Arthur Balfour

Arthur James Balfour (July 25th 1848 - March 19th 1930), 1st count de Balfour, British Prime Minister and chief of the conservative party, celebrates for its action as a Foreign Minister during the First World War.

Born with Whittingehame, in Scotland (East Lothian), it sat at the House of Commons in the unionistic rows (preserving) of 1874 with 1905.

He became first Lord with the Treasury and chief of the governmental majority to the House of Commons in 1891.

When his/her uncle, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquis de Salisbury, withdrew in July 1902, Balfour took the head of the Gouvernement. Dissensions inside the unionistic party caused its fall in December 1905.

The First World War having burst, it forgot the quarrels of party and entered the first cabinet of Coalition directed by the Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith in 1915, as a first Lord of Admiralty. When David Lloyd George became Prime Minister in December 1916, Balfour was named at the Ministry for Foreign Affairs.

Charged with obtaining the support of the the United States for the allied powers, it directed, in 1917, the British mission of war to North America.

In November 1917, it published a letter of intent, become famous under the name of declaration Balfour, which indicated that the the United Kingdom would support creation in Palestine of a national hearth for the Jewish people. The objective was to rejoin the support of the American Jewish community for the entry in war of the United States for the side of the allies. It was also been advanced that Lord Balfour had sympathy to an ideological current called Christian Sionisme.

After the First World War, it represented its country with the conference of peace of Versailles, in 1919 (see Traité of Versailles), then the following year, to the first conference of the Société of the Nations, and directed the British delegation to the conference of Washington in 1921.

Of 1925 with 1929, he was again president of the Council.

In recognition of its services, Balfour was named chancellor of the Université of Cambridge in 1919. In 1922, it was made Ier count de Balfour.

He was President of the British Academy of 1921 to 1928.

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