William Norman Ewer

William Norman Ewer CBE (22 October 1885 – 25 January 1977) was a British journalist, remembered mostly now for a few lines of verse. He was prominent as a writer on foreign affairs for the Daily Herald of London, and was accused of being a Soviet agent.

Quotes

• I gave my life for freedom—This I know:
  For those who bade me fight had told me so.
  • "Five Souls", Five Souls and Other Verses (1917)

• How odd
  Of God
  To choose
  The Jews.
  • "The Chosen People", Week-End Book (1924), p. 117
  • See the reply by Cecil Browne:

    But not so odd
    As those who choose
    A Jewish God,
    But spurn the Jews.