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 26

26 drawbacks or omissions to which attention was drawn were made good. On others, no satisfaction was obtained. When the Annual Report of the Palestine Government for the year 1936 was published, it was found that the original version of the Administration regarding the initial outbreak on which the statement made in Parliament by the Secretary of State had been based and which had been discarded in the first official communique, had re-appeared in the Annual Report presented to the League of Nations. The Executive challenged the account contained in that Report of the course of disturbances in an official letter addressed to the High Commissioner for transmission to the Permanent Mandates Commission (See Appendix IX). 31. The main demands submitted by the Jewish Agency to the Palestine Government during the disturbances, as well as its criticisms of the policy of the Government, will be found in the attached letter addressed by the Executive of the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem to His Excellency the High Commissioner of May 14, 1936 (Appendix III); in the covering letter of the President of the Jewish Agency to the Annual Memorandum presented to the League of Nations on May 4, 1937, (Appendix VII) para. 3, and in the summary of grievances of the Jewish Agency, presented to the Palestine Royal Commission, Section II (Appendix V). The letter addressed by the Executive to the High Commissioner in connection with the mediation of the Iraqi Foreign Minister is likewise attached (Appendix IV). THE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE SUSPENSION OF IMMIGRATION 32. The primary and immediate objective of the strike and campaign of violence launched by the Arab leaders was the stoppage of Jewish immigration. Although their programme consisted of three points — stoppage of immigration, prohibition of Jewish land purchase and the establishment of a national Government — it was known from the beginning and became increasingly clear as the disorders went on that the grant of the first point would be considered as a victory justifying their cessation. Thus, throughout the whole chain of events from April to October 1936