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WEIZMANN AND THE JEWISH STATE Collection of manuscripts and ephemera, the papers of Lewis Namier, Chaim Weizmann and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, including a typed letter signed by Chaim Weizmann ("Ch Weizmann"), to the historian Lewis Namier, political secretary of the Zionist Executive Committee, Geneva, 3 and 4 June 1930
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WEIZMANN AND THE JEWISH STATE
Collection of manuscripts and ephemera, including a typed letter signed by Chaim Weizmann ("Ch Weizmann"), to the historian Lewis Namier, political secretary of the Zionist Executive Committee, giving a long account of his meeting with Dr Shiels, British Undersecretary for the Colonies, following the British Government's suspension of immigration following their claim that the interests of Jews and Arabs cannot be harmonised: "I believed that the Jews are genuinely indignant, that they view the stoppage of immigration as a serious infringement of the Mandate, – and that I share these views, and that my indignation knows no bounds, and that the Government had brought it on themselves. I then went on to say that I didn't see what the Government had done to re-assure the Jews... I pointed out to him that this conversation reminded me painfully of similar talks which I used to have in the olden days with Russian officials, that after Pogroms, they usually reproached the Jews for having brought it about through their particular behaviou[r]s. This brought the conversation into other channels: he stopped bluffing and became rather serious and somewhat saddened... Whereas the Administration of Palestine and some members of the Colonial Office preached the doctrine that the thing is impossible, we, who have worked in Palestine for 50 years, are firm that it is possible, that just with a little goodwill the Arabs and Jews could get together, that we together could build up the country and that we are ready to go a long way towards elaborating a constructive programm [sic] of work, which would serve the interests of both peoples... I concluded by saying that the Jewish people will go on working for Palestine with or without the British", 4 pages, stapled and with filing-holes, 4to, Geneva, 3 and 4 June 1930
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'WITH JUST A LITTLE GOODWILL THE ARABS AND JEWS COULD GET TOGETHER' – PAPERS OF LEWIS NAMIER, CHAIM WEIZMANN AND THE JEWISH AGENCY FOR PALESTINE. These form part of the papers of the distinguished historian Sir Lewis Namier, kept while serving under Chaim Weizmann as political secretary of the Jewish Agency for Palestine between 1929 and 1931. They derive from the estate of the chindit leader and Zionist General Orde Wingate (offered for sale at Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1996). Also included in the present portion of these papers is another document of singular importance, namely Namier's fifty-page carbon, annotated in blue crayon by Weizmann, of his Historical summary of discussion leading up to the Prime Minister's letter of February 13th, 1931 to Mr. Weizmann/ by L.B. Namier/ London/ 27.4.31 (Ramsay MacDonald's letter, which reversed the Passfield White Paper on settlement and immigration, being widely seen as a turning-point in the history of Zionism, by which the small Jewish settlement of some 170,000 that existed in 1931 was transformed into one of 370,000 by the time of the Arab uprising of 1936). Another notable document is the long memorandum, with manuscript revisions (seemingly by Namier), headed "Interview between the Prime Minister, Dr. Weizmann, and Mr. Namier, Wednesday, December 24th. 1930. at 9.30 a.m." (held in the aftermath of the Passfield White Paper of November 1930 and attendant Jewish protests). Also included in Namier's file is an autograph letter to him by Weizmann of 8 June 1931, written while he was under attack from within the Zionist movement ("...Throughout these fateful 12 years – and this was amply illustrated in the last 2 years – the 'executive' pocketed the results which were achieved entirely by myself and the very small group of people who worked with me and who – curiously enough – never had any standing with the executive..."); a typed letter to him by Selig Brodetsky, sending copies of correspondence between Weizmann and Passfield, etc., and reporting on British attitudes (26 September 1930); a carbon of Weizmann's scheduled meetings; a typed letter signed by Gerald Balfour, thanking Weizmann for condolences on the death of his brother ("...My brother retained till the end of his life his active interest in all that concerns the destiny of the Jewish people, and in the welfare of the National Home with which his name is so closely associated..."), and related material. The collection also comprising material from other sources, including an autograph letter by Weizmann in Hebrew; a receipt in Hebrew for a Holy Land donation by Sir Moses Montefiore, 1873; and signed photographs, etc., by more recent political figures.