Nation Revisited # 193 November 2022

The Hitler Test

In his classic work 'Hitler: A Study in Tyranny' Alan Bullock described Hitler as: "A mountebank, an opportunist adventurer devoid of principles, beliefs or scruples whose actions throughout his career were motivated only by a lust for power." In the August issue of Nation Revisited I was not so harsh; I wrote of Hitler: "He ended unemployment and lifted Germany out of poverty, but his obsession with Race was his downfall." Jim Rizoli took exception to this and commented that I had failed the 'Hitler Test'. When I asked him to explain he posted several thousand words from General Leon Degrelle's book 'With Hitler'.

Leon Degrelle (1906-1994) was the leader of the Belgian Rexist Party who founded the Walloon Legion which fought with distinction on the Russian Front as the 28th Division Waffen SS. For his outstanding service he was awarded the Knights Cross with Oak Leaves. After decorating him Hitler took his hand and said: "If I should have a son I would like him to be like you." At the end of the War he was sentenced to death by the Belgian Government but he escaped to Franco's Spain where he continued to campaign for a National Socialist Europe.

Degrelle glossed over the millions of dead from WW2, like many others he admired Hitler without question, but I take a more objective view of the Fuhrer. He did great things in the early days but his expansionist policy was doomed from the start. After the military disasters in North Africa and Russia in 1943 the war was unwinnable, but on Hitler's orders the Germans fought on for another two years. Historians have undoubtedly distorted the truth about Adolf Hitler but even his most devoted admirers cannot rehabilitate him. 

A Scrap of History

The following scrap of history was sent to me by John Millican, author of 'Mosleys Men in Black'. It concerns Carl Harley (1930-2020) the man who recruited John Bean to Union Movement in 1950. This is the final point of a memo from Alexander Raven Thomson, Secretary of UM, to Oswald Mosley concerning a spat between UM Treasurer Maurice Pacey and Carl Harley. Mosley replied in his distinct hand: "Harley, as Youth Officer is of the revolutionary wing of the Movement: hence his attitude."

I met Carl Harley at the 1962 BNP Camp at Andrew Fountaine's estate in Norfolk. He was a window dresser who used his artistic skills to make platforms, placards and banners for the movement.

In those days there was a certain amount of traffic between Union Movement and the BNP. Bill Webster left the NLP, the forerunner of the BNP, to join Mosley, and John Wood left UM to join the BNP. Carl was one of several defectors from UM;

some objected to Mosley's move to Ireland, others left when National Secretary Alf Flockhart was found guilty of 'indecency' for the second time, and some couldn't accept 'Europe a Nation' because they were insular nationalists. In his book 'Memoir of a Fascist Childhood', Trevor Grundy recalls the words of his father Sidney Grundy: 

"The silly buggers are giving away India, and next it will be Africa but there's still Australia, New Zealand and Canada. Who's going to be interested in union with the French or Spanish? Germany yes, but not with the Greeks or the Portuguese. My God, what a thought."

I know former UM supporters who voted for Brexit. They agreed with Mosley about the Money Power, and the need to control immigration, but they simply couldn't grasp the concept of 'Europe a Nation'. The European issue is complex and divisive. Mick Lynch, the impressive head of the RMT trade union, recently told James O'Brien of LBC radio that he voted for Brexit but he would have supported our membership of the old EEC, before it developed into the EU.

This fear of the EU becoming a superstate is widely held, but we are already part of a global empire - the United States. Harold Wilson kept us out of the Vietnam War but every UK prime minister since has supported the US in their various wars. We bombed Serbia into submission, we helped to destroy Iraq on the pretext of finding 'Weapons of Mass Destruction', and we invaded Afghanistan to avenge the 9/11 atrocity that was committed by a gang of Saudis led by the Egyptian Mohamed Atta. Now, despite our precarious economic position, we are supplying arms and money to America's client regime in Ukraine. British 'sovereignty' is an illusion.       

Priorities

All political parties in the UK are committed to keeping the National Health Service as a state-run provider of health care that's free at the point of use. Nevertheless, commercial companies are slowly but surely taking it over. Agency nurses and doctors are being used to fill the manpower shortages caused by generations of reliance on imported labour. It was cheaper to import medical staff from abroad rather than training them in this country. Medical professionals wanted to come to the UK because we have excellent training hospitals, so there was no problem recruiting them. But recent changes in our immigration laws have restricted the free movement of labour on which we depended.

In addition to the use of agency doctors and nurses the NHS is subcontracting medical proceedures to private hospitals, and many services, such as; ambulances, blood testing, surgical after care, research and development, pathology, cleaning, laundry, property maintainance, and security are being done by outside companies.

The NHS is the victim of its own success. The more medical advancements they make the more expensive it becomes. Modern hospitals are full of high-tech equipment that has to be maintained by qualified engineers and used by trained technicians. The days of nurses being bedmakers and cleaners are long gone. Today's nurses are degree graduates who should be properly paid.

At present we are in the grip of an economic crisis, but one day the pandemic will be over, the war in Ukraine will be ended, energy prices will stabilise, and we will reach a proper trade agreement with the EU. Then we can decide the best way to fund our public services; the NHS, the police, the fire service, the prison service, education, social services, and the armed forces. The right-wing Tory philosophy of 'small government' can't work in a civilized country. It belongs to the days when only the rich could afford medical treatment and good housing while the poor lived in hovels and died like flies. Today, we expect the state to look after us and we are prepared to pay for it.

It's all a question of priorities. We are wasting billions of pounds on vanity projects such as the Trident missile system and our two giant aircraft carriers. And we are wasting the taxpayers' money by giving arms and money to Ukraine to fight America's proxy war with Russia. We should mind our own business and tailor our armed forces for the defence of our islands. We are never going to use Trident missiles that are under NATO control, and aircraft carriers are not much good for stopping inflatables in the English Channel.

Five Questions Answered # 18 Nick Maybury

The Five Questions are; Who are you? What do you believe in? If you could change government policy what would you do? What are you proud of and what do you regret? How would you like to be remembered?

The following have replied; John Bean, Robert Edwards, Bill Baillie, Michael Woodbridge, Eddy Morrison, Robert Best, Arlette Baldacchino, Alexander Morana, Rufus, Pete Williamson, Claire Khaw, Jane Edwards, Vic Sarson, Jez Turner, Michael Walsh, Seth Tryssen, Ahmed. 

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Who are you?

I am Nick Maybury the author of Nationalist.co.uk and Nationalism.co.uk

What do you believe in?

Christianity and Apollonian Philosophy. Apollonian philosophy is the embodiment of order, moderation, reason, culture, harmony, restraint, practicality, honour, truth and light and a belief in reincarnation. I also believe in uniting the world in Jesus Christ and the final destruction of Evil at his second coming.

If you could change government policy, what would you do?

Tear it all up and start again with the aim of getting at the truth and the best solutions. Some examples would include making property cheaper by doing away with private landlords so only those living in a property can own it. The only exceptions being government and council owned housing.

Another major change would be a low level of taxation at 20% to encourage enterprise. Limits would be put on the number of employees or outlets certain businesses would be allowed, in order to prevent predatory business practice. Large chains will be broken up and sold to staff.

Banks would be nationalised but kept separate and independent. Some things can be done more efficiently by a monopoly. Gas, electricity, water, trains and the Royal Mail would all be nationalised and run for the benefit of the people. The amount the public would pay for these services would be enough to cover costs including infrastructure investments.

We would have a silver backed currency. One Pound would be worth one pound weight of 925 Sterling Silver. To keep things simple one Pound will consist of one hundred Schillings and each Schilling one hundred Pence.

What are you proud of and what do you regret?

I'm proud of my websites and regret that they haven't always been as good as I should have liked.

How would you like to be remembered?

As someone who tried to make a difference.

Global Capitalism - John Bean - 'Beanstalk' April 2001

We of the radical right are supporters of the small businessman and free enterprise. Nevertheless, we can have sympathy, if not empathy, with certain aspects of the militant campaign against global capitalism, even if we draw the line at attempts to do a "twin-towers" job on the Stock Exchange building and other City of London finance houses. Finance should serve the business of the country; not control it.

In this 21st century finance has set its horizons far beyond the nation state: it is now controlling the global market, and the interests of individual nations, whether it is Britain or Brazil, count for nothing. As one British manufacturing base after another has been closed down and manufacturing transported eastwards to "take advantage of cheaper labour costs", New Labour - with support from other PODs (Parties of Decay) has told us in Britain that the jobs are being replaced by jobs in the service industry. Mark you, there is not much room here for ex-miners, shipbuilders and steelworkers, as most of the new jobs are for women. Perhaps the largest growth sector in the service industry is the call centre. Until recently we were told that it would soon be employing one in five in the UK.

Perhaps the pundits would like to revise that figure with the recent news that Prudential is to close its call centre at Reading and reopen it in Bombay! Those of us who have been to India know that there are countless Indians who have a good command of English. But what an accent! It takes a fortnight to crack the code.

Let us hope that the Prudential get everything that is coming to them and, more important, that the bovine Brits wake up to how they are once again being conned. This time by the menace of global capitalism. 

The latest sell-out of British jobs comes with the announcement that the manufacturers of the famous Dr Marten's boots, RG Griggs, is closing production in the UK, mainly Northampton, with the loss of 1,000 jobs. Production is being switched to China, Vietnam and Thailand. Surprise Surprise! This follows the earlier announcement on 3rd October that US owned company Black & Decker is to close its Spennymoor, Co Durham factory with the loss of 1,000 jobs. In this case manufacuring will be switched to the Czech Republic.

Wishful Thinking

Adolf Hitler seldom listened to advice because he considered himself to be a master of politics, economics and military strategy. A view that he clung to as the Red Army stormed Berlin and he blew his brains out.

But government policies are usually based on information. In the UK the Bank of England guides economic policy, the Department for International Trade deals with trade agreements, and the Intelligence Services advise the government on military matters. The trouble is that all of these departments are manned by human beings with their own opinions and prejudices.

They also tell governments what they want to hear. And there is the ever present danger of wishful thinking. Tony Blair's 'Dodgy Dosier' was compiled by advisors who chose to ignore the overwhelming evidence that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction; which was exactly what Blair wanted to hear.

When prime minister Anthony Eden launched his ill-fated invasion of Egypt in 1956 the Ministry of Defence distributed leaflets to the armed forces warning them that their progress would be impeded by jubilant crowds of Egyptians thanking them for their liberation. No such crowds appeared; instead the civilian population took potshots at our invading troops. Either our intelligence was faulty or Eden believed his own propaganda.

Another military disaster happened in 1961 when the Americans  organised the Bay of Pigs invasion. CIA Director Allen Dulles convinced Jack Kennedy that Castro was deeply unpopular and that an invasion would trigger a popular uprising. The result was that 118 brave Cuban volunteers were killed, 360 wounded, and 1,202 captured. The failed invasion consolidated Fidel Castro's authority and drove him into the arms of the Soviet Union.

But it's not just the West that makes mistakes. Vladimir Putin thought that the Ukrainians would welcome his troops as liberators. Some of them did but the majority rallied to the Zelensky regime. Did the Russian intelligence agencies tell Putin what he wanted to hear or had he already made up his mind? Either way, what he thought would be a walkover turned into a protracted conflict.       

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