----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- 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 ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]