Excerpt from The American War Congress and Zionism: Statements by Members of the American War Congress on the Jewish National Movement

In 1897, after seventeen centuries of exile, the Jewish people, through an International Congress assembled at Basle, Switzerland, formulated its demand for a "publicly secured and legally assured homeland in Palestine."In 1917, only twenty years later, Great Britain indorsed the Jewish position and pledged, upon her strength and her prestige, the realization of the Basle Platform. Thus, this project, from its inception, by a people which, however prodigal of effort and sacrifice, nevertheless lacked the political and military power to effect its design, has developed into one of the war aims of the nation possessing the best equipment, political and military, to secure these terms of peace to which it is committed.

The Declaration to support the Jewish National enterprise followed the military penetration of Palestine during the successful campaign inaugurated by Great Britain in the late summer and the autumn of 1917. This pledge was published on behalf of the British Government by the Honorable Arthur J. Balfour, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, in his letter to Lord Rothschild, on November second of that year. Since that time, Great Britain has proceeded with the consummation of her purpose by effecting the complete military occupation of Palestine and by the installation of the Zionist Commission, which administers, under British protection, the affairs of Jewish Palestine.

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