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Balfour Declaration

The name Balfour Declaration is applied to two key British government policy statements associated with Conservative statesman Arthur Balfour.

• The first Balfour Declaration of 1917 was formally a private letter from the British politician Balfour to Lord Rothschild. It has been interpreted, especially by Israel, as committing Britain to favouring the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
• The second Balfour Declaration of 1926 recognised the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire as fullly autonomous states.

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