Word: balfourian
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...many hundred years ago." There followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted. The speech ended on a Balfourian note: a graceful, tactful, courageous plea for Arab goodwill and cooperation, recalling that, in the 10th Century, the Arab and the Jew had worked in harmony for "the illumination of Europe"?a reference to the Moorish invasions of Spain...
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