alternative policy should be adopted. Stanley Baldwin, replacing Bonar Law, in June 1923 set up a cabinet subcommittee whose terms of reference were: The Cabinet approved the report of this committee on 31 July 1923. Describing it as "nothing short of remarkable", Quigley noted that the government was admitting to itself that its support for Zionism had been prompted by considerations having nothing to do with the merits of Zionism or its consequences for Palestine. As Huneidi noted, "wise or unwise, it is well nigh impossible for any government to extricate itself without a substantial sacrifice of consistency and self-respect, if not honour." The wording of the declaration was thus incorporated into the British Mandate for Palestine, a legal instrument that created Mandatory Palestine with an explicit purpose of putting the declaration into effect and was finally formalized in September 1923. Unlike the declaration itself, the Mandate was legally binding on the British government. In June, 1924, Britain made its report to the Permanent Mandates Commission for the period July 1920 to the end of 1923 containing nothing of the candor reflected in the internal documents; the documents relating to the 1923 reappraisal stayed secret until the early 1970s. See also Sykes-Picot Agreement References Bibliography External links text of the Churchill White Paper, 1922 at UNISPAL text of the 1922 White Paper from the Avalon Project 1922 in the United Kingdom 1922 in Transjordan Jews and Judaism in Jordan Mandatory Palestine Political history of the United Kingdom White papers History of Zionism Documents of Mandatory Palestine 1922 documents Documents of the United Kingdom