Lord_Rothschild_initial_Balfour_Declaration_draft_and_Balfour_draft_reply,_July_and_August_1917.jpg

Summary

Description	English: A copy of Lord Rothschild's initial Balfour Declaration draft, dated 18 July 1917, in British War Cabinet Papers from 1917. Balfour's initial draft reply of August 1917 has been cropped off (see earlier version below)
Date	1917
Source	National Archives CAB 24/24 ; Published at least as early as: Leonard Stein (1961) The Balfour declaration , Simon and Schuster, p. 470, 664
Author	UK Government

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