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"Attorney General of Palestine" Norman Bentwich Signed Letterhead COA:
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Up for sale the "Attorney-General of Mandatory Palestine" Norman Bentwich Double Hand Signed Letterhead. This item iscertified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate ofAuthenticity.
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Norman de Mattos BentwichOBEMC(28 February 1883 – 8 April 1971) was a Britishbarristerand legal academic. He was the Palestineand a lifelongZionist. Norman Bentwich was the oldest son of British ZionistHerbert Bentwich. He attendedSt Paul's Schoolin London andTrinity College, Cambridge. Bentwich was a delegate at the annualZionist Congressesfrom 1907 to 1912. He paid his first visit to Palestine in 1908. He was commissioned in theEgyptian Camel Transport Corpson 1 January 1916. He was awarded theMilitary Crossand, in 1919, received theOBE. During the British military administration of Palestine, Bentwich served as Senior Judicial Officer, which continued in the civil administration after 1920 as Legal Secretary.The title was soon changed toAttorney-General, a post he held until 1931. Bentwich played a major role in the development of Palestinian law. According to Likhovski, he "concentrated his efforts on providing Palestine with a set of modern commercial laws that he believed would facilitate economic development and thus attract more Jewish immigration."Bentwich's perceived Zionist bias made him increasingly unpopular with Palestinian Arabs, who conducted demonstrations and other protests against his presence in the administration.Some British officials, including the Colonial Office and the Chief Justice of PalestineMichael McDonnell, saw him as a liability and agitated for his dismissal.In 1929 he was barred from representing the government at theShaw Commissioninto theAugust riots. In late 1930 he went on leave to England, where he unsuccessfully sought to gain support for his continued role in Palestine.He was offered senior judicial positions inMauritiusandCyprus, but turned them down.In August 1931 his appointment as Attorney-General was terminated by the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, who cited "the peculiar racial and political conditions of Palestine, and the difficulties with which the Administration has in consequence to bear." In November 1929, Bentwich was shot in the thigh by a 17-year-old Arab employee of thePalestine Police. His assailant was sentenced to 15 years hard labour, despite Bentwich personally advocating for him. From 1932 to 1951 Bentwich occupied the Chair of International Relations at theHebrew University of JerusalemHis first lecture, on "Jerusalem, City of Peace", was disrupted by Jewish students who considered him too conciliatory towards the Arabs. Several of the ringleaders, one of themAvraham Stern, were suspended.Bentwich was a disciple of Zionist thinkerAhad Ha'am,and wrote a book,Ahad Ha'am and His Philosophy, in 1927. He was one of the Jewish members of Palestine Administration who in 1929 joinedBrit Shalom, a society founded to find rapprochement between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.