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Balfour Declaration
Letter of 2 November 1917 from Arthur Balfour to Walter, Lord Rothschild, stating British support for a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine.
- Dates
- 2 Nov 1917
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led to
- Mandate for Palestine Primary record 1
followed from
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
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The agreement's "brown area" was to be international; the Balfour letter came a year later. The link is one of sequence.
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Sykes-Picot Agreement
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The same agreement gave Britain the ports of Haifa and Acre.
adopted by
- British government 2 Nov 1917 Primary record 3
features
- David Lloyd George wrote in 1938 of Weizmann's part According to David Lloyd George Primary record 4
- Sir Mark Sykes reportedly boasted when the Declaration became public Scholarship & press 5
- Walter Rothschild, Lord Rothschild addressee Primary record 36
author
- Arthur Balfour 2 Nov 1917 Primary record 3
influenced by
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Chaim Weizmann
According to David Lloyd George
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Lloyd George links Weizmann's wartime chemical work to his own support for Zionism. Weizmann's memoir confirms the work on acetone, used to make cordite; it is not a source for any exchange of the work for the Declaration.
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Chaim Weizmann
Scholarship & press
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Suzanne Rutland of the University of Sydney, quoted by AAP FactCheck.
Timeline 3 dates
- 2 Nov 1917 Balfour Declaration
- 2 Nov 1917 British government adopted Balfour Declaration
- 2 Nov 1917 Arthur Balfour authored Balfour Declaration
Proof 7 sources
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The Palestine Mandate, 24 July 1922, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 24 Jul 1922.
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the declaration originally made on November 2nd, 1917, by the Government of His Britannic Majesty, and adopted by the said Powers
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The Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1916.
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in the brown area there shall be established an international administration, the form of which is to be decided upon after consultation with Russia, and subsequently in consultation with the other allies, and the representatives of the Shereef of Mecca.
That Great Britain be accorded (1) the ports of Haifa and Acre
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Balfour Declaration, 2 November 1917, The Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 2 Nov 1917.
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on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet.
Dear Lord Rothschild
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,
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The Truth About the Peace Treaties, vol. 2, Victor Gollancz (scan on Internet Archive, OCR text), 1938.
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enlisted my adhesion to his ideals at a time when, at my request, he was successfully applying his scientific skill and imagination to save Britain from a real disaster over the failure of wood alcohol for the manufacture of cordite.
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Book Review: The Balfour Declaration, by Jonathan Schneer (reviewed by David Pryce-Jones), Columbia College Today / Columbia Magazine, 2011.
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Sykes boasted to Weizmann, “It’s a boy!”
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Trial and Error: The Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann, Hamish Hamilton (scan on Internet Archive, OCR text), 1949.
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It was to Walter, the second Baron, that Balfour addressed the Declaration.
there was a serious shortage of acetone, which was the solvent in making cordite.
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Rothschild conspiracy is 'utter nonsense', AAP FactCheck, Australian Associated Press.
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Chaim Weizmann, who became Israel's first president, as influential in the Balfour Declaration
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