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Churchill Cleared of all Charges

11:44 AM, Mar 13, 2007 • By MICHAEL GOLDFARB
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I knew it couldn't be true. The Corner's John Podhoretz links to this story from the Sunday Times absolving the great man of any connection to an anti-Semitic article released last week by Cambridge University.

Sir Martin Gilbert, Churchill's official biographer, said this weekend that the article, which was never published, had been ghost-written by a member of Oswald Mosley's fascist party. He added that Churchill had refused to have it published because it was not his work and did not reflect his views.

Gilbert said Richard Toye, the lecturer who "found" the article and includes it in a new book, Lloyd George and Churchill, must have failed to consult Gilbert's compilation of Churchill's writings published in the 1980s, which describes it. "I'm amazed. My book would have been on the shelf in the same library. I immediately recognised the name of the article," said Gilbert, whose own new book, Churchill and the Jews, will be published this summer.

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