VOLUME 3 No. 10 OCTOBER 2003 Ellis journal ^^^H l^^^l ^ Association of Jewish Refugees Butchers, beauties and bigots With parliament in recess, August usually was Diana Mosley, Amin's opposite in Belisha's uncomfortable tenure at the War ^ves up to its journalistic nickname 'the every other way - from looks to social and Ofiice, or look at such diverse texts as silly season'. The year 2003, however, was ethnic origin. Diana Mitford was the Tory grandee Chips Channon's diaries different. This August saw the start of the catapulted from the drone-like existence and the Anglo-Catholic TS Eliot's Hutton Inquiry, the end of the infinitely of the 1920s 'bright young things' to a Judeophobic poems. deplorable lives of Diana Mosley and Idi walk-on part on the world stage through Judeophobia lingers on in the Christian Amin, and the emergence of Mel Gibson her marriage to the vulpine British Fascist world even after Vatican U formally 3s a purveyor of a hoary tale of deicide leader Oswald Mosley in Goebbels's absolved the Jews of guilt for the death of on screen. house - with Hitler as a wedding guest. Christ. A Catholic splinter group headed Although these four events were Having once enjoyed privileged access by Cardinal Lefebvre maintained - completely disconnected it is not entirely to the Fuehrer, Lady Diana would alongside the Latin Mass - the charge of ^ciful to view them as links in a chain subsequently parry questions on what she deicide against the Jews. They take their ^neath the surface of things. Lord Hutton remembered best about him with the stand on the archaic declaration of the Probes the correctness, or otherwise, of mind-boggling answer 'the laughs.' (Did Church Council at Nicea in AD 325 that ^owning Street's claims that Saddam this retort, one wonders, owe anything to the Jews are 'abhorrent to the will of God.' Possessed weapons of mass WH Auden's Epitaph for a Tyrant: These ultra-Catholics (who destruction. The elimination of \ include Mel Gibson's father) WMDS was, together with profess to believe that the jpd ''^gime change, the Coalition's | reforming Pope John XXIII *ar aim in Iraq. Regime change j usurped the Holy See after "3s, of course, been the subject j threatening to drop a nuclear of heated debate at the UN - with [ bomb on the Vatican, that the *^tics of the war accusing Bush I Holocaust did not take ^d Blair of violation of national | place, and that the Second Sovereignty. Yet in 1979 Idi Amin Vatican Council was a Judeo- *3s forcibly removed from Masonicplot. Power in Uganda by Tanzanian ^Idiers with UN approval. Amin Now, Mel Gibson himself is "3d much else in common with completing a film about Christ's ^addam: adherence to Islam, passion which revives the ^Siression against neighboiunng millennia-old charge of Jewish Pope John XXIII Diana Mosley 'Countries, and support for the deicide - and we can only hope ^estinian murder of Israeh civilians, 'Perfection of a kind was what he was that preliminary American reports of the ^ost notoriously, both dictators after/And was greatly interested in armies movie's import are unduly alarmist. 'botched up an extermination rate among and fleetsAVhen he laughed respectable Here in the UK, a degree of alarm would ^^ir own subjects approaching the half- senators burst with laughter/And when he also not come amiss. Sharon's acceptance ''^onmark. cried, little children died in the streets'?) of the road map has not shifted public ^ one respect, however, Amin was Obituaries of the socialite-turned- opinion in Israel's favoiu", as shown by ^niqug even compared to such National Socialist have tended to stress Richard Ingram's malign refusal to print '^ntemporary heirs of Genghis Khan as the glamoiu of the Mitford gels at the letters from 'Zionists.' ^' Pot, Saddam, Assad, Bokassa and expense of the fact that in the Thirties Another journalist with a strong anti- Mobutu: he not only killed, but also ate his many "blue-bloods' - for instance Lords Israel bias, AN Wilson, has added insult to Victims. He was literally a cannibal, and Nuffield, Rothermere, Hamilton, Bedford injiu^ by drooling over Lady Mosley's '^Surprisingly had huge admiration for - flirted with Fascism. Though it would be espousal of "beauty and laughter" in his *^ (metaphorical) arch-cannibal of the simplistic to label all arch-appeasers posthumous tribute to her. Gibson, Ingram ^^ntieth century - Adolf Hitler. antisemites, many, of course, were. In and Wilson are part of the exorbitant price ^nieone who shared his admiration evidence one need only recall Hore- we pay for media freedom. AJR JOURNAL OCTOBER 2003 Breaking into End of an era at Eleanor Rathbone House a Mail preserve Ruth Rothenberg Richard Grunberger First opened in 1964 to provide sheltered Housing Association (OSHA), which in accommodation for elderly Jewish 1991 took over the ownership and Like all newspaper publishers, Jewish refugees, Eleanor Rathbone House, a management of a number of homes from ones are a disparate bunch. Some, for strikingly modem 12-storey block of the CBE of which Eleanor Rathbone was example Josef Pulitzer (of Pulitzer Prize studio flats in Highgate, North London, one, will be the main beneficiary ofthe sale fame), were on the side of the angels - has been sold at auction for £5.7 million. after the repayment of mortgages and others, like Robert Maxwell, in the Named after the social pioneer and MP other outstanding loans. Responsibility opposite camp. Where exactly does who fought for the entry into Britain of for the running of OSHA, and of this home, Richard Desmond fit in? refugees from Nazi persecution, it no was accepted by Jewish Care three He left school at the age of 14 longer serves the needs or preferences of years ago. without any qualifications, went into today's potential clientele. Vacant When Eleanor Rathbone House was music journalism at the time of the 'pop flats have not been reoccupied and built it represented a new concept in explosion', and became a mini-tycoon the remaining tenants have already independent living for the elderly. But in his late twenties. Having diversified been provided with appropriate people's requirements have changed, into vastly profitable soft-porn accommodation. especially as they are now so much older publishing, he had the inspired idea of Eleanor Rathbone House was built as a when they enter residential care. The launching OK as a home-grown rival to joint project by the Association of Jewish home's location, on a hill and somewhat the best-selling Spanish-based Refugees and the Central British Fimd remote from shops and buses, is far less celebrity magazine Hello. The next step (CBF), the then recipient of West accessible and people now prefer separate in his dizzying career was the German reparation funds. The Otto Schiff living rooms and bedrooms to studio flats. acquisition of the Express group of newspapers. Lord Beaverbrook, founder of the East German property list to be published mass-circulation Express, had been a power in the land, both as a super-rich Michael Newman media boss and a cunning political After several years of equivocation and entitled to compensation. However, 20 per manipulator. However, since his following recent requests from the Board cent of the value of the property, or the passing from the scene the paper's of Deputies of British Jews, the New York- value of its sale, is retained. Through the readership had shrunk steadily to based Claims Conference has agreed to Goodwill Fund, revenues raised via the below a million. Desmond cut jobs, publish a list of properties and other assets sale of heirless properties have already boosted the advertising budget, once owned by Jewish families in the enabled the Claims Conference to returned the Express to profitability, former German Democratic Republic disburse some $160 million in payments, and even marginally increased its (East Germany). and a further $150 million has been set circulation. Following German unification in 1990, aside to meet pending and future claims. He was recently profiled on TV, an the Claims Conference, acting in its Publication of the remaining list of exposure from which he emerged as a role as the Successor Organisation, Jewish-owned properties in the former man of glaring contradictions: a profit- negotiated for the rights of Jewish East Germany will offer rightful heirs a chasing Labour supporter and owner property owners and their heirs to file final opportunity to submit applications in of a porn TV channel, who engages in ownership applications. Despite a two- respect of their family's assets, though a lots of charitable work and lavished year period diuing which applications six-month time limit for claims from the great care on his sons' barmitzvahs. were to be made, on its expiry at the date of the list's publication is to b^ The impression created by all this end of 1992 many properties remained imposed. The list of properties will be must have left viewers feeling distinctly unclaimed. made available on the Claims Conference queasy. However, by comparison with The Claims Conference eventually website: www.claimscon.org. Applications the arch-Machiavellian, power- introduced a "Goodwill Fund' through should be submitted to the Successor obsessed press barons of the past - which eligible applicants who missed the Organisation at 26 Sophienstrasse, 60487 Northcliffe, Rothermere, Beaverbrook - original submission deadline would be Frankfurt am Main, Germany Desmond comes across as an innocent abroad. 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