This book, edited by Mr. Sidney Salomon, Press Oflicer of the Board of British Jews, with an introduction by Mr, Harry Samuels, Chairman of the Publications Committee, consists of a compilation of docts Telaing chiefly to the Jews of Great Britain, but to some extent to those living outside its boundaries, endeavour to allay a large number allegations against the Jews which cannot be substantiated. on invest Vaation, For some reason the editor: cares to devote his opening chapter to the Jews of Britain in relation to world polities. It perhaps would have been better had he started with the Jews of England since the Resettlement. The claim that the Jewish community plays a very big part in English public and social life does not stand very much examina tion, For. example, there 20 Jewish "Members of Parliament, of which 9 are Conservatives, 5 Liberals, and 6 Labour, showing no definite aelal bias in favour of any one particular British political ereed. Of the 20 Cabinet Ministers, only one, Mr. Here-Belisha, is of the Jewish faith, though it 48 true that another, Sir Philip Sassoon, occupies a post in the Government, that of the First Commissioner of Works: "Of the 300 Privy Councillors, only 5 are Jews, The first of that race to be a Minister of the Crown was the late Sir George Fessel, who was Solicitor General, but whose real fame was as one of the greatest of English judges and the real founder of the modern Chancery Court.
'A general review of Jews in public life in Great Britain shows a. very close relationship with the number of that, race living in the British cles, The actual figure, so, far as can be reasonably obtained, is about 830,000, or something in the neighbourhood of 0.6 por cent of the total population of the country. London there is only 28 per cent., and the only city which contains a ager Jewish population in propor~ tion is Leeds with about 30,000 to a general population of 480,000, or, say, 63 per cent.
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