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After the Ottoman Empire's defeat in World War I, Britain acquired Palestine and promised (in the Balfour Declaration) the creation of a Jewish state.
Your writing has no bigger fan than EW, but I must admit to finding some of the later novels a bit, shall we say, murky . Large & charming party at the Cineplex Odeon--the young Waldorf Astors, Mr. Balfour, Ld & Lady Elcho, Dcess of Manchester, Lady Essex, &c.
Eliot, Robert Frost, Stephen Spender (Today's Papers is guessing somebody got the Anthology of Modern Poetry for Christmas) and Arthur Balfour.
They promised to the one a national Jewish homeland and to the other protection of their rights, as set out in the 1917 Balfour Declaration.
But the "disinterested historian, reviewing the history of the mandate, must conclude that the diplomatic framework for Zionist state-building from Balfour to Bevin was, in large measure, a British construct.