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:
Publisher. A+E Networks. In a plenary session of the Versailles peace conference on this day in 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson presents the draft of the covenant for the League of Nations prepared by a League commission that had been established two weeks earlier.