The Churchill White Paper no longer held good with regard to the phrase, ‘as of right and not on sufferance’. ‘As of right’, McDonald told his colleagues, in complete contradiction to anything that could be found in the Churchill White Paper (The Palestine mandate), ‘as of right’ referred only to those Jews who were already […]
May 23, 1939 The Shame of Winston Churchill “To whom was the pledge of the Balfour Declaration made? It was not made to the Jews of Palestine, it was not made to those who were actually living in Palestine. It was made to world Jewry and in particular to the Zionist associations. It was in […]
Churchill pointed out that up to the time that the decision to deport “illegal Jewish refugees” on-board the Darien refugees had been taken: “It looked as if we should be subjected to a wave of illegal immigration, but now that the whole of south eastern Europe is in German hands, there is no further danger […]
In December 1941, The Struma, an over 100 year old cattle boat left the Romanian port of Constanza with 769 Jews on board, 669 more than its normal complement. It contained only one toilet, no washing facilities and had grossly inadequate sleeping quarters. Passenger wishing to breathe fresh air had to wait their turn to […]
“A train containing 4,000 Jewish children, unaccompanied and without identification papers or even distinguishing marks, left Lyon(France) for ‘somewhere in Poland.’ The destination in Germany was known, both to the Times and to Churchill, only as ‘somewhere in Poland’. Their destination was in fact Auschwitz, although this was not known either in France or by […]
Winston Churchill in the House of Commons : “The most bestial, the most squalid and the most senseless of all their offences, namely, the mass deportation of Jews from France, with the pitiful horrors attendant upon the calculated and final scattering of families. This tragedy fills me with astonishment as well as with indignation, and […]
1944 The Shame of Winston Churchill “Churchill himself was convinced of the need to delay any decision on Palestine, not only until the successful conclusion of the European war, but more specifically, at least until after the American Presidential elections due to be held in November 1944.“ Source: Palestine: Retreat From The Mandate, by Michael […]
Lord Eden Killearn to British Cabinet Committee “… Scrap the White Paper and Mandate and come out boldly with a decision to keep Palestine ourselves as a vital link in our defense system … our physical control should be definite and unlimited … both sides would squeal … but would eventually submit to force majeure” […]
Because of the havoc Hitler had unleashed on behalf of Germans outside Germany, in 1944 Churchill endorsed—with Roosevelt and Stalin agreeing—ethnic cleansing. Postwar stability would be built by scrubbing Germans from non-German countries. “Expulsion,” said Churchill, “is the method which … will be the most satisfactory and lasting.” Source: Newsweek, 3/21/2008, George F. Will: Kosovo’s […]
Source: Martin Glibert, Churchill and the Jews: A Life Long Friendship; HMSO/British Ministry Of Information, Middle East