Douglas MacKillop was the head of the Refuge Department in the British Foreign Office in the immediate aftermath of World War II. On 12 January 1946 he admitted that the Jewish Displaced Persons had a wide variety of reasons to seek to go to Palestine, but he still did not advocate ending the policy of the 1939 White Paper.

In the 1930s MacKillop had been on the staff of the Foreign Office for the Far East. He had been involved in formulating British policy on the Balkans in the 1920s.

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• Gilbert, Martin
  Martin Gilbert
  Sir Martin John Gilbert, CBE, PC is a British historian and Fellow of Merton College, University of Oxford. He is the author of over eighty books, including works on the Holocaust and Jewish history...
  
  . Israel: A History. (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1998) p. 124-125.