Story Highlights. 1  Range for diseases caused by ticks and mosquitoes is expanding. 2  Health officials see spread of brain-eating amoeba. 3  Climate not the only factor spreading the illnesses, experts say, but it contributes.
The Balfour Declaration was a single paragraph in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It read:
The German reaction. On 7 May, the victors presented their Treaty to the small German delegation. Count Brockdorff-Rantzau angered the Big Three by giving a long speech criticising the Treaty; then the delegation left and set about countering it.