This weekend, a furor erupted when a British academic charged that Winston Churchill had written an anti-Semitic article in 1937 that was very nearly published in 1940 until Churchill pulled it. Turns out that Churchill didn’t write it but that a man named Adam Marshall Diston, who occasionally ghosted articles for Churchill, did — and that when Churchill discovered its contents, he insisted it be killed.
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