SIR JOHN HOPE SIMPSON (1868-1961)

HOPE SIMPSON, Sir John (1868-1961). Palestine. Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development. [Cmd. 3686.] – Appendix Containing Maps [Cmd. 3687.] London: HMSO, 1930.

The Hope Simpson Report, complete with the rare maps, identifying Jewish immigration into Palestine as a root cause of Arab discontent.

2 volumes, 8° (245 x 153 mm.), comprising text-vol. and appendix of maps. 5 folding maps, all but one colour-printed, folding graph at end of text-vol. (Map 3 apparently never issued, maps 1 and 6 with very some spotting and light wear to some creasefolds.) Original blue-green wrappers (wrappers to appendix unevenly faded). Provenance: Dr. Eichenberg (inscription to upper cover of appendix).

COMPLETE WITH THE VERY RARE APPENDIX OF MAPS. Sir John Hope Simpson's report into Palestine's economic absorptive capacity of Jewish immigration concluded that the increasing number of Jewish land purchases was leading to a growing population of landless Arabs. Hope Simpson's recommendations of reduced Jewish immigration and restrictions on land transfers were adopted by the Passfield White Paper. Khalidi & Khadduri 1658; cf. Bryars & Harper, A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps (2014), p.79.

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