[[Buku Putih 1939]] mengatur pembentukan negara Palestina merdeka dalam waktu 10 tahun.<ref name="Cohen2009">{{cite journal |last1=Cohen |first1=Michael J. |title=Appeasement in the Middle East: the British White Paper on Palestine |journal=The Historical Journal |volume=16 |issue=3 |year=2009 |pages=571–596 |issn=0018-246X |doi=10.1017/S0018246X00002958|s2cid=159561563 }}</ref> Seperti yang dijelaskan oleh [[Malcolm MacDonald]] pada pertemuan [[Komisi Mandat Permanen]] tahun 1939, pada saat itu belum jelas bentuk negara seperti apa yang akan diambil.<ref name = 39review>{{Cite web|url=http://ismi.emory.edu/home/resources/primary-source-docs/1939minutes.pdf|title="Minutes of the Thirty-Sixth Session Held at Geneva from June 8th to 29th, 1939"}}</ref>{{efn|group=qt|As I say, it would be premature now to attempt even to sketch the constitutional provisions which would be most appropriate to secure "the essential interests" of the Arabs and the Jews. It may be that the State should be formed on a unitary basis; it may be that it should be a federal state. It may be that the best arrangement would be to establish a predominantly Arab province or provinces, and a predominantly Jewish province or provinces, and to give to each of these political units a large measure of local autonomy under a central government dealing with matters of common concern between them. What is essential is that each people, both the Arabs and the Jews, should be free to live its own life according to its own traditions and beliefs and genius.}}
The February 1945 [[YaltaKonferensi ConferenceYalta]] agreedbulan thatFebruari arrangements1945 wouldmenyetujui bebahwa madepengaturan toakan providedibuat foruntuk menyediakan perwalian [[UnitedPerserikatan NationsBangsa-Bangsa]] trusteeships for existinguntuk [[League_of_Nations_mandate|LeagueMandat MandatesLiga Bangsa|Mandat_Liga]] yang ada.<ref name="BainBain2003">{{cite book|first=William |last=Bain|title=Between Anarchy and Society: Trusteeship and the Obligations of Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cTfA2Oc1QZ0C&pg=PA121|date=14 August 2003|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-926026-3|pages=121–}}</ref>
InPada Julybulan Juli 1945, the [[Laporan Harrison Report]] was publishedditerbitkan,<ref>Penkower, Monty Noam. "[http://americanjewisharchives.org/publications/journal/PDF/2016_68_01_00_penkower.pdf The Earl Laporan Harrison Report: Its Genesis andKejadiannya Itsdan SignificanceSignifikansinya]". [[ThePusat Arsip Yahudi Amerika Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives|AmericanJurnal JewishArsip ArchivesYahudi JournalAmerika]], 68, no.1 (2016): 1–75</ref>{{efn|group=qt|Penkower, 2016, pages 56–58: "The official British response could be foretold. Truman's 24 July request of Churchill had already set Near East specialist Beeley's teeth on edge, indicating to him that the Zionists had been "deploringly successful in selling the idea" that, even after Allied victory, immigration to Palestine represented for many Jews "their only hope for survival." Wishing to avoid a postwar influx of Jews into Palestine, the Foreign Office's Refugee Department had expressed the fear in March 1944 that British trials of Germans on charges of crimes against humanity committed against Jews would convince survivors not to return to their native countries after the war. Whitehall's expert on refugees, Ian Henderson, was convinced that the Zionists were behind Harrison's recommendations. British military authorities in Germany rejected Harrison's criticism, claiming that Jews were being treated exactly like all other displaced persons... In Bevin's mind, Harrison's report was "not based on real investigation." Bevin told Weizmann that Truman was merely trying to gain votes by his stance; the United States had to take its share of those Jews who must be removed from Europe."}} describingmenggambarkan thekondisi conditions[[Kamp ofpengungsi thedi pasca Perang [[Displaced_persons_camps_in_post–World_War_II_EuropeDunia II Eropa|displacedkamp personspengungsi campsdi inEropa postpasca-WorldPerang WarDunia II Europe]].
In October 1945, then Foreign Secretary [[Ernest_Bevin|Bevin]] told the cabinet that Britain intended to turn over the Palestine problem to the UN except that Britain would be accused of evading its responsibilities if it did not first make some efforts of its own in resolving the situation.<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Miriam Joyce|last1=Haron|title=The British Decision to Give the Palestine Question to the United Nations|journal=Middle Eastern Studies|volume=17|issue=2|pages=241–248|date=1981|jstor=4282830|doi=10.1080/00263208108700469}}</ref>
