Not Churchill

In his review of Michael Butter’s book on conspiracy theories [ FT410:63], David Hambling mentions Churchill’s writings on ‘International Jews’. Is this text perchance the unpublished 1937 article “How the Jews Can Combat Persecution”? When discovered, it was associated with Churchill.

However, research shows that it was written by the journalist Adam Marshall Diston (18931956). He was a member of Oswald Mosley’s New Party and certainly had an apparent antipathy towards Jews not shared by Churchill, for whom he sometimes acted as a ghostwriter in the 1930s. The article, and the confusion about it, is described by Sir Martin Gilbert, official biographer of Churchill:https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/ finest-hour/finest-hour-135/mythand-reality-what-did-churchillreally-think-about-the-jews/

Peter Olausson Gothenburg, Sweden