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:
Fourteen Points - Wilson's Speech: Going before a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918, Wilson outlined American intentions and presented the Inquiry's work as the Fourteen Points. He believed that international acceptance of the points would lead to a just and lasting peace.