Word: toxteth
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Dates: during 1963-1963
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Died. Herbert Louis Samuel, 92, British statesman and philosopher. First Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and of Toxteth, Liverpool, a lifelong Liberal who served his country in posts ranging from Home Secretary to Postmaster General; in London. He proudly called himself "the first member of the Jewish community" to enter the British Cabinet, and after working with Chaim Weizmann to achieve the Balfour Declaration, became Britain's first High Commissioner to Palestine from 1920-25. There, inheriting the disorder of a sleepy outpost of the fallen Ottoman Empire, he put aside his personal feelings as a Jew, ruled...
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