The old yekke R’Uri Weinberg a”h who arrived in Palestine in 1943, would say the The british and their statisticians would come up with all their calculations and on paper they were correct indeed:Palestine could not contain more than a population of 400,000 ,etc.,etc,etc.,
The problem was they could not give that Yidden in Eretz yisroel operate on a whole different set of rules
“But they refused to give control of Israel to the Jews!”
They would’ve done the same that they were doing in Arab regions,had the locals agreed.