Viscount Herbert L. Samuel, who served from 1920 to 1925 as first British High Commissioner for Palestine, has stepped down as leader of the Liberal Party in the House of Lords. Viscount Samuel, who is 84 years old, said that he wanted to devote more time to writing, but would attend the House of Lords from time to time.
Lord Samuel had held a number of Cabinet posts before his appointment to Palestine, and later served as chairman of the Council for German Jewry and the Movement for the Care of Children Coming from Germany. It was this group which was responsible for the shelter of some 80,000 refugees from Hitler’s Germany at the outbreak of World War II.
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