This morning I had a chance to look at Richard Toye's book
Lloyd George & Churchill in detail. The matter is worse than I thought.
In his Introduction Toye praises his own work as a model of scholarship. Referring to 'hitherto ignored documents' he has found, he says at p. 8
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... some such documents have the status of intriguing curiosities, the contents of others, such as Churchill's 1937 article on the Jews are explosive.
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He devotes considerable space to the article, pages 318-321
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An article he wrote in or around 1937 - but which he did not publish - is remarkable evidence of this [Churchill's ambiguous approach to Jews, according to the author]. It was called How the Jews Can Counter Persecution and pondered the causes of anti-semitism
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Toye then discusses it at length over the next few pages, quoting entire paragraphs interspersed and propped up with remarks such as
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Churchill asked ... ; He went on to suggest ... ; He went on to say ... ; ... he also went on to criticise them ... ; Churchill thought ... ; But he added ... ; Churchill went on to suggest ... ; ... he also argued that ... ; Later in the article he wrote ... ; Churchill suggested that ... ; What is clear from the article is that Churchill's attitude was ... ; The logical conclusion is evident ...
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But not only did Churchill NOT write the article (it was written by an English Fascist, Adam Marshall Diston) there is no evidence that Churchill even read it.
A scholarly footnote (note 85, on page 460) purports to give authorship and details of the document:
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Winston S. Churchill, "How the Jews Can Counter Persecution", n.d. [c. June 1937] Churchill Papers
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Although the true facts came to light whilst the book was still with the publisher, there's not a word of retraction not even a temporary loose insertion.