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PROMISE AND FULFILMENT Palestine TO ABRAM AND JASHA WEINSHALL CITIZENS
OF ISRAEL AS A TOKEN OF A QUARTER-CENTURY OF FRIENDSHIP ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MY sincere thanks are due to R. H. S. Grossman, M. P., and Messrs.
Hamish Hamilton, for permission to use the long extract pp. 102-7 from
Grossmans Palestine Mission to a member of the Israeli Foreign Office,
who wishes to remain anonymous, for per mission to print his Report from
Jerusalem pp. 234-8 to Mr. George Pape, Librarian of the Public
Information Office in Tel Aviv, and Dr. G. Pollack of the Israeli
Ministry of Finance, for valuable research work and to Miss Daphne Wood
ward, for helping with the proofs. A. K. PREFACE THIS book consists of
three parts, Background , Close-up and Perspective . The first part is a
survey of the develop ments which led to the foundation of the State of
Israel. It lays no claim to historical completeness, and is written from
a specific angle which stresses the part played by irrational forces and
emotive bia
