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When Churchill was antisemitic

On December 26th, 1918, Winston Churchill wrote to

the recently re-elected British PM David Lloyd-George

Here is the letter about the new Government which you have asked me to write you. ... there is a point about Jews which occurs to me—you must not have too many of them. ... Three Jews among only 7 Liberal cabinet ministers might I fear give rise to comment. 1

On June 6th, 1919 Churchill telegraphed General Gough

stationed with the British Army in Helsinki, Finland:

In view of prominent part taken by Jews in Red terror and regime there is special danger of Jewish pogroms and this danger must be combatted strongly. 2

On October 10th, 1919, Churchill wrote to British PM David Lloyd-George:

There is a very bitter feeling throughout Russia against the Jews, who are regarded as being the main instigators of the ruin of the Empire, and who, certainly have played a leading part in Bolshevik atrocities. 3

On November 6, 1919, Winston Churchill, Secretary of State for War, stated

the following during a late night debate in the House of Commons:

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or of cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy. No sooner did Lenin arrive than he began beckoning a finger here and a finger there to obscure persons in sheltered retreats in New York, in Glasgow, in Berne, and other countries, and he gathered together the leading spirits of a formidable sect, the most formidable sect in the world, of which he was the high priest and chief. With these spirits around him he set to work with demoniacal ability to tear to pieces every institution on which the Russian State and nation depended. Russia was laid low. Russia had to be laid low. She was laid low to the dust. 4

On January 3, 1920, during a speech in Sunderland, Churchill attacked British socialists, saying:

They want to destroy all the religious beliefs that console and inspire humanity. They believe in the international Soviet of Russian and Polish Jews. We continue to believe in the British Empire. 5

On January 25, 1920, Churchill wrote to his friend Herbert Albert Fisher:

I am afraid the facts established only too clearly the predominance of Jews in the Bolshevik movement ... it is my firm belief that the Jews in this country would be well to admit the facts more openly than they do and to rally to the support of those forces in Russia which give some prospect of setting up a strong and impartial government. 6

On February 8th, 1920, the Illustrated Sunday Herald, published Winston

Churchill's famous article Zionism versus Bolshevism. In which he stated:

... this same astounding race (Jews) may at the present time be in the actual process of producing another system of morals and philosophy, as malevolent as Christianity was benevolent, which, if not arrested, would shatter irretrievably all that Christianity has rendered possible. It would almost seem as if the gospel of Christ and the gospel of Antichrist were destined to originate among the same people; and that this mystic and mysterious race had been chosen for the supreme manifestations, both of the divine and the diabolical. ...

From the days of Spartacus-Weishaupt to those of Karl Marx, and down to Trotsky (Russia), Bela Kun (Hungary), Rosa Luxembourg (Germany), and Emma Goldman (United States), this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence, and impossible equality, has been steadily growing. It played, as a modern writer, Mrs. Webster, has so ably shown, a definitely recognizable part in the tragedy of the French Revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the Nineteenth Century; and now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their heads and have become practically the undisputed masters of that enormous empire.

There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution, by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews, it is certainly a very great one; it probably outweighs all others. With the notable exception of Lenin, the majority of the leading figures are Jews. Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from the Jewish leaders. ... The same evil prominence was obtained by Jews in the brief period of terror during which Bela Kun ruled in Hungary. The same phenomenon has been presented in Germany (especially in Bavaria), so far as this madness has been allowed to prey upon the temporary prostration of the German people. Although in all these countries there are many non-Jews every whit as bad as the worst of the Jewish revolutionaries, the part played by the latter in proportion to their numbers in the population is astonishing. ... Trotsky ... his schemes of a world-wide communistic State under Jewish domination ... 7

On September 24th, 1921, during a speech in Dundee, Churchill stated:

We have seen how completely they (Socialists/Communists/Bolsheviks) have destroyed Russia, so that that once great, wealty Empire, one of the world's greatest granaries, has been reduced through four years of Socialism and Bolshevism to absolute starvation. More people may well die this winter in Russia than perished in the whole four years of the war. This awful catastrophe has been brought about by a gang of professional revolutionaries, mostly Jews, who have seized on the wretched Russian nation in its weakness and in its ignorance, and have applied to it with ferocious logic all those doctrines of Communism which we hear spouted so freely in this country. In Russia they have put them into practice. They have, indeed, turned words into deeds; and they have killed without mercy anyone who opposed them. 8

On December 24th, 1921, Churchill wrote to Lord Curzon:

I see the gravest objections ... to giving all this help and countenance to the tyrannic Government of Jew Commissars, at once revolutionary and opportunist, who are engaged not only in persecuting the bourgeoisie, but are carrying on a perpetual and ubiquitous warfare with the peasants of Russia. ... We want to nourish the dog and not the tapeworm that is killing the dog. 9

Sources quoted:

1. Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV 1917-1922. Heinemann; London. 1975. pp.176-177.

2. Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV 1917-1922. Heinemann; London. 1975. p.293.

3. Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV 1917-1922. Heinemann; London. 1975. p.342.

4. Winston S. Churchill: His Complete Speeches, 1897-1963, Volume III. Chelsea House Publishers, London. 1974. p.2783. And here.

4. House of Common's Debates: November 5, 1919: http://yourdemocracy.newstatesman.com/parliament/orders-of-the-day/HAN2457102

5. Defries, Harry. Conservative Party Attitudes to Jews, 1900-1950. Frank Cass Publishers; Southgate, England. 2001. p.82.
5. Poliakov, Léon. The History of Anti-Semitism: Suicidal Europe, 1870-1933. University of Pennsylvania Press. 2003. p.207.

6. Defries, Harry. Conservative Party Attitudes to Jews, 1900-1950. Frank Cass Publishers; Southgate, England. 2001. p.82.

7. Illustrated Sunday Herald, February 8th, 1920, p.5. http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/WSCwrote1920.html

8. Western Gazette (Somerset, UK) - Friday 30 September 1921, p.12

9. Gilbert, Martin. Winston S. Churchill, Volume IV 1917-1922. Heinemann; London. 1975. pp.760-761.

Posted by The Black Rabbit of Inlé at 01:15

2 comments:

who+dares+wings15 March 2012 05:38
"Baruch and Churchill" Chapter 38 of The Churchill Legend by Francis Neilson provides some insight to Churchill's post-Bolshevik attitude about Jews.

http://tmh.floonet.net/books/churchilllegend/pdf/chapXXVIII.pdf
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Anonymous15 July 2012 17:30
Fascinating collection of comments.
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