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Review of Jewish interest A J P Taylor's Life. And Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War Vanity publication by partly-awakened fellow-travelling Fellow and propagandist, 23 Oct 2010. Mathis note 12 Feb 2021 *VERY LONG REVIEW—APOLOGIES!* Taylor was born in 1906, in odd circumstances, in Southport, Lancashire. Southport is a coastal town, more or less midway between Manchester to its north and Liverpool to its south, both important to the cotton industry. The Manchester Ship Canal was finished in 1893, so probably Southport, which in fact does not have much of a port, must have been somewhat isolated; it specialised in golf and holidays and Lord Street, where the cast-iron overhead shelter influenced Napoleon III and Paris. Online biographies of Taylor state 'His wealthy parents held strongly left-wing views, which he inherited. His parents were both pacifists who vocally opposed the First World War, and sent their son to Quaker schools as a way of protesting against the war.' His mother had at least one lover, Henry Sara 'a founding member of the Communist Party of Great Britain'. Nothing much is said about Taylor's (putative?) father. All this is consistent with his parents, or real parents, being Jewish—note for example the code words 'pacifist', 'left-wing', 'Communist', and the non-Christian school; and his accent wasn't Lancashire or Yorkshire. Family money seems to have allowed Taylor to hang around Oxford without a position. Later, Pribram and Namier, both Jewish historians, 'mentored' him. Even his biography is by a Jew (Sisman; there's another by K Burk who may or may not be). Without putting huge emphasis on all this, it is entirely consistent with Taylor's fierce anti-Germanism, and support for 'Russia', the Jewish-controlled USSR. Late in life he published a rather omissive introduction to an English translation of the Communist Manifesto—his introduction says nothing about divisions within states such as Jews exemplify; only class is considered. He was never as far as I can tell a technical Marxist—nobody intelligent can believe in the 'labour theory of value' or that 'all history is class war'. Taylor was a 'fellow traveller'—the 20th century fashion was to hush up such things.
Note that Jews have a special interest in topics such as law, history, sociology, religion, psychology, archaeology and anthropology, since they feel impulses to get in there and change things, which Americans, Britons, Germans, et al simply don't feel. All these theoretical and academic subjects have been penetrated by Jews in ways complementary to their more practical activities such as Freemasonry, financial frauds, stoking wars, and so on.
I wrote this before reading Miles Mathis. Here he is on Miles Mathis on Marx. Marx was part of the hugely wealthy and hugely hypocritical 'Chosen People' group. His motive was to wreck genuine republicanism. With future options on ruining democracy and ruining socialism. The technique was to lead the opposition with funds—consider the British (((Labor Party))) as just one example. One method was to add a whole lot of technical-sounding nonsense, as Einstein and Chomsky did later. Marx was not original: counting money takes a lot of work. So he took 'dialectical materialism' from Hegel, and some amateur economics from such people as Ricardo. Yes. And of course Marx said nothing about Jews and money. RW 12 Feb 2021 Taylor said somewhere that many of the 'Russian revolutionaries' or 'communists' (I don't have the passage to hand) were tailors, with much time for solitary reflection, plus some intimacy with (not his phrase) nasty upper-class whites. This looks to me like misdirection, as in fact many of them were lawyers, or at least might be said to be lawyers, of the Jewish ghetto-grown pilpul type, endlessly aiming at favouritism for Jews and mysteriously being awarded promotions. Consider Sidney Webb. After the Second World War, endless nonentities in the USA received this sort of special treatment. Part of the key to Taylor is simply his personal news background. Let's review events:-- The coup in Russia ('Revolution') occurred when Taylor was 9 years old. By 16, Taylor had lived through the period of the greatest growth in Labour votes. When he was 17, the BBC radio monopoly was granted. When 18 (1924), the first Labour Government was formed, though a minority one. Taylor must have been aware of the Jewish/ Communist connection, and may well have known Labour was compromised from the start. (Taylor never cleared up the confusion between 'socialism' and 'communism', the latter being the Jewish fake version. This suited Conservatives—Thatcher for example—who could pretend that socialism was identical to rule by a small racist cult. Obviously too Taylor ignored the socialist component of the NSDAP). Taylor went 'up' to Oxford in 1924 to study history. A year later he visited the Soviet Union, presumably as a CPGB hanger-on. He graduated aged 21, but had no academic position. When he was 23 Labour formed a majority in the general election. At the same time the 'great crash' took place, until say 1933. Taylor must have been impressed by Keynes, as the 'spending out of depression' idea occurs often in his books. The BBC started its 'empire service' about this time. A typical event (Taylor now 28) was the Daily Mail NOT running the headline 'Jews threaten the press'. When Taylor was 30, the 'Scott Trust' was set up, relative to the Manchester Guardian, essentially a profit-making fund to promote Jewish attitudes. The point here is that Taylor's general information on world affairs came through radio and newspaper presentations of the time, but supplemented by Jewish connections. Clearly much material was unknown or omitted by these state, cult and commercial pressure groups. Possibly Taylor or his family kept newspaper cuttings; there's a Manchester Guardian headline-esque quality to all of Taylor's writings on events he'd lived through. Taylor comments on the 'universal belief' that Germans started the bombing. But why was it universal? Obviously, because newspapers, radio, cinema newsreels, magazines, and books said so. How did Taylor know Pearl Harbour (his spelling) had been bombed?—because it was in the news when he was about 35—old enough to follow, perhaps too young to be sceptical. How did he know Hitler and Mussolini were more or less mad, yet Trotsky should be praised highly, as Taylor did? From the media, but partly from his contacts. Why did he believe Hacha was summoned by Hitler? How did he know opinion in the USSR could be moulded at a nod? How could he believe the US and USSR 'asked only to be left alone'? (Naivete was common—Keynes was bemused at the screaming anti-Germanism in the US press AFTER 1916, imagining it was natural to all Americans. On Keynes, see the 2013 piece by hexzane527 on the clemency of USA and Britain after Versailles). Taylor was 33 when he (no doubt) heard Chamberlain on the radio in the morning: [Sept 1939] '.. no such undertaking has been received..'. From 1939-1945: Taylor was some sort of writer/propagandist. He was always very anti-German—they were wicked, arrogant; Germany was 'too large' etc; he'd written WW1 was worth it to drive the Germans out of conquered territory—though like many other fierce scribblers he preferred to leave others to die, for example on the barbed wire. It's unclear how fluent Taylor was in German; some of his translations are odd; and there are virtually no quotations from Hitler, or any other German, in his works—yet surely if he had been fluent, he could have noted supporting detail from speeches and German newspapers. His 'Habsburg Monarchy' was published in 1948; it seems hardly credible Taylor could have investigated Hungarian and other archives. I assume this book is simply taken from other sources, no doubt mainly historians. Up to the age of 50 Taylor taught unfortunate undergraduates, and turned out book reviews on German-related issues. He said (in 'Second Thoughts') it was in this stage of his life that he developed doubts as to whether Hitler had been a diabolic genius planning war. (Taylor doesn't say whether his diabolic genius included final defeat). Rather oddly, Taylor had a belief that a 'trained historian' could see below the everyday crust of life. He seemed to think it a technical skill—like a structural engineer, or chemical analyst. It's tempting to think he imagined himself a Sherlock Holmes, or just possibly a Trotsky, at least when 'Trotsky' was in writing mode. Taylor claimed historians 'want a high standard of proof'—understandably he gives no evidence. In fact Taylor's scholarship was feeble: he says for example 'Mein Kampf' was mostly about 'anti-Semitism', when in fact it largely looks at the innumerable border disputes around Germany—the sea shore was almost the only uncontested zone. Taylor, as was the fashion, doesn't mention the Jewish role in the defeat of Germany in 1919, nor the blockade and starvation—enough to make anti-Jewish feeling entirely reasonable. Many Taylor pages go by without footnotes to indicate the source. He says of historians 'none escaped its influence' of Die Grosse Politik [documents on WW1 origin]. His essay on the rise and fall of diplomatic history (1950s) comments on absence of military service records; and he seems just about aware of the absence of military-industrial and financial material. Most of his sources are edited selections of papers, presumably typeset—giving plenty to scope to remove embarrassing material. He said of Nuremberg, 'of course the documents are genuine', which says something about his standards of scholarship. Anyway, aged about 50, in 1957 Taylor became famous. The Regius Professorship of 'Modern History' at Oxford became vacant when someone called Vivian Galbraith retired. Several people were suggested as candidates—including someone called Lucy Sutherland, Hugh Trevor-Roper who'd written a short work on Hitler's death, and Taylor. At the time professors were few in number; these days they are ten a penny. Taylor seems to have considered himself a worthy candidate. For some reason, probably a Jewish connection, this was made a newspaper headline issue. Possibly the chosen wanted a sleeper. Bear in mind Regius Professors are of virtually no public interest—their complete list of names has an effect reminiscent of names of, for instance, past Archbishops of Canterbury. (Trevor-Roper was elected and spent his life writing on post-medieval church figures, English gentry, Philby—his book says nothing about the actual secrets involved—until, like Bullock, he was added to the House of Lords as Lord Dacre. Dacre seriously believed Greek and Latin was the ideal training for Britain's 19th century public school empire builders. The low point of his career was his failure to detect the elementary forgeries of the 'Hitler Diaries'. Dacre believed the fraud of what became named 'the Holocaust' for the whole of his life).
Note on the set-up with Germany and the USSR before the Second World War. And this is very important!
This war is virtually always seen as Germany vs Russia, with other countries involved. But this ignores the part played by Jews and their allies, such as Freemasons. Consider another belligerent, namely Jews, worldwide, arranging politicians, propaganda, military materiel and plans, co-operating in the utmost secrecy. Using money to but propaganda, arms, and such people as Churchill. Understand this, and you'll understand the War, and the 'Great War'. How Jews Won WW2 is my overview. For information on puzzling events of the Second World War, read some the files in Hexzane527 on WW2. RW 12 Feb 2021
In 1961 (Taylor aged 56) 'The Origins of the Second World War' was published. Much of the bibliography was 1940s volumes, mostly printed edited selections from diplomatic archives (so handwritten additions etc could be concealed) plus a few memoirs and general books. Bear in mind the Second World War started, and remained for a long time, a war only involving Germany, France, and Britain. There was some media excitement, but as always it's hard to tell how synthetic it was. In 1963 Taylor added a new preface, 'Second Thoughts', which he never updated; this included material on the meaning of the word 'plan', and on Trevor-Roper. |