach an agreement ahead of the upcoming
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and the resulting refugees. It also covered the British response during The Holocaust and discussed existing tensions between the Jews in Palestine and the British forces there due to the Mandate. During the keynote address of the congress,
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as well as "prominent Palestinian Arabs" and "representatives of Jewish opinion in the United Kingdom and in Palestine" were invited. Neither the Jewish Agency for Palestine nor the Palestine Arab Higher Executive accepted the invitations.
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On 18 February 1947, immediately following the conference, foreign secretary Ernest Bevin announced that Britain was unable to solve the problem and would pass it to the United Nations to propose a solution:
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On February 25, Bevin opened the Commons debate on Palestine. A substantial part of his speech was taken up with castigating President Truman, whom Bevin blamed for spoiling the negotiations of the previous
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The Conference's failure to reach agreements between Arabs and Jews regarding the future of Palestine led Britain to renounce the Mandate and "submit the problem to the judgment of the United Nations."
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in March 1948 in response to the then-ongoing civil war between the Arabs and Jews in Palestine. The idea of a trusteeship was floating around during and after the last of the London conferences.
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On 4 October 1945, it is mentioned in the British Cabinet's minutes that the foreign secretary would propose a solution before passing it along to the United Nations.
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submitted a new proposal to all parties. The plan proposed a five-year British trusteeship over Palestine with the intention to prepare the country for independence.
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A press statement made by President Truman on October 4, 1946, advocating for the Jewish Agency proposal effectively "torpedoed" British plans for the conference.
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The conference began on 9 September 1946, with only representatives of the Arab States in attendance, but without Jewish or Palestinian Arab representatives.
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According to the foreign secretary, the London sessions were on the verge of a settlement when they were undercut by the president of the United States.
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The London conferences are part of a long chain of discussions relating to the Palestinian conflict. Previous notable British involvement includes the
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was formed on 15 May 1947. The committee made an effort to combine input from Palestinian and American Zionist organizations.
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in November 1947 was the result of the issue passing along into the UN's hands. This then resulted in the
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offered minority protection and citizenship for the Jewish population that choose to live in Palestine.
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The Arab Constitutional Proposals for Palestine at the London Roundtable Conference were the following:
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Additionally, one of the precursors to the eventual outcome of the conferences was the
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The British government issued invitations on 25 July 1946, just three days after the
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absorptive capacity and “a viable Jewish State in an adequate area of Palestine.”
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The new proposals were later summarized by the British government as follows:
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Index

London Conference of 1946–47

British Government of Clement Attlee
Palestine
Mandate
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
White Paper of 1939
Council of the Arab League
Bloudan Conference of 1946
Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
second meeting of the First session of the United Nations General Assembly
General Assembly
Biltmore Conference
Morrison-Grady Plan
King David Hotel bombing
Arab League
Jewish Agency for Palestine
Palestine Arab Higher Executive
Abdul Rahman Hassan Azzam
Secretary General of the Arab League
Eliyahu Sasson
Morrison–Grady Plan
United Nations General Assembly
World Zionist Congress
Basel
The Holocaust
Chaim Weizmann
Bevin Plan
The New York Times
Ernest Bevin

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