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development, and, pending his report, the undistributed balance of immigration certificates under the 1930 schedule was suspended.

June, 1030.

The Permanent Mandates Commission, after considering the Shaw report and supplementary information, strongly criticized the actions of the Mandatory and rejected the findings of the Shaw Commission.

6th August, 1930.

Following an agreement reached between Zionist and non-Zionist Jews at the Zionist Congress in HJ29, an enlarged Jewish Agency for Palestine was officially recognized by His Majesty's Government by letter sent from the Colonial Office.

20th October, .1930.

Sir John Hope-Simpson's report was published*. He found that, if all the available cultivable land in Palestine were divided up among the Arab agricultural population, there would not be enough to provide every family with a decent livelihood, and that until further development of Jewish lands and of irrigation had taken place and the Arabs had adopted better methods of cultivation there was no room for a single additional settler if the standard of life of the Arab villager was to remain at its existing level; on State lands, similarly, there was no room, penning development, for Jewish settlers. He therefore recommended "an active policy of agricultural development, having as its object close settlement on the land and intensive cultivation bv both Arabs and Jews", without which, he considered, the obligations of the Mandate could not be fulfilled. He was opposed to the admission, meanwhile, of further Jewish immigrants as settlers on the land. As regards industrial immigration he was less emphatic; he was convinced that there was Arab unemployment, but saw that Jewish capital would not be brought into Palestine to employ Arab labour and that the Arab industrial labourer would be in no worse position by the importation of Jewish labour to do work in Palestine for which funds were made available by the simultaneous importation of Jewish capital.

Concurrently with the Hope-Simpson report, His Majesty's Government issued a Statement of Policy**, known as the White Paper of 1030. The first part, which dealt with general princi-
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* Cmd. 3686 .
** Cmd. 3692.

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