Sir Walter Shaw (1863-1937)

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28.04.2021 11:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 103 | Sir Walter Shaw (1863-1937)
Sir Walter Shaw (1863-1937)
Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August, 1929. [Cmd. 3530.] London: HMSO, 1930.
The Shaw Commission Report. 1929 became a watershed year in the degeneration of the relationship between the Jewish and Arab communities of Mandatory Palestine. In August of that year, long-running religious tensions between Muslims and Jews over access to the Western or Wailing Wall in Jerusalem came to a head. Arab riots in Jerusalem spread to Hebron and Safed, leading to the deaths of 133 Jews and 110 Arabs, accompanied by destruction of property. The British government, concerned by these developments, created the Shaw Commission of Enquiry to investigate the reasons behind this outbreak of violence. The commission published the present report in March 1930 which called for a final settlement of the rights and claims by the different religious parties in regard to the Western Wall. In order to do this, the British, established a further commission in consultation with the League of Nations (see previous lot 103), which set out ownership of the Wall and the religious observances permitted there. Khalidi & Khadduri 1668.
Octavo (243 x 155mm). 202pp., 4 folding maps, two of which colour-printed, 4 colour-printed graphs (map 2 lightly creased at left-hand edge, map 4 with a small tear but without loss). Original blue-grey printed wrappers, stapled (head and tail of backstrip splitting with a little associated loss, extremities rubbed, staples rusting).

[Sold with:] SIR JOHN ROBERT CHANCELLOR (1870-1952). Proclamation. Jerusalem: 4 September 1929.

Rare poster declaring the British to be impartial in dispensing justice in the aftermath of the riots of August 1929, and publicly annoucning that Sir Walter Shaw will lead a Commission of Inquiry into the causes of the violence.
Large poster (529 x 418mm), British royal coat-of-arms top-centre, text printed in English. (One vertical and one horizontal creasefold, occasional tiny marginal nicks, otherwise in near-fine condition). Provenance: Foreign Office Reference Library (stamps on front cover, occasional light pencil markings in the text).

[And:] JOSEPH HERMAN HERTZ (1872-1946). Memorial Prayer for the Victims of the Massacres in the Holy Land. London: Office of the Chief Rabbi, 5689 [i.e. 1929]. Bifolium (220 x 139mm), text in English and Hebrew (folded horizontally, short splits to creasefold, a little light creasing).
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