British colonial Secretary Winston Churchill, alarmed by the extent of Arab opposition to Zionism, issues a White Paper in June 1922 declaring that Great Britain does "not contemplate that Palestine as a whole should be converted into a Jewish National Home, but that such a Home should be founded in Palestine."

Immigration will not exceed the economic absorptive capacity of the country, and steps will be taken to set up a legislative council.

The Arabs reject these proposals, both because they constitute a large majority of the total mandate population and therefore wish to dominate the instruments of government and rapidly gain independence and because, they argue, the proposals allow Jewish immigration, which has a political objective, to be regulated by an economic criterion.