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March, 1933. The weak German economy is in peril. Winston Churchill wants to push it over the cliff with a boycott of German exports and take with it the new Nazi government whose brown-shirted SA thugs are terrorizing Germany's Jews. Working with Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, Churchill enlists the help of his goddaughter, Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary, and her fiance, the lawyer and ex-Army intelligence agent Bourke Cockran. Mattie's task is to find out how the Nazis plan to defeat the boycott. Cockran's assignment is to recover microfilm containing sensitive commercial information on German exporters compiled by German patriots opposed to the Nazis. With it, the exporters' competitors will be able to steal Germany's foreign customers with comparable goods at lower prices. The Nazis are determined to fight back. To oppose the boycott, they find two unlikely allies. One is the Jewish Authority in Palestine who is negotiating with the Nazis to sell out the boycott in exchange for the Nazis allowing German Jews to emigrate to Palestine with funds in excess of German currency controls. The negotiations are top secret and when Mattie gets too close to the truth, both the Nazis and their Jewish allies in Palestine are determined to stop her at any cost. The second Nazi ally is FDR and the U.S. government who also oppose the boycott because of the damage it will do to American investors. When American agents learn of Cockran's quest for the microfilm, they team up with Hitler's black-clad SS and Jewish agents from Palestine to stop him and get the microfilm. The deadly battle between Churchill's agents, Mattie and Cockran, takes them from New York to London, Paris, Berlin, Budapest, Prague, Copenhagen, and Stockholm pursued by the strange bedfellows of Nazi, Jewish and American agents working together. Finally, at Mattie and Cockran's wedding in Scotland, their enemies kidnap Cockran's son and Churchill's daughter and offer to trade their lives for the microfilm.

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Publié par	First Edition Design Publishing
Date de parution	15 octobre 2017
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781506904511
Langue	English

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The SilverMosaic

A WinstonChurchill
1930sThriller

MichaelMcMenamin & Patrick McMenamin
TheSilver Mosaic
AWinston Churchill 1930s Thriller
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ToCarol and Becca, the loves of our lives
A lifelongadmirer of Churchill…once confided in me that “even Winston had a fault”. Myears pricked up: every biographer searches for just such a clue, the flaw, theAchilles’ heel of his hero.

“What fault?”I asked.

“He was toofond of Jews.”

MartinGilbert,
InSearch of Churchill
Prologue

England& Germany
14March 1933

Withoutexports, Germany was denied foreign currency—the essential ingredient to hersurvival. Without foreign exchange, she could not pay for the imported rawmaterials she needed to continue manufacturing nor for imported foodstuffs tocompensate for recurring shortages. Worse, Germany couldn’t even borrow moneyto pay for raw materials and food because without foreign exchange to pay forwar reparations and other foreign obligations, her credit was once againunreliable.

Inthe Nazi mind, the Jewish-led, anti-Nazi boycott would reduce exports andforeign currency below the viable threshold. In 1933, a primary order of Nazibusiness would now be to stop the boycott. The one weapon the Jews had was theone weapon Hitler feared.

EdwinBlack,
TheTransfer Agreement
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AlbertEinstein

Chartwell
Kent,England
Tuesday,14 March 1933

WINSTONCHURCHILL TOOK theproffered brick from the proud hand of his eleven-year-old daughter Mary. Itwas a bright, crisp day in the Weald of Kent at his beloved country home, Chartwell,about which he felt that a day away from it was a day wasted. His youngestchild, Mary, was a pretty girl with curly blonde hair and a sunny disposition.She was made more precious to his wife, Clementine, and him because of thetragic death of their fourth child, Marigold, from meningitis at age three inAugust 1921. The birth of Mary twelve months later had helped heal their brokenhearts.
Churchillplaced Mary’s brick on top of two other bricks that had received freshlyapplied mortar from Churchill’s hand. At his present rate of bricklaying, theunpredictable English weather permitting, he calculated he would be finished bymid-July with the walls of the summer house he was building in the walledgarden adjacent to the main house. Of course, he would have to run thosecalculations past the Prof, his good friend Frederick Lindemann, who would bevisiting Chartwell in a few days where they would discuss how to make the futureof Nazi Germany a short one.
Churchillwas quite proud of his brick laying skills and the fact that he had been made amember, albeit as an adult apprentice, of the Bricklayers Union. Bricklaying,like his painting, gave him a respite from the rigors and pressures of politicsand, like his painting, required a high level of skill. Contrary to the falsehoodsspread by his Socialist political adversaries in the Labour Party, Churchillhad always supported the rights of trade unions to strike and bargaincollectively with oppressive owners, especially coal mine owners in Wales.
Churchill’sthoughts were interrupted by a breathless female voice behind him.
“Mr.Churchill, Mr. Churchill,” the voice said, “your luncheon guests have arrived.”
“Thankyou, Mrs. P,” Churchill replied, turning to face his secretary Violet Pearman,known to him fondly as ‘Mrs. P’. “Please escort them to my study after theyhave had an opportunity to freshen up from their journey. Pray tell my guests Ishall be with them in a moment, just as soon as I finish this last brick. Also,please advise Miss Johansson of their arrival and ask her to join us there,”Churchill said as he sliced off the excess mortar with a trowel and depositedit in the bucket beside him.
“Come,Mary,” Churchill said to his daughter, extending his hand which she eagerlygrasped, “bricklaying will have to be postponed for today as I have importantguests who have just arrived.” Father and daughter then walked hand-in-handback up the hill to the main house.
Tenminutes later, having changed from his bricklaying overalls into a three-piece,navy blue pinstripe suit and blue bow tie with white polka dots, Churchill walkedinto in his study one floor above the ground floor. It had a high cathedralceiling with two large wooden beams crossing the room from one side to theother. A fire blazed in the fireplace at the end of the room. He placed hiscigar on a nearby crystal ashtray, walked over to a sideboard and poured asmall measure of whisky into a crystal tumbler. He added a splash of water,retrieved his cigar and stood before the wide window in his study overlookingthe weald of Kent. He thought it was the most beautiful view in the world.
Hisguests had not yet arrived and, alternately taking a sip of whisky and a puffon his cigar, Churchill thought about all that had happened in Germany in thepast seven weeks since Adolf Hitler had become its Chancellor.
Churchill’s23-year old journalist son, Randolph, had covered Hitler’s two unsuccessful electioncampaigns in 1932 to defeat the German President Hindenburg and had predictedthat, if Hitler ever came to power in Germany, war was inevitable. He tended toagree with his son who had met Hitler while Churchill had not. The closestChurchill had come to meeting the man was last year in Munich where he had beenconducting research for a biography of his relative John Churchill, the firstDuke of Marlborough. Hitler’s foreign press secretary, the half-American,Harvard-educated Ernst “Putzi” Hanfstaengl, thought he had persuaded the Nazileader to join Churchill’s party at dinner. He was wrong. Hitler stood them up.
ThoughChurchill had been out of government office since 1929 when his last post asChancellor of the Exchequer ended, he maintained a network of intelligencesources throughout Europe, including Germany, who kept him as well informed ondevelopments there as the British Prime Minister or Foreign Secretary. Fromthem, he knew that in the last two months, Germany literally had become agangster nation. The police made no effort to interfere with the SA, the ‘Brownshirts’who served as the Nazi Party’s private army. Scores were settled with impunity.Robberies, rapes, beatings and murders were commonplace. Their victims wereCommunists, Social Democrats, Jews and anyone else who had ever offended the brown-shirtedStorm Troopers of the SA.
Theviolence against the Jews and Hitler’s failure to rein it in were, inChurchill’s opinion, his first two big mistakes. He had told Hanfstaengl lastyear to pass on this advice to his boss:
“Tellhim from me that anti-Semitism may be a good starter, but it’s a bad sticker.”
Now,Churchill was planning to make Hitler pay. The Jews were key. In the shortterm, with a little luck, what Churchill knew to be a very weak German economycould collapse and with it the entire odious Nazi regime. If not, then in thelong term, Germany’s ability to re-arm and wage war would be dramaticallyweakened.
Churchillmay have been out of power and