Author: Storrs, Ronald, Sir [1881-1955]
Title: Orientations
Description: London, Nicholson & Watson, 1949. Reprint. orig. cloth. 24x15cm, 532(20)pp.. 20pp photoplates; maps. Rubbed. Spine sloped. Some light cover stains. Good. ¶ Memoirs of a British colonial administrator in Palestine. ["In December 1917, Storrs was appointed the first military governor of Jerusalem after Allied troops entered the city. He believed that the role of Britain's military government in Palestine was simply to administer the country, not to introduce fundamental social or political changes. Britain, however, had pledged to support Zionist settlements in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration. In April 1918, Storrs formally received the Zionist commission, headed by Chaim Weizmann, which had traveled to Jerusalem to begin making arrangements for implementing the Balfour Declaration. He felt that the commission's dismay at the negative attitude displayed toward it and Zionism in general betrayed a fundamental naïveté about the Palestinians and their understanding of Zionism. Palestinian nationalist frustrations were manifested in the Nabi Musa disturbances (April 1920). As governor of Jerusalem, Storrs subsequently dismissed the mayor of Jerusalem, Musa Kazim alHusayni, for his role in the affair. Husayni went on to become the senior Palestinian nationalist figure in the 1920s, as head of the Arab Executive. Storrs took an interest in cultural preservation in Jerusalem, forming the Pro-Jerusalem Society to restore historic monuments in the city.... Following the introduction of civil rule in Palestine in the mid-1920s, Storrs was Jerusalem's first civilian governor..." - wikipedia].

Keywords: British Colonial History, Palestine, Great Britain, Colonialism, Administration, Government, Politics, Political,