Summary
High Commissioner for Palestine from 1931, in Banko’s account the official who argued that women suspected of false marriages stayed in Palestine ‘free to continue their objectionable activities … with all the privileges of indefeasible Palestinian nationality’, proposed separate naturalisation for Jewish wives ‘on very easy terms’, and in 1935-1936 advocated a legislative council with proportional representation that Parliament refused to support (The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, PDF p.152-153 / printed p.141-142, PDF p.185 / printed p.174).
Details
- Wauchope’s proposed separate naturalisation for Jewish wives was consulted on with Whitehall in 1933 and refused by Great Britain, as a departure from Empire-wide policy that the administration had not shown to be necessitated by the situation in Palestine (PDF p.153-154 / printed p.142-143).
- At the end of 1935 Wauchope wrote to the Secretary of State for the Colonies of his growing concern over radical Arab groups in Palestinian villages, and after the November 1935 strike he noted and began to fear links between radical civil society and youth groups in rural Palestine (PDF p.183 / printed p.172, PDF p.186 / printed p.175).
- In March 1937 the Palestine Defence Order-in-Council gave Wauchope power to carry out defence measures in the interest of law, order and public safety, including making the carrying of firearms punishable by death (PDF p.194 / printed p.183).
Related pages
The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, Palestine Citizenship Order-in-Council 1925, 1936-39 Revolt in Palestine