Download or read book The End of the British Mandate for Palestine, 1948 written by Motti Golani and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Gurney was the last Chief Secretary of the Mandate Government of Palestine. From mid-March to mid-May 1948, at his HQ in Jerusalem's King David Hotel, he wrote his diary under fire from Jews and Arabs alike, with both groups taking aim at the British Administration as the Mandate drew to a close and the country spiralled into violence.