Church pulls out of Atzmon speech

VTHE DIARIES of a Conservative MP who called high-ranking members of the Nazi party he partied with “not the sort of people he’d want to have to dinner” are to be published uncensored and in full.

Sir Henry ‘Chips’ Channon’s diary was originally published in 1967 but was heavily redacted to exclude libellous material about public figures who were still alive. The diaries will now start from 1918, rather than 1934, and reveal Sir Henry’s close relationship with King Edward VIII.

“There will be people whose reputations will be damaged when this comes out,” the writer Simon Heffer, who is editing the diaries in three volumes, told

The diaries include accounts of a trip to Berlin in the 1930s for the Olympics and parties attended by high-ranking members of the Nazi party Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels and Herman Göring.

Sir Henry found the Nazis “not the sort of people he’d want to have to dinner with” — and voiced his fears of what they could do to Britain.

“He sees the Germans as a potentially really nasty threat,” Mr Heffer said. “He’s an appeaser.”

VA CHESTER church has pulled out of hosting a conference on Palestine featuring talks by two controversial anti-Jewish activists.

The two-day ‘Palestine: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow’, coordinated by Interfaith for Palestine, was due to be held at St Columba’s Church last Friday and Saturday.

But after being contacted by the North West Friends of Israel the church decided to cancel the booking.

Gilad Atzmon, whose past statements include “Jewish ideology is driving our planet into a catastrophe” and “I’m not going to say whether it is right or not to burn down a synagogue, I can see that it is a rational act”, was due to speak, alongside Revered Stephen Sizer, a vicar who was reprimanded for sharing material suggesting Israel carried out the 9/11 attacks.

Mr Atzmon was set to give a talk called ‘Palestine under the Jewish state’, while Rev Sizer was due to discuss ‘Christian Zionism: Roadmap to Armageddon?’.

A spokesman for the Diocese of Shrewsbury said: “The Diocese of Shrewsbury condemns and opposes antisemitism in all its forms and will not allow such activities on its premises.

“When serious concerns about the nature of this event were brought to our attention appropriate steps were immediately taken.”