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“Reconciling the promise of a Jewish ‘national home’ with the rights of the Arabs who were already there had been hard enough in the 1920s. The flood of refugees from Nazi oppression in the 1930s made it all but impossible. London’s prewar plan was to appease the anger of the Palestine Arabs at the growing Jewish migration by fixing a limit to ensure a permanent Arab majority. With its future settled as an

“[Qing dynasty] officials, who struggled to keep order, collect the land revenue, maintain the waterways, and manage the grain reserves, faced increasing resistance from a discontented population. Their authority and prestige had already been undermined by the ‘privatizations’ in the era of commercial expansion as licensed merchants took more control over tax collecting, water conservancy, and the grain tribute