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...Earl Reading, Viceroy and Governor General of India, arrived in England on leave of absence to confer with the Secretary of State for India, Lord Birkenhead. It is the first time in history that a Viceroy has left India during his term of office...
...outbreak of the War, he advised several financial measures, notably the issue of one-pound notes. Three times he was selected as British representative to the U. S.: 1915, as Sir Rufus Isaacs, head of the Anglo-French Loan Mission; 1917, as Viscount Reading, Special Envoy; 1918, as Earl Reading, Special Ambassador...
...Earl and his party had proceeded from Jerusalem to Nazareth and Haifa in a sort of triumphal tour. At all points, he was met by enthusiastic Jewish colonists; Arabs appeared to inform him that they lived peacefully with their Jewish neighbors...
...epoch has begun within the Palestine which came to an end so many hundred years ago." There followed some remarks on the idea of a Western University run on Western methods in an Eastern country and upon the beauty but questionable utility of the Hebrew language with which the Earl professed himself unacquainted. The speech ended on a Balfourian note: a graceful, tactful, courageous plea for Arab goodwill and cooperation, recalling that, in the 10th Century, the Arab and the Jew had worked in harmony for "the illumination of Europe"?a reference to the Moorish invasions of Spain...
...days later, Lord Balfour left Jerusalem for a tour of the Esdraelon colonies to the north. Of the Arabs, who had stood quietly aloof during the whole visit, many regretted their stand, for they said they held the Earl in high regard and would have liked to extend their traditional courtesies. But, they pointed out, the only pacific means at their disposal for giving vent to their disapproval of British policy was to follow the course adopted in the hope of awakening sympathy for their cause...