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	Documenting Democracy
		Balfour was 78 when he chaired the Committee established at the 1926 Imperial Conference to report on Inter-Imperial Relations, and died in 1930, the year before the Statute of Westminster became law.
		Balfour opened the first meeting of the Committee by stating that the 1914—18 war had left the Empire 'unexplained and undefined' a situation complicated by the role of the Dominions 'in framing and signing the Treaty'.
		In the report Balfour wrote that the Dominions' 'tendency towards equality of status was both right and inevitable' and that geographic and historic differences meant that this could not be achieved by a federation of nations within the Empire, but had to be sought 'by the way of autonomy'.
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	Arthur James, First Earl of Balfour (1848-1930)
		Balfour was enthusiastically welcomed by the Jewish population when he visited Palestine in l925 to attend the dedication ceremony of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, at which he delivered the opening address.
		The Balfour Declaration soon became the recognized standard of Zionist ideals for Palestine, and it likewise was the basis of the organization of the Jewish Agency, composed of Zionists and non-Zionists, who met at Zurich, Switzerland, in the summer of l929, to form a cooperative body to advance the Jewish homeland ideal.
		The Declaration was approved on April 24th, 1920, at the Allies’ Conference at San Remo and incorporated in the Mandate on Palestine conferred upon Britain by the League of Nations on July 24th, 1922.
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	Balfour Declaration, 1926 - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Balfour Declaration of 1926 is a statement of the October-November 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London.
		It states that the United Kingdom and the Dominions "are autonomous Communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate one to another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown, and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations".
		The statement should not be confused with the Balfour Declaration of 1917 by which the British foreign minister favoured a Jewish national home in Palestine.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Balfour_Declaration_1926 (309 words)

	Balfour a Leader for Half a Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Balfour's part in the negotiations was probably not as great as that of Delcasse in France, but it is generally believed to have been important.
		Balfour had always been a free-trade advocate, and he was faced with the necessity of dodging the tariff issue or repudiating Chamberlain.
		The Balfour declaration soon became the recognized standard of Zionist ideals for Palestine, and it likewise was the basis of the organization of the Jewish Agency, composed of Zionists and non-Zionists, who met at Zurich, Switzerland, in the Summer of 1929 to form a cooperative body to advance the Jewish homeland ideal.
	www.library.cornell.edu /colldev/mideast/balfr.htm (3050 words)

	Arthur James Balfour Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Arthur James Balfour was born on July 25, 1848, at Whittinghame House, East Lothian, Scotland, the son of James Maitland Balfour, a country gentleman, and Lady Blanche Balfour, daughter of the 2d Marquess of Salisbury.
		Balfour served successively as secretary for Scotland, as chief secretary for Ireland (he restored order and enacted salutary land reforms), and finally in 1891 as first lord of the Treasury and leader of the House of Commons.
		Balfour was largely responsible for the declaration (1917) which bears his name, authorized by the War Cabinet and affirming British support for a Jewish national home in Palestine.
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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The war culminated in the execution of the king, the overthrow of the monarchy, and the establishment of a republic known as the Commonwealth of England.
		On 12 February 1689, the Convention Parliament declared that James's flight constituted an abdication, and that William III and Mary II (not James II's Catholic son James Francis Edward Stuart) were joint Sovereigns of England and Ireland.
		In 1926, Lord Byng of Vimy, Governor-General of Canada (representing the British crown in the Dominion of Canada), refused a request by the Prime Minister of Canada to dissolve a minority parliament, precipitating a constitutional crisis.
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		At the 1926 Imperial Conference the intra-imperial relationship raised by Hertzog was referred to a committee chaired by Lord Balfour.
		The immediate consequence of the Balfour Declaration was that the South African parliament followed the Canadian example (1921) of changing its citizenship legislation.
		Hertzog’s insistence on an indisputable definition of, and an unambiguous public declaration about, the dominion status to effect their independence (but not referring to republicanism) was also a contributory factor, given the known opposition of Smuts, who was definitely more favourably associated with the Commonwealth concept.
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	Balfour Declaration - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Balfour Declaration (2 November 1917) A declaration by Britain in favour of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
		The Declaration subsequently formed the basis of the mandate given to Britain for Palestine and of British policy in that country until 1947.
		Early Balfour Declaration Draft Goes on the Block at Sotheby's.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-BalfourDeclaration.html (403 words)

	British Empire
		However, although Britain emerged victorous from World War I, and although the empire expanded into new areas once held by the Germans and Ottomans, the heavy costs of the war created a climate within both the public and policy elites that was increasingly skeptical of the benefits of empire and unwilling to bear its costs.
		Within this context, the Dominions were recognised as fully independent states under the British crown by the 1926 Balfour Declaration[?] and the 1931 Statute of Westminster.
		British withdrawal from the southern and eastern parts of Africa was complicated by the region's white settler populations: Kenya had already provided an example in the Mau Mau Uprising of violent conflict exacerbated by white landownership and reluctance to concede majority rule.
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	World War I and the Early Mandate Period, Ted Thornton, NMH, Northfield Mount Hermon
		Balfour had been pressured to throw Britain's weight behind Zionism by Chaim Weizman, a Russian-born chemist (he was involved in creating acetone) who taught at Manchester University.
		Britain and France declared their intention to establish in Syria and Iraq "'national governments drawing their authority from the initiative and free choice of the native populations'" (Anglo-French Declaration of 7 November, 1918," quoted in Khouri, ibid, p.
		In 1926, Lebanon was proclaimed a republic by France, but France maintained control over Lebanese foreign affairs and its military: in short, the French Mandate was still in force and remained a block to Lebanese self-determination until 1946.
	www.nmhschool.org /tthornton/mehistorydatabase/world_war_i_and_the_early_mandat.htm (4978 words)

	The Avalon Project : 20th Century Documents
		Declaration by the United Nations, January 1, 1942
		Declarations of a State of War with Japan, Germany, and Italy
		Treaty of Berlin Between the Soviet Union and Germany; April 24, 1926
	www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/20th.htm (1522 words)

	Wikinfo \| Commonwealth realm (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Balfour Declaration of 1926 recognised that in practice the Dominions had in recent years evolved into sovereignty and declared that they were autonomous and equal in status.
		Autonomy in foreign policy was acknowledged in the Balfour Declaration of 1926 to have accrued to the dominions, an acknowledgment given statutory formality by the Statute of Westminster and, afterwards, with the emergence of the modern Commonwealth of Nations.
		When the white minority government of Rhodesia issued its Unilateral Declaration of Independence in 1965, it affirmed its loyalty to the Queen as 'Queen of Rhodesia', a title to which she had not consented, which she did not accept, and which was not recognised internationally.
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	Israel: The Center of Divine History
		At the core of the Declaration was the unusual relationship between the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour and an active Zionist scientist named Chaim Weizmann, who later became the president of the World Zionist Organization and the first president of the revived state of Israel.
		Balfour, on the other hand (as we noted before), was a devout Christian, and had been exposed to the Premillennial and Dispensational teaching that had been rediscovered in the Scriptures during the previous century.
		Although Balfour accomplished many significant achievements in the British government, it is reported that, in his final days, he felt the most important thing he had accomplished in his life was the Declaration encouraging the resettlement of the Jewish people in their homeland.
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	Quebec's Constitutional Veto: The Legal and Historical Context (BP295e) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		After 1926, however, the Balfour Declaration on the independence of the colonies and the subsequent Statute of Westminster, 1931, forced the issue of creating an internal Canadian amending formula.
		Nonetheless, from 1926 to 1981, there was little discussion of a Quebec veto, especially outside that province.
		(2) The Balfour Declaration was adopted at the Imperial Conference, which met in London from 19 October to 23 November 1926.
	www.parl.gc.ca /information/library/PRBpubs/bp295-e.htm (3475 words)

	Colonialism at AllExperts
		Separation was thus opposed to the French ideal of assimilation, based on its universalist philosophy, a legacy of the 1789 French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
		Hannah Arendt's reasoning ultimately leads her to conclude that the human rights are, in fact, dependent on civil rights, and not the reverse as the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen implies.
		This led to the proclamation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, composed of the two remaining republics of Tito's Yugoslavia, Serbia and Montenegro; as well as to the Bosnian war (1992-95), which culminated with the Bosnian Genocide and the 1995 Srebrenica massacres, and finally took an end with the December 14, 1995 Dayton Agreement.
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	Palestinian Tragedy. Com - Harun Yahya
		Even if war has been declared on a community, the lives of innocents and the rule of law must be protected.
		Having received the official support of the Balfour Declaration, the Zionists found themselves in a difficult position when many fellow Jews refused to emigrate.
		The official announcement of the Balfour Declaration marked the beginning of a large and rapid migration of Jews to Palestines.
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	sociology - British Empire
		Although the Dominions had had no formal voice in declaring war in 1914, each was included separately among the signatories of the 1919 peace Treaty of Versailles, which had been negotiated by a British-led united Empire delegation.
		Full Dominion independence was formalised in the 1926 Balfour Declaration and the 1931 Statute of Westminster: each Dominion was henceforth to be equal in status to Britain herself, free of British legislative interference and autonomous in international relations.
		The other Dominions issued their own declarations of war, except for Éire, which had negotiated the removal of British forces from its territory the year before, and which now chose to remain legally neutral throughout the war.
	www.aboutsociology.com /sociology/British_Empire (5382 words)

	Australia's Constitutional position today (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Federal government had no need to adopt, as they were not bound by the Laws of England [since 1920], unless they chose to be so bound.
		Advise received from the office of Legal affairs of the Secretary General of the UN states, "It could be argued the above acts including the Letters Patent contravene Article 2(1) and resolution 2625 (xxv) of the Charter".
		1949 The Declaration of London, India becomes a republic, but remains a member of The Commonwealth of Nations, and retains allegiance to the Monarch.
	www.ja.olm.net /succeed/Pages/australi.htm (2545 words)

	Reference re Secession of
		Declaration on the Guidelines on the Recognition of New States in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union, 31 I.L.M. Favoreu, Louis.
		Declaration on Principles of International Law Concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation Among States in Accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, GA Res.
		Declaration on the Occasion of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the United Nations, GA Res.
	www.angelfire.com /bc/canlaw/Secession.html (14480 words)

	BBC - Radio 4 Empire - India: Dominion or not Dominion
		The 1926 imperial conference refined the status of the white colonies, giving them equal status with Britain in the British Commonwealth of Nations.
		Collectively they pointed to a declaration made by Lloyd George's India Secretary Edwin Montagu in 1917 that semantically was as debateable as Balfour's Declaration (also in 1917) on a Jewish Homeland.
		The declaration of a goal, he said, was only "an assurance of direction".
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_86.shtml (624 words)

	PALESTINE/ISRAEL
		According to Abba Eban, World Jewry as a kind of Magna Carta greeted the Balfour Declaration. It was, in reality, a cautious statement by the British government, favoring the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jews, without prejudice to the rights (civil and religious) of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.
		Previously to the Balfour Declaration, the British government had offered Uganda territory in British East Africa for a Jewish homeland. The Zionist congress meeting at the time initially accepted the British offered, but later decided against it.
		World War I ended in 1918. As immigration to the Untied States decreased significantly after the war, Aliyah to Palestine increased. Between 1919 and 1926 almost 100,000 Jews immigrated to a Palestine that was a demoralized, impoverished community at the time.
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	Palestine Coins and Banknotes - Main Page
		From their initial introduction on the eve on the tenth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration (November 1, 1927), the coins were minted as needed to meet public demands.
		The Palestine Currency Board was appointed in 1926 by the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, and was in charge of the introduction and control of currency in Palestine under the British Mandate.
		These banknotes were issued from November 1, 1927 on the eve of the tenth anniversary of the Balfour Declaration until the termination of the mandate in 1948, when over 59 million Palestine pounds were in circulation.
	www.drberlin.com /palestine (878 words)

	Arab Riots of the 1920's
		As the "Palestinian" spokesman, Haj Amin wrote to Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill in 1921, demanding that restrictions be placed on Jewish immigration and that Palestine be reunited with Syria and Transjordan.
		It also recommended that the issue of further Jewish immigration be more carefully considered to avoid "a repetition of the excessive immigration of 1925 and 1926." The issue of land tenure would only be eligible for review if new methods of cultivation stimulated considerable growth of the agricultural sector.
		Many argued that the Passfield Paper overturned the Balfour Declaration, essentialy saying that Britain should not plan to establish a Jewish state.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/riots29.html (1636 words)

	Rude Awakening (Boris Shusteff) May, 1999
		In both cases the word "war" is replaced by the much more attractive word "peace." In both cases this "peace" is imposed on a small sovereign country by the "global elite" whose taste calls for carving off a piece of this country's territory to establish one more Muslim state.
		Some observers have named this Declaration the "Palestinian Balfour Declaration." They are totally wrong.
		Avi Shlaim wrote in The Politics of Partition that in August 1926 Transjordan's King Abdullah "had made an impassioned plea for Jewish involvement in the development of Transjordan: Palestine is one unit.
	www.freeman.org /m_online/may99/shusteff3.htm (701 words)

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