Nation Revisited # 169 November 2020

Mystery Solved

Last month I reported the delivery of an empty package. It turns out that it contained a book until it came open during sorting. It was simply a postal malfunction.

Looking Ahead

The UK is afflicted with a viral pandemic and we are about to exit the EU Customs Union and the Single Market. We will eventually recover but we face a challenging future.

Post-pandemic children will need a health and welfare system to look after them for a lifetime. They will need an educational system from nursery school to university. They will need jobs with pensions, and they will need homes that they can afford. To provide these services we will need a government committed to social equality. Boris Johnson has promised 95% mortgages but the banks will not offer mortgages to the unemployed.

In Britain today nursery care is patchy and expensive. Less than half of school pupils go to university and those that do have to pay for it. Jobs worth having are hard to find, pensions are inadequate, and housing is far too expensive.

The Tories are spending money like water during the current pandemic but when we get back to normal they will revert to scrimping on health and education in order to spend more on defence. They are deliberately provoking Russia by sending British troops on exercises to Ukraine. And they take great pride in our new aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. Defence experts doubt the value of 'Big Lizzie' without a full compliment of aircraft or the necessary back up ships. But she shows the flag in foreign parts and that's all the Tories are worried about. 

They would like to return to the 'good old days' when Britannia ruled the waves and the workers doffed their caps to their lords and masters.

Years ago we had a run of working class Tory prime ministers. Ted Heath went to his local grammar school, Margaret Thatcher was a grocers daughter, and John Major was a Brixton boy who made good. But those days have gone, Britain is now ruled by Boris Johnson, a multi-millionaire who presides over a wealthy Cabinet. Their slogan "we are all in this together" is a hollow mockery, and those disgruntled Labour Party supporters who voted for them have only themselves to blame.

But there is light at the end of the tunnel. We are due a general election in 2024. By then we should be over the Coronavirus pandemic and our economy should have adjusted to life outside the European Union. The great British public will have another chance to choose a government and we can only hope that they give the matter a little more thought than they did in 2019.    

George Orwell's 1940 Review of Hitler's Mein Kampf

(Amazon have banned Mein Kampf but it continues to sell well all over the world).

It is a sign of the speed at which events are moving that Hurd and Blackett's unexpurgated edition of Mein Kampf, published only a year ago, is edited from a pro-Hitler angle. The obvious intention of the translator's preface and notes is to tone down the book's ferocity and present Hitler in as kindly a light as possible. For at that date Hitler was still respectable. He had c rushed the German labour movement and for that the property-owning classes were willing to forgive him almost anything. Both Left and Right concurred in the very shallow notion that National Socialism was merely a version of Conservatism.

Then suddenly it turned out that Hitler was not respectable after all. As one result of this, Hurst and Blackett's edition was reissued in a new jacket explaining that all profits would be devoted to the Red Cross. Nevertheless, simply on the internal evidence of Mein Kampf, it is difficult to believe that any real change had taken place in Hitler's aims and opinions. When one compares his utterances of a year or so ago with those made fifteen years earlier, a thing that strikes one is the rigidity of his mind, the way in which his worldview doesn't develop. It is the fixed vision of a monomaniac and not likely to be much affected by the temporary manoeuvres of power politics. Probably, in Hitler's own mind, the Russo-German Pact represents no more than an alteration of time-table. The plan laid down in Mein Kampf was to smash Russia first with the implied intention of smashing England afterwards. Now, as it has turned out, England has got to be dealt with first because Russia was the more easily bribed of the two. But Russia's turn will come when England is out of the picture - that, no doubt, is how Hitler sees it . Whether it will turn out that way is of course a different question.

Suppose that Hitler's programme could be put into effect. What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of "living room" (ie stretching to Afghanistan or thereabouts ) a horrible brainless empire in which essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder. How was it that he was able to put this monstrous vision across? It is easy to say that at one stage of his career he was financed by the heavy industrialists, who saw in him the man who would smash the Socialists and Communists. They would not have backed him, however, if he had not talked a great movement into existence already. Again, the situation in Germany with its seven million unemployed was obviously favourable for demagogues. But Hitler could not have succeeded against his many rivals if it had not been for the attraction of his own personality, which one can feel even in the clumsy writing of Mein Kampf, and which is no doubt overwhelming when one hears his speeches... The fact is that there is something deeply appealing about him. One feels it again when one sees his photographs - and I recommend especially the photograph at the beginning of  Hurst and Blackett's edition, which shows Hitler in his early Brownshirt days. It is a pathetic, dog like face, the face of a man suffering under intolerable wrongs. In a rather more manly way it reproduces the expression of innumerable pictures of Christ crucified, and there is little doubt that is how Hitler sees himself. The initial personal cause of his grievance against the universe can only be guessed at: but at any rate the grievance is here. He is the martyr, the victim. Prometheus  chained to the rock, the self-sacrificing hero who fights single-handed against impossible odds. If he were killing a mouse he would know how to make it seem like a dragon. One feels, as with Napoleon, that he is fighting against destiny, that he can't win, and yet he somehow deserves to. The attraction of such a pose is of course enormous; half the films one sees turn upon some such theme.

Also he has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all "progressive" thought has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won't do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working hours, hygiene, birth-control and in general common sense, they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin's militarised version of Socialism. All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to the people "I offer you a good time." Hitler has said to them "I offer you struggle, danger and death," and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation "Greatest happiness of the greatest number" is a good slogan, but at this moment "Better an end with horror than a horror without end" is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal. 

Telling Lies and Acting The Fool

Frankie Howerd used to remind us that "it's wicked to mock the afflicted," but they are so numerous and vocal that one can hardly help it. We are beset by flat-earthers, climate change deniers, multiple conspiracy theorists, historical revisionists, separatists, vaccination refusers and poor demented souls who think that Bill Gates is responsible for the current pandemic.

These paranoid campaigners are not just people with alternative opinions. They are, in the words of Dave Cameron, "fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists." There is absolutely no point in arguing with people who  believe that the Royal family are lizards. Or that it's a good idea to break away from a successful trading bloc on our doorstep. It would be like arguing with a drunk.

Education might help them. They wouldn't cling to the flat earth theory if they were taught geography; they wouldn't preach 'economic nationalism' in a country like Britain which imports half of its fuel and food, if they were taught basic economics. And they wouldn't think that Elizabeth Windsor is a lizard if they were taught biology. But, unfortunately, their brains are damaged beyond repair.

None of this applies to Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson. He is a clever man who had an expensive education. He only jumped on the Brexit bandwagon to be prime minister of a country brainwashed by the Tory press. His cunning plan worked but he didn't know that a viral pandemic was waiting in the wings. We don't know how much damage the pandemic will do to our economy but it has already taken its toll. Whatever plans Boris had for us will have to be abandoned. His vision of a 'global Britain' striking trade deals with the rest of the world is now a remote possibility.

But whatever happens 'good old Boris' will not get the blame. His devoted followers will blame all our troubles on a revengeful EU. And Boris himself will carry on telling lies and acting the fool.

Max Hastings said of him:

"I have known Johnson since the 1980s when I was editor of the Daily Telegraph and he was our flamboyant Brussels correspondent. I have argued for a decade that, while he is a brilliant entertainer who made a popular maitre d' for London as its mayor, he is unfit for national office, because it seems he cares for no interest save his own fame and gratification." 

The Truth About Israel

The signing of the Abraham Accord between Israel and the Gulf States in August 2020 follows peace agreements with Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994. Saudi Arabia is supposed to be Israel's main enemy but crown prince Mohamed bin Salman is firmly committed to American foreign policy which supports the Zionist state. In the Middle East only Iran and Syria remain opposed to Israel. But Iran is crippled by US sanctions and Syria is recovering from a devastating civil war. The Palestinians have effectively been abandoned by most of their neighbours.

Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States are major oil producers with plenty of money available to help the Palestinians. They give to the Red Crescent and other charities but they have done little or nothing diplomatically or militarily to alleviate the suffering of the occupied Palestinians. 

In the West the parties of the far-right pay lip service to the Palestinian cause but some of them actually support Israel, and others worry about what would happen to six million Jewish refugees if Israel was destroyed. America would get most of them but the UK would be next in line. 

The truth is that Zionists are so powerful that most people are frightened to condemn Israel's cruel occupation of Palestine. Resolutions are passed at the United Nations and statements are made by world leaders, but the IDF continues to shoot children on the orders of 'Bibi' Netanyahu (pictured) who faces charges of fraud, bribery and breach of faith.

Adolf Hitler predicted in Mein Kampf: 

"The Jews domination in the state seems so assured that now not only can he call himself a Jew again, but he ruthlessly admits his ultimate national and political designs. A section of his race openly owns itself to be a foreign people, yet even here they lie. For while the Zionists try to make the rest of the world believe that the national consciousness of the Jew finds its satisfaction in the creation of a Palestinian state, the Jews again slyly dupe the dumb Goyim. It doesn't even enter their heads to build up a Jewish state in Palestine for the purpose of living there; all they want is a central organisation for their international world swindle, endowed with its own sovereign rights and removed from the intervention of other states: a haven for convicted scoundrels and a university for budding crooks."

But nothing lasts forever. China is set to become the biggest economy in the world, and the Chinese don't suffer from guilt about the Holocaust like the Christian nations. When the European Jews were being rounded up and killed by the Nazis the Chinese were being slaughtered by the Japanese. 

Also, many Jews around the world are speaking out against Israeli atrocities.

When I lived in South Africa in the late 1960s it was unthinkable that the country would ever be ruled by the majority, but that's exactly what happened. The same thing will happen to Israel. Eventually there will be one state for Jews and Arabs with equal rights for all. There will be no Carthaginian settlement in the Middle East. Israel will not be driven into the sea and the Palestinians will not be expelled. The non-Jewish population of Israel now stands at twenty percent and the country is dependent on them for labour. Israel's future will be decided by economics and demographics, not by rhetoric.

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Nation Revisited # 168 October 2020

A Mystery.

Last Saturday I received an empty A4 envelope addressed to Nation Revisited. I contacted Royal Mail Customer Services but they are too busy to answer my query. This is a mystery. If it was opened by Special Branch they would have resealed it and sent it on. And if it was delivered to the wrong address, why would anyone post the empty envelope through my  letterbox? If you sent it please get in touch.

Fragments of History

British troops evacuated from Dunkirk, War Office photo

People interpret history according to their prejudices. John Tyndall in his book 'The Eleventh Hour' says that the Germans allowed Allied troops to escape from Dunkirk on Hitler's orders. It's more likely that the Germans relied on their magnetic mines to stop our ships from getting through. They didn't know that the Royal Navy was equipped with 'degaussing' gear which enabled them to penetrate the minefields. At the same time, the Germans were kept out of the Dunkirk pocket by fierce resistance from our troops; there was nothing magnanimous about it.

They could not invade Britain following the Dunkirk evacuation because they could not defeat the RAF or the Royal Navy. They only had flat-bottomed Rhine barges for transport across the Channel. These would have been sunk by gunfire from planes, ships and shore batteries. Hitler did not cancel the invasion because he wanted peace with Britain, but because he knew that it would end in disaster.

John Tyndall blamed the German defeat at Stalingrad on the weather, but it was just as cold for the Russians. The Axis forces fought bravely but they couldn't match the Red Army for manpower and equipment. German propaganda denigrated the Russians but they had one of the best battlefield tanks in the Second World War, the formidable T34, and arguably the best fighter plane, the Yak 3. Soviet weapons were cheap to produce and easy to maintain. German tanks and planes were much better engineered but too few in number.

John Tyndall took his prejudices with him when he died but there are still plenty of apologists for Adolf Hitler and his bid for world domination. It's a pity that the early achievements of the Third Reich have been forgotten. The Nazis restored Germany to greatness, ended unemployment and built a welfare state, but their economy depended on rearmament and their racial theories underestimated their enemies.

The recovery package agreed by the European Union shows how far we have come from those dark days. Britain is leaving the EU but we are still a European country and solidarity is very much in our interest. We are currently negotiating a trade agreement with our neighbours but 75 years ago we were killing each other.

Childhood Memories

One of my jobs as a boy was to take a rechargeable battery to the local hardware shop. This powered our radio, which was known as 'the wireless'. Later on, I hot-wired a speaker to the British Relay cable system used by our next door neighbour. The only trouble was that you had to listen to whatever program he was listening to. The choice was, the BBC Home Service, the BBC Light Program, and Radio Luxembourg. On Saturday night my sister and I would listen to 'The Hit Parade' hosted by Alan Freeman. If you could guess what would be top of the Hit Parade next week, you won the star prize - a taxi ride round the West End with Donald Peers. Oh happy days.

Before we had mains electricity we used gaslight, and another of my jobs was to go to the same oil shop for gas mantles. They were little gauze caps that glowed with the gas. Every so often they would burst and had to be replaced. But at least, the gaslight helped to warm the house.

When we got connected to the electricity it was only a ring main for lighting, but with the help of bayonet adaptors we ran a fridge and my mother was able to use an electric iron. As she ironed the clothes, with the iron plugged into the light socket, sparks flew in all directions and the lights went on and off. But she pressed on regardless.

Washing was done in a boiler in what was known as the skullery. This was also used to boil Christmas puddings which my mother started preparing about October. The whole family was involved in peeling fruit, shelling almonds, grinding nutmegs, and finally stirring the mixture in a great earthenware dish and making a wish as we did so.

Washing day was Monday and it took all day. Mother piled everything into the copper and filled the skullery with soapsuds and bubbles, while me and my sister operated an ancient wringer with wooden rollers and a great iron spring on the top. On Mondays it was always bubble and squeak for tea; cabbage and potatoes fried up with meat left over from Sunday.

The other thing that sticks in my mind is that I had an army greatcoat on my bed, and so did all of my mates. I thought that this was standard kit for all bedrooms.

Shopping was a nightmare. You had to wait in line at the Co-Op, or wherever you were registered, and hand over your ration book with each purchase. Other items, such as cigarettes, were got from the little shop across the road. I would be sent with a note and told to say "mum says please put in on the book."

Fruit was hard to come by, except for apples, but for some strange reason we had plenty of pomegranates which were full of seeds that we spat all over the place.

I went to St Marks Church of England School which was run by MIss Hatfield, a staunchly patriotic woman who had us marching round the playground and saluting the flag. It's no wonder that I ended up as an Empire Loyalist. We went to St Mark's Church where hymns were sung as loudly as possible, especially Onward Christian Soldiers.

My political awakening started in 1956 when I was 11 years-old. The Russians invaded Hungary and Britain and France invaded Egypt. I was all for the Hungarians for fighting for their independence but unsympathetic to the Egyptians for doing the same thing. I was outraged when we were ordered to pull out of Egypt by the Americans. I realised for the first time that we were no longer a world power. Times were hard but I still think of them as the good old days.

A History of Violence - Mark Webb

I have written this rather long complex story, but I've time jumped to shorten it. I think it's current in the light of recent and ongoing BLM / NFAC violence in the US and the way the US Police are handling that violence.

The story begins in Miracle Valley, Cochise County, Arizona. It was a huge farming area with lush, good growing land. A preacher by the name of AA Allen had a mobile tent Evangelist thing going on in the 50s and 60s. He was a white guy, but he ordained some 10,000 people as preachers, both black and white alike. A farmer from the Valley saw one of Allen's 'shows' and donated a big piece of land to the church so that they could have a full time home. They built a huge domed church, had mass meetings and got on well with the locals. Allen died in 1970 (death by alcohol misuse it was said) and the church was given to a faction inside the movement.

An Allen preacher called Frances Thomas from Chicago was spoken to by God and she moved herself and all of her followers from Chicago to land she had purchased opposite the old Allen church and set up a community settlement called 'Frontsight'. A religious, pro-gun, Pentecostal, all black church and 'village'. Hundreds of urban black Christians moved into an all white, rural community. At first things were ok, several years of peaceful coexisting and then an incident at a local school between black teens, white teens and the local police turned nasty. Word got back to Frontsight and several dozen of the faithful headed, unarmed, to the school. They turned on the local police and a fist fight broke out. The black people left in a running battle, followed by the police and as they entered, Frontsight cars pulled in front of the entrance and that stopped the police gaining access. Tensions in the local community started rising. Another church / cult member was arrested in town (Sierra Visa) on the 10th September 1981 and the people at Frontsight drove a twelve seater van packed with bombs on board made from dynamite.

They drove towards town, followed by a car load of armed 'Commandos for Christ', cult members carrying rifles, shotguns, pistols, and knives. The plan was to blow up cars in town and then in the chaos, hit the jail house and free the prisoner. However, one of the bombs exploded in the van killing Brother Stevie (the bomb was in his lap when it exploded), wrecking the van, wounding the others on board and covering them in his gore. Things in the community went up another notch . A TV crew turned up to film Frontsight and twenty women , some middle aged and older came out and attacked the film crew with claw hammers. Bashing them and throwing the hammers at them again and again. It was filmed by another TV crew. This was April of 1982.

The locals and local police had by now had enough and a police raid was planned to arrest several cult members on failure to attend court and some other minor charges. Warrants at the ready, a small scale police operation was planned. So on the 22nd October 1982 the police entered the compound in several vehicles, it was mid-morning on a weekday. They started knocking on doors. No-one answered. Then from inside the main hall (the healing centre and church) and from other houses scores of cult members appeared and approached the police , they had been expecting the police to arrive and had gathered together and armed themselves the night before. The police disarmed one man who was carrying a metal pipe. He was handcuffed and placed inside a police car.

This was the trigger! A huge melee then broke out. Cult members armed with rocks, sticks, baseball bats, lengths of rebar and such laid into the police, who called for backup. Shots (rifle and shotgun) rang out from inside the houses and one cult member was shot in the back with a .22 bullet that paralysed him for life from the waist down. Someone blasted a police jeep with a shotgun wounding the officer inside. The police used batons but were reluctant to draw their firearms as the cultists had formed a tactic of having women at the front of the fighting. The cops did not want to hurt them. Police reinforcements arrived and now thirty six officers faced around two hundred cult members plus more inside the homes, shooting out of the windows). One officer was hit in the arm with a metal bar and his arm shattered with bones protruding through his skin. Another officer was struck in the face with a rock that was thrown, and knocked out. Another was hit in the head with a wooden floor board, he fell to the ground and was struck in the chest with a five foot metal pipe and he later died. A boy armed with a .22 pistol approached the police and raised the gun, an officer drew his gun and the boy dropped the .22 pistol and ran off. Bottles were thrown. A man armed with nunchucks swung them at another officer and that officer drew his gun and threatened to shoot him, he ran off. More rounds were fired at the police from inside the houses. Rounds struck the police cars, bullets hissed overhead. A boy walked towards the police with a copy of an 1894 Winchester lever action rifle in .30-.30 (like a 303 round). He cocked it and aimed it at an officer, the officer was armed with a mini-Ruger 14, he fired first and from the hip, at a range of about 40 yards, putting four 5.56mm rounds in the boy's chest. The boy dropped dead. A man ran out and grabbed up the rifle, again aiming it at the officer, the same officer fired another four round burst, all the rounds hit the man in the chest and he fell dead. The fighting suddenly stopped (it had been raging for 15 minutes). 25 policeman were very badly injured, 7 critically wounded, shot with birdshot, some suffering with broken bones, teeth knocked out and skull fractures. Dozens of cultists were hurt, heads whacked with batons and many had bullet / pellet wounds from friendly fire. The final death toll was two dead cult members and one dead officer. In the aftermath Cochise County could not afford a trial so all charges were dropped against 22 cultists charged with murder, attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon etc.

A judge dismissed all of the cases with prejudice, so the defendants could not face charges in the future. Frances Thomas took everyone back to Chicago and the site was abandoned.

Lessons: Black radical groups with guns on one side and the police on the other side don't mix. What is past is prologue, such events are destined to happen in the future as reasonable debate and calm discussion are simply not on the agenda. This type of clash has happened throughout the history of the USA, with Blacks, Irish, Native Indians, Mexicans, Chinese immigrants, poor Whites etc. America and American culture is full of violence and that violence spreads like a cancer. People see what goes on in America and then protest about it here. Why, I do not know or understand. It is a mystery to me? Once in a group, and if armed, these people seem to feel that they are above the law and as we have seen again and again they attack the police. From the 19th century until now there have been more than six hundred major incidents of revolt and civil unrest in the United States.

Natural Selection

The Coronavirus pandemic hit the big cities the hardest. Viruses prefer dense centres of population where they infect the maximum number of victims. The trend all over the world is for the big cities to grow as people leave the countryside in search of work. Some affluent members of the middle classes are going in the opposite direction - fleeing the cities for the wide open spaces, often to escape from Third World immigration. But the great migration from country to town continues, and with it grows the risk of a devastating future pandemic. 

Countries with health services and access to credit can withstand millions of deaths but the poorest countries in Africa and Asia face oblivion. When the rich northern hemisphere runs out of money the poor south will be the first to feel it. Foreign aid will dry up and and expensive medicines will be reserved for those who can afford them. The extinction will not be based on race, but the vast majority of its victims will be Africans, Asians and South Americans.

The current pandemic has been fought by national governments according to the advice of their scientists. Such methods as 'lockdown' and 'testing' have helped to slow down the virus but in the end it will run its course, just like the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918. Coronavirus might kill several million people worldwide but those deaths hardly register against the relentless increase in population.

It would take a lethal and highly infectious virus to make an impression on the world population. But with the continued growth of our big cities, and the decline in the world economy, we could find ourselves in such a position. The first to go would be the old and the sick, followed by the working population. As they died the economy would collapse leading to general starvation and even more fatalities. But humanity will find a way to survive, even if millions perish.

We don't know how many people died in the Black Death of the 14th century, estimates vary but fifty percent seems about right. It caused a labour shortage that ended feudalism and drove entire populations across oceans, deserts and mountains. The world was changed forever and we can expect it to change again.

The US Election

The 2020 US presidential election will not matter much to us in the UK. Whatever differences there are between Trump and Biden are domestic. When it comes to foreign policy they follow the same strict Israel First policy. Both major parties in the US are dominated by Zionists who support what Dwight D Eisenhower called the 'military industrial complex'. Whoever wins the coming election will pursue the same policies; countries that follow US orders will be allowed to prosper and those that don't will be undermined by economic warfare.

We must thank the Founding Fathers of the American Constitution for designing the system of checks and balances that holds the US together. It's popularly believed that the US military are gung-ho warmongers but that is not so. The 2011 film 'Thirteen Days', starring Kevin Costner, showed the American generals involved in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis to be sane and rational men. We hope that the current chiefs of staff are just as sensible. The President might be suffering from senile dementia but his generals will keep his finger off the button.

The retirement age for airline pilots is 65 but most pilots all over the world are under 60. The same restrictions should apply to presidents. Both Trump and Biden are in their seventies and showing clear signs of senility. 

Common sense restrains the military and commerce restrains the politicians. Trump might think it's a good idea for the worlds biggest economy to engage in a trade war with the world's second biggest economy, but commercial reality will ensure that Americans with dollars to spend will buy goods and services from China. The US is big enough, and rich enough, to fend for herself, but America is so much a part of the global economy that the dream of economic nationalism will never be realised.

The era of gas-guzzling cars from Detroit and coal-fired power plants is coming to an end. New eco-friendly industries will eventually take their place, but in the short term Trump's promises to the coal miners and the auto workers will not be kept. The challenge of the future is not to 'make America Great', but to share the wealth.  

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Nation Revisited # 167 September 2020

Another Theory

I usually avoid conspiracy theories but I am tempted to make an exception for one that's currently doing the rounds. The idea is that the super capitalists that run this country are backing Brexit because they are afraid of EU legislation to control the City of London. The 'Square Mile' launders dirty money from all over the world. If this racket was closed down the oligarchs and the plutocrats would have to look elsewhere, but nowhere is as accommodating as the City of London. Its reputation for 'discretion' survived the Guinness Trial of 1996 which involved the great and the good in a £4 billion swindle. Fund managers, merchant bankers, and speculators from all over the world 'invest' their money where they know it will be looked after. There are strict rules governing banking, but as Mussolini said: "You always get rats in a granary."

When the Nazis invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939 the Rothschild-trained German Finance Minister Hjamar Schacht called his old friend Sir Montague Norman, the Governor of the Bank of England, to arrange for the Czech gold reserves held by the BOE to be transferred to the Reich; this was readily agreed.

Many years ago I was having a drink in a pub called The Buckingham Arms which was near Scotland Yard, the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police. I got talking to an American policeman who was over here on a course. I said that I was surprised that we had anything to teach the Americans about crime. He agreed but he told me that we have got the best fraudsters in the world. I felt quite proud.

Robert Best updates his Five Questions Answered, originally posted in NR # 98, December 2012.

1. Who are you?
I am Robert Best a 43 year old (Note: now 51) author currently living in West Sussex. I am happily married (Note: was, sadly all good things die including ourselves) to a pretty girl, an artist from Northern Italy and we have a handsome and clever son. I enjoy writing, reading, sketching, watching films, listening to classical and rock music, playing tennis, martial arts and walking our German shepherd dog  (Note: 2nd one now Bella as Wolf passed away RIP). I am the author of 'Europe Unite', 'Fascism and Religion', Tolkien: Master of Middle Earth', 'The British Free Corps', 'Red Terror: The Crimes of Marxism' and 'The Whitechapel Murders', published by Steven Books and League Enterprises.

2. What do you believe in?
I believe in the future greatness and splendour of England (Note: and Celtic Cornwall where I was brought up in the 1970s/1980s and my mother still lives in Penzance, and Wales, Scotland, Mannin). Britain, (Note: and Ireland) and Europe and the preservation and advancement of the European peoples, without hatred for other races and nations. I am also a deeply spiritual man and have researched comparative world religions (Note: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism) and the occult. I was brought up as a member of the Church of England (and also Methodist and Congregational Churches in Cornwall and Lancashire) but I also have respect for the traditional Catholic thinkers and writers such as GK Chesterton, Hilaire Belloc, Revd Denis Fahey, Revd Charles Coughlin and Bishop Williamson. I also have an interest in the works of poet Roy Campbell, the well known supporter of the British Union of Fascists, who attempted a synthesis of Christianity, Nietzsche and Mithras. Furthermore, I believe in accord with the late and great Sir Oswald Mosley, that it is logical to believe in the existence of God, as the Universe is too complex to have come about by chance.

3. If you could direct government policy what would you do?
I would make Great Britain independent and free of International Finance and Usury, and give government the power to coin and regulate the issue of money . I would also introduce National Referenda and Direct National Democracy, giving the British people the power to decide major acts of government policy. I would end all non-European immigration except for temporary students, tourists and bona fide business visitors. Ideally the introduction of a system of voluntary and financially-assisted repatriation would reduce Britain's non-European population to manageable proportions. I would establish a Confederation of European Nations as a stepping stone to a future European Nation and a three-tier system of Local-Regional, National and European Government. No more bloody wars for American-Zionist interests against countries who are no threat to Britain and Europe (Note: as stated by the late Francis Parker Yockey, the American former member of Mosley's post-war Union Movement, and the author of the pro-European philosophical magnum opus Imperium and the Declaration of London of the European Liberation Front).

4. What are you proud of and what do you regret?
I am immensely proud of being a father and all dads should rejoice at their wonderful and beautiful children. Regrets? Well I was once told "Forgive yourself because God has already forgiven you", which I thought was very touching and comforting.

5. How would you like to be remembered?
As a good father and husband who loved his family and God.

British Tolerance

A recent exchange of e-mails between friends of Martin Webster discussed Winston Churchill's responsibility for coloured immigration. Naturally, they found him guilty, but recently released Cabinet records show that he was worried about West Indian immigration. In 1954 he commented:

"Problems will arise if many coloured people settle here. Are we to saddle ourselves with colour problems in the UK? Attracted by Welfare State. Public opinion in UK won't tolerate it once it gets beyond certain limits."

The subject soon included Britain's acceptance of immigration. They all offered explanations based on race and nationality. English self-control, we were told,  stemmed from our parliamentary and legal systems; Churchill was sympathetic to coloured immigration because he was of African descent, and he was demented as a result of syphilis inherited from his father; television was to blame for our easy going attitude, and all of this against a background of conspiracy theory.

I was not surprised by their responses. One of my friends sees everything in terms of nationality. If he met a man with a wooden leg he would probably say that he met a Scotsman who was born in Canada and whose mother was Irish. Only as an afterthought would he mention the wooden leg.

Britain is a tolerant nation but our sense of fair play is being abused. Groups such as Black Lives Matter are tearing down our statues and trying to ban our festivals. We have every right to celebrate our past. The mob can shout as much as it likes but we did conquer half the world and our navy did rule the waves. In the old days the only people that constantly attacked British traditions were the communists. We had a little song about it: "We're all anti-Red, we're all anti-Red, we're all anti-Red and we're proud of it. We'll sing out loud of it. If the Red, White and Blue isn't good enough for you, and if you don't like old England get out of it."

Immigration is driven by economics and effects all developed nations. President Donald Trump is building a wall on the Mexican border with the help of Steve Bannon who is facing fraud charges. At present the USA is stricken by the Coronavirus pandemic but when things get back to normal their booming economy will need labour and the expanding Mexican population will supply it. Labour and Capital will always find each other.

The nations of Europe should form themselves into a geopolitical bloc with its own labour and resources. I am well aware that the EU does not fit this description, but it's a step in the right direction. The Brexiteers support a global capitalist system that depends on immigration. They want to 'take back control', but they can't while we import half of our food and fuel and depend on NATO for our defence.

Recent Wars - Vic Sarson

Most wars are about economics regardless of the bullshit about freedom, democracy and human rights. Who cared about the human rights of the civilian population of Baghdad when it was bombed? An estimated 100,000 died with many more horribly injured, disabled and disfigured, a high proportion of them being children.

There is a gas pipeline traversing through Afghanistan, as was mentioned in an article in the Guardian prior to the invasion by the West. The Taliban want a share of this and the primary and true reason for the invasion was to curtail the Taliban and protect the pipeline.

The long term US interest in Kosovo and North Korea has to do with the enormous mineral wealth contained within those territories. If all that happened in those countries was the growing of carrots the US and its allies would not be interested.

The US and others caused the Yugoslav War in the 1990s and were as guilty as the Reds in provoking the Korean War in the 1950s.

I've no sympathy with the Taliban and would like to see them wiped out entirely but we are not the world's policeman and we should not shed our blood, and that of others, in so-called 'justified' wars.

As a separate matter, the present 'Conservative' government resisted giving asylum to former Afghan interpreters that had served the British Army, while letting into Britain dangerous individuals who killed and injured members of the British public.

In the Falklands War some Labour Party supporters sided with the Argentines despite the mass murder of their fellow left wingers and trade unionists by the Junta. They lamented the 'tragic' sinking of the Belgrano but gave no thought to HMS Sheffield, Coventry, Antelope, Ardent, Sir Galahad, and Atlantic Conveyor. The Falklands War was a clear case of self-defence but most of the wars we get involved with are a waste of blood and treasure.

Going Too Far

If someone goes on social media to say: "Heil Hitler and gas  the Jews", he will probably not be arrested straight away. Special Branch will let him run for a while in the hope that he makes further illegal statements. This delayed action has the effect of encouraging the others. People who see threatening and insulting postings might decide to join in the fun, so instead of detaining one demented activist the cops nab half a dozen.

Two students who insulted Harry Windsor for marrying a mixed-race girl were sentenced under the Anti-Terrorism Act. Michal Szewczuk a 19-year old computer science student at Portsmouth University got four years, three months, and 18-year old Oskar Dunn-Koczerowski got eighteen months. Both students are of Polish heritage but they don't know each other. Their sentences were part of Home Secretary Priti Patel's crackdown on the far right. 

They were not the first young men to go too far. In 1961 there was a short-lived breakaway from Union Movement called the European Union of Fascists, led by Kieth Goodall. One of its members was a man called Denis Whereat who strutted around Brixton market in a black shirt giving fascist salutes to the Jewish stallholders. He was charged under the Public Order Act for wearing a political uniform. When he appeared before the magistrate he adopted the IRA tactic of refusing to recognise the court. My friend Roy Robinson (pictured) who was 'Deputy Fuhrer' of the EUF was hoping that Denis would become a martyr for the cause, but he got off with a small fine.

Another EUF member learned the Irish language in London from a correspondence course. As soon as he got his diploma he travelled to Dublin, walked into a bar and ordered a pint of Guinness in Irish. The barman said: "Hang on mate while I fetch the governor, he speaks German."

In those happier times Harold Macmillan was Prime Minister and Rab Butler was Home Secretary. They were Tories with a conscience, unlike Boris Johnson's spiteful gang of Brexiteers. It shouldn't make any difference who is in power because we have an independent judiciary, but it does.

Repatriation: Sam Dickson replies

My article on Pointless Policies in last month's NR got an immediate response from the distinguished American writer and broadcaster Sam Dickson. I was writing from a British perspective and I stand by what I wrote, but I concede that a power as strong as America (or united Europe) could organise a great resettlement, but only if they had governments committed to racial survival.

In one of your recent articles you made the following comment. "At the other extreme, the far-right wants to round up and deport the UK's non-European population. This is logistically, politically, economically, and practically impossible."

I must respectfully disagree primarily because repatriation of the non-whites is a national imperative...but also because such repatriation is in fact logistically, politically, economically and practically possible.

In the 1820s former President Thomas Jefferson was alarmed by the rise of the slavery issue. 

Jefferson made a public appeal to Americans to solve the slavery issue. He predicted that if the issue was not reselved by repatriation of the African population, there would be a civil war.

The former President's proposal was greeted with ridicule and derision by many people in the country.

An editor of a newspaper in New York City criticized the idea along the lines of your objections - logistically difficult, economically too expensive.

Jefferson's idea was treated in his newspaper as the product of a utopian idealist who had lost touch with reality.

Jefferson wrote the editor a polite reply.

In his reply Jefferson said that if the issue was not solved -and solved by a responsible policy of compensation to the slave owners and humane resettlement of the slaves - then the issue would lead to a civil war.

History proved that Jefferson read the tea leaves correctly. There was a civil war brought on by slavery.

Jefferson went on to say something else.

That in the first year of the civil war the US would spend more money on soldiers and arms alone (excluding damage to civilian property) than it would cost to implement his supposedly financially impossible suggested policy.

And this proved to be exactly right.

He was a prophet again.

The race issue must be solved and solved by complete separation.

This imperative dwarfs all other issues.

Sam Dixon

P.S. But...I hasten to add that I enjoyed Nation Revisited as I always do.

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Nation Revisited # 166 August 2020

Five Questions Answered - by Ahmed

Hello, my name is Ahmed. I am about to write my answers regarding your questions about myself and what my points of view are.

1) I am Turkish ultraconservative, who hates Liberals, Socialists, Social-Democrats, and basically anything with socialism or revolutionary views added to the equation.

2) I believe in the hope of creating a strict government that crushes opposition quickly and efficiently, does its best to fix any problems or issues within the system and preserves its influence through a wide range of conversions.

3) If I could own direct government policy, it would be mainly on the political and economic aspects of the government. My reasoning behind this would be the fact that the economics would make a grand boost to how the government handles funding and money to people that struggle in their normal lives. From a political standpoint, it would be a strong conservative  and non-progressive ideology, perfectly capable of holding traditional values, have strong religious beliefs, and boost morale through the usage of propaganda and fair government handling.

4) I am proud of the fact that I follow a strict conservative view on society, and want  an absolute change in corrupt, modern governments and societies. My biggest regrets are being a hardcore liberal in my early days, and even going as close to becoming a strong Marxist supporter (which I highly despise and go against now) and become highly leftist.

5) Lastly, I would like to be remembered as a very smart, educated and intellectual person that has a strong anti-liberal standpoint on modern-day politics and governments, and represent a change and criticism on their subjects.

Glory to the right wing ideology, and God bless Mosley!

Nation Revisited: Our sister blog 'European Outlook' has an article this month entitled 'A Broad Church' which describes our diverse readership. Ahmed appears to belong to the traditionalist faction exemplified by Julius Evola.

The Five Question are: (1) Who are you? (2) What do you believe in? (3) If you could direct government policy what would you do? (4) What are you proud of and what do you regret (5) How would you like to be remembered? Readers are invited to submit their answers.

Technology

The lockdown has forced us to use technology. Working from home has been so successful that many firms will continue using it when the pandemic is over. With the latest computer technology files can be accessed remotely and there's no need to go to the office. The way we work dates back to Victorian times when clerks sitting at high desks were overseen by grim-faced supervisors. It's time for a change.

Recently I noticed a lump the size of a golf ball on my elbow. I looked it up on the Internet and it appeared to be a bursitis. My doctor's surgery was not working normally because of the crisis, but I was able to consult him by phone. I sent him a picture of my elbow and he confirmed the diagnosis and told me not to worry about it because it would go in a few days; which it did. This got me thinking that many visits to the doctor could be handled the same way, by using the technology at our disposal. 

Even that bastion of tradition the House of Commons has used the latest equipment to conduct its business. It's inexcusable that MPs still shuffle into lobbies to vote, when it could be done instantly by pressing a button. Electronic voting is just as democratic and a lot less trouble. But the leader of the commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, vowed that they would return to their old ways: "as soon as possible."
A few weeks ago I complained that modern methods are dehumanising, but I know that change is inevitable. Tradition is important but it can go too far. When Hirohito, the Emperor of Japan, announced his nation's surrender, he did so in an ancient form of Japanese that nobody speaks anymore. Most of his subjects didn't know what he was talking about.

And I like the story of the punk rocker who was on trial. He had spikey pink hair, ripped jeans, high laced boots, and a jacket covered in zip fasteners. The judge, who was wearing a powdered wig, a fur-trimmed black robe, and silk tights said to him: "Do you know how ridiculous you look?"

This is what happens when we get stuck in the past. When this virus has run its course, and we rebuild our economy, we must use the latest technology and forget about old-fashioned ways of doing things. If we cling to tradition we will be overtaken by more progressive nations. 

Pointless Policies

Individuals are entitled to hold whatever opinions they like but political parties should stick to practical policies. They all want to make us healthier, cleverer, more comfortable, and richer than ever before. And all these objectives are achievable but some parties have aspirations that are impossible and therefore pointless.

The lunatic left want to abolish the monarchy and nationalise the land, but it will never happen because the British public are fond of the monarchy and proud of their homes. They don't really own their own flats and houses but they would be upset if the government laid claim to them. Republicanism in the UK is a pointless policy.

At the other extreme, the far-right wants to round up and deport the UK's non-white population. This is logistically, politically, economically, and practically impossible, but that doesn't stop them. We don't have enough policemen or soldiers to round them up, we don't  have enough boats and planes to carry them, we don't have the political and military clout to do such a thing, and we don't have any countries willing to take them. Nevertheless, John Tyndall (pictured) clung to 'repatriation' until the day he died.

'National Independence' is another impossibility. We are leaving the EU but nobody seriously believes that we will become a self-sufficient country that can feed and defend itself. We will end up in a free trade arrangement like Norway and Switzerland; members of the EU in all but name. Ultimately, Brexit will be another pointless policy.

The powers that be don't like political extremes and nor do the British people. Reforms take a long time and are granted grudgingly. We still have a measure of free speech but Internet warriors can't compete with the mass media or  overturn generations of apathy.

John Amery gave his life in the mistaken belief that the British people would put racial solidarity with Germany over their loyalty to Churchill's Britain. But they chose insular nationalism in 1939; just as they did in 2016. He wrote in 'England and Germany':

There can be little doubt now that if the war was started in 1939, when England was so unprepared and unready to fight, it may in some measure be attributed to the fact that the City and the extra-national elements were afraid that in peace time under democratic conditions the truth of the need for Anglo-German alliance would become so manifest  to the public as to prevent the eventual outbreak of 'their' war at all.
The current situation is just as grim as it was then. We are facing economic collapse and an influx of refugees from Hong Kong. But nothing lasts forever, not even Boris Johnson's shamelessly populist government with its massive eighty seat majority. Those who voted Tory to stop immigration and take back control of our economy will eventually see the error of their ways. Let us pray that it's not too late. 

Patriot Traitors by Adrian Weale, published by Viking in 2001, available from Amazon

 
This book is well worth reading. It covers Sir Roger Casement the British diplomat who put his Irish heritage above his loyalty to the British Empire. He was arrested on a remote Irish beach in 1916 after being landed from a German submarine. Like most Irish rebellions the Casement episode was a disaster from the start. His attempt to recruit prisoners of war for an Irish brigade to take part in an uprising failed dismally; the ship carrying arms and ammunition never arrived, the rebels in Ireland didn't expect him, and far from greeting him as a liberator the locals promptly handed him over to the police. Casement was an overt homosexual in a world of discretion; a romantic with little common sense. He was hanged on 3rd August 1916 at Pentonville Prison, North London. That's what happens when emotion triumphs over logic; a lesson that the Brexiteers have yet to learn.

The other subject of Adrian Weale's book is John Amery (pictured). He was the son of Leo Amery, a high ranking Cabinet Minister who served in Churchill's wartime government. John was a rebel from the earliest age who always made a point of defying authority. He led a colourful life which included gun running for Franco in the Spanish Civil War, broadcasting for the Germans and the Italians during WW2, and trying to recruit British prisoners of war to fight for Germany on the Russian Front. A project that was as unsuccessful as Casement's attempt twenty years earlier.

The author dismisses John Amery as a drunk and a cheat but his book 'England and Europe' tells a different story. He believed passionately in a united Europe which he thought could only be achieved by a German victory. He was captured by Partisans in Northern Italy in 1945 and handed over to a young British officer named Alan Whicker, who later became a famous TV star. John Amery was hanged in Wandsworth Prison on 19th December 1945.

The word 'traitor' is frequently used to describe anyone with dissenting opinions. Decorated servicemen from both world wars were falsely accused of treason for promoting peace. And anyone who stands against Brexit is automatically called a traitor. The word has lost its meaning and become a term of political abuse. Roger Casement and John Amery may have been traitors in the legal sense but they were idealists who died for their beliefs. 

The Cambridge spies; Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Kim Philby, John Cairncross, and Anthony Blunt, who gave vital information to the Soviet Union have been rehabilitated by the liberal establishment. The current view is that they were sincere men working for peace. Perhaps Roger Casement and John Amery should also be forgiven?

The appeal court decision to allow the Isis bride Shamima Begum to return to the UK is deeply unpoular with the British public, but not even the Daily Mail has called for her execution

The Police

Jack Warner as Dixon of Dock Green. Photo credit BBC.

I recently watched The Blue Lamp on the Talking Pictures TV channel. This epic film was released in 1950. It was directed by Basil Dearden, produced by Michael Balcon, and starred Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley and Dirk Bogarde. It was made in co-operation with the Metropolitan Police and showed London as it was when the police were our heroes. That was before we were 'enriched' with Afro-Asians and made to feel guilty for conquering half the world. Most men had served in the armed forces and discipline was an accepted part of life. If a policeman told you to stop you stopped, there was no arguing and he seldom had to use his truncheon. 

Seventy years later the police look more like soldiers with their flak jackets and machine guns. If they stop a suspect they expect to be attacked and they use restraints developed by the Israeli Defence Force which can be fatal. The latest round of Black Lives Matter riots was sparked by the death of a career criminal in the United States, but the police all over the world are faced with the same problems and use the same tactics.

Unfortunately there's no going back. We can't return to the good old days and we have to accept a police force that's armed to the teeth. The Black Lives Matter mob attack the police as part of their racist agenda but most sensible people, including law abiding Blacks and Asians, respect the police and support them. 

Prof Roger Pearson

I was pleased to receive an e-mail from Prof Roger Pearson who lives in the United States. Anyone who challenges the liberal consensus is dismissed as a moron, but Roger Pearson is not so easy to put down. He earned a master's degree in economics and sociology, and a PhD in anthropology from London University. He founded the Northern League in 1958 and published 'The Northlander' which described it purpose as:

"To make the Whites aware of their forgotten racial heritage and cut through the Judaic fog of lies about our origins and the accomplishments of our race and Western culture."

'The Northlander' warned against petty nationalism and stressed the importance of kinship.

After I posted a tribute to John Bean in last month's 'Nation Revisited' the professor contacted me. I informed him that JB had suffered a stroke and this was his reply:.

Bill, Thank you, though I am sorry for the news. I will contact him.

I fear our world belongs to the past, but though the world will never see its like again, and even a mongrelized humanity may not survive, the fact is our world existed, and we were a band of kindred that fought for it.

What has existed and has been can never be undone. It represents a peak of human achievement and of noble behaviour, and will always be so. We can take heart in that. John had a heart that beats like mine, as did others that you and I remember. I am grateful to have had the honor of knowing them and striving with them in the same noble cause. We did not disgrace our forebears.

Keep well yourself if you can. Roger

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