The: S~l Crediter, Saturday, May 17, 1940.

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Organised Corruption---The Science of the AbstractBy JOHN MITCHELL

One of the.Fathers o~Church_is reported as saying,"Nothing can impose better on a people than verbiage; theless they understand the more they admire." Verbiage isthe chief characteristic of our more successful politicians.and journalists. And the use of verbiage is of course togive a misleading impression of what is going on. One ofthe noticeable facts about the flood of propaganda for a NewWorld Order is the close affinity of its abstractionism withcorrupt thinking. The object of this propaganda is ob-viously to control the minds of the people. There is muchto suggest that it is one aspect of the widespread employ-ment of theurgic magic, which has been described as a"science of illusions and lies." The practice of this "magic"can be seen to be universal and is only explicable if itproceeds from the practice of a secret doctrine which thereis an extensive literature to show is, .and has beensince the earliest times, the exclusive possessionof a small sect of people known as Kabalists (who are behindFreemasonry), now predominantly if not entirely, Jewish.The correspondence in principle between current events andthe following two passages from the kabalistic TalmudTorah does not need to be emphasised. They show thatJewish plans for world dominion have always been basedon corruption and despair:-

" .... if therefore we behold the generation becomingever more corrupt then there is good reason to anticipatethe advent of the Messiah."-Midraseh, Song of Songs, 2.

"The generation that will bring in the Messiah willconsist of but a few learned men. There will be mandatesdaily, pregnant -with evil. Seven years before the coming willbe marked with great events-they have not yet happenedin the order described. At his coming large cities will be-come desolate. There will be a total absence of truth and

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men of learning and piety will be despised. Those knownas the most honourable will be the most full of duplicity,Scepticism will be the order of the day and there will beno rebuking the evil-doer. When all are leprous with sin,the Messiah will appear-even as' the leper when his leprosyhad covered all his flesh, the priest pronounced him dean."

-13 Leviticus Rabbi, 17 Sanhedrin Book 97.Christian Science is one of the organised religions more

obviously employing theurgic magic. The fact that the pro-prietor of The Times is a Christian Scientist makes all themore interesting a leading article which appeared in thatpaper on May 6 under the title Through German Eyes-an article which is difficult to explain if it is not a useof "magic" to persuade the public that anyone who opposesthe movement for Union of Britain with America is a Ger-man agent, and thereby to defeat the opposition in thiscountry to that movement. The following is a passagefrom the article:-

"Mr. Clarence Streit, the chief American exponent ofthe idea of international federation, is about to publish anEnglish edition of his newest book, in which he proposes animmediate federal union of the United States and the BritishEmpire on much the same lines as were once proposed byMr. Churchill to France. This publication lends topicalinterest to some comments by Count Paul Toggenburg, inthe Hamburger Fremdenblatt, on the progress of the federalmovement in America. He writes that even before the war,behind all the intellectual talk on 'union now,' influentialpeople in the City and the clubs were hatching the idea ofpooling England's positions of world power with America,thus secretly preparing against the eventuality of an eclipseof British Imperialism. Jewish banking firms in the Citybecame enthusiastic supporters of the movement, which wasalso secretly subsidised by American circles. The ChristianScience movement was one of its main propaganda centres,and Mr. Mallory Brown, of the Christian Science Monitor,a typical exponent of unscrupulous American Realpolitik, aprime mover. This movement for union had now gainedactuality through Mr. Churchill's war policy and Mr.Willkie's recent visit to England had been in the nature ofa test to gauge how prepared the English masses were toaccept it. His subsequent visit to Canada was undertakenmore openly in the role of inspector for the great liquidationof the British Commonwealth."

Another form of propaganda to prepare the Britishpublic for Union with America is characterised by directlying. An illustration of this is provided by a statement

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about the U.S.A. Government which appeared in a dailypaper on April 30. _ This s:;tid:-

"The Administration has made itself independent ofWall Street and so have the leading industrial combinesnow, engaged in armament work, which all have accumulatedlarge reserves and kept them liquid and within their ownhands."

The weekly journal Cavalcade declares that an Ameri-can-British Union will happen "Before this war is over,perhaps before it is very much older." " Clarence K. Streitproposes in his new book that it should happen when America,enters the war and that in the Union America is to have"twenty-seven votes, the -rest rwenry-two," th~rest includingthe whole of the British Commonwealth of nations.

Meanwhile Nazi propagandists in the U.S.A., accordingto Cavalcade, are saying "that Hitler deplores the prospectof a struggle between the Tripartite Powers (Germany, Italy,Japan), and the United States for the possession of theBritish Empire." It is only- American aid to Britain, theysay, which is preventing peace. Why quarrel about whoshould have the British Empire? "Why not cut it up?"

There is only one way to scotch this propaganda, saysCavalcade, and that is "an Anglo-American act of unionon the lines of that proposed by Premier Churchill to Francelast year."

The basis of this propaganda both to the Americanpeople as well as to the British people is despair and cor-ruption; and this was the basis of the proposal for a Franco-British Union made last year. "For a long time Europehas been rotten ripe for revolutionary change," says Caval-cade, "If Hitler had not put his fist through the worm-eatenstructure, some other force would."

Comparable with the corrupt nature of the direct andindirect propaganda contributory to the enlargement .andabsorption of national governments everywhere into oneworld government (Federal Union) is the propaganda andactivities of the gang of planners operating under that nameas well as under the banner of Socialism. Here the aim isto' eliminate the sovereignty of the individual with all itsdiverse characteristics and standardise it as far as possiblewith the characteristics of a community operating to a singlesocial objective; and at the same time local organisationswithin the nation are to be absorbed into regional organisa-tions. The much quoted statement of Mr. Israel MosesSieff's journarPlanningiri 1938 that "only in war or underthreat of war will the Government embark on large scaleplanning" is amplified in Planning for February 17, 1941,which is devoted to the "effects of bombing":

"The full effects of bombing cannot yet be judged:existing methods may be developed which will change thepicture. Already, however, a number of fundamental andprobably permanent consequences can be seen. Bombinghas made it impossible to maintain artificial administrativeboundaries, especially between the various parts of a singletown or urban cluster. Regional organisation of essentialservices is gaining strength, and local organisation is .losingit. The whole-time administrator responsible to a higherauthority is replacing the spare-time committee-man, re-sponsible to voters who rarely vote either for or against him.Ieis becoming more urgent to find out accurately whatpeople think of the public services and to take trouble toremedy sources of friction. Class barriers are being assaultedinthe armed forces, in civil defence services, through evacua-110

tion schemes and otherwise, and their rigidity has beenlessened, altscugh it is too early to say that they are breakingdown. The privacy and exclusiveness of the family, has been yto a large extent replaced by living in public even duringindoor leisure and rest periods, and above all in shelters.People have learnt that they can do many things they thoughtthey could not, and do without others which they rankedas necessities. The unbalance between the, materials andthe spirit of civilisation has been sharply redressed, andthe nation has learnt that a vigorous social purpose is notonly a source of satisfaction, but a source of 'strength andcomfort." , ' '

What is remarkable about the above paragraph is that thesocial "consequences of bombing" which are recited are- notregarded as unpleasant and as something to be remedied assoon as possible, but as worthy of perpetuation.· 'A recentarticle in The Times under the title Lessons of the Raids pro-vides 'another side to the picture. The writer has made someattempt to be objective. Some extracts from his recordwill show how pernicious is the P.E.P. statement .as wellas the falsities in it: - ' "

"The regional organisation is not intended to be .a' SUb,:

stitute for the local government, and where local govern-ment is good it is probably best for this work of civil defence.The city fathers know their people, their areas, and the needsof both as neither regional commissioners nor the ,.CentralGovernment can.

" .... The chief of staff, as it were, in one city .whichhas had its share of bombing gave as his advice: _ 'Get afearless chairman of your committee, and then bury yourlegal department." He meant by this last that the morrowof a fierce raid was no time for leisurely following of rules.

" .. ,.• Mr. Norman Tiplaft, chairman of BirminghamA.R.P. committee, urges decentralisation and the .making ofeach district as self-contained as possible ....

"One heard of an emergency conference called to con-sider a piece of work which it was essential should be setin hand. Government departments were represented, but notone would accept responsibility for saying the word- 'Go' andso incurring cost. The chairman, a councillor, had no moreauthority than the rest, but he did not shrink from: .saying,'Go ahead.' There was a sigh of relief from the, gathering."

Evil corrupts itself. If midst the: devastation and heapedup misery of air raids the small light, of truth can be .keptburning there remains the strong possibility that' organisedcorruption will reach a point of inherent rottenness where itwill be too weak to stand against a movement directed tospread truth. The Jewish "Messiah" will then sufferirretrievable defeat.

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FROM WEEK TO WEEKAGREEMENT

Mr. Compton MacKenzie, who wasrecently sent a copy of This 'American'Business by Mr. Borge Jensen, wrote inreply:-Suidheachan, Island of Barra,Outer Hebrides, Scotland.Dear Mr. Jensen,

Many thanks for the booklet withevery word of which I am in agreement.Shall we ever convince this country intime to prevent its ruin?

Yours sincerely,COMPTON MAcKENZIE.

30 March, 1941.

• • •ANTICIPATIONS

of Roosevelt's speech on May 14:-Leonard Engel, Washington corres-

pondent of the New York newspaperP.M.:

"I have strong reason to believeRoosevelt will come out in favour of a

V union of the United States and Britain."He will probably specify the end

of the war as the occasion for such amerger of the two great English-speakingnations, but I believe he may suggestan earlier date."

C. V. R. Thompson, New Yorkcorrespondent of the Daily Express:

"There are some observers whobelieve that Roosevelt will even comeout for an Anglo-American union, a movewhich would make the American man-in-the-street feel that the war was nowhis war.

"These observers base their guessing-and it cannot be any more than guess-ing--on the aptness of the audience ofthe Pan-American Union.

"Other possibilities besides convoysare believed to be the pooling of theBritish and American fleets to defendthe sea lanes between the United Statesand all vital parts of the British Empire,and threats to occupy the Azores andCanary Islands should Hitler move to-wards Spain or PortugaL"

• • •'TOO MUCH' WHEAT

._) The four chief exporters of wheatwill have a surplus at the end of Julyof eleven hundred millions of bushels,

says the Daily Express City Editor.This vast quantity, by far the

largest in history, is equal to more thanfour years' consumption in Britain.

Canada, Australia, the United Statesand the Argentine are said to be plan-ning to limit production, Canada by asmuch as 35 per cent.

• • •MASS MEETING AT

WEDNESBURYDisquiet at the centralisation and

socialisation of small businesses was ex-pressed at a mass-meeting of the Wed-nesbury town tradesmen recently whena deputation was appointed to interviewthe President of the Board of Tradepending a decision being given by theGovernment on the proposal to cut downthe number of small retail shops, trades-men to invest their money in Govern-ment securities and go into some kindof war work.

'Councillor F. A. Wadsworth, ex-Mayor of Wednesbury, said that inBirmingham they had the pleasure offeeding 500 people a day at .7~. perhead, and for this they had an organiserat £7 a week.

Yet the Government said the systemwas going to be a paying proposition.

When the Government interferedwith private traders was when the troublebegan.

Councillor C. Jackson, presidingsaid communal feeding may assumetremendous proportions soon and it alldepended on the Battle of the Atlantic.The scheme had been a godsend to theschoolchildren of Wednesbury.

Councillor T. Berry said the unfairquota system was the vicious circle thetradesmen had to break, otherwise itwould break them.

As long as the distribution of com-modities was equitable, small tradesmendid not mind.

Councillor Jackson said that themore the stocks were centralised thegreater the risk from blitz. Queues atshops were unnecessary, yet if there werefewer shops there would be more queues .

• • •FISH

Any fish that may be bought on

one large stretch of the north-west coastcomes from Aberdeen: the catch of thelocal fishing town goes to the north-eastto be sold-at prices, of course, eightor ten times higher than normal. TheMinistry of Food's solution is to socialisethe whole industry, and under this threattrawler-owners in Fleetwood have deviseda plan 'which will bring a price cutwithout serious interference with existingselling and distribution methods.' TheEdinburgh, Leith and District Fish TradeAssociation are also considering a volun-tary scheme for co-operative distribution.

• • •"IT WILL FALL ON HIM .... ".

From the "News Review," April 24:-

John Gilbert Winant may well bemore than an Ambassador. Formerhead of the International Labour Officein Geneva, he is expert on subjectsdealing with labour problems.

It will fall to him to keep his handon the pulse of British political life andto co-ordinate the rising tide of BritishLabour, headed by Ernest Bevin, whomhe has known for some years, with theProgressive element in Washi!J.gton.

A confirmed idealist, AmbassadorWinant looks like playing a stellar rolein the forthcoming events which willshape the new world order. Said hesoon after his arrival:

"Only by finding a common basisof world citizenship and by acceptingfar-reaching and progressive socialchange can we hope to secure economicand social security which will make anypeace real and lasting."

While the task of fighting and win-ning the war remains, the GrosvenorSquare Embassy has become the clearing-house for the multitudinous liaison whichhas sprung up since the passing of theLease-and- Lend- Bill.

The restrained, hesitant atmospherewhich pervaded the precincts of AppeaserJoe Kennedy has gone. By last wee';the Embassy had expanded considerab'y.

Biggest increase in staff has been inthe department of Naval Attache Cap-tain Lockwood. The normal compli-ment of three U.S. Naval officers, hasgrown to 39. Military Attache Briga-dier-General Raymond E. Lee's depart-ment has also jumped from two to nine.

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WHIG HISTORY

In his latest and entirely worth-while book, The Last Rally, HilaireBelloc says that men can but conceiveof the past in terms of the present, andthis is the fruitful source of most badhistory.

In his chapter on "Whiggery" whichcontains much of value when read in thelight of Social Credit philosophy, arethese words:

"Like all official history, Whighistory, as it approached the term ofits natural life (it is still vigorous but itsdecay is manifest) sank from level tolevel in the community. Today it isstill the orthodox history of the elemen-tary schools; it is defended though withincreasing difficulty, in the nationaluniversities; but its native ground stillremains the great mass of the lowermiddle class, and there it is of greatesteffect in those historical novels withwhich we are blessed or cursed. Afuture generation, perhaps the next, maywatch with interest the appearance ofsome real piece of historical fictionwherein our fathers shall be made tobehave as they did behave; the effectwill be startling."

In a footnote he states that the offi-cia1 Whig historian of the nineteenthcentury was Macaulay, of the twentiethit is his relative, Sir George Trevelyan.

Sound, as Mr. Belloc's judgment iswith regard to official Whig history, Ifeel he is over-optimistic with regard toits imminent decease, while the powersbehind the Times's leading articles arepumping oxygen into its carcase.

Sir Richard Livingstone, speakingto the Classical Association of Oxfordon April 22, said in the course of hisaddress:

"There were truths of economicsand psychology; but there were evenmore important truths in which the mindneeded to be dipped so deeply that itnever wholly lost the dye, such forinstance as Aristotle's words, 'The Stateoriginates for the sake of life; it con-tinues in existence for the sake of thegood life,' and 'man when perfected, isthe best of animals, but when divorcedfrom justice he is the worst of all ....Justice is the principle which bringsorder into political societies. ''',

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By B. M. PALMER

more of the address, those few words setthe key, and it applied the "lessons" of thepast to our present conflict with theNazi philosophy.

Commenting on this address in itsleading article, The Times says:

"It was Plato too who first conceivedthat idea of a planned society which isgradually emerging as one of our essen-tial peace aims; and, since the Greeks,who were the pioneers of the scientificspirit, never forgot that man must bethe master of science, none can teachso profoundly as Plato the necessarytruth that the plan is worth nothingsave as it is related to eternal values.

"The problem of reconciling aplanned society with the vital rights andliberties of man is a corollary to a largerproblem, the understanding of the designof the universe ....

"If this nation has come to its sup-reme test with a conviction, which bombscannot blast, that material things likewealth and safety must always -be sacri-ficed for the sake of spiritual things likeliberty and justice, it has learnt thattruth through the leadership, over manygenerations, of men trained to look atlife in the fearless Greek way."

So far as the matter is clear to methe erroneous assumptions in theseparagraphs are that the Greeks as anation adopted a planned society, andthat it is possible to reconcile planningwith the vital rights and liberties of man.The statement is never actually made,but it would appear so to one who tookthe article at its face value. This isbad historj-it, is conceiving of thepast in terms of the present-it is offi-cial Whig history, written for our genera-tion.

Writing of the ancient Greeks inForm and Colour, L. March Phillipssays: "The infallible test of intellectualactivity is the assertion by man of hissuperiority to his surroundings; hisassertion, that is to say, of his right tocontrol and alter and adapt to his ownwishes the material circumstances inwhich he finds himself."

This power the ancient Greeksmanipulated in no uncertain way, andwon their right to claim the title ofdemocracy. It was acknowledged among

them, and this is worth noting, that nodemocratic unit could function if itincreased beyond a few thousand-fivethousand, I believe, was the number sug-gested as ideal for a city.

It was not until after the collapseof classic art and the substitution of thethe emotional and spiritual style knownas Hellenism that the full influence ofPlato and Aristotle was felt in Europeanthought, and by that time Greece was nolonger a democracy. Hellenism is the'aspect of Greek thought which has madeits mark on Western Europe and theseIslands, and it is largely influenced bythe Orient. It is not pure Greek. Ithas been admirably summed up by C.H. Douglas in these words:

"The classical system is the em-bodiment of an attractive and artisticideal or conception of society, and theconditions under which society lives,moves, and has its being. It is above,outside, possibly in advance of, facts."

Hellenism, as Sir Richard Living-stone says, may be a universal and super-national culture which each nation canadapt and modify as its own genius andtradition may suggest, and it may be acommon bond between all its children-but to suggest that it may form the basisof a planned international society is pureWhig propaganda.

But even God himself, is pressedinto service to further the World State.

"The important point for us is nothow much of this or that which happensto suit our turn can be picked up fromthe Greeks, but what in sum was theiressential gift to humanity-the qualitythey existed to exemplify?

"It was not worship of the body,or the delights of the flesh, though atno time in human history have thosematters received more successful atten-tion; it was not in the rational andmaterialistic outlook on Life, though nopeople have ever been more matter-of-

, fact, less transcendental than the Greeks;it was not even in the written word, forGreek philosophic speculation, great asit was, was not all of Greece, nor eventhe major part-Greek learning was onlya foundation to be built on and super-seded. No; the prime achievement ofGreece was, without a doubt, the dis-covery of the power of knowledge, Truth"

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-, and the effective value as a means toV acquiring knowledge of what has beencalled the scientific spirit. The essentialquality of this spirit is, as has beenpointed out, a humble and enquiringmind; an attitude of wonder, of worshipif you like-a passionate, interest in

Creation, rather than an itch to create."-N. F. Webb in European Background,in The Social Crediter; July 20, 1940.

How does the international trans-cendentalism of The Times appear in thelight of these words?

One day, as Mr. BeUoc says, his-tory will be written in which our fore-fathers will be made to behave as theydid behave, and the effect will bestartling; but the historian will be aSocial Crediter.

CONCENTRATION

April 30.

The following passage is taken fromthe "Evening Standard" of May 1:

Six Big Business men are workingout a scheme which covers a turnoverof something like £200,000,000. Theyare the President of the Board of Trade'sconcentrators of industry.

Boot, shoe and paper concentrationhas made Sir Nigel Campbell, white-haired, energetic City banker of 62, al-most a Civil Servant. He has no timenow to go to the City.

Sir Nigel is a quiet-speaking, un-assuming, keep-in-the-background man."One of the quiet commissars, like An-drew Duncan and Reith, and a link be-tween the City and the Governmentdepartments," a friend describes him.

Sir Nigel knows re-organisationwork. In a slump period of a decadeago, he was alternate chairman with Mr.Montagu Norman of the Bankers' Indus-trial Development Company set up bythe Bank of England, to rationalise in-dustry. Cotton and shipbuilding werehis special interests.

At nineteen he had crossed theAtlantic to become a gold prospector.He soon learned there was more gold inbanking than in a Canadian "claim."He never found a nugget, but in NewYork he entered the banking firm ofDillon Read and returned to Britain toopen their London office. He has stuckto banking ever since.

As Harriette Campbell his Ameri-can-born wife has a wide sale of detectivethrillers in her native country.

• • •AMERlCAN FORTUNE

"The present Lord rAstor and hisbrother, Major John Astor [of theTimes 1, receive the income from anAmerican Trust established by theirfather and estimated at not less than£11,000,000.

" .... The late Lord Astor wasAmerican born, and he left his huge for-tune in a trust fund of which a leadingWall-Street banking house are the sole

trustees. It is the understanding in finan-cial circles here that the bank has com-plete authority and simple instructionsto pay the income to the heirs, LordAstor and his brother.

"If that is so, there is some doubtwhether the British Government couldtouch the property. Its size may bejudged from the fact that in 1939 -theUnited States Government by order ofthe Supreme Court were awarded morethan £2,500,000 in estate taxes from thetrust."-F. G. A. COOKE in an article Sky-scrapers for Sale in the London EveningStandard of February 2, 1941.

• • •ELECTRICITY

In many parts of the country newpower plant is being installed and.a pro-cess of decentralisation is going on whichis a complete reversal of the 'ideas ofthose who sponsored the Central Electri-city Board.

In 1926 when the Grid was formed,small power companies were advised toclose down their plant and join up withthe Grid as it would no longer pay forindustrial concerns to generate their ownpower.

At that time the generating capacityof industrial and private plants was about2,750,000 kilowatts. Today it is about3,700,000 kilowatts, and the CentralBoard is calling on these private plantsto supply it with current.

In view of the dangers to supplyto which centralisation lays us open intimes of war, the knowledge that smallercompanies are on the increase is heart-ening.

• • •DEBT ACT ULTRA VIRESIf the court judgments given in

early April regarding the Debt Adjust-ment and the Legal Proceedings Suspen-sion Act are allowed to stand a disas-trous situation may result not only inAlberta but throughout Canada.

So said Mr. Lucien Maynard to the

Legislature when he explained that theProvince is appealing against the twojudgments and will carry the appeal tothe highest court in the Empire.

The judge ruled that the Debt Ad-justment Act was ultra vires, and declar-ed invalid the Legal Proceedings Sus-pension Act, passed at this session.

Mr. Maynard declared in the Legis-lature that in his opinion Mr. JusticeO'Connor's judgments were not sound inlaw, and said the same principle wasinvolved in the legislation passed by theHouse regarding protection for soldierdebtors. If the O'Connor judgment wassound, then the debt protection affordedsoldiers was also invalid .

• • •FREEDOM

"It is not only true that most peopleentirely misunderstand Freedom, but Isometimes think I have not yet met oneperson who rightly understands it. Thewhole universe is absolute Law. Free-dom only opens entire activity andlicence under the law. To the degradedor undeveloped-and even to too manyothers-the thought of freedom is athought of escaping from law-which, ofcourse, is impossible. More preciousthan all worldy riches is Freedom-free-dom from the painful constipation andpoor narrowness of ecclesiasticism-freedom in manners, habiliments, furni-ture, from the silliness and tyranny oflocal fashions-entire freedom fromparty rings and mere conventions inPolitics-and better than all, a generalfreedom of One's-Self from the tyrannicdomination of vices, habits, appetites,under which nearly every man of us,(often the greatest brawler for freedom,)is enslaved. Can we attain such enfran-chisement-the true Democracy, and theheight of it? While we are from birthto death subjects of irresistable law, en-closing every movement and minute, weyet escape, by a paradox, into true freewill. Strange as it may seem, we onlyattain to freedom by a knowledge of,and implicit obedience to, Law."-Walt Whitman, in "Notes Left Over,"1888.

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CentralisationWhere large masses of population

are concentrated, bans, prohibitions andcensorships are increasingly of less availto prevent news from being spread andcomment.

The spectacle of vast concentrationsof food and raw materials consumed byfire in as many minutes as the 'pale-faced Marxians' of Whitehall intendedto 'hold' it in months suggests 'weshalln't have any for the next war,if we use it all up in this.' The greatemporiums are so efficient, so popularand so 'economical' that we can easilyclose up all the small shops and ruin allthe small shop-keepers who haven'tbeen and won't be called up ! But whenthe said small shop-keepers stand cheekby jowl with the equally small fire-fighters who can't get bacon and eggsand cheese and cigarettes the fact thatcentralisation means simply putting allthe things you want in a heap for cer-tain destruction comes home.

Last week the posting of thispaper was late. But it wasn't thepeople who had made scarcely any pre-paration for eventualities who fell short:it was the people who had made vastpreparations, in some cases extendingover a period of years, who found theirbrainy plans addled. The bigger theplan the quicker it addles.

The public is waking up to theseelementary considerations and is askingfor something to be done about it.Doubtless this i~ not unanticipated, andmay, indeed, be part of that larger butsimpler plan which does not yet showsi~ns of going wrong-the plan to en-slave the world under cover of the war.Tyranny has it seems three stages ofaction. The first is to tyrannise.' Thesecond is to devise an 'Improvement' intyranny. The third is to provoke re-114

sistance to the lesser tyranny in order togenerate a force large enough to carrythe greater into execution. But that toois not without its intelligent observers,who are multiplying fast and in odd andunexpected places. We must look outfor them, for we can do them a goodturn. T. J.

TURKEY AND THE JEWS" ... In 1909, the Sultan was

deposed in favour of a mere puppet, hisbrother Mehmed Rashid, by that strangesecret society, the Committee of Unionand Progress, commonly known in thiscountry as the 'Young Turks' in whichthe twin forces of Freemasonry andSalonika Jewry played-as Mr. Gravesmakes clear- a leading part."-from a review in Truth of Briton andTurk, by PHILIP GRAVES.

In a contemporary, Dr. Oscar Levy,in a letter, gibes at anti-Semitism.Twenty years ago he wrote, "There isscarcely an event in modern Europe thatcannot be traced back to the Jews. Takethe great war that appears to have cometo an end. [Our italics. J

" .... We who have posed as theSaviours of the World, we who haveboasted of having given it 'the' Saviour,we are to-day nothing else but the world'sseducers, its destroyers, its incendiaries,its executioners,

" .... I look at this world and Ishudder at its ghastliness; I shudder allthe more as I know the spiritual authorsof all this ghastliness."

• • •

It was largely financed by Sir ErnestCassel.

Its teachers have been given as:Accountancy and Business Meth-

ods: Frederick Rudolf Mackley dePaula.

Sociology: Morris Ginsberg, EdithVerena Eckhard.

Public Administration: HermannFiner.

Currency and Banking: TheodorEmmanuel Gugenheim Gregory.

Political Science: Harold Laski.

International Law: Hersch Lauter-pracht.

Anthropology: Bronislaw Malin-owski.

Ethnology: Charles Gabriel Selig-mann.

Logic: Abraham Wolf.(Lieut.-Colonel Lane).

The London School of Economics issaid to have been founded by Mr. Syd-ney Webb (Lord Passfield), educated inMecklenberg-Schwerin and Switzerland.

• • •The Controller of the Post-Office

Savings Bank is Mr. Leon Simon.

• • •Sir Cecil Hermann Kisch: Secret-

ary of the Financial Department IndiaOffice, Assistant Under Secretary ofState for India, Member, SupervisoryFinancial Commission, League of Na-tions, Member of Court of GovernorsLondon School of Economics. MarriedMyra, daughter of Rabbi Marcus Adler.

• • •Lieut.-Colonel Frederick Hermann

Kisch, C.B.E., Chairman Palestine Zion-ist Executive. Married Ruth, daughterof Sir Leonard Franklin.

• • •Sir Leonard Franklin, O.B.E., third

son of Ellis A. Franklin, Banker, andAdelaide, sister of first Baron Swaythling(Samuel-Montagu). Senior partner inA. Keyser and Co., Foreign Bankers.Messrs Keyser are the London Corres-pondents of Kuhn, Loeb & Company ofNew York.

• o •"Mr. Menzies talks our language,"

says the New York Times.

• • •Miss Eleanor Rathbone in the

House of Commons on April 30:" .... To me the major anxiety is ~

whether the community as a whole is notbeing allowed to eat much to freely."

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"A War Between Two Philosophies "By A. A. CHRESBY

The substance of one of the lectures of a "Special Refresher Course" arranged formembers of the Douglas Social Credit Association of New South Wales in July, 1940.

Our approach has brought us right up against a warthat has been raging through the ages between two con-flicting philosophies.

One perception of reality is that all power and author-ity, arises from a point external from the Individual. Theother perception is that all power and authority arises fromwithin the individual. These constitute the basic elementsof conflict.

The former is based on old mosaic law, judaic in con-cept, the logical outcome of which must be-and is-thetrend towards total centralisation of power. All power andauthority at the apex of the pyramidal form of society-which is extant in the world to-day-and the people intotal subjection at the base.

The other perception is based on the Christian conceptof "Love thy neighbour as thyself," and is a recognitionof the sanctity of human personality and the Brotherhoodof Man. This implies the sovereignty of the people exer-cised-to paraphrase Mr. L. D. Byrne, Advisor to theAlberta Government-with generous tolerance and under-standing as between individuals, and the administration andmanagement of a community's affairs by persons who arequalified by virtue of their desire to serve.

You will recognise these as the basic principles ofDemocracy, that form of society under which governmentand the management of a people's affairs yields them theresults they want. And I believe that you will agree thata correct social order envisages a functioning political andeconomic democracy.

Against this social philosophy which is common to theChristian ethic and what we term "socal credit" or "socialbelief" or "belief of social association for a common benefit,"we have the Pagan or Judaic law--that might is right: thestrongest or most cunning must rule, the survival of thefittest, all familiar phrases which are a product of the Judaicconcept of society.

Judaism means the regimentation of the many by thefew, which has been the dominant feature of the paganphilosophy through the ages.

The sovereignty of the people, freedom in security ofthe individual, and the sanctity of the human personality,have no meaning and cannot exist in this Judaic concept.People must be regimented, made to do what is good forthem, kept in subjection by force. Therefore, "We must beAnti-Judaic in that we must oppose the Jewish philosophy.But we are NOTanti-Semitic. In fact it is only by exposureof the world intrigues that we can save ourselves, and withourselves, the long-suffering blind Jewish masses," (Mrs.Palmer in the English Social Crediter, January 13, 1940.)

The democratic or social credit viewpoint is that theState exists to serve its individual citizens as do the institu-tions of the State. Here I submit for your urgent and deepestconsideration the profound pronouncement of Major Douglason March 9, 1938:

"The future of civilisation hangs on a reversal of the

present domination of individuals by institutions."As I said earlier, the basis of Christian Social Philo-

sophy is "Love thy neighbour as thyself" and is recogni-tion of the sanctity of the human personality. Now despitecritics of human nature, brotherhood and friendship do exist.

They spring from action taken towards a common aim,which has some genuine relationship to reality. The Philo-sophy of the social crediter-his view of Reality-containswithin itself the substance and the source (to quote Dr.Tudor Jones) of all such effort. There exist very few peoplewho do not possess some aim which converges with ourown, such as the maximum personal freedom in securityfor the individual. With the knowledge we have, it is forus to take the initiative, and to assist individuals to formu-late their own objectives-and help, where possible, to securethem.

This brings us to an analysis of the conflicting habitsof mind, which are based on the two quite fundamentalconcepts or philosophies, which we now have under ex-amination. We are indebted again to Major Douglas forthe interesting grouping he has made of these, and whichmay be termed Group A and Group B thinking:

GROUP"A" GROUP"B"Deductive v InductiveT otalitarian v DemocraticMachiavellian v BaconianIdealistic v RealisticJewish v ChristianLove of Power v Love of FreedomPlanned Economy v Organic Growth

The DEDUCTIVEway of thinking will take the part andisolate it from the whole and say it is the whole; it willwork from the abstract to the concrete, try to fit the factsto the theory and so on.

The INDUCTIVEway of thinking takes the facts andreasons from them. It will form a theory based on thefacts, relate one part to the rest of the parts to form thewhole, and will admit nothing that is not based on ascertain-able or known facts; the basis of all its work can bedemonstrated.

The TOTALITARIANviewpoint is that the State is sup-reme, and that the individual is nothing except in so faras he is of service to the State. On the other hand theDEMOCRATICviewpoint is that the state is nothing exceptthat it serves the interests of the whole of the people whoconstitute it and that a country's affairs shall be so adminis-tered as to yield the results that the people want.

The MACHIAVELLIANinsists on the systematic subordina-tion of RIGHTNESS to expediency; the development ofcunning in political affairs; concealed government insteadof open democratic government. The BACONIANconcept, isbased on the viewpoint of Bacon that, in effect : ''We canproceed no longer -along the lines of thought now prevalent.What is wanted is a just, that is to say, a realistic, relation-ship, between the mind and things." To quote M.ajor

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Douglas further: "The scientists took his advice, andmodern mastery of nature is the result. The lawyers andfinanciers did not, and civilisation is breaking up becausethey did not. Nations are striving for things which are nouse to them, and suffering under necessities which have noreal existence."

IDEALISM would' build a world based on one or a fewindividuals' ideas of what constitutes Utopia, and imposeit on everyone. The idealist always insists that he knowsbest how his fellows should live, and at the same time em-phatically resists any encroachment upon his own personalfreedom. REALISM says that, "What is physically possibleis financially possible;" that we are living in a world ofabundance and that there exists no real reason for poverty,misery and degradation; that each individual should havethe maximum personal freedom in security commensuratewith his fellows' having the same; that the individual shouldbe free to build his own Utopia.

JEWISH ideology based on law rants about justice.As Major Douglas says: "Justice, Judaisimo, the creed ofShylock, is the basis of the world's present unhappy stateof affairs." CHRISTIANITY enjoins" not mere mechanicaljustice, but the development of health, happiness and so on,a state of affairs where " .... they shall sit every man underhis vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make themafraid."

LOVE OF POWER is a concept involved in the leader-ship doctrine, and involves the fight for the power to re-mould the world and people's lives according to one indi-vidual's design for a living. LOVE OF FREEDOM, enjoins theconcept of the "Inalienable right of man to life, liberty andthe pursuit of happiness."

PLANNED ECONOMY visualises a blue print for the con-struction of society, a forcing of facts to fit theories, a com-plete ignoring of human factors. It is a regimentation toa conception. ORGANIC GROWTH involves the considerationof human and other factors and the growth and developmentlimited only by human limitations, or shall we say the growth

and development of the individual and his environmentlimited only by his capacity to develop further.

We can, with truth, say with Major Douglas, thatGroup A "comprises, on the whole, those habits of mindwhich are effective in affairs and particularly, affairs ofState to-day .... The flowers of the Group A ideas arethe modern Dictatorships."

On the other hand, the Group B ideas are the onlyreal basis for the establishment of the principles of correcthuman relationships, co-operation of man with man-inshort the establishment, in all its aspects, of Social Creditin reality.

If I have given you a clear picture of these two con-flicting viewpoints, you will realise that we are now witness-ing the last stages of a fight to a finish, between the adherentsof these two social concepts, and you will agree that therecan be no compromise. Every win for one of theprinciples identified with Judaism is a defeat for the forcesof democracy and Christianity.

In 1919, in Economic Democracy, Major Douglaswrote:-

"A definite victory for one side or the other is in-evitable-it seems perfectly certain that either a pyramidalorganisation, having at its apex supreme power, and at itsbase complete subjection, will crystallise out of the centrali-sing process which is evident in the realms of finance andindustry, equally with that of politics, or else a more com-plete decentralisation of initiative than this civilisation hasever known will be substituted for external authority."

Each of us is a human instrument through which theseconflicting powers are working, and to each of us comes theopportunity to be used on one side or the other in thisbattle.

This is a responsibility which NONE of us can escape.Of the ultimate outcome of this battle there can be nodoubt, but in terms of human suffering it is vitally importantthat the forces of Darkness, led by the Father of Lies,should be overthrown with all speed.

Mr. Manning on the Treasury BranchesIn a recent debate in the Alberta

legislature Mr. Manning outlined theobjects of the Treasury Branch system.

He said that the objects ofthe treasury branches were threefold,namely, provision of a set-up for distri-bution of the wealth of the province;stimulation of industry within the pro-vince; progess if' the ultimate objectiveof increasing total buying power in thehands of the people of the province.The government was confident the in-terim programme would result in anincrease of purchasing power in the pro-vince. The government, prevented bythe Dominion from increasing theamount of currency in circulation, wasrestricted to such activities "as we cancarry on within the province." It wasestimated that 20 per cent. of the pur-,lt6

chasing power in the province stayed inthe province. The interim programmewas designed to allow it to expand thepurchasing power as far as internalpurchasing power is concerned.

In the first years of their operation,the treasury branches convinced patronsthey could carryon business with onetype if paper as' easily as another.

Necessity for backing vouchers with"dollars behind every voucher" wasdwindling as people realised voucherscould be used for purchases, he said.Amount of vouchers on deposit was in-creasing steadily as their value was real-ised and it was now appreciated it wasunnecessary to have 100 per cent. dollarbacking for every voucher on deposit.

Under the trade claim ulan thegovernment merely removed' the de-

positors' right to claim cash unless theneed was urgent. Resulting from in-creased public confidence in trade claimsthe government, for example, considered$800,000 cash "ample backing" for$1,000,000 in trade claims, said Mr.Manning.

He declared that while the bonuscould be construed as an accumulatingliability, it was a liability, which wouldnot demand cash unless the whole sumdeposited were suddenly liquidated. Theprinciple of a bonus was not new. Asa rule the wholesaler was bonussed, butthe government considered the mostsatisfactory method of increasing pur-chasing power in the province was byplacing purchasing power in the hands ~of consumers for purchases which other-wise would not be made.

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AGRICULTURE:

April 30.

Oral Answers (37 columns)

AGRICULTURE

POTATO CONTROL, SCOTLAND.

Mr, Mathers asked the Parliament-ary Secretary to the Ministry of Food,whether he is aware of the dissatisfactionof Scottish potato merchants sinceauthority was taken from the area officerin Edinburgh, and transferred to Oxford,resulting in delay and indecision; andwhether he will improve the position byreverting to the practice in force prior toFebruary.

Major lloyd George: No, Sir.Apart from my hon. Friend's recentletter to my Noble Friend, no representa-tions have been received from merchants.A reply will be sent to my hon. Friendas soon as the necessary inquiries havebeen made.

~ Mr, Mathers: Will an endeavourbe made to see that the satisfactionwhich prevailed when this office was atEdinburgh will not be discontinued be-cause it has been moved to Oxford?

Major Lloyd George: If there wereany cause for dissatisfaction, and wewere satisfied that there was dissatisfac-tion, we would consider it, but at themoment we have no reason to think thatthere is.

FIDUCIARY NOTE ISSUE.

Mr. Pethick-Lazorence (by privateNotice) asked the Chancellor of the Ex-chequer whether he has any statement tomake about the amount of the FiduciaryNote Issue?

The Chancellor of the Exchequer(Sir Kingsley Wood): Yes, Sir. Owingto the growing demand for currency, anincrease in the Fiduciary Note Issue isnecessary, and, acting under the powerconferred by Section 8 of the Currencyand Bank Notes Act, 1928, the Treasuryhave authorised an increase in the amountof the Fiduciary Note Issue by

~ £50,000,000, to £680,000,000 as fromto-day. The Treasury Minute will belaid before Parliament forthwith.

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PARLIAMENTFIDUCIARY ISSUE:'

SUPPLY (79 columns)Considered in Committee.CIVIL ESTIMATES, 1941.

UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.

MINISTRY OF FOOD.

The Parliamentary Secretary to theMinistry of Food (Major lloyd George):.... The Ministry of Food has been re-ferred to as the largest trading organisa-tion in the world. I believe the Com-mittee will appreciate better the signi-ficance of what that means and themagnitude of our task when I say thatour trading accounts amount to about£600,000,000 in a year. The Ministryis a little more than a trading organisa-tion. It is concerned with social andeconomic problems far greater than thoseabout which any trading organisation hasto think. On the one hand it is a verygreat monopoly, and on the other handit has responsibility for feeding the wholepopulation of these Islands ....

Let us take the position with regardto home supplies .... Obviously, it isnot easy to maintain control of home-produced supplies as of the importedsupplies, because on the whole they donot come--except in such cases as thoseof wheat and meat-through the samekind of bottleneck. In the case of somecommodities you have tens of thousandsof suppliers scattered all over the country.These commodities, naturally, except asI say in some cases, do not come througha bottleneck' which you can' control.That is one of the reasons why we havefound it extremely difficult up to nowto devise means, for instance, of makingpossible a fair distribution of eggs. Theproduction of eggs is in the hands ofprobably about 50,000* people ... I nowturn to a question which has created agreat deal of excitement, and that is thequestion of what is known as luxuryfeeding in restaurants. There has beena certain amount of criticism of thepolicy which allows meals to be taken inthese establishments without the sur-render of a coupon. I say quite franklyto the Committee that this subject hasbeen given a prominence out of all rela-tion to its importance, because of, among

*Mr, Barnes (East Ham, South) later cor-rected this figure to 750,000.

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other things, rather sensational publicityin one or two organs of the Press. As amatter of fact it is out of all proportionto the problem with which we are deal-ing ....

More and more are the people ofthis country dependent upon having ameal out at some time during the day ...Millions of workers all over the countryare now being fed in canteens, and letme make it clear that a canteen is arestaurant for this purpose .... If all themeat meals in every restaurant, canteen,and every kind of communal feedingcentre in the country were stopped, itwould only be possible to raise the meatration from Is, to Is. Id. That putsthe matter in its true proportions, andI hope that people will leave it at thatfor the time being.

•Mr. Barnes (East Ham, South):

. , . , I now wish to refer to a question ofpolicy which does not come directly with-in the administration of the Ministry ofFood, but which I think will have someimpact on the Department in the nearfuture. The Chancellor of the Exchequerwhen introducing his Budget, referred to'the Government's scheme for subsidisingbasic foodstuffs. The Minister admittedthat it was now costing £90,000,000 a 'year. It has been a very successfulscheme, and is a remarkable examplewhich the Government ought to havefollowed sternly at the outbreak of thewar; it would then have been possible tohave maintained a proper control overthe whole range of basic priced goods.The Chancellor indicated that the Gov-ernment were now proposing to extendthat policy. Can the Minister indicatein his reply whether it will cover foodsupplies, and, if so, whether it will beapplied to the present level of prices, orwhether efforts will be made to cut thepresent level, which in my view is un-doubtedly too high? ... Already theyhave reached a high level, and unlessthe Government take action prices willget out of control in the near future., , .. If goods are in short supply,whether it be as a result of an actualshortage, maldistribution, or the move-ment of population, I urge the Ministerto accept the policy of applying regis-tration and rationing in every case where

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it is humanly possible. Experience shows,that when this is done you at once locatethe demand. The problem of whether ornot people consume it is rapidly dis-pensed with, because, if they do not takeup their ration, it is released and it maybe increased ....

Mr. Mc.Kinlay (Dumbartonshire):. . • • This same firm [Lewis's Limited]had tens of thousands of tins of cookedcasserole stew. I am not exaggerating.It was purchased at Is. 4d. per tin andwas retailed to the public at 2s. Whenthe management were called to book, theytried to justify 33 per cent. profit as areasonable selling profit. It is not lin-gerie they were trading in, but foodstuffs;and if the sale of foodstuffs was an ancil-lary to their principle business before thewar it has now become one of the mostimportant branches of the business-ofthat and other firms. They claimed atthat time that 33 per cent. profit wasnot an excess profit.

For some obscure reason, while thosewho were indulging in this practice wereknown, the public Press soft-pedalled.The reasons for that were not very far toseek. I have checked up on the matterand it is strange that in every industrialpart of Britain where these multiplestores operate, it is common talk that ifyou want anything in the food line youshould go to Lewis's or to Marks andSpencer's. I am not suggesting that thereis, anything significant in the fact that thenoble Lord was associated with the firm,but I am definitely stating that there isno control over the prices paid to manu-facturers by persons who desire to securealmost a monopoly of their goods. WhenI left Glasgow, cooked sausage was beingsold at 2s. 6d. per lb. It must be awonderful sausage. If the Ministry doesnot regulate such practices it will createmore trouble than enough, and not onlyfor itself as a national body but for foodcontrol commitrees . . ..

.... There are many difficulties con-fronting local food offices and first inimportance are those imposed upon themby the boys in the back room at ColwynBay. If the Minister of Labour werehere, I would suggest that he might,with advantage to the country, have acomb-out at Colwyn Bay. There is anissue of circulars and instructions by thehundred, as well as the cancellations thatarrive at the food offices before thearrival of the circulars which they aredesigned to cancel. There are 86,000forms lying in Glasgow food office andnobody will tell the committee what todo with them. I suppose they will be

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part of the confidential wastage. On theother hand, when you indent to have thewindows of the office cleaned at a cost of15s., you have to wait four and a halfmonths-and even then there is noanswer. There should be closer co-operation between Colwyn Bay and foodexecutive officers ....

Mr. Robertson (Streatham): ....cattle and sheep were coming in from thehills at the end of the summer season,and they were being tendered for sale atthe auction marts throughout the countrybut sent back to the farmers because theMinistry of Food could not deal withthem. The Ministry had to break theiragreements, and 'the farmers had to taketheir beasts back and lose money, be-cause in the winter the beasts lose weightand cost more in keep. Why were theynot killed and put into cold storage?I am in the cold storage business whenI am in anything but politics, and I cantell the Minister that there was plentyof room in the cold stores at that date ...

.... The Cold Storage Companywas being deprived of its pre-war stan-dard of profits. I know a company whosetwo years' pre-war standard of profits of£11,000 would have been reduced to£400. When the trade woke up to thefact that they were having to pay aninsurance premium for this national risk,they asked the Ministry to receive themso that they could negotiate with them.The trade were invited to Colwyn Bayto negotiate about the scheme, whichwas a complex one and surrounded byall the papers which my hon. Friend theMember for Dumbartonshire mentioned.It was difficult for the people in the tradeto understand all its complexities. Whenthey went to Colwyn Bay they werehanded an Order promulgated on theprevious day under the EmergencyPowers Act, and this made it impossiblefor them to negotiate, for it laid downthe terms under which cold stores wereto be taken over. They were not toldthat the Order was subject to the ap-proval of this House. If they had beenthey would have got into touch withMembers of Parliament. I only acci-dentally learned of it and was able to goto my hon. and gallant Friend. I thankhim for the way in which at the eleventhhour, within a minute of the Order be-coming law, he realised that the reportswhich I put to him were correct. Heincreased the basic gross revenue by 150per cent. and maximum gross revenueby 50 per cent. If I had not intervened,and if he had not received me in a sym-pathetic manner, the Order would havebeen law, and the industry, because of

their lack of representation, would havebeen treated in a most unfair way..., "-'I earnestly hope that the Committee willtake notice of the dangerous situationwhich arises when officials can, underemergency powers which were given toenable us to face the enemy at the gates,promulgate an Order which makes futilethe legislation of the Finance Act whichwe had examined here Clause byClause ....

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Mr. Rhys Daoies (Westhoughton):.... It does not matter what Parliamentor the Ministry of Food decides; it doesnot matter what the shop-keeper decides;the person who has to reduce all theregulation into actual practice is thecounter-hand; he has to face the actualcustomer .... It is .... the man behindthe counter who has to bring all theserules and regulations into actual practice.Napoleon once said that we were a nationof shopkeepers, but Hitler may some daytell us that we are a nation of shopassistants. It is true I think that everywar which we wage is fought very largelyby shop assistants, warehousemen andclerks. Fifty per cent. of the shopassistants, warehousemen and clerks ofthis country are already in the Forces. \....wIThe Minister of Labour and NationalService has already denuded the shopsand offices of this country of male assis-tants, with the result that managers ofbranch shops have been harassed beyondbearing. In some cases they have noskilled men left to do the work exceptthemselves. Everybody thinks that workbehind a shop counter is unskilled, butthat is not so ....

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Major Lloyd George: .... With thefinest scheme in the world, it would notbe possible to make up with fish whatis short in other commodities. I do notknow the figures, but I doubt whether30 per cent. of what we had before thewar is coming in to-day. That is, be-cause our ships are doing other work ....

Many other smaller points have beenraised. I have taken a careful note ofthem, and I will look into all of them.I am aware that, as the hon. Gentlemanhas said, there are inequalities .... Noone wants to perpetuate inequality morethan is necessary. But there are boundto be inequalities. There is for examplethe inequality between people living inthe country, who can catch a rabbit, and ~people living in the towns, who cannot.We are determined to remove all theinequalities we can ....

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, ,APRIL 15: In Greece, Allied troops wi(.hdrawn to new, : Lord Bea~erbrook appointed Minister of State; Colonelfines. '[ugoslao Government made Sarajevo temporary cap- J. T. C. Moore-Brabazon, Minister of Aircraft Production,itol. Brest raided by R.A.F., Northern Ireland by Germans. Mr. P:' J. Leathers, who will go to the House of Lords,: Times stated more that 213 additional taxes to be im- Minister of' Shipping and Tr~nsport, the two departmentsposed by Budget will be contributed by people with incomes' _uIl:?~rone contro~ f<:r the fi:st time; M!. ~. H. ~ross, ,f~rm.erbet £''110 d £1 000 ' Minister of ShIPPIng, HIgh Commissioner In Australia,ween an , a year. PI" S' . Mi . f T d A': ' ,.. -.;- - . . . .ar iamentary ecretanes to mstry 0 ransport an Ir-, ,APRIL l6·,· Br_Uzsh zoarships bombarded ~nemy position craft production: Colonel], J. Llewellyn and Mr. F. Mon-=: of Soll_um wzt~ go?d results. Heavy raid on London, tague, respectively.SlX German bombers destroyed. Lord Stamp among casual- J\A',. 2 B hdad did' j reit· ..' IvlAY': ag government oppose ,an zng 0 rem-xes., f B .. h - , B I' '11 'f' d: .' .... , , . ' ',". ' , orcements to ritis troops 'at asra. 'raqz arts ery n'e_: Bus~ness"a'ssets .Insurance scheme, und~r War Damage Act, on the aerodrome at Habbaniya, zohere there is a Britishcarne mto operation. air base, 60 miles from Baghdad. In Greece, evacuation! APRIL 17: German pressure on Greek front increased. completed. Revised figures, 43,000 men zoithdraam, cas-Axis reports said Jugoslavia requested Armistice. Enemy ualties at sea 500; Australian losses 3,000-'-4;000, Lioer-:sujiered casualties in further attack on Tobruk.. R.A.F. pool raided by enemy bombers.attacked QpjeCtives. including Bremen, Wilhelmsherven and MAy 3: Iraq government said to be mobilising armyCuxhaoen. L ., against Britain. Tobruk garrison again repulsed enemy,i :(\,PI,W:-18: In Greece Allies gradually falling back. Liverpool heavily raided; R.A.F. attacked Hamburg.:~.A.F. raided Berlin heaoily, '[ugoslaoia surrendered. MAy 4: Heaoy raid on Merseyside : night-fighters, British Government warned Germany and Italy that any destroyed thirteen enemy bombers. RA.F. attacked Cologne.bombing attack on Athens or Cairo would be followed __b_y ,... ' lnTraq__British. forces occupied Basra airport, docks andsystematic bombing of Rome. Papen, German Ambassador' , - power-stations. ,to ~urkey gone to Be~lin; Schul:nberg, German Ambassa- Mr. R. G. Menzies, Australian premier, left for Australiador rn Moscow also said to be gomg. via the United states, after 10 weeks in this country.

APRIL 20: Heaoy air raid on London, two bombers . ., .d tr - d G " I'd t T b k I . I MAY 5: Turkisli government offered mediation wtthes roye' '. errnans aga:zn repu se a 0 ru. mpena . . . . . . hd 1 ff land d t B I· d .. tr ti . . Iraq; Brz,ttsh government's pre-condztt,on, ts unt rawa 0,orces: e a asra, new raqt a mtms a ton gzvzng .'. . . iuncedf' 11 f < 'Z't" " B 't' h hi b b d d B h . forces from Habbaniya. Greek Prime Mzmster announceu aci z tes. rt is wars ips om at' e eng azi. . f' C. C . C; . ~. appointment 0 MaJor General Freyburg, V. ., . .-tn- .

A~~IL. 21: ,A,!stralzan ~nd Ne,w Z.ealand troops h~e New Zed/and Expeditionary forces to be e-t-c. AlliedQee~~!zg~tzng .brilliant delayzn~ action. m. Greece, cooertng forces in Crete. Bombing widespread in Britain andAllies toithdrasoal. R.A.F. raided Cologne, Dusseldorf and Northern Ireland.1f1achen. '-; APRIL 22: Empire forces in Greece withdrawn Southof Lamia. In Abyssinia, Italians making stand before Dessie., Milk rationing scheme working badly in Britain.

APRIL 23: Greek government left Athens for Crete.Empire forces were consolidating new lines. R.A.F. attackedBrest. ' . "_ __ _"., _

U.S. to deliver to Britain about 20 small torpedo boats.'APRIL' 26: British forces occupied Dessie, in AbyssiniaAPRIL 27': German forces entered Athens. British

withdrawal continued. . Enemy forces crossed Libyan-Egyptian frontier near Sollum.

Mr, Churchill's broadcast" .... the eventual and total de-feat of Hitler and Mussolini is certain."

,APRIL 29: German long-range guns bombarded Dover,British, guns replied. Plymouth again severely bombed.

Ap~IL 30: In Greece, of 60,000 troops sent, at least48,000 hooe been evacuated, casualties amounted to 3,000(Mr. Churchill in the House of Commons).

President Roosevelt asked U.S. Maritime Commission toobtain the service of at least 2,000,000 tons of merchantshipping to supply "all out aid" to those who are resistingaggression. Since outbreak of war U.S. has sent 3,500

~pIanes.MAY 1: Enemy forces attacked Tobruk.

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Haile Selassie returned to Addis Ababa.

MAY 6: Air-raid on Clydeside, and also Merseysideand Belfast: nine enemy aircraft shot down. R.AP. raidedHamburg.

MAY 7: Two-day debate in House of Commons onwar in.rniddle easr.closed with vote-of-confidence ia-Gov-.ernment's war policy, 447-3. Twenty-four enemy raidersdestroyed by night-lighters.

MAy 8: Iraqis defeated outside Habbaniyah.

MAy 9: R.A.F. attacked Hamburg and Bremen withouer 300 machines. Germans bombed Humber area, Mer-cantile losses due to enemy action in April zoere 60 Britishand 43 Allied ships, total tonnage, 488;124.

MAy 10: R.A.F. attacked Mannheim, Ludzoigsbooenand Berlin. Nervy shelled Benghazi.

MAY 11: Heaoy raid on London, House of Commons,Westminster Abbey and British Museum among buildingshit. R.A.F. raided Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen and Emden.Lieut.-General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson appointed Com-mander British forces in Palestine and Transjordan.

MAy 12: R.A.F. bomb Berlin. Announced RudolfHess captured in Scotland after baling out from Me. 110.British occupied Rutbah oil station in Iraq. Menzies sawRoosevelt in Washington.

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This list is reprinted for reference.Owing to enemy action only thestarred books can at present [)esupplied.

Books to ReadBy C. H. Douglas:-

Economic Democracy ...........•. (edition exhawted)

*Social Credit 3/4Credit Power and Democracy 3/6

*The Monopoly of Credit 3/~Warning Democracy ..

'Eedition exhawte4*The Tragedy of Human Effort 6(£.*The Use of Money 6d.*Approach to Reality 3d.*Money and the Price System 3d: '*Nature of Democracy 2<1.

Social Credit Principles Id,Tyranny :......... id.

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By L. D. Byrne:-*Alternative to Disaster 4d,

Debt and Taxation 2d.ALSO

*The Bankers of Londonby Percy Arnold 4/6Economics for Everybodyby Elles Dee ... .. . . . .. . . . . ....... 3d.

*The Power of Moneyby J. B. Galway : 3d.

*The Purpose of Politicsby H. E 3d.Tax-Bonds or Bondage and theAnswer to Federal Unionby John Mitchell 1/-Barrier to Healthby Dr. Douglas Boyd............ 6d.

*Lower Rates (pamphlet) 3d.*The Press Ban on Parliamentby John Mitchell 1/6

*Hitler's Policy is a JewishPolicy by Borge Jensen andP. R. Masson.", ...... , ... , ..... ,: ... 6d,

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Invincible Britainby John Mitchell 2d. each,

1/6 doz,What we are aboutby H. E 50 for 1/6Hitler and Churchill Financeby John Mitchell 50 for 1/9What 'Capital Levy' Means to You.by C. H. Douglas 100 for 2/'Beware of Federal Unionby R. L. Northridge ...... 50 for 1/9This Plan would Enslave Britainby John Mitchell 9d. doz.

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