ABSTRACT
When the Labour Party came to power in Britain in the summer of 1945, almost every possible course leading towards a settlement in Palestine seemed to have been tried, and tried in vain. Labour members of Churchill’s wartime coalition cabinet had shared in a determined attempt to enact one solution-partitiononly to see it founder in a mounting storm of Arab-Jewish rivalry and suspicion. Every conceivable course that was in British eyes equitable encountered active resistance from either or both the Arabs and the Jews.
