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Messages from All Parts of the World Mourn Passing of Lord Arthur Balfour

March 21, 1930
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very fact of his being was of greatest value to us. In the history of Jewry his name will remain forever as that of a friend with heart and vision.”

A. L. SALTZSTEIN

“Lord Balfour was a great and honorable statesman and a friend of suffering humanity. His demise will be mourned the world over.”

EMANUEL NEUMANN, PRESIDENT JEWISH NATIONAL FUND

“Whatever fate the inscrutable gods may hold in store for the Zionist movement and the Jewish National Home in Palestine, Balfour’s place in Jewish history is secure and unique. His commanding figure will tower as that of the greatest benefactor of the Jewish race in the annals of Christendom. He did not merely seek to assuage the agonies of exile. He had a profound understanding of the moral and spiritual aspects of the Jewish problem, and he had the vision and courage to perform an act of statesmanship calculated to redress an ancient wrong and restore a disinherited people to its place among the family of nations.”

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