ENGLAND AND THE JEWS
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,.—One aspect of the controversy in England as affects the treatment of the Jews in Germany seems ever to elude those who write upon it both in your own esteemed news- paper and in all others. Circumstances, which in my own case possibly may be peculiar, may account for this. I refer to the remarkable, but, as far as I am aware, never remarked upon, ethnological change which has come over the population of London—and by London I mean the City and the West End—during the present century. I am a British subject, educated in part at least at a great public school in England (Westminster), but who never has lived in Britain save only during that excessively limited experience ; but I have visited Britain, and particularly London, chroni- cally throughout my life ; and on every such,- but especially on the last occasion (the previous one having been at the beginning of the late War) just three years ago, I have been most forcibly struck with the vast change in national type as .seen by me in the London streets. In my bOyhood the run of Engliihmen had fair hair and blue eyes, and more or less tended to the national type. Lately however I have noticed a very great change in this respeet, and the type I refer to largely replaced by features clearly of Jewish origin. This is further borne out by the illustrations in English advertisements in newspapers and magazines; where both the promoters and their victims clearly demonstrate a very vulgar Israelitish-European-North American type, which perhaps to some extent justifies the current German accu- sation—made also at the time of the late War—that " English- men are half Jews." Certainly if confined to our House of Peers such an accusation is very much more than half true.—
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