That pledge was strengthened when the terms of the Balfour Declaration were incorporated into the peace treaty. with the aid and approval of President Woodrow Wilson. The mandate for Palestine was conferred upon Great Britain by the 52 nations of the League of Nations. England became the trustee for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine. At that time. Wilson. Lloyd George. Smuts. Churchill. and many others prophesied that when continued immigration gave Jews the sanction of numbers. a Jewish commonwealth would rise on the banks of the Jordan. Mr. Speaker. in 1922 the House of Representatives and the Senate of the United States. by unanimous vote. adopted a joint resolution favoring the establishment of the Jewish homeland in Palestine.
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