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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 ...
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 ...
The declaration called for safeguarding the civil and religious rights for the Palestinian Arabs, who composed the vast majority of the local population, and the rights of Jewish communities in any other country. [14] The Balfour Declaration was subsequently incorporated into the Mandate for Palestine to put the declaration into effect. [15]
In this 1992 essay, Levene followed the people behind the Balfour declaration which during the First World War gave birth to the British Mandate of Palestine and to what later became the state of Israel. According to him, historians were perplexed about the reasons behind the declaration, or they were simply getting it wrong. He wrote:
This is a timeline of the Commonwealth of Nations from the Balfour Declaration of 1926. Some regard the Balfour Declaration as the foundation of the modern Commonwealth. 1920s – 1930s – 1940s – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s – 1990s – 2000s – 2010s – 2020s 1920s (from 1926) Year Date Event 1926 25 October The Balfour Declaration of 1926 establishes the principle of the ...
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