Summary
Chairman of the Special Commission — the Shaw Commission — whose report, published in April 1930, gave rise to the controversy the October 1930 statement of policy was issued to settle (Palestine: Statement of Policy by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, lines 111-115).
Details
- The 1930 statement opens with his Commission’s report and with the decision, taken because of the features it drew attention to, to send Sir John Hope Simpson to report on land settlement, immigration and development before any policy was declared (lines 111-115).
- The statement’s May 1930 suspension of Labour Schedule certificates is justified by the opinions expressed in the Report of the Shaw Commission that there was a shortage of land and that immigration should be more closely controlled (line 339).
- In Banko’s Chapter 5 the Commission is headed by Judge Walter Shaw and composed of four Members of Parliament (The Invention of Palestinian Citizenship, 1918–1947, PDF p.131 / printed p.120, as recorded on Shaw Commission).
Related pages
Palestine: Statement of Policy by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, Shaw Commission, John Hope Simpson