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...least this great achievement of Arthur James Balfour, Knight of the Garter, Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Wittingehame, will long live after him. It is by far the most important document affecting the Near East. And very typical of the career of the Earl of Balfour, is the fact that he died in the estimation of Jews their greatest friend. He also died esteemed and mourned by most U. S. citizens, yet he did more to loose the storm of European hatred against "Uncle Shylock" than any other...
Died. Arthur James Balfour, Si, first Earl of Balfour, Viscount Traprain of Whittingehame, famed British statesman; at Woking, Surrey; after a long illness...
Blandly he wrote that his aims had been achieved, he had gotten the Conservative party to accept his program, and so he was sending back the money and leaving the party in the hands of Viscount Rothermere, with whom he no longer agreed...
...everyone knows, Lords Beaverbrook and Rothermere are the "Hearsts of England," blatant makers of colossal newspaper fortunes, once bitter rivals, then friends and collaborators in the United Empire Party, and today goodness knows what. Last week Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Viscount Rothermere seemed to have been made a fool of by his blatant twin, seemed to have been left with a penniless orphan party on his hands, which he doggedly announced he would bring up "until we have achieved all our aims...
Significance. Baron Beaverbrook is frankly out to become Prime Minister, vaunts himself a "business statesman." Viscount Rothermere has failed to get political preferment for his son, Cecil Harmsworth, from any of the old line parties, hopes to make the young man an Ambassador. Last week the Beaver-meres insisted that they would contest "more than 50 seats" at the next General Election. All political dopesters agreed that the effect of this would be to defeat Conservative candidates in constituencies contested by a United Empirist, and probably to elect the Labor candidates in such constituencies. In other words the new party...