MATERIALS FOR THE STUDY OF THE WORK AND THOUGHT
OF ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE
by Teodoro Tagliaferri (University of Naples Federico II)
No. 32 (October 18th, 2023)
WRITINGS ON THE EMPIRES IN WORLD HISTORY, XXVI
Anonymous [Arnold Joseph Toynbee], A Federal Solution (Editorial) , in Palestine: The Wider
Hope , I-IV, in «The Round Table. A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British
Commonwealth», XXIX, 114 (March 1939), pp. 252-277, IV, pp. 268-277
(https://www.academia.edu/70437086/Arnold_Joseph_Toynbee_Palestine_A_Federal_Soluti
on). For Toynbee’s authorship of this text see Alexander C. May (St. John’s College, Oxford),
The Round Table, 1910-66 , Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford,
January 1995, pp. 282, note 1, 505.
“The most prominent feature of the Peel Commission’s report, presented in July 1937, was
not the partition proposal, nor any other recommendation, positive or negative. It was the
warning – urgently repeated on every other page of that unusually able and far-seeing state
paper – that the most fatal thing in Palestine would be to continue to postpone the day of
decision.”
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