The Church Times, appearing in London, deals with Sir Oswald Mosley’s declaration of war on Jews as follows:
Hitherto, Sir Oswald Mosley has hotly denied that the British Fascist movement is anti-Semitic. In his Albert Hall speech last Sunday, he declared war on the Jews, in terms that might have been quotations from Nazi speeches and publications. It is true that young Jews have been conspicuous among the Communists who have interrupted Fascist meetings, and have generally been mauled for their pains. But it is mere insincere rhetoric to take this fact as proof that “the power of organized Jewry is mobilized against Fascism.”
The importance and influence of the Jew is always vastly exaggerated by his enemies. The theory that he is constantly engaged in conspiring against the countries where he lives and flourishes is ridiculous.
We do not think that Sir Oswald Mosley will succeed in rousing anything like Jewish persecution in England. His speech, indeed, on Sunday appears to be one more attempt to arouse sympathy here for the Hitler Government by charging the Jews with striving “to arouse in this country the feelings and passions of war with a nation with whom this country made peace in 1918.”
If they have striven to do this, they have signally failed. England has as little sympathy with a government that persecutes Jews as she has with a government that persecutes Christians.
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