Many other countries have made statements similar to the Balfour Declaration or had already agreed on it in advance. The French Foreign Minister said that an injustice was done to Jewish nationality when the people of Israel were expelled in previous centuries in a statement several months before the publication of the Balfour Declaration. Likewise, US President Woodrow Wilson had approved the statement when it was sent to him in advance. Winston Churchill referred to the fact that the ideas of the Balfour Declaration have been “reaffirmed in several binding multinational treaties as well as in the mandate of the League of Nations itself [and] are not susceptible to change.” It was then that the Balfour Declaration officially became a valid document under international law and international law recognized that the Jewish community was in Palestine by right and that facilitating and increasing Jewish immigration was an “international obligation binding on the country”.