The assertion that Oliver Stanley, the new War Minister, would serve Jewish interests better than his predecessor Leslie Hore-Belish allegedly did, was made today in the Nazi English broadcast from Hamburg.
The broadcaster charged that Hore-Belisha had been dismissed from the British Cabinet because “Jewish interests were endangered by his noisiness and flair for publicity.”
“These interests,” he said, “will be better served by Oliver Stanley, who is intimately connected with three of the leading Jewish families in England.”
The announcer described Prime Minister Chamberlain’s offer to Hore-Belisha of the presidency of the Board of Trade as “a concealed anti-Jewish gesture” and a reference to the commercial abilities he showed in promoting companies before he entered politics. He added that Hore-Belisha had been the staunchest supporter of a “holy alliance” with Soviet Russia and had “bamboozled his Cabinet colleagues.”
One of the causes of his dismissal, the announcer stated, “was the understandable reluctance of the British soldier to take orders from a Jewish business man who had lowered the catering standards of the army to those of Lyons Cafe (a popular British chain of restaurants).”
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