The Nizkor Project: Remembering the Holocaust (Shoah)  Shofar
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churchill.002 Last-Modified: 1994/02/20     "Eden would not co-
operate with Churchill on the anti-Nazi group    known as Focus:
Leo Amery was Churchill's most influential    supporter in it;
other MP members included General Spears, Brendan    Bracken,
Harold Macmilland and Harold Nicolson. Focus had been    formed
in 1936 with money from wealthy and influential British and
American Jews as a counter-move to Hitler's persecution of
German    Jews. Churchill, who was quickly recruited, addressed
mass rallies    at the Albert Hall, spoke at lunches for
important people and    became its driving force. A manifesto
was issued, with great    publicity, and Focus developed into an
important political pressure    group opposing the Government's
appeasement and calling for    immediate rearmament, for which
Churchill argued vehemently. Violet