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Judging by the many tributes to Montague David those days. But I never heard a word about his
Eder, he was obviously a well loved man.
Wyndham Deedes in David Eder: Memoirs of
a Modern Pioneer, p.195 wrote:
When I was Chief Secretary of the
Administration, he (Eder) was one of the
members of the Jewish agency whom I was
called upon from time to time to ‘interview.’
When he came there was no getting away from
him. It was not so much the arguments which he
put forward, for he was a somewhat inconclusive
and rugged speaker - it was rather the man’s
character, honesty and outspokenness which
invariably enabled him to carry his point... To
my colleagues he was undoubtedly the ‘toughest
nut’ of the Jewish Agency. Uncompromising and
even dangerous used to be said about him in
David Eder Farm… in earlier times
David Eder Farm... much later
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character. Everyone liked him: and the writer of
this note (Deedes) learned to love him.
Eder was obviously completely unprepared for
diplomacy or politics and therefore his
instinctive reaction to problems and questions
which arose was: ‘What is best for the Jews.’
After his death Freud wrote that Eder was the
first and at times the only doctor practising
psychoanalysis in England. He was a pioneer
figure in three of the great modern movements
of his age: socialism, psychoanalysis and
Zionism. But, he didn't turn the sods around Dial
Post.