Wednesday, March 14, 2007

The Churchill Series – Mar. 14, 2007

(One of a series of weekday posts on the life of Winston S. Churchill.)

Historian Richard Langworth edits the Churchill Centre’s journal Their Finest Hour. Today at the Centre’s website he posted a statement that began:

A lifelong supporter of Zionism and the Jewish people, Winston Churchill is now being accused of anti-semitism on the strength of an alleged article of his, making the rounds of the internet.
Informed of a 1937 article draft in the Churchill Archives, accusers say it proves Churchill's lifelong sympathy for the Jews was hypocrisy—that Churchill was, ipso facto, a closet anti-semite. […]
But Churchill wasn’t an anti-semite, closet or otherwise. Langworth leaves no doubt about that. You can read his statement here.

By the time you finish reading Langworth’s statement, I think you'll agree the Cambridge University historian who’s just suggested Churchill was an anti-semite, Dr. Richard Toye, is himself a “magician” trying to make something out of nothing.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is the most exciting news since it was revealed J.Edgar Hoover dressed in drag at Mafioso parties.got to go,the Rigellians are here. Corwin

Anonymous said...

Jim C - Have read this "aloof" statement before somewhere. Does it look familiar to you? Will rack brain in AM/

Anonymous said...

10:06 Don't forge Goring in his Tyrol outfit with the leather shorts and lipstick.