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I think it would be unfair to claim that Keynes supported Zionism with
malicious intent, namely
> .... with the desire
> to help members
> of the despised group emigrate to somewhere else, voluntarily
> or otherwise.
>
There was hardly an other academic British economist of Keynes' time who
personally surrounded himself with so many members of the allegedly
"despised group": Piero Sraffa, Erwin Rothbarth, Hans Singer, and Edward
Rosenbaum were mentioned in previous postings.
Richard Kahn had a prominent part in Keynes' academic and personal life and
he features repeatedly on the pages of the _General Theory_. Keynes is
known to have intervened in order to have Kahn elected to a fellowship at
King's College - which was Keynes's own college. Keynes wanted him _there_ -
and not "somewhere else".
Nicholas Kaldor was an emigre economist from Hungary supported by Keynes in
Cambridge.
Keynes' association in Cambridge with and support for the philosopher Ludwig
Wittgenstein, jewish emigre from Austria to Britain, is well known.
Keynes was associated in deep friendship with the Jewish banker Carl
Melchior from Hamburg. When the Nazis persecuted him and Melchior died of a
heart attack in December 1933, Keynes - who was often in Germany before -
refused ever to go to Hamburg again, writing to the mayor of Hamburg in
1934: "After the death of my friend [Carl Melchior, GMA]... there is nothing
that could attract me to Hamburg" (Robert Skidelsky _John Maynard Keynes
..._ vol.2, Penguin, 1992, p.486 ) Actually, Keynes never went to any place
in Germany again after that.
He would have behaved otherwise if the above quoted statement had been a
valid observation about his motives.
Best regards,
Michael Ambrosi
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