Palestine mission: A personal record

by Richard Crossman

VG/G as dj has pieces missing from spine, 1st edn, foxing on tp and fore-edge, 256pps.

210 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

Richard Howard Stafford Crossman, OBE, sometimes published as R.H.S. Crossman, was an English academic and British Labour Party politician. A university classics lecturer by profession, he was elected a Member of Parliament in 1945 and became a significant figure among the party's advocates of Zionism. He was a Bevanite on the left of the party, and a long-serving member of Labour's National Executive Committee (NEC) from 1952.

Crossman was a Cabinet minister in Harold Wilson's governments of 1964–1970, first for Housing, then as Leader of the House of Commons, and then for Social Services. In the early 1970s Crossman was editor of the New Statesman. He is remembered for his highly revealing three-volume Diaries of a Cabinet Minister, published posthumously.