Anti-Semitism
was Prevalent in the British Ruling classes
Brendan
Bracken (above,
with Churchill, 1940)
Lord Beaverbrook's files [House of
Lords Records Office, Beaverbrook papers] C57 and
D447 reveal Brendan Bracken's increasing
anti-Semitism over the years --
squashing 1929 campaign rumours that
he was a German Jew by publishing his Irish birth
certificate;
writing in 1933 of a certain cinema
group as being 'as crazily constructed as those of their
co-religionist Mr Elias of Odham's;'
writing in 1952 to Beaverbrook about
certain 'tarbrushed American Hebrews;'
and referring to the Savoy Hotel's
attempts to 'purge itself of the invading Israelites'
Samuels and Clore (whom he called 'the Jewish
terrorist.')