Pact of the League of Arab States; Annex on Palestine

In accordance with MacDonald White Paper (1939), the British High Commissioner is empowered to severely restrict further land acquisitions by Jews.

The Haganah creates the Palmach ("Strike Forces") as its elite underground wing.

The protocol, issued by representatives of five Arab states (Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, and Transjordan ) meeting in Alexandria, announces the representatives' intent to establish a League of Arab...

LEHI-Stern Gang terrorists assassinate Lord Walter Moyne, British resident minister of state, in Cairo, Egypt.

US President Franklin D.

Following the death of Franklin D.

Elections in Great Britain lead to the defeat of Churchill and the rise of the British Labour Party (under Clement Attlee 's leadership), which had run on a platform that called not only for a...

President Harry Truman requests British prime minister Clement Attlee to allow the immigration of 100,000 Jews into Palestine.

Mandate authorities introduced broad emergency powers, including military courts, detention, censorship and demolition.

British foreign secretary Ernest Bevin announces in new statement of policy the formation of an Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry "to examine the question of European Jewry and to make a further...