Great Power Discord in Palestine: The Anglo-American by Amikam Nachmani
By Amikam Nachmani
A reconstruction of the complaints of the "Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry into the issues of ecu Jewry and Palestine, 1945 to 1946". This research areas the inquiry in the wider context of Anglo-American relatives within the heart East.
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64. Randall’s Memo I. 65. Warsaw Embassy to Foreign Office, 9 Jan. 1946, CAB 134/595; statement by General Frederick Morgan, Director of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) in Germany, Washington to Foreign Office, 2 Jan. 1946, FO 945/655; C. , Berlin to War Office, 8 Dec. 1945, CAB 134/595. 66. General Morgan’s statement, Washington to Foreign Office, 2 Jan. 1946, FO 945/ 655. 67. Cabinet Office to British Element, Control Office, Berlin, 28 Jan. 1946, FO 371/ 57693/WR2162.
Britain wanted America “in” to a certain extent; America wanted Britain “out”, to an even greater extent. The fact that there was no possible mixture that could satisfy both at the same time is fairly clear in retrospect. S. policy making in the Middle East were staggeringly unclear to the British. John Bull had not yet digested the fact that Uncle Sam was now calling the moves. The result was that the two countries began to pursue separate— and conflicting—policies. For Britain, V-E Day marked almost six full years of war, in which it lost about 300,000 members of its armed forces.
During the early years of the war, Britain dealt fiercely with any attempt to challenge its position in the Middle East. Anti-British activity in Egypt, the Vichy Levant states, Iraq and Palestine were all crushed by the military, the most famous incident being the suppression of the Rashid Ali rebellion in Iraq in May of 1941. The anticipated recrudescence of Arab nationalism, and the emergence of a strong Russia on Britain’s Middle Eastern flank, convinced Britain that this policy had outlived its usefulness.