Talk:Yehudi Menuhin
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[edit] WW2
I removed the sentence "he did this because..." because I thought it wasn't objective - unless there's a citation for it. However, because of my poor keyboard positioning I hit save page before leaving an edit summary. Sorry about that. If you guys want to include that sentence go ahead, but I think it should be cited and based on fact.
[edit] Nationality
I'm almost certain it isn't possible for a non-British citizen to be made a life peer, so he must have become a British citizen. Chicheley 12:58, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] On the dismissal of his son
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-1872400,00.html "as head of the German branch of his father's foundation because of his extreme right-wing views....
"Gerard Menuhin, 57, caused uproar by suggesting that Germany was being blackmailed by an international Jewish conspiracy preying on the country’s war guilt."
“An international lobby of influential people and organisations is trying to keep the Germans under pressure . . .”
“Some nations — mainly America, but Europeans too — are profiting from an obedient Germany . . . Those claiming to speak in the name of (Holocaust) victims have better networks than those representing other groups of survivors. Just think of the survivors of murdered Cambodians, American Indians or the Armenians. I am not the only Jew who thinks in this way . . .”
"Mr Menuhin outed himself as a clear sympathiser with the neo-Nazi cause in two published interviews this month.... (he) has a regular column in the Munich-based ultra-nationalist National Zeitung".
[edit] knighthood=Sir
If he received an honorary nighthood in his lifetime, should the article title include be "Sir Yehudi Menuhin"? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Elliotb2 (talk • contribs) 18:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
- I'm pretty sure you're right, but I've seen him referred as Baron and Lord also... I don't know what's right O Violinista 03:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
- He received an honorary knighthood in 1965, before he was a British citizen, so was only enetitled to be called "Yehudi Menuhin, KBE". After gaining British citizenship in 1985, his knighthood would have been "upgraded" to a full one, and he would have been Sir Yehudi. In 1993, he was made a life peer with the title Lord Menuhin. The Wikipedia convention is to use the latest title at the start of the article, and if someone is both a peer and a knight, not to include "Sir". JRawle (Talk) 21:57, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
