![]() ![]() ![]() On the other hand, in 1919, as secretary for war and air, he was criticized for his failure to prevent the anti-Jewish excesses of the White Russian troops under General Denikin, whom the British supported in his war against the Bolsheviks. ![]() Considering the local police force insufficiently strong, he dispatched a special riot police force to the affected areas to prevent further outbreaks. As home secretary (1911), he had to handle anti-Jewish outbreaks that occurred during a coal strike in South Wales. In the early years of his parliamentary activities Churchill strongly supported the Saturday Closing and Sunday Opening bills, the reduction of naturalization fees, and specific Jewish educational rights. The revised bill, adopted the following year, contained many amendments proposed by Churchill. Churchill attacked the bill from the opposition benches for its inhuman and antisemitic nature, and partly due to his efforts the measure was withdrawn. The first confrontation occurred in 1904 when the *Balfour government submitted to Parliament a restrictive Aliens Bill which was to regulate immigration to Britain. This belief guided him to no small degree when he encountered Jewish reality and problems upon entering public life. Christianity and mankind, he concluded, owe to the Jews the system of ethics on which Western civilization has been built. "No thoughtful man can doubt the fact that they are the most formidable and the most remarkable race which has ever appeared in the world," he wrote in the Illustrated Sunday Herald (Feb. His general view on Judaism and the Jews was based on his awareness of their spiritual potentialities and their role in history, as well as his own Christian belief. With some lapses, Churchill was a lifelong philo-semite and pro-Zionist. CHURCHILL, SIR WINSTON LEONARD SPENCER ° (1875–1965), British statesman and author. ![]()
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