GREAT BRITAIN: Bloody Balfour and Miss Nancy

"Bloody Balfour" and "Miss Nancy"

Christians mourned the Earl of Balfour last week, but those who actually wept for him were Jews.

Directly after the Earl of Balfour's death the Council of the World Zionist Organization met in London and its President, Dr. Chaim Weizemann, sought to deliver a eulogy. He broke down completely, sobbed aloud. In all parts of the hall prominent Zionists — including several British millionaires—first shed silent tears, then began to ululate in patriotic grief. For Zion's most potent champion, the author of the "Balfour Declaration," was no...

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