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SUMMARY:The Professor and the Ambassador - the Peel Commission on Palestin
 e\, 1937 and its aftermath - Mr. George W. Liebmann\, Senior Academic  Vis
 itor Wolfson College and Sir Henry Rumbold\,Bt\, grandson of Sir Horace Ru
 mbold\,Bt .......due
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CONTACT:Prof Jane Chapman
DESCRIPTION:The Professor in question was a Cambridge professor named Regi
 nald Coupland who was a member of the commission\; the Ambassador was its 
 vice-chairman\, Sir Horace Rumbold. This paper analyses the significance o
 f recently discovered correspondence which sheds new light on the failure 
 of the Commission's partition proposals\, due in large part to detailed pu
 blication of a partition plan at the instance of Professor Coupland and ov
 er the initial objection of Ambassador Rumbold. Then as now\, an agreed pa
 rtition was not in the cards\, attesting to the wisdom of Ambassador Rumbo
 ld's  initial view that any plan would have to be imposed from outside\, i
 n 1937 by the British government\, which was reluctant to do so as war app
 roached.
LOCATION:Gatsby Room\, Wolfson College
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