[lbo-talk] Human Smoke

[Max B. Sawicky]

I wondered if he was being completely fair to Churchill, so I may
investigate this bit.
There is a raft of citations and footnotes.

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Incidentally, according to this review in the Guardian
(http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/may/03/featuresreviews.guardianr
eview6 ), the Trotsky Jew comment is taken completely out of context.

"Baker also includes cameos which suggest, incorrectly, that Churchill
was antisemitic. For example, he quotes from an essay in Churchill's
1937 book Great Contemporaries which identified the malign Trotsky by
his race: "'He was a Jew,' wrote Churchill with finality. 'He was
still a Jew. Nothing could get over that.'" But Baker omits the
context. Churchill was explaining that Trotsky's Jewishness was an
obstacle to his becoming autocrat of Communist Russia, and he
criticised "so narrow-minded a reason"."

But I haven't read the book, so I shall now shut my pie-hole.

      
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