Mosley's 'On Borrowed Time' Exposes British Anti-Semitism

An assured bestseller for months
to come, "On Borrowed Time —
World War II Began," by Leonard
Mosley, published by Random
House, throws new light on the
Hitler era.
It is a revealing work, packed
full of data, much of which has

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upon.
European leaders emerge naive,
weak, undecided, and it was thanks
to their ineptitude that the war
broke out, that the world conflict
could not be avoided.
Because Neville Chamberlain did
not consider Czechoslovakia a
main obstacle to peace, because he
viewed it as "not a real country at
all but the creation of Versailles,"
that the trouble emerged and the
world suffered immeasurably.
Not only the diplomatic maneu-
vers at Munich, the failure prop-
erly to respond to the crisis when
Poland was invaded, the political
and military blunders, contri-
buted to the crisis.
An incident worth referring to,
described by Mosley, is about the
proposal that was made to British
Air Minister Kingsley Wood that
the Black Forest be bombed by the
RAF, thus depriving Germany of
timber, and Wood replied: "Oh,
you can't do that. That's private
property. You'll be asking me to
bomb the Ruhr next." How amaz-
ing that public officials should
have been so blind—in view of the
terror that soon emerged!
While the so-called statesmen
dealt so naively with the world
crisis, there was evidence of anti-
Semitism in British ranks. Mosley
refers, for example, to the role of
U.S. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy
during the world era, and in a foot-
note he states:
"It was the beginning of a pe-
riod, Kennedy said afterward,
when Chamberlain was to complain
that 'America and world Jews
were forcing Britain into war. The
President kept telephoning Ken-
nedy, telling him to put some iron
up Chamberain's backside, and
Kennedy kept replying that 'putting
iron up his backside did no good
unless Britain had some iron with
which to fight, and they did not.' "
There are extensive factual
accounts of debates in German
ranks ever the Jewish question,
and Mosley presents dialogues
during which it was apparent
that Goering, in the early stages,
opposed mass destruction of
property owned by Jews. Goeb-
bels was the more evil spirit.
Heydrich and Goebbels more
fully contributed towards influ-
encing Hitler's extremism in his
cruelties towards Jews. In rela-
tion to these developments there
is an indication of revulsion in
British ranks but the ruling
classes were antipathetic. Mosley
points out: "Unfortunately the
'practical' men who were run-
ning Britain at the time did not
entirely share the revulsion of
their citizens. It would be unjust
to charge them with being im-
pervious to the crimes being

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Romanian Jews Mark
25th Anniversary of
Deportations by Nazis

Fed-
eration of Jewish Communities of
Romania held commemorative ser-
vices in Oradea and Bucharest on
the 25th anniversary of the depor-
tation of 160,000 Jews from north-
ern Transylvania to the Auschwitz
death camp, where most of them
were murdered.
Rabbi Moses Rosen, president of
the federation, speaking at serv-
ices at the Oradea Synagogue at-
tended by representatives of the
Romanian government and of all
Romanian religious groups, urged
international action to prevent an-
other Auschwitz against the Jews
of Israel.
He declared that "If a tyrant
threatens extermination of the
Jews, one must give credence to
him, and humanity must stop his
murderous aim, since otherwise,
he will keep his word. When we
hear again today talk of 'burning,
killing and throwing into the sea'
the remnants of Auschwitz who re-
built Israel and finally found their
home, mankind must do its duty to
take measures for defense" be-
cause "the danger is not only for
the Jews but for all mankind."
He also added that as long as
"forces" existed which reject
negotiations to settle differences
in favor of war and "as long as
the destiny of small peoples is
entrusted to great powers, the
whole of mankind is threatened
with an atomic Auschwitz on a
world scale."
Services at the Choral Temple
here were followed by a pilgrim-
age to a symbolic grave of the
martyrs in the Jewish cemetery,
which contains a piece of soap
made from the bodies of Jews
burned at Auschwitz.
A congress here of the federa-
tion was attended by delegates
from 75 Jewish communities, rep-
resenting 100,000 Jews. Rabbi
Rosen told the gathering that one
of the main tasks of the federation
in the future would be to help Jews
meet their ritual needs. He also
stressed the importance of welfare
aid to aged, ill and isolated Rom-
anian Jews, in which the federa-
tion's resources are used in com-
bination with Joint Distribution
Committee funds.
He said under this program,

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committed in Germany; many
public officials denounced such
persecution. But it would also be
wrong to ignore the fact that a
latent antipathy to Jews per-
meated the upper stratum of
British public life. 'I loathe anti-
Semitism, but I do dislike the
Jews,' Harold Nicolson, one of
the keenest opponents of Munich,
was to write later. In the cabinet
itself, Sir John Simon issued a

among youth in Israel was voiced
in the Knesset by the Minister- of
Police Eliahu Sasson. He was re-
viewing his ministry's activities in
the framework of the annual re-
ports presented to the house by
cabinet members.

He said part of the blame was

due to the fact that since the Six-

Day War many young men are
carrying weapons—most of them
legitimately. Sasson also said that
drug taking had begun among the
youth in Israel and this was prob-
ably due to outside influences.

public statement pointing out
that he was of Welsh extraction
in spite of his biblical name.
The only Jewish member of the
cabinet, Leslie Hore-Belisha
complained bitterly to his friends
that he was 'one apart' and that
his racial background was prin.
cipally responsible for his cool
relations with the prime minis-
ter. Lord Vamrose, proprietor of
the Daily Telegraph and a pow-
erful supporter of Chamberlain,
successfully sued Sir Oswald
Mosley's British Union of Fascists,
now more pro-Nazi than pro
Fascist, for having called him a
Jew. And Dean Inge, of St. Paul's
Cathedral, one of the most influ-
ential ecclesiastics in the king-
dom, wrote an article charging
that Jews • were 'using their not
inconsiderable influence in the
press and Parliament to embroil
us with Germany.' "
Mosley states at this point: "In
this atmosphere, it is not surpris-

Nazi Germany came into play. He
reveals the machinations after the
assassination of Ernst vom Rath by
Herschel Grynszpan, Nov. 7, 1938,
in Paris, gave the Nazis the excuse
and the opportunity to commence
the large-scale synagogue burn-
ings, destruction of Jewish prOp-
erty, mass arrests.
"On Borrowed Time" is one of
the very important new analyses
of World War II, its beginnings,
the Nazi role, the anti-Semitism in
the official ranks, of the democra-
cies.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 13, 1969-37

ing that the appeasers were an-
noyed at the Jews for having got
in the way when the Nazis struck.
Nevertheless, Sir Horace Wilson
(the prime minister's chief advis-
er) suggested that the prime min-
ister should make some public ges-
ture to show his abhorrence of
Nazi anti-Semitism, and together
they searched for an appropriate
method. Eventually they decided
that a recent letter from Germany
would do:Neville Chamberlain had
been asked to accept the presidency
of the Deutsche Shakespeare Gen-
ossenschaft (The German Shake-
speare Society). The prime minis-
ter declined the offer, but typically,
he explained his refusal in the let-
ter to the Genossenschaft as 'lack
of time,' and then had it privately
whispered around that he had
really done it 'because they have
banned Jewish members.' "
And so, in spite of rebuffs, Mos-
ley indicates, Chamberlain "press-
ed ahead" and seemed to be saying
to Germany: "I'm determined to
be your brother, even if you do
keep bashing my head in."
Mosley shows how the same type
of anti-Semitism in Poland as in

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