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Monty has been to pay one of his flying visits. Taxi arrives; coat thrown into some corner, he greets me, asks how things are; the boys meet him, shake hands, talk, jest; up the stairs two at a time into Nathan's to deliver "a few highbrow magazines" and to discuss the latest on science, politics and
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When he has left, everyone has the feeling that he has come just for him or her – a remarkable man! Intelligence, compassion and financial freedom—which is the strongest? Love, concern and a certain shyness coupled with some extrovert abilities—perhaps that would describe him even
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When Adolf Hitler became
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Montefiore's fluency in the German language enabled him to study the details of the oppression of the Jews in
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on 2 June 1889. His mother, Therese Alice, died on the following day, and so he was brought up by his grandmother, Emma
Montefiore, who was from the wealthy
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influence, which the Board opposed as subverting their status as
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