# REDIRECT Balfour Declaration

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The " Balfour Declaration " was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine.

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

Issuing the Balfour Declaration would appeal to Woodrow Wilson ’ s two closest advisors, who were avid Zionists.

The records of discussions that led up to the final text of the Balfour Declaration clarifies some details of its wording.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

In his posthumously published 1981 book The Anglo-American Establishment, Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley explained that the Balfour Declaration was actually drafted by Lord Alfred Milner.

This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

The Arabs expressed disapproval in November 1918 at the parade marking the first anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

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The letter subsequently became known as the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

The British Mandate ( in effect, British rule ) of Palestine, including the Balfour Declaration, was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922 and came into effect in 1923.

The White Paper of 1939, stated that with over 450, 000 Jews having now arrived in Palestine, the Balfour Declaration aim of " a national home for the Jewish people " had been achieved.

The British Foreign Secretary stated in the Balfour Declaration of 1917:

* 1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".

At a War Cabinet meeting, held on 31 October 1917, Balfour suggested that a declaration favorable to Zionist aspirations would allow Great Britain " to carry on extremely useful propaganda both in Russia and America "

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* Balfour Declaration 1917

November 2: Balfour Declaration 1917: British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour sends a letter to Lord Rothschild, President of the Zionist Federation, declaring his government would " view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ".

He joined the British Army in 1918 as part of the 38th Battalion Royal Fusiliers ( Jewish Legion ) part of Chaytor's Force ( following the Balfour Declaration in November 1917 ).

The San Remo Resolution adopted on 25 April 1920 incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917.

In this post, he authored the Balfour Declaration of 1917, supporting the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and for which his name perhaps remains best known today.

Balfour's service as Foreign Secretary was most notable for the issuance of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter to Lord Rothschild promising the Jews a " national home " in Palestine, then part of the Ottoman Empire.

* Balfour Declaration of 1917

* Balfour Declaration of 1917

* Liberator Building Society scandal, in which the Liberal Party MP Jabez Balfour was exposed as running several vast fraudulent companies to conceal colossal financial losses.

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

When he retired in January 1901, Tenniel was honoured with a farewell banquet ( 12 June ), at which AJ Balfour, then Leader of the House of Commons, presided.

The Official Journal of the League of Nations, dated June 1922, contained a statement by Lord Balfour ( UK ) in which he explained that the League's authority was strictly limited.

This resulted in the Balfour Declaration 1926, which announced the equal status of all members of the British Commonwealth ( as it was known then ), including Britain.

* November 2 – Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the " establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people " with the clear understanding " that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities ".

They were both highly athletic, riding, swimming and mountain-climbing, at which Balfour was killed later in life.

The Statute of Westminster 1931 passed by the Imperial Parliament in December 1931, which repealed the Colonial Laws Validity Act and implemented the Balfour Declaration 1926, had a profound impact on the constitutional structure and status of the Union.

In vain, the King urged Conservative leaders Balfour and Lord Lansdowne to pass the Budget ( Lord Esher advised that this was not unusual, as Queen Victoria had helped to broker agreement between the two Houses over Irish disestablishment in 1869 and the Third Reform Act in 1884 ), although on Asquith's advice he did not offer them an election ( at which, to judge from recent by-elections, they were likely to gain seats ) as a reward for doing so.

As a result, Britain pooled its energy into winning over Arab opinions by abandoning the Balfour Declaration and the terms of the League of Nations mandate which had been entrusted to it in order to create a " Jewish National Home ".

On the 13th of September 2009 the contractors of the Dartford River Crossing ( Le Crossing ) changed to Connect Plus M25, which again is made up of a consortium of Atkins, Egis, Skanska, and Balfour Beatty.

The amendment was rejected by the government, however, with the First Lord of the Treasury, Arthur Balfour, believing it would be " an anomaly which, I think, would be not unnaturally resented by other districts which are as large in point of population as Westminster, although doubtless not so rich in historical associations ".

After the Conservative government of Arthur Balfour fell in December 1905 there was some speculation that Asquith and his allies Richard Haldane and Sir Edward Grey would refuse to serve unless Campbell-Bannerman accepted a peerage, which would have left Asquith as the real leader in the House of Commons.

Balfour Education Bill was intended to promote National Efficiency, a cause which Chamberlain thought worthy.

Reconciliation appeared imminent when Balfour agreed to a general election after the 1906 Colonial Conference, in which tariff reform would be discussed.

Harold Begbie, a journalist of the period, wrote a book called Mirrors of Downing Street, in which he criticised Balfour for his manner, personality and self-obsession.

* Balfour was the subject of two parody novels based on Alice in Wonderland, Clara in Blunderland ( 1902 ) and Lost in Blunderland ( 1903 ), which appeared under the pseudonym Caroline Lewis ; one of the co-authors was Harold Begbie.

Darwin assumed that larvae arose from the same stock as adults, but Balfour believed that virtually all larvae are ‘ secondary ’, i. e. they “ have become introduced into the ontogeny of species, the young of which were originally hatched with all the characters of the adult ” ( Comparative Embyology, Vol 2, p300 ).

In 1917, he became president of the British Zionist Federation ; he worked with Arthur Balfour to obtain the milestone Balfour Declaration, which stated in part that the British government " views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people ... it being clearly understood ...".