Dresden Redux

Knight Templar

I can recommend a book without agreeing with all of it! I often recommend books I totally disagree with because they made me think harder about my opinions. I just hope I've never told people to read a bad book.

I think it depends what you define as "Fear". I think Balfour accepted that there were Jewish Bankers and Financiers whose support for the allied cause would be welcome. I would say that he was concerned (rather than afraid) that they sat on the fence or possibly supported the Central powers.

Jumbo

 

Jumbo-
OK. I understand that.
So, you would say that Shamir is simply exaggerating things?
KT

 

Remember that Balfour is only the Foreign Secretary. A decision like this was taken at Cabinet level so Lloyd George, Churchill and the rest. He was not a loose cannon. He'd been PM until 1906, and had been in government in one form or another since the 1880's under his Uncle Lord Salisbury.

I think Shamir is exaggerating the "Fear Factor" against other diplomatic forces in play at the time. Again it sort of ignores what happened after the war.

Jumbo