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  Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The reforms take their name from Edwin Samuel Montagu, the Secretary of State for India during the latter parts of World War I and Lord Chelmsford, Viceroy of India between 1916 and 1921.
Edwin Montague became Secretary of State for India in June 1917 after Austen Chamberlain resigned after the capture of Kut by the Turks in 1916 and the capture of an Indian army staged there.
In late 1917, Montagu went to India to meet up with Lord Chelmsford, the Viceroy of India, to meet with leaders of Indian community such as Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and Muhammed Ali Jinnah to discuss the introduction of limited self-government to India and protecting the rights of minority communities such as Muslims and Sikhs.
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 Edwin Samuel Montagu - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cartoon in Punch magazine 14 July 1920, on the occasion of Montagu labelling as "frightful" General Dyer for his role in the Amritsar massacre, as it was then known.
The Right Honourable Edwin Samuel Montagu (February 6, 1879 – November 15, 1924) was a British Liberal politician, the second son and seventh child of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling.
First elected as an MP in 1906, Edwin Montagu was Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922.
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 Hissem_Montagues in New England
In the 1880 census of Davenport, Iowa as Jessie Montague, 11.
In the 1870 census of Mina as Hattie Montague, 15.
In the 1880 census of Mina as Hattie Montague [Montauge in Ancestry.com], 25.
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 Samuel Montagu, 1832-1911
Born Montagu Samuel to a Jewish watchmaking and silversmithing family that immigrated into England in the mid-1700's from northern Germany; educated at the Mechanics Institution (Liverpool Institute); upon graduation his parents had his name altered to Samuel Montagu (none of the other members of the family changed their names).
Samuel gained a reputation as a master of the fine margin, and it was said that he had built a fortune on "the quarter pfennig and the half-centime".
Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879-1924), the second son, was British Minister of Munitions in 1916 and became Secretary of State for India in 1917.
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 Edwin Samuel Montagu, 1879-1924
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).
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 Zionism-Israel Information Center Historical Source Documents - Edwin Montagu Memorandum on the Balfour Declaration as ...
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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 BBC - Radio 4 Empire - India: Dominion or not Dominion
The key Montagu passage was: "The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India."
Edwin Montagu was a sickly child and never shone academically, neither at London nor Cambridge (where he was MP from 1906 until 1922).
Montagu, after an affair with her, was married to Venetia Stanley, sometime mistress of HH Asquith.
www.bbc.co.uk /radio4/history/empire/episodes/episode_86.shtml   (624 words)

  
 House of Montague
Montague's History and Genealogy of Peter Montague (hereinafter HGPM), published in 1894, is the de facto authority on the pre-colonial ancestry of Peter Montague of Boveney, England.
Montague found, as other genealogists have, that the parish register was essential to his work, and uses it largely.
Montague, of Boveny, whose will was proved in 1550, was entered in the Visitation of 1634, when Peter Montague is stated to be "now in Virginia." While Mr.
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 British Jewry Tried To Stop Zionism
Edwin Montagu, the second son of the silver bullion dealer Samuel Montagu, was caught between his father's Orthodox Judaism and desire to be an Englishman.
Montagu was probably responsible for inserting the provision in the Balfour Declaration that said: "Nothing shall be done that may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
Edwin Montagu, a gentle, sincere civilized man, is an example of such a Jew and an inspiration to us all.
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 Sikh History:
In August 1917, the Secretary of State for India, Edwin Samuel Montagu, made the declaration that the aim of British.
When Montagu visited India that autumn, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh, ruler of Patiala, met him on behalf of the Sikhs.
Lord Selborne regretted that they did not have the benefit of these arguments while formulating their recommendations and promised to discuss the case again with his colleagues on the joint Parliamentary Committee, but ultimately nothing tangible came forth and the deputationists returned disappointed.
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 MONTAGU (Family) - Online Information article about MONTAGU (Family)
Mortimer had denounced Montagu as a traitor, but Montagu struck at once and his success was rewarded by grants from the forfeited lands of March.
marriage universally asserted by Simon's biographers, was probably the origin of the Montagu claim.
It is possible that there may have been some kinship between the two families, but none, apparently, that could justify the persistent quartering by these later Montagus of the arms of Monthermer.
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 Samuel Family
The Samuel family arrived in England from Posen on the continent in the late eighteenth century and settled in London.
The two Samuel bothers would have been surprised at what their descendants achieved with the businesses which they started.
In the case of Louis, his son Montagu changed his name to Samuel Montagu and founded the bank that would bear his name.
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 Guardian Unlimited Books | LRB essay | The Mandate years: colonialism and the creation of Israel
Montagu called Zionism "a mischievous political creed" and wrote that, in favouring it, "the policy of His Majesty's Government is anti-semitic." David Alexander, president of the Board of British Jews, Claude Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, and most Orthodox rabbis also opposed the Zionist enterprise.
Britain appointed Zionist Jews to important positions: not only Herbert Samuel, but also his son Edwin Samuel (whom Segev describes as a 'double agent') to liaise with the Zionist Commission and Norman Bentwich as attorney-general.
Weizmann persuaded Balfour, Samuel and Churchill to transfer Colonel Edmund Vivian Gabriel, who was responsible for the military budget.
books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,499188,00.html   (4522 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Winston Churchill   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
After losing his seat in the 1922 General Election to Edwin Scrymgeour he rejoined the Conservative Party.
They had five children: Sarah Millicent Hermione Churchill (who became a movie actress of some renown, costarring with Fred Astaire in the film "Royal Wedding"), Randolph Frederick Edward Churchill, Marigold Frances Churchill (who died as a child), Diana Churchill, and Mary Churchill.
Clementine Churchill's mother was Lady (Henrietta) Blanche Ogilvy (1852-1925), the second wife of Sir Henry Montague Hozier and a daughter of the 7th Earl of Airlie.
www.why-war.com /encyclopedia/people/Winston_Churchill   (3664 words)

  
 Rodin's Thoughts, Wither Zionism? excerpts
Edwin Montagu, the recently appointed Secretary of State for India, had profound misgivings.
He was the son of Samuel Montagu, with whom Herzl had dealings during the years of 1895-98.
Sir Samuel was at that time not only a Member of Parliament but also a person of great wealth and influential in British financial circles.
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 Winston Churchill
The victorious candidates for the two-member seat included the Prohibitionist Edwin Scrymgeour.
Churchill stood for the Liberals again in the 1923 general election, but over the next twelve months he moved towards the Conservative Party, though initially using the labels "Anti-Socialist" and "Constitutionalist".
Clementine's mother was Lady Blanche Henrietta Ogilvy (1852-1925), second wife of Sir Henry Montague Hozier and a daughter of the 7th Earl of Airlie.
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 BOOTH, EDWIN [THOMAS] ... - Online Information article about BOOTH, EDWIN [THOMAS] ...
Edwin Booth did not reappear on the stage until the 3rd of See also:
Edwin Booth's prompt-books were edited by See also:
Matthews, Edwin Booth contributed recollections of his father, which contain much valuable autobiographic material.
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 Satanic Voices : Ancient & Modern - The Unacceptable Face of Zionism
Taheen Basheer in the introduction to his booklet ‘Edwin Montagu and The Balfour Declaration’ draws our attention to the fact that many prominent and influential Jews at the turn of the century were completely opposed to the Balfour Declaration both in fact and in principle, and that it was contrary to religious Law.
Significant among the documents made public in the spring of 1966 are three major memoranda presented by the Honourable Edwin Samuel Montagu, son of the First Lord Swaythling and at that time Minister of State for India, concerning his vehement opposition to the proposed declaration.
Montagu was not only a member of the British Cabinet, but was also a practicing Orthodox Jew and a leading personality amongst British Jewry.
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 Janus: Papers of Edwin Samuel Montagu
Papers of Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879-1924), politician, and related papers, Part 2
Montagu was the second son of Samuel Montagu, 1st Baron Swaythling.
For information on Montagu and India see S D Waley Edwin Montagu: a memoir and an account of his visits to India
janus.lib.cam.ac.uk /db/node.xsp?id=EAD/GBR/0016/MONTAGU   (233 words)

  
 Israel,Palestine and the tiger of terrorism: anti-semitism and history
Montagu, who also raised concerns about the fate of the ‘Mahommedans’ then living in Palestine, may never have anticipated the extent to which European anti-semitism, having played such a significant role in providing the new Zionist colony with its population, would be adopted by Palestinian Arabs.
When the local electoral college of pious Muslims voted for a moderate and learned leader and placed at the bottom of their list Hajj Amin al-Husseini, a young man in his twenties, given to fanaticism and hatred of the Jews, the Governor was initially content and confirmed the appointment.
He then convinced Samuel that the best way to restore order was to concede to the agitators by letting the Hajj become Grand Mufti.
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 Non- Kabbalistic Orthodoxy after 1492   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
His son Edwin Samuel Montagu (1879-1924) was the head of the ‘Cousinhood’ and president of the Anglo-Jewish Association and the United Synagogue.
Edwin's son, Ewen Edward Samuel Montagu (1901-?) would have followed him, but relinquished that post as a result of his support for Louis Jacobs (see the Louis Jacobs Affair).
Ewan Montagu (1901-85) was the ex head of Naval Intelligence who dreamed up the scheme which fooled the Germans about the Allied invasion of Sicily, immortalised in the book and film called The Man Who Never Was.
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 savethemales.ca - British Jewry Tried to Stop Zionism
Montague "is not a man: [he is] a bundle of moods and nerves and symptoms, intensely self-absorbed,and--but I won't go on with the dismal catalogue."
Montagu championed the rights of colonial subjects in India and Kenya and made himself unpopular with elements of the British establishment.
Montagu was apparently an honest man. The rest ofthe cabinet and PM were under the influence of Zionists in the City of London who were working for the Rothschild interests.
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 Makow "blaming the British"-on Balfour Declaration
Edwin Montagu, the second son of the silver bullion dealer Samuel Montagu, was
Montagu was one of those rare Jews who tried to understand the reasons for anti-
Montagu was probably responsible for inserting the provision in the Balfour
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 ( * Forword from Shifra Stern   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Later, having met and talked to Cosima Wagner, he confessed to sharing many of her anti-Semitic views.
The only Jewish member of the British cabinet at the time of the Balfour Declaration, Edwin Samuel Montagu, opposed it: “The policy of His Majesty’s Government”, he wrote, “is anti-Semitic.
Montagu may never have anticipated the extent to which European anti-Semitism, having played such a significant role in providing the new Zionist colony with its population, would be adopted by Palestinian Arabs.
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 Sikh History:Sikhs and the Transfer of Power
Sir Sundar Singh Majithia, the secretary of the Diwan, wrote a letter to the Punjab Government, on 26 December 1916, setting out the claims of the Sikh community for representation in the Imperial and Provincial councils.
In August 1917, the Secretary of State for India, Edwin Samuel Montagu, made his momentous declaration that the aim of British policy as regards India was the gradual development of self governing institutions with a view to the progressive realization of responsible government.
A deputation of the Sikh leaders also waited on the Viceroy (22 November 1917) and pressed Sikhs' claims to a one-third representation in the Punjab on the basis of their services in the war.
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 Illuminati News: British Jewry Tried to Stop Zionism, by Henry Makow, PhD
He and Montagu were both infatuated with Venetia Stanley a friend of Asquith's daughter, and 32 years Asquith's junior.
When the attentions of the Prime Minister became too much, Venetia married Montagu who was eight years older.
Montagu was probably responsible for inserting the provision in the Balfour Declaration that, despite creating a national homeland, "Nothing shall be done that may prejudice the civil and religious rights of the existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country."
www.illuminati-news.com /Makow031106.htm   (1443 words)

  
 Janus: Papers of Sir James Ramsay Montagu Butler (1889-1975) historian
James Ramsay Montagu Butler was born on 20 July 1889, the son of Henry Montagu Butler, Master of Trinity, and his second wife, Agnata née Ramsay.
He was an entrance scholar at Harrow and was elected a scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge in 1905, although he did not matriculate until 1907.
In 1955, the College appointed him Vice-Master, which post he held until 1960, in which year he was knighted.
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** Summary: Montagu's biography/ Introduction by Tahseen Basheer/ Montagu's documents (which were secret documents at that time): The Anti-Semitism of the Present Government, a memorandum, August 23, 1917.
Edwin Samuel Montagu, Secretary of State for India (1917-22) was the only Jew in the Lloyd George Cabinet and he was strongly opposed to political Zionism.
His vehement opposition to the Balfour Declaration may have been responsible for the partial amendment of the declaration.
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