Douglas Reed

Douglas Lancelot Reed (11 March 1895 – 26 August 1976) was a British novelist and political commentator. His book Insanity Fair (1938) examined the state of Europe and the megalomania of Adolf Hitler before World War II. Subsequently, Reed believed in a long-term Zionist conspiracy to impose a world government on an enslaved humanity.[1] He was also staunchly anti-Communist, and once wrote that Nazism was a "stooge or stalking horse" meant to further the aims of the "Communist Empire."[2] When The Times ran his obituary, it condemned Reed as a "virulent antisemite".[3]

  1. ^ Somewhere South of Suez, US edition, pp. 9–11.
  2. ^ Somewhere South of Suez, US Edition, p. 9.
  3. ^ Michael Billig, Methodology and Scholarship in Understanding Ideological Explanation, in Clive Seale (ed), Social Research Methods: A Reader [1], accessed 27 January 2008.