ABSTRACT
In Whitehall, there were changes in style and jargon in interoffice correspondence and every subject was reopened for discussion. The status of the Jewish Agency, which had achieved recognition and respectability in the 1930s, was now challenged, and large scale military raids on the Yishuv, hitherto avoided, now seemed appropriate. Approaches to the UN were suddenly given attention, and officials soon found themselves involved in endless correspondence about Palestine. Some even resorted to crude arguments, as did Glubb Pasha, who stated that “the sufferings…of a few hundred thousand Jews, cannot be weighed in the balance with the future of the British Commonwealth, which numbers hundreds of millions.” At the centre of all this activity stood the British handling of the AAC Report.1
