The counterfactual removes the last year of wartime exhaustion and the historical League of Nations mandate settlement. Britain could move faster toward dominion status and a Commonwealth of self-governing states, even though American anti-imperial critics might remain wary of dominions that stayed close to London. The same altered peace process might keep Britain from taking responsibility for Palestine. That outcome remains uncertain because Britain could still become involved through another route.
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How an earlier peace could change the Commonwealth and Palestine
A shorter war may accelerate dominion self-government and could keep Britain out of the Palestine mandate, though that second outcome remains uncertain.