Churchill the anti-semitic conspiracy theorist

[Paul Rigby]

However, Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill's biographer, says there is another reason for the anti-Semitic language: "Churchill had a ghostwriter who was a member of the Mosleyite party. This article was the only serious subject the ghostwriter was asked to tackle, in which he went over the top in the use of his language."

Never forget...

Martin - now Sir Martin - Gilbert co-authored an attack on Mordechai Brinberg's Spectator piece, The Riddle of Dallas, in which which he poured scorn on the shifting official version(s). The joint letter of Richard Gombrich & Gilbert appeared in the same weekly on 13 March 1964. Brienberg demolished it in the letters' column of 3 April 1964. "Certainly we want the evidence to be made public," G&G had opined, "but who says it will not be?" As Brienberg pointed out, the NYT had already quoted Earl Warren, in its 4 Feb 1964 edition, to the effect that all the evidence would eventually be released, "But it might not be in your lifetime."

Smart chap, Sir Martin Gilbert.