Palestine question – Reference library on Palestine/List – Note/Addendum

QUESTION OF PALESTINE

WORKING DOCUMENTATION PREPARED BY THE SECRETARIAT

VOLUME I

REFERENCE LIBRARY ON PALESTINE

I. LIST OF DOCUMENTS IN THE REFERENCE LIBRARY ON PALESTINE

Additional Documents Received Since 28 April 1947

(a) International Organizations and Conferences

League of Nations

Notes by the Secretary-General on Article 25 of the Palestine Mandate: Territory Known as Transjordan. (C.667.M.396. 1922.VI.)

Collected Observations of the Permanent Mandates Commission with regard to Palestine and Transjordan, 1924-1936. C.P.M. 1917.

Communication from the British Government. Article 14 of the Mandate. 18 November 1929. C.P.M. 977

Declaration by the British Representative to the Council Regarding the Wailing Wall. (C. 41. 1930. VI.)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting a letter from the British Prime Minister to Doctor Weizmann of the Jewish Agency. (C.173. 1931. VI.) C.P.M. 1139.

Rapport de la Commission Royale de Palestine, Juillet 1937. Société des Nations, Géneve, 1937. VI.A.5.

Letters from the United Kingdom Government to the Secretary-General, dated 9 November 1938 and 19 November 1938, transmitting the Report of the Palestine Partition Commission (Cmd. 5854) and the Statement on Palestine issued by the United Kingdom Government on 9 November 1938 (Cmd. 5893). (C.492.M.334. 1938.VI.)

105th Session of the Council, Minutes, 22 May 1939. P.V. 2(1)

(b) United Kingdom Government

Papers Relating to the Elections for the Palestine Legislative Council, 1923. Cmd. 1889.

Proposed formation of an Arab Agency, Correspondence with the High Commissioner for Palestine, 1923. Cmd. 1989.

Exchange of Notes recording a Provisional Commercial Agreement between Egypt and Palestine. Cairo, 6 June 1928. Jerusalem, 21 June 1928. Cmd. 3236.

Transjordan Agreement Between the United Kingdom and Transjordan, 1928. Cmd. 3069

Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929. March, 1930. Cmd. 3530.

Statement of Policy by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, October 1930. Cmd. 3692.

Agreement between His Britannic Majesty and His Highness the Amir of Transjordan Supplementary to the Agreement signed on 20 February 1928, signed at Jerusalem, 2 June 1934. Cmd. 4661.

Report by Mr. F.A. Stockdale, C.M.G., C.B.E. on His Visit to Palestine and Transjordan, 1935. Colonial Advisory Council of Agriculture and Animal Health, Colonial Office, C.A.C. 247.

Rapport de la Commission Royale de Palestine, Juillet 1937. Société  des Nations, Genve, 1937. VI.A.5.

Statement of Policy, by His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom, 1937. Cmd. 5513.

Land Transfers Regulations. Letter to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations, London, 28 February 1940. Cmd. 6180.

Hearings before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Washington, State Department Building, January 1946. 7 volumes.

Government of Palestine

Department of Statistics, Summary of Vital Statistics of Palestine, 1922-1940.

Palestine Blue Book. Years 1926-27, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1935-1938. (Blue Book is out of print for the years 1928, 1931, 1932, 1933 and 1934 and no copies are available.)

Report by Mr. C.F. Strickland of the Indian Civil Service on the Possibility of Introducing a System of Agricultural Co-operation in Palestine. Government of Palestine, 1930.

Statistics of External Trade, 1939-1943. Office of Statistics.

Annual Bulletin of Statistics of Industrial Accidents, 1939-1944. Office of Statistics.

Law Reports of Palestine for the years 1939-46.

Census of Olive Oil Production, 1940-1941, 1942-1943, 1943-1944.

Annual Reclassification of Trade of Palestine, 1940-1945. Office of Statistics.

Statistical Abstract of Palestine, 1940-1944-1945.

Censuses of Industry, 1940 and 1943.

Annual Statistics of Labour Disputes, 1940, 1944 and 1945. Office of Statistics.

Annual Bulletin of Judicial Statistics, 1940-1945. Office of Statistics.

Quarterly Bulletin of Judicial Statistics, 1940, 3rd and 4th Quarters. Office of Statistics.

Quarterly Bulletin of Vital Statistics, Office of Statistics. 1940, 3rd quarter; 1941, 1st, 3rd and 4th quarters; 1942, 3rd and 4th quarters; 1943, complete; 1944, complete.

Annual Bulletin of Vital Statistics, 1940-1943. Department of Statistics.

Half-Yearly Bulletin of Judicial Statistics. Office of Statistics. 1941-1944.

Wage Census, 1942-1943.

General Monthly Bulletin of Current Statistics, Office of Statistics. April-September 1942; April, 1946 to March, 1947, inclusive.

Incomes and Income Tax in Palestine, 1943.

Enumeration of Livestock, 1943.

Statistics of Diseases Treated in Hospitals, 1943. Department of Statistics.

Retail Prices and Cost of Living (Special Bulletin No. 10), February 1944.

National Income of Palestine (Special Bulletin No. 12), August 1944.

Survey of Social and Economic Conditions in Arab Villages, 1944.

Distribution of the Population of Palestine, by Religion and Sub-District, as at the end of 1944. Department of Statistics.

Conditions of Employment of Manual Workers in Manufacturing Industry and Road Transport Undertakings in Palestine, January 1945.

Statistics of Saving, Provident and Pension Funds in Palestine. (Special Bulletin No. 16). January 1945.

Survey of Palestine prepared in December 1945 and January 1946 for the information of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry. 2 volumes.

(c) Governments Other Than the United Kingdom

United States of America

Hearing before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry, Washington, State Department Building, 7-14 January 1946. 7 volumes.

(d) Arab Higher Committee and its Predecess ors

La Cause Arabe de Palestine. Note redigee et publiee par le comite supreme arabe, avril 1947.

(e) Jewish Agency for Palestine and its Predecessors

Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. Memorandum submitted by the Zionist Organization to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for the Information of the Permanent Mandates Commission, October 1924. “New Palestine”, Washington, 31 October 1924.

Palestinian Arabs under the British Mandate, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, 1930. Palestine Papers, No. 4.

Establishment in Palestine of the Jewish National Home. Memorandum on the Development of the Jewish National Home, 1932, submitted by the Jewish Agency for Palestine to the Secretary-General of the League of Nations for the information of the Permanent Mandat Commission. London, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939.

L'Etablissement du Foyer National Juif on Palestine. Memorandum sur le Developpement du Foyer National Juif 1932, pressente par l'Agence Juive pour la Palestine au Secretaire-General de la Socié té  des Nations pour la Documentation de la Commission Permanent des Mandats, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1938, 1939.

Second meeting of the Council held at Basle, 14-17 July 1931. Official Report, The Jewish Agency for Palestine, London 1931.

Report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency for Palestine submitted to the second meeting of the Council at Basle, 12-15 July 1931. Jewish Agency for Palestine, London, 1931.

Jewish People and Palestine. Statement made before the Palestine Royal Commission in Jerusalem on 25 November 1936 by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Jerusalem 1936.

Memorandum submitted to the Palestine Royal Commission on behalf of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Jewish Agency for Palestine London 1936.

Area of Cultivable Land in Palestine. Jewish Agency for Palestine Jerusalem, December 1936.

Political Report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency submitted to the XXth Zionist Congress and Vth Session of the Council of the Jewish Agency at Zurich, August, 1937. Jerusalem 1937.

Statistical tables on the distribution, migration and natural increase of the Jews in the world, with special reference to Jewish activities in Palestine. Submitted on behalf of the Jewish Agency to the Inter-governmental Conference on Refugees at Evian Les Bains, 1938- Jerusalem, 1938.

Report of the Executives of the Zionist Organization and of the Jewish Agency for Palestine. Submitted to the 21st Zionist Congress and the Sixth Session of the Council of the Jewish Agency at Geneva. Jerusalem, 1939.

Political Report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency submitted to the 21st Zionist Congress and the Sixth Session of the Council of Jewish Agency at Geneva, August, 1939. Jerusalem, 1939.

Memorandum submitted to the United Nations. Conference on International Organization, San Francisco, California. Jewish Agency for Palestine. April 1945.

Statistical Handbook of Middle Eastern Countries. Jewish Agency for Palestine. Jerusalem, 1945.

Jewish Agency for Palestine, Its Structure and Functions. The Jewish Agency for Palestine. London, undated.