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However, the problem with the Birch Society is that its senior leadership (in particular, JBS founder Robert Welch) INVITED many racial and religious bigots to become JBS members, JBS endorsers, and employees of the JBS (as writers and speakers).

One of those writers was Michel Sturdza, a Romanian fascist whose memoir The Suicide of Europe (Boston: Western Islands, 1968) was published by the JBS. Under the pseudonym Zad Rust (an anagram of Sturdza), he also wrote Teddy Bare: The Last of the Kennedy Clan (Boston: Western Islands, 1971), a book on the Chappaquiddick affair.

31 posted on 01/11/2020 3:12:13 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Fiji Hill

Correct. In my Chronology re: “Racism and the JBS”, one of the entries is about Sturdza (as follows):

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The JBS publishing house (Western Islands) published a book by Prince Michael R Sturdza aka Mihail Sturdza aka Zad Rust, entitled “The Suicide of Europe: Memoirs of Prince Michael Sturdza”.

During the 1930’s-1940’s Sturdza was a member of the Romanian Iron Guard movement aka Legion of Michael the Archangel. Before World War II, Romania had a population of several hundred thousand Jews. More than 400,000 were deported to death camps under the regime of the Romanian Iron Guard. In fact, Romania was directly responsible for the murder of more Jews than any country other than Germany.

This movement believed that the problem of poverty in Romania was due to Jews having “colonized” Romania, and thereby prevented Christian Romanians from getting ahead economically. Their solution to this perceived problem was to drive the Jews out of Romania, which the Iron Guard claimed would finally allow Eastern Orthodox Romanians to rise up to the middle class.


32 posted on 01/11/2020 3:43:36 PM PST by searching123
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