The Woodhead Commission (officially the Palestine Partition Commission) was a committee established by the British Government during the British Mandate to examine the technical aspects of implementing the partition of Palestine as proposed by the Peel Commission and suggest possible modifications. The Commission was appointed at the end of February 1938 and conducted its investigations from April to early August 1938. It published its conclusions on November 9, 1938, ultimately rejecting partition as unfeasible. According to British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald, the report of the commission indicated that only the Jewish state (allotted an area of 1,258 square kilometers) would be economically viable.
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