When did it become openly known that Wilson supported the Balfour Declaration?
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On August 31, 1918, President Wilson wrote a letter to Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise which referred to the Balfour Declaration and said in part:
I welcome an opportunity to express the satisfaction I have felt in the progress of the Zionist movement in the United States...
This letter was published a few days later, September 5th, 1918, in the New York Times.
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