Dean William Ralph Inge, “the gloomy dean,” strongly denied today the existence of an “Elders of Zion” group seeking world domination. Writing in the Evening Standard, he declared that not a Jewish but a Scottish stranglehold existed in London. He asked sarcastically why Chancellor Hitler, wanting to get rid of the Jews, did not import a few thousand Scots, who were unquestionably “Aryan.”
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