Zionist propaganda has sought to endow the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate for Palestine with a sacrosanct character. Both documents are represented as solemn expressions of the conscience of the British people in particular, and the civilized world in general, which must not be questioned. The Mandate in particular is represented as the conception of a majestic and disinterested League of Nations and as a solemn duty laid upon Britain by the League and accepted by her in a spirit of devotion to the ideals of international obligation.
In another pamphlet issued by this Office and entitled "What Was Promised in Palestine," we have dealt with the question of the exact meaning of these two documents and the validity of the claims based upon their texts by the Zionists. In this pamphlet we propose to give an account of their inception, an account which will show how the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate were conceived, by whom they were actually drafted and in what manner they came to be adopted and promulgated. When all these facts are known it will be seen that neither document is entitled to the moral respect which is claimed for it: that both were Zionist conceptions, that both were drafted by the Zionist leaders and foisted on the British people and the League of Nations by what can only be described as a conspiracy in which certain British and other politicians took part as the friends and collaborators of the Zionist leaders, a conspiracy whose object was to dispose of a country in the interests of a foreign movement without any reference to the wishes of the people of the country themselves, a conspiracy, which like all conspiracies, could only succeed if it proceed in stealth under cover of darkness until its object was achieved so that the world should not know the real facts and full implications until it was faced with a fait accompli. Above all it will be seen that a large body of eminent British Jews and the leading representatives of Jewry in England at that time saw through this conspiracy and disapproved of it from every point of view in the conviction that the realisation of its objects, apart from involving a grave act of injustice towards the Arabs, would also be prejudicial to Britain and to the interests of the Jew, as Jews, in England and other Countries.