This man's strict enforcement of the Coercion Laws as Chief Secretary of Ireland in the second Salisbury ministry led Irish nationalists to nickname him "bloody."
This man's government suffered humanitarian backlash when his colonial secretary Alfred Lyttleton sanctioned the importation of Chinese indentured labor into South African mines. This man's strict enforcement of the Coercion Laws as Chief Secretary of Ireland in the second Salisbury ministry led Irish nationalists to nickname him "bloody." One year after facing a Cabinet crisis, this man's government reached the Entente Cordiale agreement with France. This man noted that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing  communities" in a document incorporated into the Treaty of Sevres and influenced by a meeting with Chaim Weizmann while this man was Foreign Secretary. For 10 points, name this British politician who addressed Baron Rothschild in a 1917 declaration endorsing a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
This man's government suffered humanitarian backlash when his colonial secretary Alfred Lyttleton sanctioned the importation of Chinese indentured labor into South African mines.
Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour