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    The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British Government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment...
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    foreign secretary in the Lloyd George ministry, he issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 on behalf of the cabinet, which supported a "home for the Jewish...
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    his death in 1952. Weizmann was instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration of 1917 and convincing the United States government to recognize the...
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  • Zionist organisations since the late 19th century. In 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour stated in a letter to British Jewish community leader...
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    Mandate for Palestine (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    with a small minority Jewish population). By late 1917, in the lead-up to the Balfour Declaration, the wider war had reached a stalemate. Two of Britain's...
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  • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    their future. The first chapter of the book deals with the Balfour Declaration November 1917, announcing the British Empire's support for the "establishment...
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    the declaration referred to the principle "that Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people." With the 1917 Balfour Declaration...
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    Rothschild family. As a Zionist leader, he was presented with the Balfour Declaration, which pledged British support for a Jewish national home in Mandatory...
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    France and the Russian Empire, and was a key negotiator of the Balfour Declaration. Born in Westminster, London, Mark Sykes was the only child of Sir...
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    the agreement had yet to be ratified by the French Government. The Balfour Declaration along with its potential claim in Palestine was in the meantime issued...
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    document number 5. While maintaining Britain's commitment to the Balfour Declaration and its promise of a Jewish national home in Mandatory Palestine...
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  • League of British Jews (category Jewish organizations established in 1917)
    the Balfour Declaration giving British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The League was founded in November 1917 by a...
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    San Remo Resolution adopted on 25 April 1920 incorporated the Balfour Declaration of 1917. It and Article 22 of the Covenant of the League of Nations were...
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    of the family banking business. He opposed the Balfour Declaration. In 1917, along with Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, Sir Philip Magnus and other prominent...
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    exports, and the proposed Balfour Declaration. France sent a separate mission at the same time, and these were followed later in 1917 by missions from Italy...
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    Arthur Balfour- First Lord of the Admiralty – (May 1915 – December 1916) Edward Carson – First Lord of the Admiralty – (10 December 1916 – 17 July 1917) Eric...
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  • publication of the November 1917 Balfour Declaration (a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild, a wealthy...
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  • November 2 – Zionism: The British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour makes the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine...
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  • Committee of Imperial Defence (category Arthur Balfour)
    one of its descendants. The committee was established in 1902 by Arthur Balfour, then British Prime Minister, following the recommendations of St John...
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    Conference. The parties committed to carrying into effect the Balfour Declaration of 1917, calling for a Jewish national home in Palestine. Disputes were...
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  • defeat various Turkish Garrisons in Arabia. 1917 November 2 The British Government issues the Balfour Declaration which documented three main ideas: First...
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    Zimmermann telegram (category 1917 documents)
    on March 3, 1917, that the telegram was genuine. It helped to generate support for the American declaration of war on Germany in April 1917. The decryption...
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  • British Government, in response to ongoing discussions around the Balfour Declaration. His view was that the British proposal was anti-Semitic, that it...
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    exchange for Arab support of the British during the war. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 encouraged Jewish ambitions for a national home. Lastly, the...
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    creation of the Jewish state. In 1917 Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild was the addressee of the Balfour Declaration to the Zionist Federation, which...
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    of betrayal in the eyes of the Arabs. Another issue was the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment...
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    Latvian Provisional National Council (category 1917 in Latvia)
    Balfour in a meeting with Meierovics recognized de facto Latvian independence and National Council as its government. Despite the achievement of de facto...
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    of Beersheba) (b. 1868) British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour made the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine...
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    Organization. This is a description of de Haan prior to his departure for Palestine: In 1919, two years after the Balfour Declaration, this Poet of the Jewish Song...
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    Zionist Federation following British promulgation of the pro-Zionist, Balfour Declaration. The Commission was formed in March 1918 and went to Palestine to...
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