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Report of a Committee Set Up to Consider Certain Correspondence Between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca in 1915 and 1916

Arab and United Kingdom delegations, London Conference on Palestine, 16 March 1939, Cmd. 5974 (1939)

Primary documentReport of a Committee Set Up to Consider Certain Correspondence Between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca in 1915 and 1916, 16 March 1939Open the original on un.org

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On McMahon's letter to Sharif Hussein of Mecca

The Arab members of the 1939 committee held that Palestine was included in the area of Arab independence, in fact and in intention, and that McMahon's exclusions rested on French interests.

There is no room for doubt that Palestine was in fact and in intention included

Primary documentReport of a Committee Set Up to Consider Certain Correspondence Between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca in 1915 and 1916, 16 March 1939Open the original on un.org

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On Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence

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

Primary documentReport of a Committee Set Up to Consider Certain Correspondence Between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca in 1915 and 1916, 16 March 1939Open the original on un.org

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On Anglo-Arab committee reports on the McMahon correspondence

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

Primary documentReport of a Committee Set Up to Consider Certain Correspondence Between Sir Henry McMahon and the Sharif of Mecca in 1915 and 1916, 16 March 1939Open the original on un.org

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