Edwin Samuel Montagu
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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.
He was the second Jew to enter the British Cabinet but was strongly opposed to Zionism, which he called "a mischievous political creed." He opposed the Balfour Declaration, which he considered "anti-semitic" and whose terms he managed to modify. He was opposed by his cousin Herbert Samuel, a moderate Zionist who became the first High Commissioner of Palestine.
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