Passfield white paper
The
Passfield White Paper came out of the Hope-Simpson Commission's investigation into the deeper causes of the
Wailing Wall disturbances of 1929. The paper backtracked from the
Balfour Declaration and, if implemented, would have limited Jewish immigration to
Palestine. However,
Zionists mounted a campaign against the document, which led to
Ramsay MacDonald's disavowal of the
white paper in front of the
British House of Commons.
Cleveland, William L. 2004: A History of the Modern Middle East, Oxford: Westview Press.
