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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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Balfour Declaration of 1917, which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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 ".

Balfour and 1926
The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document preparatory to its unanimous approval by the imperial premiers on November 15, 1926.
es: Declaración Balfour de 1926
fr: Déclaration Balfour de 1926
id: Deklarasi Balfour 1926
pt: Declaração Balfour de 1926
The Statute gave effect to certain political resolutions passed by the Imperial Conferences of 1926 and 1930, in particular the Balfour Declaration of 1926.
The independent position of the Dominions in the British Empire ( later the Commonwealth ) and in the international community was put on a firm foundation by the Balfour Declaration of 1926, subsequently codified in the Statute of Westminster ( 1931 ).
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.
** The Balfour Declaration is approved by the 1926 Imperial Conference, making the Commonwealth dominions equal and independent.
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.
Following the end of the First World War, however, geo-political shifts took place that saw the emergence of the Dominions as sovereign states, the first step being the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1926, followed by the Royal and Parliamentary Titles Act the next year, and the Statute of Westminster in 1931.
Though he thereafter resigned his cabinet post, Massey was still included in the Canadian delegation to the 1926 Imperial Conference, where was drafted the Balfour Declaration that would ultimately lead to vast constitutional changes in the role of the monarch and his viceroys throughout the former empire.
Following the Balfour Declaration 1926, King appointed Vincent Massey as the first Canadian minister plenipotentiary in Washington ( 1926 ), raised the office in Paris to legation status under Philippe Roy ( 1928 ), and opened a legation in Tokyo with Herbert Marler as envoy ( 1929 ).
As well with the creation of the Balfour Declaration of 1926 Canada achieved with other British former colonies autonomy ; creating the British Commonwealth.
In 1926, however, the Balfour Declaration was passed, affording every British dominion within the British Empire equal rank and bestowing upon them their own right of direction of foreign issues.
King ( and the leaders of the other Dominions ) won recognition of autonomous status from the Imperial government ( the Balfour Declaration of 1926 ) followed by the Statute of Westminster 1931.
In 1926, the Balfour Declaration at the Imperial Conference in London confirmed the status of New Zealand, along with that of Australia, the Irish Free State, Canada, South Africa and Newfoundland, as self-governing Dominions under the British Crown.

Balfour and report
Chamberlain wanted to use this as a start for the reform of Britain's trade, and he was encouraged by a report submitted in June by the President of the Board of Trade, Gerald Balfour, the Prime Minister's younger brother, recommending reciprocal agreements with the colonies.
The Balfour report of 1921, the Geddes Axe of 1922 and the Salisbury Committee of 1923 all found in favour of the RAF despite lobbying from the Admiralty and opposition in Parliament.
Curzon and Balfour were sympathetic to Robertson ’ s position that the Versailles delegate must report to the CIGS, but he lost Balfour ’ s sympathy at a Cabinet meeting on 14 February where he made clear his dislike of Wilson.
As a result, the report was only released to the public in 1922, after the Senate and House had passed a joint resolution favoring the establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine along the lines of the Balfour Declaration.

Balfour and resulting
When Hartington took his seat in the House of Lords as the Duke of Devonshire, Chamberlain was able to assume the leadership of the Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons, resulting in a productive relationship with Balfour, leader of the Conservatives in the Commons.
An unusually protracted struggle ensued, resulting in the election of the locally born and bred botanist, John Hutton Balfour.

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