The Jewish Herald-Voice (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 5, 1967 Page: 44 of 115
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NOvEMBER 2nd, 1967, marks
1% the fiftieth anniversary of the
Balfour Declaration. This date
should not go by unnoticed—
whether we celebrate or just re-
member. Even if it was not the
beginning of the Jewish state—
and it definitely was not—it was
a milestone on the road to it. It
led to the British mandate over
Palestine, and to the ups and
downs in Anglo-Jewish relations,
which are part of Zionist history;
but it provided a basis for expan-
sion for the national home; it made
Palestine the most investigated
country in the world; but it left
the Jews strong enough to fight
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years. He penned it in a great
hurry on the back of a discarded
memo. It was October 31, 1917.
The Cabinet was going to meet
for the final approval of the text
of a declaration but the text was
not ready yet. The idea was taking
shape but various formulations
were floating around the Cabinet
Room, and suggestions abounded.
There was also much coming and
going between some members of
the Cabinet and Dr. Chaim Weiz-
mann and other Zionist leaders.
The Zionists had their own ideas.
Amery kept on drafting and
amending and redrafting and
amending again as the ebb and
flow of the private discussions re-
quired, and there was still no final
text a few minutes before the
Cabinet was to meet. “Well,” he
told me, “I had to rush it now.
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it out with the Arabs. . .
The Balfour Declaration was
not read out loud by Lord Balfour
from the steps of 10 Downing
Street, as a young friend of mine
fondly imagines, but was a hum-
drum letter from Lord Balfour to
Lord Walter Rothschild, typed
upon an old-fashioned typewriter
and signed carelessly, with a blob
instead of an S in “Yours.”
It says: “Foreign Office, No-
vember 2nd, 1917. Dear Lord
Rothschild, 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. His
Majesty’s Government views with
favor the establishment in Pales-
tine of a national home for the
Jewish people, and will use their
best endeavors to facilitate the
achievement of this object, it being
clearly understood that nothing
shall be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities
in Palestine, or the rights and
political status enjoyed by Jews
in any other country. I should be
grateful if you would bring this
declaration to the knowledge of
the Zionist Federation. Yours
Arthur James Balfour” (in signa-
ture only).
Leopold Amery, the Conserva-
tive Party statesman of later years
who was at the time secretary to
the Cabinet, once told me how he
became the author of this famous
text, a subject of discussion and
analysis over the next thirty
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One more attempt, and suddenly
I had a text which seemed to me
to meet the case. Lloyd George
glanced at it and exclaimed: ‘Oh,
yes, that’s it’. Lord Balfour look-
ed and nodded. Milner and Smuts
looked and relaxed. We had the
text at last” . . .
Let it be said that, apart from
politics, Balfour, Lloyd George
himself, without whom nothing
could have been done—he was a
domineering Prime Minister-
Lord Robert Cecil, General
Smuts, Lord Milner, as well as a
group of high civil servants and
pro-consuls, including Amery, Sir
Mark Sykes, Colonel Meinertz-
hagen, were all animated by a
genuine desire to help the Jewish
people “find its rightful place in
the world,” as Lloyd George put
it.
But there was the political as-
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