Reconstitution of the Arab Higher Committee

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...

Lebanon’s Minister of Economy adopts Decision No.

Great Britain and Transjordan sign a treaty of friendship and alliance, whereby London recognizes Transjordan as a sovereign independent State.

The Assembly of the League of Nations holds its final session and states the organization dissolved as of the following day.

In the course of its final session and its discussing of the mandates, the Assembly of the League of Nations acknowledges the independence of Transjordan while recalling the termination of the...

Seven British soldiers are killed in an Irgun terrorist attack on a military parking lot in Tel Aviv.