Members of the Royal Palestine Commission before leaving for

In August 1936, a Palestinian committee was convened after it increasingly came to violent clashes between Jews and Palestinians. The so-called Peel Commission should develop a plan for the resolution of the dispute and the restructuring of the British League of Nations Mandate for Palestine. The Commission presented in 1937 a partition plan for Palestine, which was rejected by both Jews and Palestinians. In the picture one can see members of the Peel Commission on the date of their departure for Palestine in front of the Victoria Station in London, from left: the professor for colonial history at the University of Oxford Reginald Coupland, the diplomats Sir Laurie Hammond and Sir Horace Rumbold as well as the chairman of the Commission Lord Robert Peel

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