Word: balfour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous about this. In the course of two days of discussions with Vance in Jerusalem, Begin repeatedly took up the Palestinian issue, which seemed to bring out all his emotional righteousness. At one meeting he harangued Vance with passages from the P.L.O.'s 1968 charter, which declares the Balfour Declaration and the partitioning of Palestine to be "null and void." "Imagine," remarked Begin sarcastically, "the State of Israel is deemed null and void...
...literally in the middle of the journey. He had aroused the Jews of Eastern Europe-including a ten-year-old named David Ben-Gurion. Slowly they began the trek to Ottoman-controlled Palestine. The new Exodus was under way. Still, Britain's Balfour Declaration, promising land to the Jews, was 14 years away; Israel would not be founded for another 44 years...
...which even visits to a faith healer had failed to cure. A friend was reported to have said: "Before Burton swept her off her feet, Elizabeth thought her husband was dull. Now she realizes she could never endure a relationship with Burton." But Elizabeth's banker husband Neil Balfour, 30, did not drop his divorce suit against her, and Richard sent an emissary over to woo her back. The last court-circular announcement came from Burton: "Princess Elizabeth and I are going to be married." And he added: "We shall be together at Christmas...
...open warfare in the Conservative Party, which prides itself on its public unity compared with the near brawling of the Labor Party. While Wilson, 58, has won more elections than any Prime Minister since William Gladstone, Heath, 58, has now lost more than any Tory party leader since Arthur Balfour. Almost all Conservatives agreed that after four years as Prime Minister and three defeats, Heath must go-but no one was sure when or how. "The sad truth is that Ted is now a spent force in political terms," said one young Tory leader. "I am afraid the party will...
...Richard Burton the shaft. Now, apparently, the durable actor has rebounded from his recent divorce by acquiring a new Elizabeth-and royalty at that. Burton's latest love is Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia, 38, a twice-married mother of three whose second husband is British Banker-Politician Neil Balfour. The romance began just last month while Burton was in London filming a biography of Sir Winston Churchill. "We are going to be married-that's definite," says Burton. "She has been a friend to Elizabeth [Taylor] and me for years. We re-met three weeks ago, and that...