Lord Moyne was named Secretary of State for Colonies yesterday to succeed Lord Lloyd, who died last week. Lord Moyne, who is 60 years old, has served as Minister of Agriculture, Undersecretary of State for War and Financial Secretary of the Treasury.
Former chairman of the Polish Relief Fund, Lord Moyne has been active in relief for refugees. He helped a group of Polish Zionist leaders to leave Lithuania for Palestine. He was described today by A.M. kaizer of the Polish Jewish Relief Fund as “a thorough gentleman, straight-forward and most sympathetic of all to Jewish causes.”
In a speech on Jan. 15 at a luncheon of the Polish Jewish Relief Fund, Lord Moyne praised the Jews for their philanthropic work and denounced German oppression of the Poles. “Hitler could not have chosen a more intractable material for the cruel and crazy experiment of so-called ‘Notification’,” he said. “The Nazi savagery has only achieved a wonderful union throughout the Polish race.”
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