ABSTRACT
The first post-World War I meeting of world Zionist leaders took place in London in July, 1920. The war years and the peace settlement had witnessed momentous events for the Zionist movement. The Balfour Declaration, expressing British support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” and the San Remo conference, at which the Supreme Council of European Powers declared Palestine a mandated territory and granted the mandate to Great Britain on condition that she administer her trust under the terms of the Balfour Declaration, seemed to insure that the Jewish national home had become a formal part of the post-war world. These gains presented the Zionist movement with both unprecedented opportunity and severe challenge, for while Great Britain was to administer the mandate, the task of building the national home fell to the Jews.
