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In the months following the riots of August 1929, the expectations of the leaders of the Arab community were raised by the sympathetic attitude of the High Commissioner and by the report of the Shaw Commission of Inquiry. The White Paper of October 1930 seemed to offer important concessions to them, but doubts were raised when a committee of the Cabinet opened negotiations with representatives of the Zionist movement. When the results of these negotiations became known in February 1931 with the publication of the Prime Minister’s letter to Dr Weizmann, the Arab leaders reacted with consternation. A further disappointment, particularly to the Mufti, was the report of the international commission investigating the issue of the Wailing Wall, which was published in June 1931.
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Ibid., p. 5.; H. A. R. Gibb, ‘The Islamic Congress at Jerusalem in December 1931’, in Toynbee, Arnold J., Survey of International Affairs 1934, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1935), p. 100
Ann Mosely Lesch, Arab Politics in Palestine, 1917–1939 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1979). pp. 139–40.
Ibid., pp. 102–3. See also James Jankowski, ‘Egyptian Regional Policy in the Wake of the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936: Arab alliance or Islamic Caliphate?’, in Britain and the Middle East in the 1930s, ed. by Michael J. Cohen and Martin Kolinsky (London: Macmillan, 1992).
Taysir Jbara, Palestinian Leader Hajj Amin al-Husayni (Princeton, N.J.: Kingston Press, 1985), pp. 111–12.
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Kolinsky, M. (1993). Uneasy Order. In: Law, Order and Riots in Mandatory Palestine, 1928–35. Macmillan’s Studies in Military and Strategic History. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375659_9
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