Moses Smilansky (2 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good +. 80 pp covers bit soile internally vg Testimony before the Anglo American Committe of Inquiry urging cooperation.

Paperback. Condition: VERY GOOD. First Edition. 80pp. Staplebound in blue printed wraps. Edges toned, crease to fore tail corner of the front cover. Clean and sound otherwise. Beginning in the early 30's three of the most prominent leaders in the Zionist movement became vocal critics of the division already present in the British-Mandate administration of Palestine proponents of a unified Arab-Jewish state. This first testimony following the war was given before a joint British-American committee convened with the expressed interest of exploring the role of British Palestine in the settlement of Jewish war refugees. The committee also saw testimony from nationalist Zionists such as David Ben Gurion, as well as Arab Palestinians. The findings of the committee would be gathered up into a proposal for a federal government under British administration, drafted by British cabinet minister Herbert Morrison and US ambassador Henry F. Grady. The Morrison-Grady plan was mutually rejected by Jews and Arabs. From the introduction: 'The Ihud (Union) Association was formed in September, 1942. It is not a political party. . Though members of Ihud may have varying views on details, they are united in the firm conviction that there is but one way of meeting the Palestine problem--that of Jewish-Arab cooperation. . The Ihud (Union) association stands for the union of Jews and Arabs in a bi-national Palestine based on the parity of the two peoples.' The Ihud association would offer their case again the following year at the United Nations Special Commission on Palestine the following year.