Mr. L. B. Namier, Political Secretary to the Zionist Organisation in succession to Mr. Leonard Stein, has been appointed Professor in Modern History at Manchester University (where Dr. Weizmann was for some years Reader in Bio-Chemistry), the J.T.A. learns.
Mr. Namier, who is 42 years of age, has been lecturer in Modern History at Balliol College, Oxford. He has been engaged in Historical Research, and in 1929 was appointed a member of the House of Commons Records Committee. He is one of the outstanding authorities on English History and several of his books, especially those on the reign of George III. are standard works. He has also written on “Germany and Eastern Europe”, the “Downfall of the Habsburg Monarchy” in the “History of the Peace Conference of Paris, 1921”, etc.
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