Speech #900320985

Harding declaring that the "United States of America favors the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." Indeed. so intense was American interest in achieving the objectives of the Balfour Declaration that the United States and Great Britain entered in 1924 into the separate AngloAmerican Palestine Mandate Convention. Pursuant to this Convention. which incorporated in full the League of Nations mandate. the United States formally consented to the administration of Palestine pursuant to the League mandate. The paramount objective of the mandate. like that of the Balfour Declaration. was the establishment of the Jewish national home in Palestine to be accomplished by largescale Jewish immigration and by the settlement of Jews on the land of Palestine. Everything else in the mandate was subordinate to this principal objective. The policy of the United States has never veered from that objective.