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NOT A JEW

SIR JOHN SIMON: DENIES RUMOUR

"ORDINARY BRITON'

tion are

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH

Femalo Alcoholism “A Peculiarity Of England"

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1934

HOUSE?

plans or to get the Council's, con- sent.

Mr. D. Grudgings, Clerk of the Benfest Council; said he had been

Knotty Problem Before unable to find any, legni definition

Magistrates

.:

Simon should have found it acces- DRINK AND DEATH BUS BODY A SUMMER need for Mr. Buttors to submit sary to give public contradiction to the story that he is of Jewish descent (writes a London corres- pondent). Even if he were, the British pubile would think none the worse of him; his immediate predecessor, Lord Reading, was a

of a summer-house, which, how- member of that race, and it was Widowers, divorced people, and

over was described in a dictionary as "a building in a garden." or suggested that he was under bachelors are more prominent in any handfeap in consequence. the figures of mortality due to

Can the body of n lins be termed The fold in which Mr. Buttery had Statements that Sir John Simon alcoliolism than married men, and

placed his bus body could not be A rumour that he is a Jow is fa

of Jewish origin have been the former groups are more sus a summer-house?

said to be a garden. denied by Sir John Simon in a current for many years. I remem-ceptible to the injurious influenco

This question was raloed' at Jotter to Sir Archibald Hurd. Sir bar hearing them when he first of alcohol.

Mr. Bentley Bald his cllent desir- John at the same time express08 took offico, and like most others, I This was a statement made by Southend, when the County Benched to use the bus simply and solely the hope that his denial will not never thought, it worth while to

against Frank Butters, Oxford Dictionary," he said, "that be distorted into some sympathy Inquire into their accuracy. His Dr. Bandol, of Nuremberg, speak- adjourned until October 3 a sum- as a summer-house. And in the with anti-Semitism, an attitude

appearance tall, lighting on alcoholism, and mortality at moris which he regards as un-English, brown-haired, and blue-eyed-is the International Congress on builder, Westellff, alleging that a summer-house is donned as a and which he utterly condemne.

Alcoholism at the Imperial In he had erected a temporary build-structure in a garden or park, alone a sufficient refutation.

usually very aimplo and often Kensington..? The Foreign Secretary's letter la

stitute,

ing af South Benfleet, without the artistic in character, designed to in suggestions But if the

ques-

provide a cool and shady place in Archibald, a reply to one from Sir

He niso said that the specific consent of the Local Authority. 1 as well that the pro- bringing to his notice statements in buing used to

should

the heat of the summer. of the Jaws, whose mortality which have been current in this be silenced once and for all. Sir

sobriety la proverbial, hardly Mr. Butters placed the body of a

The Chairman said the question country as well as abroad for John's reference to the fact that diminished at all as a result of double-decker omnibus in a field was a most important one for some time, that Sir John is of his father came from Pembroke towish origin and that: his an-shiro does not necessarily prove reduced alcohol consumption dur with the intention of using it as Local Authorities, and, in-the

wing the war. This was costry has powerfully influenced the policy of the National Govern that he was Welsh. A friend who trast with that of the Christian summer-house, and the question absence of any legal definition, the

knows that county well tells me ment since he became Secretary of that in some of the villages the population of the same region. In was whether a bus body could be Bench had decided to adjourn the

Prussia and Budapest.

termed a summer-house within the case so that they might have n State for Foreign Affairs.

further opportunity of pursuing inhabitants arg of pure

meaning of the Council's by-laws the question and giving a decision Flemish The letter in as follows:-

descent, and have been settled “England occupics a situation "Dear Sir Archibald, Thank there for centuries. Though they apart. During and after the war"If it is," said Mr. Beatles which should have

letter. I know there are a number of people in surrounded by a Welsh-speak- her alcohol consumption wan in- who defended, "then there was no manency

ing population, thoy know not a deed diminished, and yet the who industriously spread the word of that language, and politi-specific male mortality did not fall. rumour that I am a Jow, and even clans touring the constituency The cause must be sought in the that my Jewish associations have have to make careful inquiries comparatively large proportion of an lufluence on the foreign policy befarchand lest, under the impres female alcoholism-a peculiarity of of the country.

sion that they are paying their this country."** "In fact I am just an ordinary hearers a compliment, they address Dr. Bandei added that to-day tho Briton of Aryan stock, without any them in a tongue as unintelligible Jewish admixture whatever to them as Greek. mother comes from an old English family and my father was Welsh you will and lots of Simone in Pembrokeshire-and nobody who to the Welsh knew my relations and forebears DIRECTED TO BERLIN,"

you very much for your

would imagine that they were Jewish. Biblical surnames like Matthew and John and Mathins are

a commonplace in those parts.

So well marked la the line of cleavage that one road over a hill is focally referred to as "the road

It is to Berlin that Sir John Simon's letter explaining that he is

in con-

figures of alcoholle mortality are lower, but they would approach again the ro-war figures in pro- portion as the alcohol consumption begins to reassume the importance it had before 1914.

STRINGENCY RELAXED.". Dr. R. Herced (Lausanne) made not of Jewish stock is really direct in comparison of alcohol legislation The only reason for which I cd (anys Patarboro in the Daily In Europe in 1922 and the present, have never hitherto attempted Telegraph). The new diplomatic and pointed out that several coun- publicly to deny this rumour, is circles there find it Impossible to tries have relaxed the stringency that I think the same silliness or bellove that a man bearing such of their laws or are about to do so. malice might attempt to distort the a name can be of Aryan blood. He gave among the causes that the donial into some sympathy with Many other English and spirit of self-sacrifice which ani- anti-Semitism an attitude which pecially American-namce must be mated a great part of the popula I regard as un-English and which similarly deceptive to the foreign- tion during and immediately after I utterly condemn. I count amonger. Even

a Biblical Christian the war has disappeared. Alarm- my friends some English Jews

Buch name as that of Mr. Isanced by American Prohibition, the whose British outlook and patrio- Foot, M.P., is sometimes sufficient liquor trade organised itself die services should put their critics to mislead. Isane, either

aa aatrongly nationally and inter-

to shame, and I would not for the | Christian or surname, is very com- nationally and its propaganda has world hurt their feelings or write mon in Cornwall.

as though their ancient

and

These names,

exercised an appreciable influence of. course. Are upon public opinion, on the Parlin- honourable lineage could be a mat- jofton a heritage from Puritaumonts, and the Governments, tor for reproach,

"But if, in the circurestances you mention, you think it would be right and in the public interest to do so you are welcome to publish this letter."

"HUMILIATING."

days, and sometimes came to be adopted as surnames. ap well as Christian names.

This Puritan origin, doubtless accounts for the prevalence in the United States of auch names as Amos, borne by members of old

It is humillating that Sir John New England families.

The economic crisis, which has reduced the consumption of alcohol, has, on the other hand, strengthened the arguments of those who consider: that the liquor revenue is indispensable for the State Budgets.

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