ABSTRACT
This chapter explains policy statement against partition. The Royal Commission, presided over by the late Earl Peel, published its report in July, 1937, and proposed a solution of the Palestine problem by means of a scheme of partition under which independent Arab and Jewish States would be established while other areas would be retained under mandatory administration. His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom announced their general agreement with the arguments and conclusions of the Royal Commission and expressed the view that a scheme of partition on the general lines recommended by the Commission represented the best and most hopeful solution of the deadlock. This proposal was subsequently discussed in Parliament and at meetings of the Permanent Mandates Commission and the Council and Assembly of the League of Nations, when His Majesty’s Government received authority to explore the practical application of the principle of partition.
