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The Other Arthur Balfour ‘PROTECTOR OF THE JEWS’

Posted on February 26, 2013 by admin

By: Brian Klug From Brian Klug, Being Jewish and Doing Justice: Bringing Argument to Life London: Vallentine Mitchell, 2011, pp. 199-210 There appears to be a conundrum about Arthur Balfour.1 On the one hand, his name is inseparable from the … Continue reading →

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Lloyd George

Posted on January 26, 2013 by admin

Lloyd George, David, (First Earl of Dwyfor) 1863-1945 Introduction Because the focus of this website is the Balfour Declaration and its consequences, this biography will be limited to Lloyd George’s career until the end of the First World War, with … Continue reading →

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The Secret of Leopold Amery

Posted on November 11, 2012 by admin

  Leopold Amery, 1930, National Portrait Gallery The drafter of the Balfour Declaration was a secret Zionist in what historian William Rubinstein states was “probably the most remarkable example of concealment of identity in twentieth-century British political history”   “…Because … Continue reading →

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Preparing the Ground for Balfour – the contribution of Shaftesbury

Posted on May 4, 2012 by admin

          Anthony Ashley – Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, 1801-1885. [1] After a lonely, loveless childhood, when, like many earlier members of the British aristocracy,  the only affection the growing child received came from his nanny, Shaftesbury was elected as … Continue reading →

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Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952) by Mary Grey

Posted on April 25, 2012 by admin

Chaim Weizmann was born in Russia in 1874, in Motol, now Belarus, but then in the “Pale of Settlement”, that area of Russia to which the Jews had been confined since the time of Catherine the Great. From an early … Continue reading →

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Short biographies by Mary Grey

Posted on April 10, 2012 by admin

The War Cabinet (WW1) The creation of the War Cabinet undertook the supreme direction of the war effort. It was composed of David Lloyd George, the Prime Minister, Andrew Bonar Law, Lord Nathaniel Curzon, Alfred Milner, Arthur Henderson and Sir … Continue reading →

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Arthur Balfour. by Mary Grey

Posted on February 19, 2012 by admin

Biography: Arthur Balfour 1848- 1930 The facts of Arthur Balfour’s political life are well-known. What is not so obvious is why he, “a scion of both Scottish mercantile wealth and English aristocracy”1 – should be linked by history to a … Continue reading →

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