Chronology: Date 1917-1

date	event	tags	firsts
1917 9 Dec	General Allenby entered Jerusalem. [AB425] Major Wellesley Tudor Pole had risked court martial in alerting the British Cabinet of the danger to `Abdu'l-Bahá. [EJR169] It was reported by British Intelligence that the Turkish Commander-in-Chief had the intention to "crucify 'Abdu'l-Bahá and His family on Mt. Carmel". [GPB306]	General Allenby; Wellesley Tudor Pole; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology); - Basic timeline, Expanded; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Death threats to; Jerusalem, Israel
1917 2 Nov	The Balfour Declaration was a letter sent to Lord Walter Rothschild by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declaring support for the establishment of a 'national home for the Jewish people' in what was to become the British Mandate of Palestine. It was the first official declaration of political support for Jewish independence and is viewed by some as paving the way for the legal foundations of the modern State of Israel as evidenced by the level of international diplomacy that went into securing the letter. In the context of WWI which was still raging at the time, it offered Britain the opportunity for a stake in the Middle East in the expected wake of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. It also marked one of the first major successes of the political Zionist movement which had officially been established with the First Zionist Congress in 1897. Given that the Balfour Declaration was not a unilateral document on behalf of the British but rather something which had been agreed upon privately by allied diplomats before it was issued, it is viewed as the beginning of a legal process, which involved the San Remo conference of 1920 where the Declaration was officially adopted by the allied powers and latter, the creation of the British Mandate for Palestine in 1922. The implementation of the Declaration was not without its failings. It provided for the safeguarding of the rights of the residents of Palestine saying 'nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine'. In the run up to WWII that the British wanted to placate the Arab leadership in the Mandate. They issued a White Paper limiting Jewish immigration to the Mandate to fifteen thousand every year for five years, ultimately refusing entry to thousands of Jewish refugees from Europe, many of whom would tragically die in the Holocaust. [Wikipedia] The Palestine Mandate.	Balfour Declaration; Jews; - Judaism; History (general); Palestine Mandate; Palestine; Israel; United Kingdom
1917 Nov	`Abdu'l-Bahá sent a message to the Bahá'ís of the world assuring them of His safety. [AB412] The Tablet was carried by an aged Arab Bahá'í, Hájí Ramadán. It took him 45 days to walk from `Akká to Tihrán. On his return trip he brought gold and messages. [AB412; CH206-7] For text of the Tablet see CH207-8.	`Abdu'l-Bahá, Life of (chronology); * `Abdu'l-Bahá, Writings and talks of; World War I; Hájí Ramadan; - Basic timeline, Expanded; `Abdu'l-Bahá, Basic timeline; Haifa, Israel; Tehran, Iran
1917 9 Oct	Shoghi Effendi registered at the Syrian Protestant College and started the term as a graduate student. He left in the summer of 1918 after completing the year of study. [PG18-19]	Shoghi Effendi, Life of; Syrian Protestant College, Lebanon; Shoghi Effendi, Basic timeline; - Basic timeline, Expanded; Beirut, Lebanon; Lebanon
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