Balfour, Weizmann and the Creation of Israel
Charles Glass: Palestine, 7 June 2001
One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate
by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman.
Little, Brown, 612 pp., £25, January 2001,0 316 64859 0 Show More
by Tom Segev, translated by Haim Watzman.
Little, Brown, 612 pp., £25, January 2001,
Ploughing Sand: British Rule in Palestine 1917-48
by Naomi Shepherd.
Murray, 290 pp., £12.99, September 2000,0 7195 6322 4 Show More
by Naomi Shepherd.
Murray, 290 pp., £12.99, September 2000,
“... in Palestine from 1931 to 1938, co-ordinated his strategy with the local Zionist leader, David Ben Gurion, yet complained to his Private Secretary: ‘The thing is I have never met the PM and I don’t suppose I ever shall. Weizmann can go in there when he wants to.’ It was an important factor in keeping British officials ‘on message’, even when they ... ”