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The original letter from Balfour to Rothschild; the declaration reads: His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish ...
Arthur Balfour, Earl of Balfour The declaration accepted the growing political and diplomatic independence of the Dominions in the years after World War I. It also recommended that the governors-general , the representatives of the King in each dominion, should no longer also serve automatically as the representative of the British government ...
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The conference created the Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Arthur Balfour, to look into future constitutional arrangements for the Commonwealth. In the end, the committee rejected the idea of a codified constitution , as espoused by South Africa's former Prime Minister Jan Smuts , but also fell short of endorsing the "end of ...
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The post by activist group Palestine Action said: “Balfour’s declaration began the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away — which the British never had the right to do.”
In 1917, the British Foreign Secretary Sir Arthur Balfour communicated the Balfour Declaration to the leader of United Kingdom's Jewish community Lord Rothschild for transmission to the Zionist Federation. [3] [4] In 1920, the Zionist Federation founded Women's International Zionist Organization (WIZO) and Keren Hayesod.