Template:Did you know nominations/Morrison-Grady Plan and London Conference of 1946–47
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The result was: promoted by Cwmhiraeth (talk) 18:04, 11 May 2018 (UTC)
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- ... that both the Morrison-Grady Plan and the Bevin Plan presented at the 1946–47 London Conference on Palestine were rejected by all parties...? Source: Arieh J. Kochavi (14 January 2003). Post-Holocaust Politics: Britain, the United States, and Jewish Refugees, 1945-1948. Univ of North Carolina Press. pp. 128–129. ISBN 978-0-8078-7509-4.
Though he had been deeply disappointed by Truman's Yom Kippur statement, Bevin did not say so publicly, possibly so as not to endanger talks between the Zionists and the Arabs scheduled to begin in London on 27 January 1947 for a solution to the question of Palestine. Those talks indeed took place but had floundered by 13 February, when both the Arabs and the Zionists rejected the "Bevin plan." The failure of the London conference and Britain's decision to transfer the Palestine question to the UN in effect concluded the hapless chapter in Britain's Palestine policies that had begun in the fall of 1945 with the initiative to set up the Anglo-American Committee. Beginning with the AAC's recommendations, none of the British proposals for a solution to the threatening crisis in Palestine had been accepted by the other parties involved, whether the United States, the Zionists, the Arab countries, or the Arabs in Palestine itself. When the collapse of the London talks highlighted the failure of his policies in Palestine, Bevin, in a speech to Parliament on 25 February, gave full vent to his disappointment with and his bitterness toward the United States. While stating that he did not want to create any ill feelings and arguing that he had done all he could "to promote the best relations" with the United States, he accused Truman of having thwarted his efforts to find a workable solution for the problem of Palestine.
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Created by Onceinawhile (talk). Self-nominated at 22:46, 21 April 2018 (UTC).
- Note: I just added Bevin Plan as a third DYK article in this single hook. Onceinawhile (talk) 17:07, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
Bevin Plan falls short of the minimum length requirement (794 characters, as of writing). The two articles are fine on length, but fail on inline citations (especially the Morrison-Grady article) and potentially fail on neutrality (mainly due to phrasing in the Morrison-Grady article).- Hook is short, but not cited directly and isn't particularly interesting in its current form. Image's copyright and use is fine. QPQ needs to be completed. SounderBruce 02:19, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi @SounderBruce: many thanks. I will fix these points. Can you confirm if only one QPQ is required, or do I need to do three? Onceinawhile (talk) 10:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Bevin Plan now lengthened over the 1500 requirement, and sources added throughout. Onceinawhile (talk) 13:58, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Morrison-Grady Plan now improved with sources added throughout. Onceinawhile (talk) 19:13, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- London Conference of 1946–47 now improved with sources added throughout. Onceinawhile (talk) 20:21, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- On the hook not being interesting, I have been doing some more reading. The heart of the story here is that the British blamed the Americans for the failure of the whole thing (e.g. as Bevin said in Parliament about Truman's public statement: "the whole thing was spoilt"). If you agree this is interesting I will look for a secondary source which explains the whole British-American thing in context. Onceinawhile (talk) 21:48, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
- Hi @SounderBruce: I have made further improvements throughout. Please could you take another look? Onceinawhile (talk) 22:23, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
- Hi @SounderBruce: many thanks. I will fix these points. Can you confirm if only one QPQ is required, or do I need to do three? Onceinawhile (talk) 10:56, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
The articles are now at sufficient lengths (though the use of long quotes in the Conference article is a bit excessive) and have the needed inline citations. I'm still concerned about the phrasing in the Reaction section for the Morrison-Grady article, specifically the use of "The Jews refused to even attend the conference", which sounds a bit too biased. I'm also having trouble verifying the refusal from the sourced book. I'm not sure myself, but I think that QPQ requires one review for each nominated article; I would double check with a coordinator or at WT:DYK, though. SounderBruce 06:12, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
- @SounderBruce: thanks for taking another look. I have now completed all three QPQs, and also added two sources with quotes to the sentence you referred to (I removed the emphasis word “even” as well). Onceinawhile (talk) 14:21, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
