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The Balfour Declaration was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
This essay examines how British policy with regard to the ânational home. for the Jewish peopleâ evolved between November 1917 and July 1922, and the stages by which the. Mandate commitments were reached. In the discussions on the eve of the Balfour Declaration, the British War Cabinet, desperate to. persuade the Jews of Russia to urge their government to renew Russiaâs war effort, saw Palestine. as a Jewish rallying cry. To this end, those advising the War Cabinet, and the Foreign Secretary.