Summary
The Secretary of State for the Colonies who presented the October 1930 Palestine statement of policy (Cmd. 3692) to Parliament — the Passfield White Paper — identified in Wolfe’s account as Colonial Secretary Baron Passfield (Sidney Webb); the statement itself nowhere names its presenter (Palestine: Statement of Policy by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, lines 73-109).
Details
- The statement’s title page records only the office: “Presented by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to Parliament by Command of His Majesty, October 1930” (lines 81-85).
- In Banko’s Chapter 5, the Shaw Commission was sent by Colonial Secretary Lord Passfield after the August 1929 riots (The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, PDF p.131 / printed p.120, as recorded on Shaw Commission).
- Wolfe names him as the Colonial Secretary whose White Paper carried the Shaw and Hope Simpson restrictive recommendations, afterwards negated by the “Black Letter” (Purchase by Other Means: The Palestine Nakba and Zionism’s Conquest of Economics, PDF p.17 / printed p.149, as recorded on Shaw Commission).
Related pages
Palestine: Statement of Policy by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, Passfield White Paper, Shaw Commission