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Relevant historical events of the 1920's are reviewed in an examination of the British gov's attitude to Negro leader Marcus Garvey. Already in 1919, unrest among Negroes in the US & elsewhere was being closely watched by the British gov. In that yr a confidential report was sent by Whitehall to the US Dept of State listing groups important to radical Negro movements & providing notes on individual black agitators & propagandists; Garvey & his Universal Negro Improvement Assoc (UNIA) were prominently mentioned in the report. The British gov was alarmed by the possibility that Garvey's org would awaken race-consciousness in Africa & the Caribbean & thereby threaten British interests. Garvey's influence in Africa is assessed & seen to have been greater in West Africa than in East Africa. 2 black men, W. E. B. DuBois in the US, & M. Mokete Manoedi of Basutoland, cast themselves as counterpoise to Garvey & as his critics & opponents. To offset UNIA propaganda, representatives of the British gov in the US helped to finance a ndw magazine called The British West Indian Review. It was hoped that the publication would affect the interests of West Indians residing in New York, a group which was drawn to the Garvey crusade. The British gov banned Garvey's NEGRO WORLD in many dependencies & denied members of the UNIA entry to others. Ironically, Garvey, the passionate apostle of 'back-to-Africanism,' never did set foot on African soil but died in relative obscurity in London in 1940. He would doubtless have been amused by the way in which British officials impugned his motives. The reverberations of Garveyism are still being felt in some of the newly independent nations of Africa. In England today he is lauded, even deified, by Black Power advocates from the West Indies & Africa. In a very real sense, as far as the British Empire is concerned, Garveyism has triumphed. Whitehall had good reason .to be worried. M. Maxfield.

In September 1966, possibly for the first time in history, large numbers of Jews paid homage to a man with a notorious anti-Semitic past—Dr Hendrik F. Verwoerd, the late Prime Minister of South Africa, assassinated while he sat in his parliamentary seat. London's Jewish Chronicle reported that in Johannesburg overflow crowds attended memorial services in the city's Great Synagogue and Temple Israel. Verwoerd was eulogised by a rabbi as 'one of the greatest Prime Ministers, if not the greatest' that South Africa had ever had; and in Cape Town, the chief rabbi stated that Verwoerd had been the first man to give apartheid a 'moral basis'1

In February 1945, Israele Zolli, chief rabbi of Rome's ancient Jewish community, shocked his co-religionists in Italy and throughout the Jewish world by converting to Catholicism. This book is the first authoritative treatment of this astonishing story from one of the darkest eras in Jewish history