"The San Remo Resolution adopted on 25 April 1920 incorporated theBalfour Declarationof 1917. It and Article 22 of theCovenant of the League of Nationswere the basic documents upon which theBritish Mandate for Palestinewas constructed. Under the Balfour Declaration, the British government had undertaken to favour the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine without prejudice to the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.."