Lord Moyne served as the British minister of state in the Middle East until November 1944, when he was assassinated by the Jewish terrorist group Lehi.
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31 Facts About Lord Moyne
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The assassination of Lord Moyne sent shock waves through Palestine and the rest of the world.
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Lord Moyne left London on the SS Cornwall for South Africa in early March 1900, and during the service he received the honorary rank of captain in the army.
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Lord Moyne was appointed a Brigade Major in the 25th division in 1916.
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Lord Moyne ended the war as a Lieutenant-Colonel attached to the 66th division.
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Lord Moyne took the conservative line on Home Rule for Ireland, suffragism and reform of the House of Lords.
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Lord Moyne lost office when a Labour government came to power in January 1924, but the following month, Guinness was sworn of the Privy Council.
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Lord Moyne did not stand for re-election in the 1931 election and was created Baron Moyne, of Bury St Edmunds in the County of Suffolk on 21 January 1932.
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Lord Moyne established British Pacific Properties in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
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Lord Moyne was converted to diesel power and renamed Roussalka.
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In September 1933, Lord Moyne purchased the passenger ferry SS Dieppe from the Southern Railway.
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In 1938, Lord Moyne was appointed chairman of the West Indies Royal Commission, which was asked to investigate how best the British colonies in the Caribbean should be governed, after labour unrest.
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Lord Moyne had remarried in 1936 in Berlin to the British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, with Hitler and Goebbels as witnesses.
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From September 1939, given Hitler's Invasion of Poland, Lord Moyne chaired the Polish Relief Fund in London and gave over his London house at 11 Grosvenor Place, in Belgravia near Buckingham Palace, for the use of Polish officers.
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Largely as a result of his travels and his work in the West Indies, Lord Moyne was appointed Secretary of State for the Colonies by Churchill, serving from 8 February 1941 to 22 February 1942.
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Lord Moyne was next appointed Deputy Resident Minister of State in Cairo from August 1942 to January 1944 and Minister-Resident for the Middle East from then until his death.
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Charges against Moyne, amplified by Lehi propaganda, included that Moyne was hostile to Jewish settlement in Palestine due to his support of an Arab federation in the Middle East and that he had made speeches containing antisemitic language, including one in the House of Lords where he suggested that Arabs should get sovereignty over Palestine as the Arab race was "purer" than the "mixed" Jewish race.
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Lord Moyne supported a proposal to offer money to the Germans instead of trucks.
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Lord Moyne arrived in his car with his driver, Lance Corporal Arthur Fuller, his secretary, Dorothy Osmond, and his ADC, Major Andrew Hughes-Onslow.
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The first bullet hit him in the neck on the right side, just above the clavicle, the second penetrated his abdomen, punctured his colon and large intestine, and became embedded to the right of the second lumbar vertebrae, while the third shot, fired after Lord Moyne raised his right hand, ripped across four of his fingers and went in and out of his chest, causing no serious injuries.
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Meanwhile, Lord Moyne regained consciousness, and in a few minutes, a doctor and ambulance arrived.
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Lord Moyne was given another blood transfusion, and in the operation that followed, surgeons removed the bullet lodged near the second lumbar vertebra and discovered the injuries to the colon and large intestine, while the neck wound and finger wounds were cleaned.
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When Lord Moyne replaced Casey in 1944, planning for the operation began.
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Historian Brenner writes that the purpose of the attack on Lord Moyne was in order to show the efficacy of armed resistance and to demonstrate to the British that they were not safe in any place as long as they remained in Palestine.
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