PALESTINE (British Mandate) In the Promised Land Balfour. On Nov. 2, 1917, Mr. Arthur James Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, issued a declaration on behalf of his Government: "His Majesty's ...

British High Commissioner Arthur Wauchope, the governor-general of Mandate Palestine and the highest British authority there, delivered one of the opening speeches, expressing his belief in the ...

In the case of Palestine, this criterion for declaring it today a ‘colony’, between the river and the sea, is perfectly fulfilled.

The British Government today rejected the proposal that it surrender its twenty-year-old mandate over Palestine to the United States, in an acrimonious debate in the House of Lords raised by Lord ...

In the review of Oren Kessler’s “Palestine 1936” (Books, Feb. 11), Dominic Green presents two concepts of the book that are inherently flawed. First, Mr. Kessler argues that the Arab Revolt ...

Britain’s official post-WWI administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director ...

History As It Happens: The British mandate The British army dynamites stone houses in an Arab town in northern Mandatory Palestine in reprisal for rebel activities, Jan. 9, 1939.

Britain’s official post-WWI administration of Palestine lasted from 1920-48 and is probably the UK colonial enterprise least addressed by its fiction filmmakers. But now prolific writer-director ...