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 . Lloyd George and Balfour remained in government until the collapse of the coalition in October 1922 . Under the new Conservative government , attempts were made to identify the background to and motivations for the declaration . A private Cabinet memorandum was produced in January 1923 , providing a summary of the then-known Foreign Office and War Cabinet records leading up to the declaration . An accompanying Foreign Office note asserted that the primary authors of the declaration were Balfour , Sykes , Weizmann , and Sokolow , with " perhaps Lord Rothschild as a figure in the background " , and that " negotiations seem to have been mainly oral and by means of private notes and memoranda of which only the scantiest records seem to be available . " Following the 1936 general strike that was to degenerate into the 1936 – 1939 Arab revolt in Palestine , the most significant outbreak of violence since the Mandate began , a British Royal Commission – a high-profile public inquiry – was appointed to investigate the causes of the unrest . The Palestine Royal Commission , appointed with significantly broader terms of reference than the previous British inquiries into Palestine , completed its 404-page report after six months of work in June 1937 , publishing it a month later . The report began by describing the history of the problem , including a detailed summary of the origins of the Balfour Declaration . Much of this summary relied on Lloyd-George 's personal testimony ; Balfour had died in 1930 and Sykes in 1919 . He told the commission that the declaration was made " due to propagandist reasons ... In particular Jewish sympathy would confirm the support of American Jewry , and would make it more difficult for Germany to reduce her military commitments and improve her economic position on the eastern front " . Two years later , in his '' Memoirs of the Peace Conference '' , Lloyd George described a total of nine factors motivating his decision as Prime Minister to release the declaration , including the additional reasons that a Jewish presence in Palestine would strengthen Britain 's position on the Suez Canal and reinforce the route to their imperial dominion in India
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