Winston Churchill Quotes
The central fact which dominates the relations of Jew and non-Jew is that the Jew is 'different'. He looks different. He thinks differently. He has a different tradition and background. He refuses to be absorbed.
Churchill drafted this article when there was rampant anti-Semitism in Germany but the world had not yet learned of the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism was also present in many other European countries, England and even the United States. The thrust of Churchill’s article was that if Jews would assimilate more easily, this would mitigate anti-Semitism. This was at a time when cultural pluralism was much less common, even in America and minorities were expected to adopt the customs, practices and culture of the majorities. Ironically, Jews were more assimilated in Germany than in any other country and that is where the anti-Semitism reached its zenith. Churchill published thousands of articles and it is not known why he chose never to publish this one. He was not Prime Minister at the time but was observing Germany with alarm.
Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister (Conservative), Unpublished Article, “How The Jews Can Combat Persecution”, 1937
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The Turks had massacred the vast majority of their Armenian population, and treated the Greeks badly killing and them many of them from territories the Ottoman Turks had conquered. Jews fared better but were 2nd class citizens. Bristol was the American State Department’s senior official and was very “understanding” of the murders and ethnic cleansing despite the fact that President Wilson and most American politicians were very opposed to the Turkish massacres. See {620614} and {620599} . Two factors makes this quotation very significant. First, at the time the State Department was not really under the control of either the President or the Congress. It was not rare for the Department to have its own policies and implement them. This began to change in WWII and FDR exercised much more control than previous presidents since Theodore Roosevelt. The second factor is that there were many racists throughout the State Department—Bristol was only one. There was little concern for minorities’ welfare and the emphasis was on commerce. See {620600} Even in Truman’s administration, the President had massive opposition from the State Department for his policy of recognizing the State of Israel. Today, this kind of racism in the State Department is very rare, and human rights has been one of their major concerns. There were many changes in 75 years.
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Apart from two years between 1922 and 1924, Churchill was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1900 to 1964 and represented a total of five constituencies. Ideologically an economic liberal and imperialist, he was for most of his career a member of the Conservative Party, as leader from 1940 to 1955. He was a member of the Liberal Party from 1904 to 1924. Churchill was also well known for his military career and as a historian, painter and writer, and among his many awards was the Nobel Prize in Literature.
