Word: passfields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cozy, book-filled house at Passfield Corner, Liphook, Hampshire live Sidney and Beatrice Webb, foremost economists of the British Labor Party. Their telephone number is "Passfield 6," telegraphic address "Passfield," and he is the First Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner. Last week the wrath of millions of Jews was loosed upon this spindly-shanked bee-bellied, goat-bearded little scholar. Reason: potent Lord Passfield in his official capacity as Secretary of State for the Colonies had, just restated the Palestinian policy of His Majesty's Government in these terms...
Fear of Allah. Basis of the British Government's action was the special report on Palestine made by Sir John Hope Simpson and issued last week simultaneously with the Passfield Declaration...
Ordinarily such a report would have been issued in advance, allowed to "sink in," but there was a reason last week for Lord Passfield's abrupt action...
...Passfield Declaration. In the declaration which even his bitterest Jewish critics called "historic" last week Lord Passfield wrote in part...
...confused with the Rt. Hon. Sidney James Webb, recently raised to the peerage as Baron Passfield of Passfield Corner...