In 1946, the British Colonial Office gave a short rehearsal of the events leading up to the formation of British Mandatory Palestine, recalling that after the Great War, two regions of Ottoman Syria had been brought together under the authority of the League of Nations, and placed under British management, with effect from September 29th, 1923.

The briefing went on to remind readers that one of the tasks of the Mandate was to keep the promises made in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, in which the Foreign Minister, Arthur Balfour, had undertaken on behalf of the Government to establish a homeland for persecuted Jewish people under the Mandate’s authority.

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