1939 CE: BRITISH (MACDONALD) WHITE PAPER

–Limiting total Jewish emigration to Palestine over the next five years to 75,000 combined.

Backtracking on the Balfour Declaration (of 1917) to appease, this time, the Arabs, the British cut off the key survival line of the Jews of Europe. The “lifeline” to Palestine is 95% cut. Issued May 17, 1939.