Such in outline is the secret history of the Balfour Declaration and the Mandate, a recital that does very little credit to the authors of these two documents. It is the history of a sordid conspiracy to cheat a people, who at that time were not in a position to defend their rights and expose the machinations of their enemies to the world. It is the history of a conspiracy to dispose of a country in a novel and unique manner, which flouted every principle of justice and violated all the rules which had been laid down by the authors themselves for international conduct after the first World War. It is the history of a crime disguised as a lawful and noble act. It is a history which must make it plain to anyone with normal intelligence and a modicum of intellectual honesty, that these two documents do not rest on any recognizable basis of law or morality whatever and that nothing in them can invalidate the inalienable rights of the people of Palestine "on whose property and dear life this damn'd defeat was made".