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Article: Report: Balfour Declaration Author Was a Jew.
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- Israel Faxx
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- January 14, 1999
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By IsraelWire
The British author of a key international document that paved the way for the foundation of Israel covered up his own Jewish ancestry, a historian says.
Leopold Amery, a British lawmaker who drafted the Balfour Declaration, changed his middle name from Moritz to Maurice in an apparent effort to hide the fact his mother was a Jew, Prof. William Rubinstein of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, writes in the current issue of History Today magazine.
As assistant secretary to the war cabinet in 1917, Amery drafted a letter for Lord Balfour, the foreign secretary, expressing Britain's support for "the establishment in Palestine of a ...