page_title: Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry
section_title: Evidence provided
hierarchical_section_title: Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry / Committee / Evidence provided
caption_attribution_description: English: Front cover of Survey of Palestine 1946
context_page_description: The Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry was a joint British and American committee assembled in Washington on 4 January 1946. The committee was tasked to examine political, economic and social conditions in Mandatory Palestine as they bear upon the problem of Jewish immigration and settlement therein and the well-being of the peoples now living therein; to consult representatives of Arabs and Jews, and to make other recommendations 'as may be necessary' to for ad interim handling of these problems as well as for their permanent solution. The report, entitled "Report of the Anglo-American Committee of Enquiry Regarding the Problems of European Jewry and Palestine", was published in Lausanne on 20 April 1946.
  World War II ended in Europe on 8 May 1945 and in Asia on 2 September 1945; in the United States Harry S. Truman had become president on 12 April of that year and in the United Kingdom Clement Attlee became Prime Minister on 5 July 1945. Following the Harrison Report, in August 1945 president Truman asked Britain for admission of 100,000 Holocaust survivors into Palestine, beginning a negotiation on Palestine between the two powers.
context_section_description: Evidence was provided by the Government of Palestine, the Jewish authorities and the Arab authorities.
caption: Front cover of the Survey of Palestine, prepared as evidence for the Committee
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