HOPE SIMPSON, Sir John (1868-1961). Report on Immigration, Land Settlement

HOPE SIMPSON, Sir John (1868-1961). Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development. [Cmd. 3686.] -- Appendix Containing Maps [Cmd. 3687.] London: HMSO, 1930. Complete with the very rare appendix of maps. In reaction to the 1929 violent unrest in Palestine, the British government sent the Shaw Commission (Palestine. Statement with regard to British policy. Cmd. 3582, 1930) to report on the situation in the Mandate. This concluded that Jewish immigration pressurized and displaced the Arab population, and rejected the view that the Jewish National Home was the principal feature of the Mandate. The Shaw Commission recommended an investigation into Palestine's economic absorptive capacity of Jewish immigration, and the present lot, Sir John Hope Simpson's report, concluded that the increasing number of Jewish land purchases was leading to a growing population of landless Arabs. Hope Simpson's recommendations of reduced Jewish immigration and restrictions on land transfers were adopted by the Passfeld White Paper (Palestine. Statement of policy by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Cmd. 3692, 1930). Khalidi & Khadduri 1658; cf. Bryars & Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps (2014), p.79. 2 volumes, octavo (245 x 155mm), comprising text-vol. and appendix of maps. 5 folding maps, all but one colour-printed, folding graph at end of text-vol. (map 3 apparently never issued, maps 1 and 6 with very small holes at some creasefolds and a few very short marginal tears and nicks, maps and accompanying text in appendix with light dogearing). Original blue-green wrappers (wrappers to text-vol. faintly creased, appendix unevenly faded and extremities lightly rubbed). (2)