Person1848 – 1930
Arthur Balfour
British statesman, prime minister (1902–1905) and, as foreign secretary, author of the Balfour Declaration of 1917
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British Foreign Secretary Balfour declared support for establishing "a national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, adding that the rights of the existing non-Jewish communities would not be prejudiced.
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- National Movements in Asia and Africa1915 – 1948
From the Hussein–McMahon correspondence to the founding of Israel — three decades in which India, West Asia, Southeast Asia and Africa, swept up in the tide of self-determination after the First World War, pressed toward independence and modernization