Britain issues the May 1939 White Paper, calling for restrictions on Jewish immigration, land purchase, and promising an independent, unitary state in Palestine in ten years. But by 1939, institutional growth and development for a Jewish state had taken considerable shape. Jewish paramilitary forces continue to grow to protect Jewish settlements. Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine increases slowly but steadily. (source)
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