"In our early days Hilaire Belloc and myself were accused of being uncompromising anti-Semites. Today, although I still think that there is a Jewish problem, and that what I understand by the expression 'the Jewish Spirit' is a spirit foreign in Western countries, I am appalled by the Hitlerite atrocities in Germany... I am quite ready to believe now that Belloc and myself will die defending the last Jew in Europe. Thus does history play its ironical jokes upon us. Hitlerism is not the real spirit of Germany... the Russian and Prussian spirit are a menace to Europe, and always have been. ..."
— Declaraciones de G. K. Chesterton al 'Jewish Chronicle' (September 1933).
