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	The '''Focus for the Defence of Freedom and Peace''', but known as '''The Focus Group''' and originally the '''British Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights''', was a propaganda lobby group in the [[United Kingdom]], founded in 1935 in response to a call by the [[Board of Deputies of British ~~Jews~~]], as part of a propaganda attempt to give [[National Socialism]] a very bad press and turn people against [[Germany]]. It continued to exist until the late 1950s. They published a journal named simply ''Focus''.		The '''Focus for the Defence of Freedom and Peace''', but known as '''The Focus Group''' and originally the '''British Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights''', was a propaganda lobby group in the [[United Kingdom]], founded in 1935 in response to a call by the [[Board of Deputies of British jews]], as part of a propaganda attempt to give [[National Socialism]] a very bad press and turn people against [[Germany]]. It continued to exist until the late 1950s. They published a journal named simply ''Focus''.

	The organisation was similar to a group in the [[United States]] known as the [[Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League]], associated with [[Samuel Untermyer]] of ''[[Judea Declares War on Germany]]'' infamy. The group included various politicians who were hostile to [[Germany]] for various reasons, either ideological (for [[Labour Party]] members), or liberal factions within the [[Conservative Party]] who were opposed to the [[Neville Chamberlain\|Chamberlain]]-[[Stanley Baldwin\|Baldwin]] anti-war government, and [[Winston Churchill]] returning from his time in "the wilderness". Harold Nicolson wrote from the [[House of Commons]] to Vita Sackville-West on 2 March 1938: "I went to an odd luncheon yesterday. It is called 'The Focus Group', and is one of Winston's things. Don't worry, I'm not going to become one of the Winston brigade".<ref>Nicolson, Harold, ''Diaries and Letters 1930-1939'', Collins pubs., London, 1966, p.327-8.</ref>		The organisation was similar to a group in the [[United States]] known as the [[Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League]], associated with [[Samuel Untermyer]] of ''[[Judea Declares War on Germany]]'' infamy. The group included various politicians who were hostile to [[Germany]] for various reasons, either ideological (for [[Labour Party]] members), or liberal factions within the [[Conservative Party]] who were opposed to the [[Neville Chamberlain\|Chamberlain]]-[[Stanley Baldwin\|Baldwin]] anti-war government, and [[Winston Churchill]] returning from his time in "the wilderness". Harold Nicolson wrote from the [[House of Commons]] to Vita Sackville-West on 2 March 1938: "I went to an odd luncheon yesterday. It is called 'The Focus Group', and is one of Winston's things. Don't worry, I'm not going to become one of the Winston brigade".<ref>Nicolson, Harold, ''Diaries and Letters 1930-1939'', Collins pubs., London, 1966, p.327-8.</ref>

	The funding for the group came from mostly [[~~Jewish~~]] sources, particularly Robert Waley Cohen, former Director of Royal Dutch Shell and Vice-Chairman of University College, London, described by his biographer as the "veritable dynamic force of Focus". He gave £50k - a fortune in those days - to the group, with more money coming from fellow travellers. However, other movers and shakers in the group were largely not ~~Jewish~~ (maybe just useful idiots to them). The first President of the organisation was [[Walter Citrine]], President of the hard-left [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]]. It also included Labour Party MP and Nobel Prize-winner Norman Angell, an executive for the 'World Committee against War and Fascism'; the very hard-line communist Sylvia Pankhurst (founder of the The Communist Party - British Section of the Third International); oddly, the anti-semitic editor of ''The Times'' newspaper, Henry Wickham Steed<ref>Nicolson, 1966, p.327-8.</ref>; the liberal [[Conservative Party]] MP [[Harold Macmillan]]; Duncan Sandys (another odd inclusion here); the ultra-liberal Violet Bonham Carter; socialist [[Herbert Morrison]] (grandfather of [[Peter Mandelson]]); and the Far-left [[Eleanor Rathbone]] a long-term campaigner for "women's rights".		The funding for the group came from mostly [[jewish]] sources, particularly Robert Waley Cohen, former Director of Royal Dutch Shell and Vice-Chairman of University College, London, described by his biographer as the "veritable dynamic force of Focus". He gave £50k - a fortune in those days - to the group, with more money coming from fellow travellers. However, other movers and shakers in the group were largely not jewish (maybe just useful idiots to them). The first President of the organisation was [[Walter Citrine]], President of the hard-left [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]]. It also included Labour Party MP and Nobel Prize-winner Norman Angell, an executive for the 'World Committee against War and Fascism'; the very hard-line communist Sylvia Pankhurst (founder of the The Communist Party - British Section of the Third International); oddly, the anti-semitic editor of ''The Times'' newspaper, Henry Wickham Steed<ref>Nicolson, 1966, p.327-8.</ref>; the liberal [[Conservative Party]] MP [[Harold Macmillan]]; Duncan Sandys (another odd inclusion here); the ultra-liberal Violet Bonham Carter; socialist [[Herbert Morrison]] (grandfather of [[Peter Mandelson]]); and the Far-left [[Eleanor Rathbone]] a long-term campaigner for "women's rights".

	As a secret pressure group, Focus started giving slush money to Churchill in the [[1930s]]. Churchill was the center of this group. The group was mostly dissident politicians, people who were out of office and wanted to get back in and willing to go to any lengths to do it, including overthrowing the government and putting Churchill in their place. Before 1936, he had largely ignored Germany. However from 1936 onwards he began beating the anti-German drum when there was at that time a lot of pro-German sentiment in England. [[King Edward VIII]] was pro-German and pro-peace but was forced to abdicate over an affair with a divorcee.		As a secret pressure group, Focus started giving slush money to Churchill in the [[1930s]]. Churchill was the center of this group. The group was mostly dissident politicians, people who were out of office and wanted to get back in and willing to go to any lengths to do it, including overthrowing the government and putting Churchill in their place. Before 1936, he had largely ignored Germany. However from 1936 onwards he began beating the anti-German drum when there was at that time a lot of pro-German sentiment in England. [[King Edward VIII]] was pro-German and pro-peace but was forced to abdicate over an affair with a divorcee.
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	==External links==		==External links==
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The '''Focus for the Defence of Freedom and Peace''', but known as '''The Focus Group''' and originally the '''British Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights''', was a propaganda lobby group in the [[United Kingdom]], founded in 1935 in response to a call by the [[Board of Deputies of British Jews]], as part of a propaganda attempt to give [[National Socialism]] a very bad press and turn people against [[Germany]]. It continued to exist until the late 1950s. They published a journal named simply ''Focus''.

The organisation was similar to a group in the [[United States]] known as the [[Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League]], associated with [[Samuel Untermyer]] of ''[[Judea Declares War on Germany]]'' infamy. The group included various politicians who were hostile to [[Germany]] for various reasons, either ideological (for [[Labour Party]] members), or liberal factions within the [[Conservative Party]] who were opposed to the [[Neville Chamberlain|Chamberlain]]-[[Stanley Baldwin|Baldwin]] anti-war government, and [[Winston Churchill]] returning from his time in "the wilderness". Harold Nicolson wrote from the [[House of Commons]] to Vita Sackville-West on 2 March 1938: "I went to an odd luncheon yesterday. It is called 'The Focus Group', and is one of Winston's things. Don't worry, I'm not going to become one of the Winston brigade".<ref>Nicolson, Harold, ''Diaries and Letters 1930-1939'', Collins pubs., London, 1966, p.327-8.</ref>

The funding for the group came from mostly [[Jewish]] sources, particularly Robert Waley Cohen, former Director of Royal Dutch Shell and Vice-Chairman of University College, London, described by his biographer as the "veritable dynamic force of Focus". He gave £50k - a fortune in those days - to the group, with more money coming from fellow travellers. However, other movers and shakers in the group were largely not Jewish (maybe just useful idiots to them). The first President of the organisation was [[Walter Citrine]], President of the hard-left [[International Confederation of Free Trade Unions]]. It also included Labour Party MP and Nobel Prize-winner Norman Angell, an executive for the 'World Committee against War and Fascism'; the very hard-line communist Sylvia Pankhurst (founder of the The Communist Party - British Section of the Third International); oddly, the anti-semitic editor of ''The Times'' newspaper, Henry Wickham Steed<ref>Nicolson, 1966, p.327-8.</ref>; the liberal [[Conservative Party]] MP [[Harold Macmillan]]; Duncan Sandys (another odd inclusion here); the ultra-liberal Violet Bonham Carter; socialist [[Herbert Morrison]] (grandfather of [[Peter Mandelson]]); and the Far-left [[Eleanor Rathbone]] a long-term campaigner for "women's rights".

As a secret pressure group, Focus started giving slush money to Churchill in the [[1930s]]. Churchill was the center of this group. The group was mostly dissident politicians, people who were out of office and wanted to get back in and willing to go to any lengths to do it, including overthrowing the government and putting Churchill in their place. Before 1936, he had largely ignored Germany. However from 1936 onwards he began beating the anti-German drum when there was at that time a lot of pro-German sentiment in England. [[King Edward VIII]] was pro-German and pro-peace but was forced to abdicate over an affair with a divorcee.

[[Hitler]] kept asking Britain for peace<ref>https://www.quora.com/Did-Hitler-try-to-make-peace-with-Churchill-several-times</ref>, and whilst these offers were placed before the Cabinet<ref>resources.huygens.knaw.nl/pdf/LOD/LOD19401101.pdf</ref> only half the Cabinet wanted to accept them - Churchill's casting vote kept Britain in the war.<ref>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9nteHa8KoU [[David Irving]]</ref>

The war bankrupted Britain.

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

* Spier, Eugen, ''A Footnote to the History of the Thirties'', published by Oswald Wolff London, 1963.
* Tansill, Charles Callan, ''Back Door to War - Roosevelt's Foreign Policy 1933-1941'', USA, 1952 (1971 reprint).
* The Earl of Halifax, ''Fullness of Days'', New York, 1957.

==External links==
*[http://www.fpp.co.uk/bookchapters/WSC/Waley_Cohen.html Did Mr Winston Churchill rely on funds from the Jews?] by [[David Irving]]

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