Judah L. Magnes; A Biography of the first Chancellor and first President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
London: Horovitz Publishing Co., Ltd in the East & West Library. Presumed First Edition/First Printing. Hardcover. ix,[5], 329, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Occasional footnotes. Index of Names. DJ has wear, soiling, chips and tears. Norman De Mattos Bentwich OBE MC (28 February 1883 – 8 April 1971) was a British barrister and legal academic. He was the British-appointed attorney-general of Mandatory Palestine and a lifelong Zionist. Bentwich played a major role in the development of Palestinian law. From 1932 to 1951 Bentwich occupied the Chair of International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His first lecture, on "Jerusalem, City of Peace", was disrupted by Jewish students who considered him too conciliatory towards the Arabs. Several of the ringleaders were suspended. He was one of the Jewish members of Palestine Administration who in 1929 joined Brit Shalom, a society founded to find rapprochement between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. In his book, Mandate Memories, he stated that "the Balfour Declaration was not an impetuous or sentimental act of the British government, as has been sometimes represented, or a calculated measure of political warfare. It was a deliberate decision of British policy and adopted only after full consultation with the United States and with other Allied Nations." More