(the) Balfour Declaration

(the) Balfour Declaration
a letter of 2 November 1917 in which A J Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, wrote that the British government was in favour of establishing Palestine as a national home for the Jewish people. The other ↑Allies soon said that they agreed with this.

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