Ronald Storrs, Britain's Military Governor of Jerusalem between 1917 and 1920, wrote in 1943: "The Declaration which, in addition to its main Jewish message, was at pains to reassure non-Palestinian Jews on the score of their national status, took no account whatever of the feelings or desires of the actual inhabitants of Palestine.
Ronald Storrs, gobernador militar británico de Xerusalén entre 1917 e 1920, escribiu en 1943: «A Declaración que, ademais do seu principal mensaxe xudeu, esforzábase por tranquilizar aos xudeus non palestinos no ámbito do seu status nacional, non tivo en conta cales queira que foran os sentimentos ou desexos dos actuais habitantes de Palestina.