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The Balfour Declaration of 1926, issued by the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after Arthur Balfour, who was Lord President of the Council. It declared the United Kingdom and the Dominions to be:
Der Balfour-Bericht ist eine Erklärung, die 1926 von einem Ausschuss zur Neubestimmung der Beziehungen innerhalb des Britischen Empires erarbeitet und im Oktober/November des Jahres auf der Londoner Konferenz (1926) als Dokument abschließend erörtert und dann verabschiedet wurde.
Balfour Report, report by the Committee on Inter-Imperial Relations at the 1926 Imperial Conference in London that clarified a new relationship between Great Britain and the Dominions of Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and the Irish Free State. The Balfour Report declared that Britain.
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Balfour Declaration 1926 Page 4 of 14 defined by the Government of India Act, 1919. We would, nevertheless, recall that by Resolution IX of the Imperial War Conference, 1917, due recognition was given to the important position held by India in the British Commonwealth. Where, in this Report, we have had occasion to consider the position of ...
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- Zionism
- David Lloyd George
- Anti-Zionist Movement
- Baron Rothschild
- Legacy of The Balfour Declaration
Britain’s acknowledgement and support of Zionism, and Zionism’s focus on establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine, emerged from growing concerns about the direction of World War I. By mid-1917, Britain and France were mired in a virtual stalemate with Germany on the Western Front, while efforts to defeat Turkey on the GallipoliPeninsula had fail...
Against this troubling backdrop, the government of Prime Minister David Lloyd George—elected in December 1916—made the decision to publicly support Zionism, a movement led in Britain by Chaim Weizmann, a Russian Jew who had settled in Manchester, England. The motives behind this decision were various: First, a genuine belief in the righteousness of...
Over the course of 1917, however, a vigorous anti-Zionist movement within Parliament held up the progress of the planned declaration. Led by Edwin Montagu, secretary of state for India and one of the first Jews to serve in the cabinet, the anti-Zionists feared that British-sponsored Zionism would threaten the status of Jews who had settled in vario...
On November 2, Balfour sent a letter to Lionel Walter Rothschild—scion of the Rothschild family, a prominent Zionist and a friend of Chaim Weizmann—stating that: “His Majesty’s Government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this o...
The influence of the Balfour Declaration on the course of post-war events was immediate: According to the “mandate” system created by the Treaty of Versaillesof 1919, Britain was entrusted with the temporary administration of Palestine, with the understanding that it would work on behalf of both its Jewish and Arab inhabitants. Many Arabs, in Pales...
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 of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population.
6. Feb. 2006 · The Balfour Report of 1926 was an important document in Canada ’s evolution to become a fully self-governing nation. The report declared that Britain and its Dominions were constitutionally equal. The findings of the report were made law by the British Parliament in the 1931 Statute of Westminster.
