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The Focus Group

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Group.png The Focus GroupRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
Formation1935
Extinction1939?
Membership•  Robert Mond
•  Eugen Spier
•  Robert Waley Cohen
•  Ben Cohen
• Winston Churchill.jpg Winston Churchill
•  Austen Chamberlain
• Lord Boothby Allan Warren.jpg Robert Boothby
•  Henry Page Croft
•  Edward Grigg
•  Robert Horne
•  Frederick Lindemann
•  Norman Angell
•  Margaret Bondfield
•  Hugh Dalton
•  Philip Guedalla
• Hux-Oxon-72.jpg Julian Huxley
•  Oliver Locker-Lampson
•  Duncan Sandys
•  Wickham Steed
•  Robert Cecil
•  David Davies
•  Gilbert Murray
•  Austen Chamberlain
•  Philip Noel-Baker
•  Eleanor Rathbone
•  Arthur Salter
•  George Lloyd
• Colin Coote.jpg Colin Coote

The Focus Group was a group funded heavily by wealthy Zionist backers like Sir Robert Waley-Cohen, Eugen Spier, and Robert Mond, dedicated to opposing appeasement and advocating for British rearmament for war against Germany. Its support would ensure Winston Churchill's political and financial survival.

Overview

Robert Waley Cohen, chairman of British Shell Corp., was a charismatic Zionist who would become, in the words of his biographer Robert Henriques, the dynamic force of The Focus. Waley Cohen, furnished the initial £50,000 (equivalent to £2.8 million today) to launch The Focus at a private dinner of prominent British Jews in July 1936. This sum allowed for significant political and media influence, including the recruitment of prominent journalists.[1][2]

The group was also partially funded by the Czechoslovak government, which transferred a total of £2 million (approximately £110 million in today’s value) into a private Midlands Bank account set up by Czechoslovakian Ambassador Jan Masaryk. This money was allocated, in part, to support The Focus in their efforts to challenge Neville Chamberlain's government.[3]

Over the summer of 1936, private meetings were convened around Winston Churchill, and finance for group events provided by Robert Mond, Eugen Spier (1891–1971), and Robert Waley Cohen. A public meeting was planned for December, in the Albert Hall.[4] The operations of this Focus were not generally known until 1963.[5] In that year, Spier published a book Focus, a Footnote to the History of the Thirties giving a detailed account.[6]



 

Known members

6 of the 27 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Robert BoothbyBritish politician and UK deep state operative, Clermont Set, Bilderberg
Winston ChurchillUK PM who founded The Other Club with F. E. Smith.
Colin CooteEditor of The Daily Telegraph with close ties to the intelligence services.
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-CecilThree time UK Prime Minister
Julian HuxleyEnglish evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist
Duncan SandysUK diplomat, son-in-law of Winston Churchill.
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