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the Balfour Declaration, there are two recent works: G. Lewis, Balfour and Weizmann: The Zionist, the Zealot and the Emergence of Israel (London, 2009) and J. Schneer, The Balfour Declaration: The Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (London, 2010). Weizmann, Trial and Error, p.194; B. Tuchman, Bible and Sword: How the British came to Palestine (New York, 1956; edition used here London, 1982), p.83. B. E. C. Dugdale, Arthur James Balfour, First Earl Balfour (2 vols, London, 1936), vol.1, p.433; Tuchman, Bible and Sword, p.311. Wilkinson, For Zion’s Sake, p.221. Clark, Allies for Armageddon, p.58. See T. C. F. Stunt, ‘Darby, John Nelson (1800–1882)’, ODNB; Letters of John Nelson Darby (3 vols, London, 1886–89); Clark, Allies for Armageddon, pp 61–3, 80–6. Letters of John Nelson Darby, vol. 1, p.7. Clark, Allies for Armageddon, p.63. Ibid., pp.63, 86–92. S. Spector, Evangelicals and Israel: the Story of American Christian Zionism (Oxford, 2009), p.27; Clark, Allies for Armageddon, p.144. Ibid., p.187. Princeton Religion Research Report, 2002: ‘Describing Self as Born-Again or Evangelical’, bar graph, online, http:// wheaton.edu/isae/Gallup-Bar-graph.html. Clark, Allies for Armageddon, pp.193–4. Jerry Falwell speaking on ‘Sixty Minutes’ CBS news programme, 10 December 2003.