To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (277171 ) 7/18/2002 12:59:52 AM From: craig crawford Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769667 the author of the Balfour Declaration was secretly a jew. It was only revealed a few years back.Balfour Declaration It has been commonly accepted that the Balfour Declaration was a unilateral undertaking by the British government. The immediate purpose was to win for the Allied cause in World War I the support of Jews and others in the warring nations and in the neutral countries such as the United States. (Encarta Encyclopedia) "Russian Jews had been secretly active on behalf of the Central Powers from the first...by 1917 they had done much in preparing for that general disintegration of Russian society, later recognized as the Revolution. It was believed that if Great Britain declared for the fulfillment of Zionist aspirations in Palestine under her own pledge, one effect would be to bring Russian Jewry to the cause of the etente. It was believed, also, that such a declaration would have a potent influence upon world Jewry outside Russia, and secure for the etente the aid of Jewish financial interests. In America, their aid in this respect would have a special value when the Allies had almost exhausted the gold and marketable securities available for American purchase. Such were the chief considerations which, in 1917, impelled the British Government towards making a contract with Jewry." --David Lloyd George, British Prime Minister during WWI, Memoirs Of The Peace Conference p. 726...the only way to induce the American President to come into the War was to secure the co-operation of Zionist Jews by promising them Palestine, and thus enlist and mobolize the hitherto unsuspectedly powerful forces of Zionist Jews in America and elsewhere in favor of the Allies on a quid pro quo contract basis... --Samuel Landon, Secretary of the Zionist Organization 1917-1922, in Great Britain, The Jews and Palestine -