Political report of the Executive of the Jewish Agency submitted to the ... Zionist Congress and the ... session of the Council of the Jewish Agency · 1937-08-01 · 8.1937 · p. [Seite]

CONTENTS. I. Report of the Political Department in Jerusalem. Page i. Introductory ..................... 5 2. Issues of General Policy ...... .......... 5 3. Immigration ....... ........ . 6 4. Legislative Council .................. . 10 ■5. Land Restriction ........ ........ . 15 6. The Disturbances of 1936 ................ . 19 7. The Struggle against the Suspension of Immigration . 26 8. Emergency Measures ............... . 32 9. Defence .................. . 35 10. Tel Aviv Port . . ........ ........ 42 11. Administrative Re-arrangements ............ 49 12. Roads ................... 51 13. Employment of Jewish Labour by the Government 53 14. The Royal Commission ............. . 57 15. Developments in 1937 .................. 60 16. Arab Affairs ............ ........ . 62 17. Economic Questions .................. 63 18. Miscellaneous .................... 64 Appendices. I. Statement issued by the Jewish Agency on the proposed restriction of land sale (31.1.36) .......... 69 II. Covering Letter to the Annual Memorandum of the Jewish Agency to the Permanent Mandates Commission for 1935 (30.4.36) ............ 73 III. Letter of the Executive of the Jewish Agency to the High Commissioner of May 14th, 1936....... 85 IV. Letter of the Executive of the Jewish Agency to the High Commissioner of August 30th, 1936...... 91 V. Summary of Jewish Grievances and Proposals presented to the Palestine Royal Commission (14.1.37) 95 VI. Statement issued by the Jewish Agency on the Position of Security in Palestine (15.3.37) ........ 110 VII. Covering Letter to the Annual Memorandum of the Tewish Agencv to the Permanent Mandates Commission for 1936 (4.5.37) ........... 112 VIII. Statement issued by the Jewish Agencv on the Labour Schedule for the period April-Tuly 1937 (18.5.37) 118 IX. Memorandum of the Tewish Agency on the Palestine Annual Report for 1936 (18.7.37).......... 120 II. Report of the Political Department in London 1. Legislative Council; Land and Immigration Restrictions 133 2. The Disturbances of April to October 1936 ......... 135 3. The Jewish Agency before the Royal Commission ...... 140 III. Report of the Geneva Office..... 144