Tchitcherin and Dr Weissmann (was Re: NP Willing Executioners?)

[jbor at bigpond.com]

A couple of interesting coincidences from that February 1920 Sunday  
Herald article apparently written by Churchill:

[...] Moreover, the principal inspiration and driving power comes from  
the Jewish leaders. Thus Tchitcherin, a pure Russian, is eclipsed by  
his nominal subordinate Litvinoff [...]

[...] Nothing could be more significant than the fury with which  
Trotsky has attacked the Zionists generally, and Dr. Weissmann in  
particular. [...]

Tchitcherin:

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,715115,00.html

Dr Chaim Weizman (or Weissmann)

http://www.mfa.gov.il/mfa/history/modern%20history/ 
centenary%20of%20zionism/zionist%20leaders-%20chaim%20weizmann

The 1920 Churchill article is pro-Zionist and anti-Bolshevist; it  
definitely assumes the prevalence of an anti-Semitic mindset amongst  
its (English) readers, however.

best

> On 28/09/2005 Mike Weaver wrote:
>
>> [...] http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/WSCwrote1920.html [...]

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> I do think it a poor source of backing for the statement
>
>> Jews = bosheviks was a common belief in the 1920's and 1930's.
>
> As far as I know bolshevism was commonly viewed as a Jewish conspiracy  
> only by paranoid anti-Semites.