League of Nations Acknowledges the Independence of Transjordan

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...

The Arab League delegates Jamil Mardam Bey, Syrian acting prime minister, to Jerusalem to press for the formation of a Palestinian representative body.

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.

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

Five Palestinian political parties (National Defense Party, Independence Party, National Bloc Party, Reform Party, Arab Youth Congress ) and other Palestinian figures withdraw from the Arab Higher...

US President Harry Truman calls for the immediate immigration of 100,000 Jews into Palestine and endorses the right of the Jews to purchase land in Palestine, while ignoring the remaining...

The Council of the Arab League summons Palestinian party leaders to Bludan and supervises the establishment of a new and unified Arab Higher Committee for Palestine to be chaired by Haj Amin...

The conference, held in London and led by Herbert Morrison (Great Britain) and Henry Grady (the US), proposes a federal scheme (known as Morrison-Grady Plan ) as the solution of the Palestinian...