The conference 's final report affirmed Judgment_communication the Canadian and South African position and thus was a step away from the concept of a centralised British Empire in favour of a more decentralised British Commonwealth without central authority , subsequently affirmed by the Balfour Declaration of 1926 and the Statute of Westminster 1931 .

In 2005 , both Railtrack and the contractor Balfour Beatty were found Coming_to_believe guilty of breaching health and safety laws .

There had been tension and conflict between the Arabs and the Jews , and between each of them and the British forces since the 1917 Balfour Declaration and the 1920 creation of the British Mandate of Palestine .