Lieutenant-Commander Joseph Montague Kenworthy, active Labor member of parliament, last night officially took his seat in the House of Lords, succeeding his father, seventh Baron Strabolgi.
The baronetcy of Strabolgi was created in 1318. The newest holder of the title was born in 1886. His mother is the daughter of a Sacramento, California, “Forty-niner.”
Commander Kenworthy, who recently made a visit to Germany, declared before a large audience in Hull on February 13 that Great Britain and the Allies were responsible for the conditions leading to the Hitler regime. He spoke at considerable length on the persecution of the Jews, asserting that “it is a scandal and a disgrace, and it has been carried on, not by the laboring illiterate mine and land workers of the country, but by lawyers, doctors, journalists, and literary men, who wanted their jobs.”
The commander has defended the Jews on a number of other occasions and has spoken in favor of Zionism.
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