NEWS from one hundred years ago: ‘CHURLISH CHURCHILL’

New Zealand Truth today tears strips off Winston Churchill, British Secretary of State for War and Air. ‘Whinstone,’ as the very popular weekly calls him, has just published an article in which he claims that Jews are ‘supreme manifestations’ of ‘the diabolical.’ Churchill writes especially harshly about what he, along with many other conservatives. now call ‘the international Jew.’ A coldhearted cabal of Jewish capitalists supposedly have a grip on world banking and are working to undermine western civilisation. At the same time, oddly enough, these rapacious capitalists are also the leaders of world communism; ‘the strongest group among the Bolsheviks in Russia.’ New Zealand Truth backs the Liberal Party and to a lesser extent the Labour Party. Churchill is unpopular among Liberals and very unpopular among those who vote Labour. At the same time, anti-semitism is probably as common in New Zealand as in most of Europe.
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New Zealand Truth, 27 November 1920