Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence

16 March 1939, London

Committee of the 1939 London conference examines whether the 1915–1916 correspondence covered Palestine.

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Dates itThe report is dated 16 March 1939 and was adopted at the conference's meeting on 17 March 1939.

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The Arab and United Kingdom members did not agree: each side kept its reading of whether Palestine was excluded from the pledge.

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This responded to McMahon's letter to Sharif Hussein of Mecca (24 October 1915)
The 1939 committee was set up to examine the 1915–1916 correspondence.

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