ABSTRACT
Genuine settlers in Palestine, almost all of them Jews, were enabled to secure Palestine citizenship at small cost and on very easy conditions. In accepting the Mandate for Palestine Britain reaffirmed this undertaking: ‘The Mandatory shall be responsible for placing the country under such political, administrative and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish National Home as laid down in the preamble’. The autonomous Jewish community in Palestine, with rights and advantages as just described, and at the same time a full share in the public life of the country, can well be termed a Jewish National Home, as foreshadowed in the Balfour Declaration. The British Government and the Palestine Administration made several efforts to do so, but were always thwarted, first by the Arabs, later by the Zionists. The British went to Palestine for the welfare of the country and its peoples and to those ends they devoted themselves wholeheartedly.
