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Edwin Samuel Montagu, 1879-1924 (421 words) |
 | The second son of international financier and Jewish activist Samuel Montagu (Montagu Samuel), Edwin was elected to Parliament in 1906. |
| Edwin championed Indian independence from 1910-1914; in 1918 he toured India, wrote the Report on Indian Constitutional Reforms, and in 1919 he was responsible for the Government of India Act, which provided India with wide powers of self-government. |
| Edwin was a strong opponent of Zionism, and as a member of Lloyd George's administration was able to modify the text of the original Balfour Declaration (which, in the end, was instrumental in the creation of the state of Israel). |
| Zionism-Israel Information Center Historical Source Documents - Edwin Montagu Memorandum on the Balfour Declaration as ... (1756 words) |
| Edwin Montagu was the only Jew in the British cabinet in World War I. The Montagu family was very active in Jewish affairs, and staunchly anti-Zionist. |
| Montagu's fear of Zionism was animated, apparently, by the ancient Jewish desire, the desire of all persecuted minorities, not to be "noticed" and not to provide any possible excuse for persecution. |
| Montagu organized a major part of British resistance to the The Balfour Declaration, and his opposition, on the largely specious grounds outlined below, was in the main responsible for the gradual dilution of the The Balfour Declaration. |
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