There are a couple of relevant points.
First, Churchill was not an especially wealthy man. Particularly in the thirties, he supplemented his income by churning out articles for publication. `Will we all someday commute by helicopter?` That sort of thing.
Second, the Holocaust really gave antisemitism a bad name. Prior to that, a sort of mild anti-semitism was pretty much the norm everywhere. In some places it was considerably more than mild -- but nowhere was it absent. You can object to that, but it was the case.
So that Churchill would write a piece on persecution of Jews and in it suggest that they themselves were partly to blame is not especially remarkable. It probably struck him as being `balanced.` He was making a living, and uttering what were at the time commonplaces. It`s certainly far more important that at a time when most were prepared to contenance Hitler, he saw what a threat he was and did all he could to fight him. |
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