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Moshe Sharett, The Diaries and the St. James Conference

Eli Sha'altiel

31/1/2012

 

Historian Elie Kedourie asserts that in the late 1930's a new line in British policy on the Middle East questions could be discerned - abandonment of the policy of building a Jewish national homeland and adoption of a pro-Arab attitude. This sharp turn is clearly seen at the Roundtable (or St. James) Conference called by the British Government in February 1939 to provide a format for Arab-Jewish negotiations.

 

The value of the political diaries of Moshe Sharett, which describe the debates and all related behind-the-scenes action of this important conference, is obvious.

 

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