Word: passneld
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mopping Up. The colonial secretary in charge of Britain's Palestine mandate is famed Economist Sidney Webb, Baron Passneld. Last week he instructed the British High Commissioner at Jerusalem, Sir John Chancellor, to take steps for "the collection of evidence before it disappears" as to whether the Jew-Arab clashes which began last month at Jerusalem's famed Wailing Wall were "spontaneous or pre-conceived." This evidence will be sifted by a special British parliamentary com- mission, created last week by Baron Passfield and chairmanned by Sir Walter Shaw, recently Chief Justice of the British Straits Settlements, a colonial jurist...
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