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This left the Prime Minister sitting pretty except that a few Laborite backbenchers interjected occasional jeers. Said Laborite Josiah Clement Wedgwood: "There has been no denial of the prejudice felt in exalted circles against the holding of that post [War Secretary] by a man who was a Jew and who was the centre of the Goebbels propaganda. What circles got hold of the Prime Minister with these stories?" When Neville Chamberlain ignored this query, extreme Left Independent Laborite Jock McGovern jumped up and demanded: "Will the Prime Minister give a denial of that...
Latest answer to these riddles was offered this week in a shrewd and seductive biography by erudite, witty, sparrowish Salvador de Madariaga, Spain's famed philosopher-journalist-diplomat. He declares that Cristóbal Colón was a Genoa-born, converted Spanish Jew; that his family fled Catalonia during the Jewish pogroms around...
Convinced that Colón was a Spanish Jew, Biographer de Madariaga satisfies himself about the rest. Explained (for him) is Colón's mysterious caginess about his origins-only Nazi Germany is unhealthier for Jews than was Spain under the Inquisition. (De Madariaga's account of Spain's complex Jewish problem of that day is a model of lucidity.) This explains to de Madariaga the reason why Colón's sponsors were invariably converted Jews, who formed a sort of braintrust for Ferdinand and Isabel...
...Schwarze Korps, the Elite Guard newsorgan which mixes its exhortations about a German super-race with sex crimes, nude pictures, free love and Jew-baiting, featured an article called Work More, Consume Less. It called those who spend unwisely saboteurs and said they would be dealt with...
...charge of the Choukoutien site (where digging has been seriously interfered with by the Sino-Japanese war) is an expatriate German Jew, Dr. Franz Weidenreich of Rockefeller-endowed Peiping Union Medical College. No. 1 man in Java is an expatriate German Gentile, Dr. Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, research associate of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Of late these earnest anthropologists have shown an increasing interest in each other's doings, and have tended to ignore the heterodox mutterings of old Dr. Dubois...