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Baron Passfield himself seemed to weaken under a barrage of criticism from Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin, Liberal Leader David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, Professor Albert Einstein and the Marquess of Reading, Rufus Daniel Isaacs. At a meeting of Labor M.P.'s the author of the Passfield Declaration admitted that "its wording may have been unfortunate and perhaps open to an anti- Jewish interpretation which was not intended...
...Author. The Sassoons, rich, prominent Anglo-Jewish family (they are supposed to have originated in Bagdad) are said to resemble early Assyrian wall sculptures. Siegfried, 44, is son of Sir Edward Sassoon, Anglo-Indian merchant whose father-in-law was Baron Gustave de Rothschild. Siegfried's cousin Philip was Under-Secretary for Air. Tall, bony, loosely built, he has a big jaw, nose, ears, hands; speaks usually in a slow, troubled voice. After his country gentleman's education at Marlborough and The House (Christ Church, Oxford), he spent his time mostly hunting, playing cricket, tennis, music, printed a few poems...
...move is prodded into activity, worked harder than the rest. The human flea lives mostly in Europe. Professor Heckler says he obtains his supply from the boat stewards of European liners, who find them while making beds. Greatest authority on fleas in the world is Lionel Walter, Baron Rothschild of England...
Last week Baron Edmond de Rothschild, head of the French Rothschilds (FORTUNE, Feb., 1930), sought to forestall repetition of such riots this Tisha b'Ab by offering to buy the Wall from the Moslem owners. Fifty years ago he made the same attempt. Moslems were willing. But pious Jews blocked the deal by clamoring that he would raze certain semi-sacred stone shacks near the Wall and replace them with a park. Last week the Moslems objected. The sacred Wall was too useful a political argument to relinquish...
...Author. Dorothy Rothschild Parker, youngish (age 36), chic, attractive, has become one of the best-known women writers in the U. S. Onetime steady contributor to Life, Judge, she was recently in Hollywood, writing scenarios. Last week she was asea, enroute for her Switzerland home. Famed is her conversation among friends for its bite, epigrams (sometimes unprintable). Her best witticisms are private. Lately in England she wrote that she had been at a luncheon party "at which all five sexes were represented." She is divorced. Other books: Enough Rope, Sunset...