Passfield White Paper , issued October 20 , 1930 , by colonial secretary Lord Passfield ( Sidney Webb ) , was a formal statement of British policy in Palestine , which previously had been set by the Churchill White Paper of 1922 . The new statement resulted from the Hope-Simpson Commission 's investigation into the deeper causes of the 1929 Palestine riots , that initially started over access to the Western Wall . The white paper limited official Jewish immigration to a much greater degree
1929 Palestine riots
1929 Palestine riots
Passfield white paper