Arthur and the Acetone

Arthur and the Acetone
Written by	George Bernard Shaw
Date premiered	unperformed
Original language	English
Subject	Chaim Weizmann gets Arthur Balfour to give him Jerusalem
Genre	satire
Setting	Whitehall

Arthur and the Acetone (1936) is a satirical playlet by George Bernard Shaw which dramatises an imaginary conversation between the Zionist Chaim Weizmann and the British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, which Shaw presents as the "true" story of how the Balfour Declaration came into being.