Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alan Hughes
Burgoyne (1880 - 1929) Minister of
Parliament.
Sir Alan was a naval specialist, which
explains the amusing
analogy he made in the House of Commons
on April 21, 1926:
They (British socialist politicians) will go down to the country and stand on platforms knowing that they are wrong from beginning to end when they try to make out that the Soviet ship of State is a fine and well found and up-to-date vessel, with an enormous number of happy passengers, manned and officered by men working in happy communion one with the other with its holds bulging with the surplus goods of Russia which only await acceptance at the ports of countries which at present refuse to have anything to do with them. They know perfectly well that such a picture is a lying picture. The real picture is quite different. The Soviet ship of State is a noisome hulk, rotten from truck to keelson, with a starving and verminous crew, and officers who have been drawn from all the foul ghettos of Europe or the scum of all the international prisons.
Sir Alan was forced to apologise,
after the Board of Deputies (powerful
British Jewish group) proved that
Bolshevism wasn't Jewish.
