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[BRITISH MANDATE].

Report of the Commission on the Disturbances of August, 1929.

Report of the Commission on the Disturbances of August, 1929.

Stock Code 106330

London, H. M. Stationery Office, March 1930.

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The Shaw Commission report. Officially known as the 'Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929' was the result of the British commission of inquiry, led by Sir Walter Shaw. The commission was came to investigate the violent rioting which took place in Palestine in late August 1929 (aka the Buraq Uprising) over the long-standing dispute between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Appendix V, pp. 196-199, contains the 'Statement of British Policy in Palestine issued by Mr. Churchill in June, 1922'.

8vo (24.5 x 15.5 cm); 4 folding maps (one in colour), original printed wrappers, spine held together with tape, old pencil inscriptions, small marginal tears and browning; previous owner's signature to title page; stamps of the Jerusalem Consulate of the Republic of Czechoslovakia throughout the book; 202, [4] pp.

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