David Lloyd George's Ill Feeling for Jewry,
Friendship for Hitler Told in New ItiograpIhty
On the record, David Lloyd
It is doubtful whether 'Lord
George is considered having been Samuel's viewpoint is properly
a good friend of Jewry. He had stated here, yet the over-all analy-
conferred with Dr. Chaim Weiz- sis is interesting in relation to
mann prior to the issuance of the Lloyd George.
Balfour Declaration in 1917. He
In this connection, there is
had written laud-
another curious reference to
atory articles
Zionism in "The Mas k of Mer-
about the Jews
lin." We are told by McCormick:
for the Hearst
"It is interesting to note that
press in this
Arthur Balfour, the fastidious
country.
Gentile aristocrat, was devoted
But that's not
to Zionism and violently anti-
the story we read
Turk, and Edwin Montagu, a
in the critical
Jew, was warmly sympathetic to
biography of him
the Islamic cause. Of such in-
by Donald Mc-
c
Co rm ic k, pub-
"Indeed Montagu felt so strong:
lished under the
ify on this question that, without
title "The Mask
Cabinet authority, he published
of Merlin," ptib- Lloyd George
a telegfam from the 'Viceroy,
lished by Holt, Rinehart & Winston
Lord Reading, recommending
(383 Madison; NY 17).
the evacuation of Constantin-
"The magic of Merlin" is seen
ople, and, -in effect, a pro-Turk-
the
mask
under
which
the
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ish policy. Montagu was immedi-
-- British premier of World War I
ately sacked and censured by
functioned.
the Prime Minister for ignoring
Serious questions are raised
the doctrine of Cabinet responsi-
here — whether he was a great
bility.
patriot, a great statesr•an, a sin-
" 'Cabinet responsibility is- a
cere diplomat, or a mountebank.
joke,'. said Montagu. 'Having
a bungler, one who interfered
connived at its disappearance,
with his nation's - major efforts.
the Prime Minister now brings it
McCormick
biography
out
at a convenient moment and
In the
makes me its victim.' "
he is reveal9d as the friend and
There is a photograph of Lloyd
admirer of -Hitler_ as one who
George with Hitler in this volume,
really had tongue in cheek
and the story of the friendship be-
when dealing with Jews and who
tween the two men is one of the
was far from friendly to Jewry.
Reviewing the Palestinian situa- most shocking revelations in Mc-
tion and the position taken by Cormick's book.
Lloyd George. McCormick pre-
A statement by Lloyd George at
Barmouth. in September 1932, is
sents the case as follows:
"Ll. Q. wanted to keep Palestine quoted as follows: '"All the trouble
for Britain. Sweet words for that has arisen in Europe and in
Jewry were merely meant to dis- Germany in particular has come
guise this intention, or, to put the from a flagrant breach of the un-
best construction on them, to win dertaking to disarm by all the /vic-
Jewish approval. Yet J. T. Davies tors but one, and the League of
insisted on hailing LI.• G. as a Nations' failure to enforce that
`twentieth century Good Samari- pledge has destroyed its moral in-
tan championing the Zionist cause.' fluence. If the powers succeed in
overthrowing Nazism in Germany,
'Asquith, in his 'Memories and Communism will follow."
Reflections.' summed up the posi-; 'McCormick. in his reference to
tion by saying that Lloyd George. Lloyd George's hatred for France.
`who did not care a damn for the thereupon comments: "This was
Jews. or their past or their future, very much - the Hitler theme, and
felt it would' be an-outrage to let one which was propounded by such
the Holy Places miss into the pos- misguided intellectuals
as the
session or under *the protectorate Marquis of Lothian and Lord
of agnostic, atheistic France.' LI. Allen of Hartwood and by bankers
G., though he had several Jewish and economists such as Montagu
friends, had often been known to Norman and Josiah Stamp. Yet al-
express anti-Semitic views and had ready Hitler had shown his stand
no real interest in a National Home by his ruthless suppression of op-
for Jewry. Indeed the Prime Min- position, his anti-Jewish pogroms
ister's Jewish friends were mainly and his ,,contempt for liberal dem-
- those who were anti-Zionist, like ocracy. If ever there was a moment
Sir Charles Henry and Mr. Lionel when Britain should firmly have
de Rothschild. Lord Beaverbrook announced determination to.stand
records that Sir Charles Henry 're- by France this was it. Strangely,
ported that in an interview the while tolerating Hitler, Lloyd
Prime Minister had given his as- George was harsh on Mussolini."
sent to the anti-Zionist view,' .that
It was "in the friendliest fash-
is, • those opposed to the idea of a ion" that Lloyd George treated
National Home for the Jews.
Hitler and was in turn admired
"It was Sir Herbert Samuel who, by Hitler and welcomed to the
first of all, argued the case for latter's home in Berchtesgaden on
Britain taking over Palestine as a Sept. 4, 1936. "If Hitler impressed
protectorate. But Samuel was not a Ll. G.. the aged statesman charmed
fanatical Zionist and he did • not and delighted Hitler," McCormick
intend his idea to be developed in states. —
quite the manner that Balfour, a!
McCormick's critical study of
converted pro-Zionist, conceived inj Ll. G. depicts the man of many
his famous Declaration of .1917." amours, his many involvements
Arab League Seeks to Frustrate
Israel's Agreement with Euromart
LONDON (JTA)—Irked by the
fact that the - six-member European
Common Market signed an agree-
ment with Israel this summer, giv-
ing Israel certain concessions in
regard to exports to those coun-
tries, the Arab League Economic
COUncil has decided to tighten its
anti-Israel boycott in such way
as to try to keep Israeli products
from "infiltrating" into Europe,
Cairo dispatches received. here re-
ported.
The League's Economic Council,
backed by the Arab Boycott Office,
has been holding sessions in Cairo
to try- to work out methods for
frustrating the Israel - Euromart
agreement. A communique issued
at the conclusion of the council's
session stated that "a positive
plan" barring Israeli goods from
Arab countries has been worked
out. The six Euromart countries
are France, West Germany. Italy,
Holland, BelgiuM and Luxembourg.
Another dispatch, from the Boy-
cott Office headquarters at Beirut,
announced that Sophia Loren, the
film star, has been. put on the
blacklist. The announcement stat-
ed that all of her films will be
banned from Arab countries, unless
she withdraws from the cast of a
new film, "Judith," now being
filmect in Israel.
Elohist is a name given by mod-
ern scholars to those portions of
the Pentateuch which refer to the
deity _ as Elohim,' and which are
presumed to have originated in
the Northern Kingdom of Israel.
THE DETROIT JEWISH- NEWS
Friday; August 28, 1964 31
Political Advertisement
Pull Lever No.
with people of varying natures,
some of whom had turned traitors;
his sale of honors which enabled.
the late prime minister to amass
a fortune.
In this biography, the view is
expressed that more should have
been done by Britain to strengthen
friendship with France and to op-
pose Bolshevism.
The expose of Lloyd George's at-
titude towards the Jews and of his
friendship for Hitler are among
the most sensational in the entire
story of the life of a man Who was
depicted as one of the great of i
our time.
—P. S.
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