After World War I

(The following is a synopsis from The New Unhappy Lords by A. K. Chesterton published in 1965 by the Candour Publishing Co., and gives an excellent resumé of the politics of that period and who was behind them.)

Was the move towards the questioning of patriotism after the first World War a reaction to the bloodbath of the conflict? Or was it due to other forces which were to play a sinister part in the shaping of the post-war world?

The Bolshevist Revolution with its allegedly anti-nationalist bias and the slogan "Workers of the World Unite!" was one of these forces.

The other, and the more important, was the shift of financial power from London to New York.

The two events were related. The partners of the New York international lending house of Kuhn, Loeb and Co., were the instigators and financers of the Bolshevik regime. They and their European affiliates were Trotsky's paymasters.

The Germans had a clear-cut motive in allowing the repatriation of Lenin to Russia: the communists, once established, could be relied on to sue for peace.

The British, on the other hand, wanted to keep the Russian armies in the field. Why then did the British War Cabinet grant Trotsky safe-conduct for his return home from Newfoundland?

Britain was seeking a million pound loan from the United States which made her amenable to the will of the New York Money Power.

By the establishment, in 1913, of the Federal Reserve Board system, the United States itself had come under the control of the great financial houses. As a result, President Wilson, who had been used as a puppet to sponsor the Federal Reserve scheme, found his auspices extended to embrace the Russian Revolution.

No less indicative of the new power which aspired to take charge of the governance of mankind was the fact that Paul Warburg, partner of the firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Co., accompanied President Wilson to the Versailles Peace Conference as financial adviser to the American delegation, while the German delegation employed as financial adviser a partner in the Hamburg lending house run by Paul Warburg's brother, Max Warburg,

Powerful though it was, the internationalist cause suffered a set-back when President Wilson fell from favour in 1919 and Congress refused to recognise Soviet Russia and forbad the supply of loans to Moscow. This state of affairs continued until the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt restored the status quo ante.

The British Government soon became aware of the result of entanglement in an unpayable debt. Lord Reading in 1917 contracted on behalf of the United Kingdom a huge dollar loan, repayable on call and in gold in a quantity the nation never had possessed.

Winston Churchill laid bare the facts in a newspaper article in 1920:

..."this world-wide conspiracy for the overthrow of civilization and for the reconstitution of society on the basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and impossible equality, has been steadily growing ... There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and, for the most part, atheistical Jews..."

The purpose of the formation of the United States Federal Reserve system was to secure stability in the price level, but by the time the Bill emerged as an Act the sentence embodying this had mysteriously been lost. The general belief was, should there be depression in any part of the United States, the Federal Reserve Board would rush credits to the stricken area. Precisely the opposite reaction occurred. During the "recession" of 1922 the Federal Reserve pursued a policy of financial stringency.

In 1928 the Federal Reserve Bank and New York wolf-packs encouraged an orgy of short-term borrowing, then a few months later called in the loans. The nation-wide depression soon spread to Europe.

The simple truth is that the "Great Depression" was deliberately plotted by the lending-houses of the United States and Europe to further their drive for a monopoly of economic and political power.

As a result the financial houses had bought up, or otherwise acquired, a huge variety of enterprises.

However, the money-lenders had overplayed their hand. The six million German unemployed, victims of the depression, resulted in a formidable revolt against the Money Power - the revolt of Adolf Hitler.

From the point of view of New York and of other centres engaged in international lending the Third Reich held two dangers. One that it had been built up on an anti-Communist basis and the other that the Third Reich held the firm belief that if goods were available for exchange between nations there would be no need for either party to resort to international lending houses to finance the deal. As though this was not offence enough, the Third Reich set to work to repay its external debt and thereby regain control over its own economic destiny.

Had Hitler continued to develop Germany on an autarchical basis, bartering surplus production for needed imports, he might conceivably have conferred a great gift on mankind. It would have been no easy task to marshal the nations against his powerful Third Reich.

One thing alone could quench rebellion of such magnitude - war.

But Britain did not want war. The American people did not want war. The Soviet Government even formed the Berlin-Moscow axis to try to avoid involvement. The French wanted war even less. So who did want war?

(a) Hitler wanted war, but only in the east.

(b) International Finance wanted war but not in the east.

International Finance won the day.

After striking down Poland and partitioning that country with the Soviet Union, Hitler turned about and deployed his full strength against the West, rolling up the French armies, driving the British forces back to their own shores and forcing France to sue for peace.

How was the diversion of Hitler contrived?

The British Labour Party had been howling for blood since the early thirties, against the Japanese in Manchuria, the Italians in Abyssinia, Franco in Spain, and Hitler in Germany, but the Labour Party in Parliament was a minority and lacked the power to precipitate war.

The only way to force the issue was the creation within the Conservative Party of a war party.

This was done in a series of secret meetings in the Savoy Hotel in London. Its leaders were: Winston Churchill, Duff Cooper, Anthony Eden and, representing the interests of International Finance, Israel Moses Sieff.

The choice confronting Chamberlain in September 1939 was, therefore, either to declare war on Germany or to fragment the Conservative Party.

There is a widespread belief that Great Britain was committed by treaty to the defence of Poland. That is not true. The British commitment was to the French in the event of France being involved in a European conflict and it was France which had undertaken to defend Poland - an undertaking the French Government was extremely reluctant to discharge.

The British Government therefore acted in its default and declared war. Not until some hours later were the French persuaded to follow suit.

James Forrestal, U.S. Secretary of the Navy states in his Diaries that the American Ambassador in London told him that Neville Chamberlain had complained of Jewish pressures to force Britain into war. Those pressures were exerted with decisive effect through the Churchill/Israel Moses Sieff group.

Why did Financial Jewry, despite its enormous power in the United States, refrain for two years from pressurising the American Government to enter the war? There were two reasons:

(1) While America was building up her strength, Great Britain was dissipating hers and becoming increasingly dependent on the United States.

(2) While the Soviet Union was preserved from invasion, the international lending houses were content to reap the harvest of the conflict between Germany and the British nations.

When Hitler invaded Russia - his real objective - Roosevelt instantly sprang to action. It was now necessary to change public opinion, up to then against involvement, and produce a threat to national safety.

Washington picked a quarrel with Tokyo. Then presented an ultimatum that no Japanese Government could accept. Japan's reaction was the attack on Pearl Harbour. Was it pure chance that America's main Pacific Fleet was concentrated in Pearl Harbour?

A few months earlier the British had broken the Japanese naval code and given Washington full particulars. Both the President and the U.S. Chief of Staff were well aware that a very strong Japanese force was converging on Pearl Harbour. Why then were all American bases informed with the exception of Pearl Harbour?

The war imposed upon the New York policy-makers the task of ensuring the defeat of the declared enemies but also presented to them the possibility of overthrowing their allies.

This explains the ambivalence of America's post-war policy , i.e. "containing Communism" to satisfy American opinion and, at the same time, to help to promote it to satisfy the great financial interests. Roosevelt was either a brazen humbug or the dupe of the New York Power Elite which had riddled his Administration. Certainly behind Roosevelt was the cold, calculating brain of Bernard Mannes Baruch.

During his Presidency, Eisenhower made a speech at the opening of a park in New York which Baruch had founded in honour of his father.

"Twenty-five years ago, as a young and unknown Major, I took the wisest step in my life - I consulted Mr. Baruch."

How right he was! An unknown major, way down on the advancement list, who became Supreme Allied Commander and President of the United States.

Contrary to world opinion that the most powerful man in the United States is the President, Baruch, himself, giving evidence before a Congressional Committee, put paid to that fiction. In answer to a question he affirmed that during the war, he, Baruch, had been the most powerful man in America.

Until the middle of the Second World War, Bernard Baruch was the leading political figure for the interest of the financial complex in the cornering and manipulation of gold, the manipulation of credit and gambling in foodstuffs and other vital commodities.

After 1943 with uranium and its derivatives promising to be more potent than gold, it was Baruch who presided over the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission.

President de Gaulle is often regarded as a redoubtable opponent of the Money Power.

The use of the term "Money Power" is a kind of shorthand, an over-simplification. Without doubt there is an over-all policy. The Final Act of Bretton Woods, which gave birth to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, the Dumbarton Oaks Conference which created the United Nations and all its agencies, the Havana Conference which produced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and many similar assemblies of hand-picked functionaries, were not incubated by hard-pressed governments but by a supranational Money Power which could look ahead to the shaping of a post-war world that would serve its interests. There is beyond question a continuing conspiracy, but its method is more empirical than doctrinaire.

There was no obvious military reason why de Gaulle, as a Major-General in the French Army, was placed in command of the Free French forces. But when he arrived in Great Britain his patron, Guy de Rothschild, was there to meet him. When he became President of France who was his Prime Minister and right-hand man? M. Pompadou, the chief functionary of Rothschild Freres.

As an addendum to the above synopsis it is worth noting that of the five leaders in World War II:

Hitler was aware of the Jewish Power and held to his opinion to the end.

Mussolini tolerated Jews until 1938 when he became increasingly anti-Jewish.

Stalin also tolerated Jews (many of his entourage were Jewish) until 1953 when he announced the arrest of doctors in Pravda as "Ignoble Spies and Killers under the mask of Professor-Doctors".

Roosevelt from a family of Jewish origin, was already an agent of the Money Power.

Churchill, who in the 1920s wrote on the threat of the "International Jew", had by the beginning of the war changed his tune. Excellent showman that he was, it should be remembered that he broke his parole when he was a prisoner during the Boer War in South Africa and that he was half Jewish through his mother, Jenny Jerome, (real name Jacobson).