The
San Remo Conference of April 1920 was an
international meeting held following the conclusion of World War I that determined the
precise boundaries for territories captured by the Allies.
The
conference, attended by Great Britain, France, Italy, and Japan- with the United States as a neutral observer, was
held in San Remo, Italy, in April 1920. The conference was a continuation of a
previous meeting between these Allied powers that had been held in London in February 1920, where it was
decided, among other things, to put Palestine under British Mandatory rule. At San Remo, the Allies confirmed the
pledge contained in the Balfour Declaration concerning the
establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine.
The British
delegation to San Remo was headed by Prime
Minister David Lloyd George and Lord Curzon, who had replaced Lord Balfour as foreign minister in 1919.
Balfour, however, was also present at the conference as a consultant for final
settlement issues. At both meetings the French expressed many reservations
about the inclusion of the Balfour Declaration in the peace treaty,
and it was only after the exertion of British pressure that they were gradually
persuaded to agree to it.
The Conference
was also attended by Chaim Weizmann, Nahum Sokolov, and Herbert Samuel, who presented a memorandum to
the British delegation on the final settlement in the Eastern Mediterranean region. The article
concerning Palestine was debated on April 24
and the next day it was finally resolved to incorporate the Balfour Declaration in Britain's mandate in Palestine. Thus Britain was made responsible
"for putting into effect the declaration made on the 8th [sic.]
November 1917 by the British Government and adopted by the other Allied Powers,
in favor of the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish
people; it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which may prejudice
the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine,
or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
The resolution
at San Remo was celebrated by mass
rallies throughout the Jewish world.
Balfour Declaration, the
British government’s letter of support for the establishment of a Jewish
homeland in Palestine. (Which emulated Napoleons 1799 letter to the Jewish
community in Palestine promising that The National Home for The Jewish people will
be reestablished in Palestine, as the Jews are the rightful owners). Furthermore was
declared as having the force of International Law in the 1920 San Remo Conference by the Supreme Allied Powers.
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