Word: passfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jews it was clearly perfidious that Secretary of State for the Colonies Baron Passfield should have restricted Jewish emigration to Palestine (TIME, Nov. 3 & 10) by an interpretation of the Balfour Declaration which Jews likened to tearing up a "scrap of paper...
...last month wrote the League for the Prohibition of Cruel Sports to the Governing Body of Eton College. Signers of the epistle included three Bishops, many an artist and novelist, Theosophist Annie Besant, Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz, Secretary for Home Affairs John Robert Clynes, Baron Passfield, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden. Eton's Governing Body made no haste to send an answer...
...British honor remains British honor! I refuse to believe that [the Passfield Declaration] expresses the policy of His Majesty's Government...
...Passfield Explains. In London His Majesty's harassed Colonial Secretary, gnomelike Baron Passfield (Sidney Webb), wrote a letter to the London Times, tried to show that the policy set forth in his statement does not violate the Balfour Declaration under which Jews have been promoting their "National Home" in Palestine...
Primarily Lord Passfield scouted the charge that His Majesty's Government proposes to stop all Jewish immigration to Palestine. Matter of fact the Colonial Office approved last week 1,500 immigration permits for the next six months. True this is a deep undercut, compared to the 2,300 permits issued during the last six months, but moderate Zionist spokesmen in London gave Lord Passfield credit for being several shades less black than New York's more truculent Zionists were painting...