{"id":48513,"date":"2023-01-28T01:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T06:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=48513"},"modified":"2023-01-27T09:58:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T14:58:03","slug":"qotd-allied-anti-semitism-in-ww2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/01\/28\/qotd-allied-anti-semitism-in-ww2\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Allied anti-semitism in WW2"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The following leaflet (printed) was passed to an acquaintance of mine in a pub:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">LONG LIVE THE IRISH!<\/p>\n<p>The first American soldier to kill a Jap was Mike Murphy.<br \/>\nThe first American pilot to sink a Jap battleship was Colin Kelly.<br \/>\nThe first American family to lose five sons in one action and have a naval vessel named after them were the Sullivans.<br \/>\nThe first American to shoot a Jap plane was Dutch O&#8217;Hara.<br \/>\nThe first coastguardsman to spot a German spy was John Conlan.<br \/>\nThe first American soldier to be decorated by the President was Pat Powers.<br \/>\nThe first American admiral to be killed leading his ship into battle was Dan Callahan.<br \/>\nThe first American son-of-a-bitch to get four new tyres from the Ration Board was Abie Goldstein.\n<\/div>\n<p>The origin of this thing might just possibly be Irish, but it is much likelier to be American. There is nothing to indicate where it was printed, but it probably comes from the printing-shop of some American organization in this country. If any further manifestos of the same kind turn up, I shall be interested to hear of them.<\/p>\n<p>George Orwell, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telelib.com\/authors\/O\/OrwellGeorge\/essay\/tribune\/AsIPlease19441208.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;As I Please&#8221;, <em>Tribune<\/em><\/a>, 1944-12-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_25548\" style=\"width: 372px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/George_Orwell_press_photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25548\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/George_Orwell_press_photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"362\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/George_Orwell_press_photo.jpg 362w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/George_Orwell_press_photo-107x150.jpg 107w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25548\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orwell&#8217;s press card portrait, 1943<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following leaflet (printed) was passed to an acquaintance of mine in a pub: LONG LIVE THE IRISH! The first American soldier to kill a Jap was Mike Murphy. The first American pilot to sink a Jap battleship was Colin Kelly. The first American family to lose five sons in one action and have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,53,41,13,230],"tags":[304,354,33,269],"class_list":["post-48513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-politics","category-quotations","category-usa","category-ww2","tag-antisemitism","tag-georgeorwell","tag-ireland","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-cCt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79616,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48513\/revisions\/79616"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}