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Draft of Balfour Declaration on offer
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Meir Ronnen
Jerusalem Post
06-03-2005
Headline: Draft of Balfour Declaration on offer
Byline: Meir Ronnen
Edition; Up Front
Section: Arts
Page: 37
Friday, June 3, 2005 -- The only known surviving autograph draft of the Balfour Declaration will be offered at Sotheby's New York on June 16, in a sale of the Simon archive of 175 documents that relate to the formation of the Jewish National Home. The pencilled draft, made by Leon Simon at the July 17, 1917 meeting in London of the Zionist Political Committee, was, after the War Cabinet's modifications and the approval of Foreign Secretary Arthur James ...
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