Lady Astor statue
Interesting article on Lady Astor:-"But American-born Ms Astor, who died in 1964, also loathes Jewish people and other minorities. She was a prominent member of the "Cliveden set" that pre-war group that met at her family's home and had a reputation for sympathising with the Nazis.""She also wrote letters to US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy in which she suggested the Nazis were a solution to "the world problems" of Jewry and Communism.She told Kennedy Hitler would have to do more than "give a rough time" to "the killers of Christ" for her to want Britain and America to launch "Armageddon to save them. The wheel of history swings round as the Lord would have it. Who are we to stand in the way of the future?"She was seen as being so pro-German that she was referred to as "the member for Berlin" during a 1939 House of Commons debate."https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/who-was-nancy-astor-the-first-woman-to-take-her-seat-in-parliament-was-also-branded-virulently-ant-1.493848Thank goodness that it was Theresa May who unveiled the statue, and Johnson had his photo taken near the statue. If Corbyn had been there alone, just imagine the hell that the media would have created. Astor's ideas might not have been described so gently as "conventional idea(s) in the UK at the time". Phew!
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