After the swindle was discovered, Balfour fled the country.

He was arrested in Argentina by Inspector Frank Froest of Scotland Yard in 1895 ; with extradition proceedings held up by legal wrangling, Froest simply bundled Balfour into a train and then a boat sailing for England.

The party was saved after Salisbury's retirement in 1902 when his successor, Arthur Balfour, pushed a series of unpopular initiatives such as a new education bill and Joseph Chamberlain called for a new system of protectionist tariffs.

* Liberator Building Society scandal, in which the Liberal Party MP Jabez Balfour was exposed as running several vast fraudulent companies to conceal colossal financial losses.

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

The Balfour Declaration ( dated 2 November 1917 ) was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild ( Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild ), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

The " Balfour Declaration " was later incorporated into the Sèvres peace treaty with Turkey and the Mandate for Palestine.

:" Mr. Balfour, supposing I was to offer you Paris instead of London, would you take it?

According to Isaiah Friedman, Hussein was not perturbed by the Balfour Declaration and on 23 March 1918, in Al Qibla, the daily newspaper of Mecca, with Hussein writing:

Balfour was in attendance.

That was the fount and origin of the famous declaration about the National Home for the Jews in Palestine .... As soon as I became Prime Minister I talked the whole matter over with Mr Balfour, who was then Foreign Secretary.

" The ' most comprehensive explanation ' of the origin of the Balfour Declaration the Foreign Office was able to provide was contained in a small ' unofficial ' note of Jan 1923 affirming that: little is known of how the policy represented by the Declaration was first given form.

In his posthumously published 1981 book The Anglo-American Establishment, Georgetown University history professor Carroll Quigley explained that the Balfour Declaration was actually drafted by Lord Alfred Milner.

This declaration, which is always known as the Balfour Declaration, should rather be called " the Milner Declaration ," since Milner was the actual draftsman and was, apparently, its chief supporter in the War Cabinet.

At that time Ormsby-Gore, speaking for the government in Commons, said, " The draft as originally put up by Lord Balfour was not the final draft approved by the War Cabinet.

More recently, William D. Rubinstein, Professor of Modern History at Aberystwyth University, Wales, wrote that Conservative politician and pro-Zionist Leo Amery, as Assistant Secretary to the British war cabinet in 1917, was the main author of the Balfour Declaration.

In the English-speaking world it was Sir Albert Howard who worked extensively in India on sustainable practices and Lady Eve Balfour who was a huge proponent of composting.

The British Mandate ( in effect, British rule ) of Palestine, including the Balfour Declaration, was confirmed by the League of Nations in 1922 and came into effect in 1923.

Under Sir William Balfour, they broke through the Royalist lines on the night of 31 August, eventually reaching Plymouth 30 miles to the east.

The government eventually relented, with Balfour stating that " as soon as the necessary arrangements under the London Government Act have been completed, there will be conferred on the borough of Westminster, as constituted under the Act, the title of city, originally conferred in the time of Henry VIII ".

Indeed, Chamberlain now hoped that Balfour would fail in promoting his guarded fiscal doctrine, probably with a strategy of eventually leading the Unionists in opposition to the Liberals on a purely protectionist platform after the expected defeat in the general election.

Balfour eventually resigned as Prime Minister in December 1905, hoping in vain that the Liberal leader Campbell-Bannerman would be unable to form a strong government.

Carson immediately announced that he would not stand, and Law eventually announced that he would run for Leader, the day before Balfour resigned on 7 November.

Facing a resurgent Liberal opposition and the threat of an internal party split, Balfour eventually took the Unionists into opposition in December 1905, and in the ensuing rout in the election of 1906, Austen Chamberlain found himself one of the few surviving Liberal Unionists in the House of Commons.

Balfour, trying to juggle different factions, had allowed both Chamberlain and Free Trade supporters to resign from the government, hoping that Devonshire would remain for the sake of balance, but the latter eventually resigned under pressure from Charles Thomson Ritchie and from his wife, who still hoped that he might lead a government including leading Liberals.

This led to the drafting of the subsequent Balfour Declaration that raised the status of dominions to one of equality with Britain, and eventually led to the Statute of Westminster 1931.

Cromwell, Balfour and Sir Arthur Hesilrige eventually were allowed to take cavalry in pursuit of the King's army, but soon found that the Royalists had already crossed the River Thames at Wallingford and had reached the safety of the neighbourhood of Oxford.

Balfour succeeded Salisbury as prime minister in 1902, and the government would eventually falter after Chamberlain proposed his scheme for tariff reform, whose partial embrace by Balfour led to the resignation of the more orthodox free traders in the Cabinet.

On 18 August 2006, Achmat was one of 44 TAC activists arrested for occupying provincial government offices in Cape Town as a protest in order to call for Minister Tshabalala-Msimang and Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour to be charged with culpable homicide for the death of an HIV-positive inmate at Westville Prison in Durban.

) In his quest to buy some condoms, he runs into all sorts of trouble ; his dad's Jaguar gets stolen and then wrecked, he has a run-in with a crazy bus driver ( Anthony Michael Hall ), he is held hostage, he is pursued by a school janitor ( Paulo Tocha ) who accuses him of tagging, an odd pair of hispanic siblings ( Christine Deaver and Mike Moroff ) who think he is David Hasselhoff, Brooke's dog, Brooke's jealous boyfriend Kyle ( Eric Balfour ), and a homeless man ( David Patrick Kelly ) who wants two dollars from him ( and has secretly stolen his wallet ), and he is nearly arrested.

A few years later, he was implicated in the Liberator Building Society scandal with Jabez Balfour, convicted and imprisoned.

The Inter-Imperial Relations Committee, chaired by Balfour, drew up the document preparatory to its unanimous approval by the imperial premiers on November 15, 1926.

During the first meeting between Weizmann and Balfour in 1906, Balfour asked what Weizmann's objections were to the idea of a Jewish homeland in Uganda, ( the Uganda Protectorate in East Africa in the British Uganda Programme ), rather than in Palestine.

Issuing the Balfour Declaration would appeal to Woodrow Wilson ’ s two closest advisors, who were avid Zionists.

However, this version of the story of the declaration's origins has been described as " fanciful ", a fair assessment considering that discussions between Weizmann and Balfour had begun at least a decade earlier.

In late 1905 Balfour had requested of Charles Dreyfus, his Jewish constituency representative, that he arrange a meeting with Weizmann, during which Weizmann asked for official British support for Zionism ; they were to meet again on this issue in 1914.

The records of discussions that led up to the final text of the Balfour Declaration clarifies some details of its wording.

The initial draft of the declaration, contained in a letter sent by Rothschild to Balfour, referred to the principle " that Palestine should be reconstituted as the National Home of the Jewish people.

Four, or perhaps five men were chiefly concerned in the labour – the Earl of Balfour, the late Sir Mark Sykes, and Messrs. Weizmann and Sokolow, with perhaps Lord Rothschild as a figure in the background.

the Bíró brothers and a friend, Juan Jorge Meyne, fled Germany and moved to Argentina.

Oviedo fled the same day, first to Argentina, then to Brazil.

While leftists had mostly fled to France, many neofascist activists involved in the strategy of tension, such as Vincenzo Vinciguerra or Stefano Delle Chiaie, fled to Spain ; Delfo Zorzi, condemned for the Piazza Fontana bombing, was granted asylum and citizenship in Japan, while others fled to Argentina ( in particular Augusto Canchi, wanted by Italian justice for his role in the 1980 Bologna massacre ).

On 15 June 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew the president, who fled to Argentina.

This led the Colorados and the exiled Unitarios to seek French backing against Oribe and on June 15, 1838, an army led by the Colorado leader Rivera overthrew the president, who fled to Argentina.

He fled to various countries during the Nazi period, pursuing mycology in far-flung places like the Soviet Union, Argentina, and finally the United States, as mycologist at the Field Museum in Chicago.

After the Second World War, almost a thousand prominent Nazi leaders and politicians fled to Argentina.

In early 1971, a faction of the Bolivian military attempted to unseat the new president but failed, whereupon Banzer fled to Argentina, but did not give up his ambitions to the presidency.

In the late 70s López again fled Argentina following persecution from the authorities, and from Madrid he arranged the publication of both El Eternauta and Slot-Barr with the Italian magazines LancioStory and Skorpio.

It was screened publicly only once, on 21 December of that year, before Bouchery declared bankruptcy and fled to Argentina.

Proscription was involved in the political violence in Argentina against Peronists after Perón fled into exile.

After a short stay in Schochwitz, he fled with his family to Argentina in early 1946.

But as a former high-ranking German official, he feared arrest in the US and fled to Argentina where he became a close friend of president Juan Perón.

Because of his participation in the Argentine " Generation of ' 37 ", a group of young and liberal intellectuals heavily influenced by the Enlightenment and liberal thought ( among these young men were, also, Esteban Echeverría and Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ), and his refusal to swear allegiance to the Federal regime of the feared caudillo ( military and political strongman ) Juan Manuel de Rosas, in opposition to whom he wrote several books, Alberdi in 1838 fled Argentina to begin a voluntary exile: first, in Montevideo ; then, in Europe ; and, afterward, in Chile.

He fled to Argentina with the help of Charles Lescat, also collaborator of Je suis partout.

When it noticed the proximity of La Argentina, it fled to the port of Santa Cruz.

Investment fled the country, and capital flow towards Argentina ceased almost completely.

Priebke escaped from a British prison camp in 1946 and fled, first to the Tyrol and then back to Rome, whence, using false papers supplied by the Vatican " rat line ", he emigrated to Argentina.

In mid of riots and political turmoil, Cubas resigned, abandoning Oviedo, who fled into exile, first in Argentina and then in Brazil.

Her father Erich had joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928 and fled with his wife to Argentina when the Nazis came to power in 1933.

Some members of Turning Point fled to Argentina and founded the Workers League.

After the end of the Spanish Civil War he fled to Argentina.