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Balfour Declaration

Source of package gb.declaration.balfour_1917 · Foreign Office, 2 November 1917

work: urn:gb:declaration:clir:balfour-1917#BALFOUR_DECLARATION_1917
number: Foreign Office, 2 November 1917
kind: urn:gb:declaration:clir:balfour-1917#letter

Letter from A. J. Balfour to Lord Rothschild, 2 November 1917

edition: urn:gb:declaration:clir:balfour-1917#BALFOUR_DECLARATION_1917_EN
language: en
officiality: official
materialisation: PINNED_UNOFFICIAL_COPY
life cycle: adopted: 1917-11-02

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Foreign Office November 2nd, 1917

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Dear Lord Rothschild,

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I have much pleasure in conveying to you, 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.

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"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,

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and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object,

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it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,

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or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

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I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

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Yours, Arthur James Balfour

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