Summary
A principal advocate of Cantonisation for Palestine, whose formulation the Palestine Royal Commission quotes and whose scheme it discusses and rejects in Chapter XXI of its Report (Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, PDF p.388-390 / printed p.377-379).
Details
- The Report quotes his essence of the scheme — areas officially defined within which Jewish acquisition of land and close settlement would be permitted and encouraged in discharge of the Mandate’s positive National Home obligation, the land outside being reserved for the needs of the indigenous population — footnoting Cust’s Cantonisation: a plan for Palestine, Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society, Vol. XXIII, page 206 (the copy garbles the volume and page forms) (Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, PDF p.388 / printed p.377).
- The Commission concludes Cantonisation presents most if not all of the difficulties presented by Partition without Partition’s one supreme advantage, the possibility of eventual peace (PDF p.390 / printed p.379, in sense).
- In The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, the Commission studied and rejected a cantonisation scheme (three cantons — Arab, Jewish and mixed — submitted in one version by former administrator L. G. Archer Cust) before recommending partition (PDF p.197-198 / printed p.186-187).
Related pages
Report of the Palestine Royal Commission, Partition, Peel Commission, The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947