"Balfour Declaration<span> is the title given to an </span>important<span> policy statement on Palestine by Britain in November 1917 in the form of a letter from the British foreign secretary, Arthur James (later Lord) </span>Balfour<span>, in the coalition government of Prime minister David Lloyd George, to a prominent British Zionist leader, Lord .</span>
The National Security Act of 1947 was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.
