ABSTRACT
The Palestine Arab leaders could in fact bring forward strong arguments against British pro-Zionist policy. That they had been immemorially settled in the land where they constituted the majority, that the principle of national self-determination had been accepted, and indeed trumpeted by the Allies. McMahon rightly stated that his intention had been to exclude Palestine as well as the more northern coastal tracts of Syria. There is no doubt whatever that Childs's memorandum is the best and most comprehensive historical survey of the McMahon-Husayn correspondence to be produced by a British official. W. J. Childs was more painstaking than both Harold Nicolson and Arnold To.
