The Focus Group
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Formation | 1935 |
Extinction | 1939? |
Membership | • Robert Mond • Eugen Spier • Robert Waley Cohen • Ben Cohen • ![]() • Austen Chamberlain • ![]() • Henry Page Croft • Edward Grigg • Robert Horne • Frederick Lindemann • Norman Angell • Margaret Bondfield • Hugh Dalton • Philip Guedalla • ![]() • Oliver Locker-Lampson • Duncan Sandys • Wickham Steed • Robert Cecil • David Davies • Gilbert Murray • Austen Chamberlain • Philip Noel-Baker • Eleanor Rathbone • Arthur Salter • George Lloyd • ![]() |
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:
Member | Description |
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Robert Boothby | British politician and UK deep state operative, Clermont Set, Bilderberg |
Winston Churchill | UK PM who founded The Other Club with F. E. Smith. |
Colin Coote | Editor of The Daily Telegraph with close ties to the intelligence services. |
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil | Three time UK Prime Minister |
Julian Huxley | English evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist |
Duncan Sandys | UK diplomat, son-in-law of Winston Churchill. |
References
- ↑ https://thegoodcitizen.live/p/the-focus
- ↑ David Irving, Churchill’s War: The Struggle for Power. London: Focal Point Publications, 2003, pp. 440–443.
- ↑ https://www.bitchute.com/video/Yaf9ESUqgxM9
- ↑ https://books.google.com/books?id=J7XiewCEo5wC&pg=PA119
- ↑ Lee, Raymond M. (2010). "The Secret Life of Focus Groups: Robert Merton and the Diffusion of a Research Method"
- ↑ https://www.nationalists.org/pdf/eugen-spier-focus-footnote-history-thirties.pdf