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:
Click here to read German Chancellor Count Georg von Hertling's initial conciliatory reaction to Wilson's speech. Click here to read an extract from Wilson's 11 February 1918 speech to Congress designed to clarify U.S. intentions regarding the Fourteen Points. Click here to read Count Hertling's reaction to Wilson's 11 February speech. Click here to read British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour's reaction.