The- Social Crediter, -Saturday, February 24; 1940.

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WHOSE SERVICE IS PERFECT FREEDOM (XVII)By C. H. DOUGLAS

There 'is a story which is fairly widely accepted, thatHerr Hitler is the grandson of one of the VienneseRothschilds and a servant 'girl. - -_

~In itself, that ~is perhaps not a matter of much import-ance .. , But in connection with the idea sometimes voicedthat totalitarian Socialist States with strong anti-Jewpolicies cannot be the result of Jewish organisation, itmight possibly be worth investigation. The HigherCommand is concerned with victory-not with the loss of

_a few troops.What is already beyond dispute is that the really

important Jews in Germany are for the most part still therein comfort and safety, and that Herr Hitler.has been financedby them. And that' German policy is exactly calculated to

r place Europe finally and permanently at the mercy of the,~ for the most part, "German" Jews who migrated from -

Frankfort to New York. -.,: _The deadliest danger to Great Britain is the J ewish-controlled United States government. _ _

,> Even from the point of securing the safety of the lesserJews, what could be a more brilliant arrangement than to"persecute" them to England, persuade or force the sillyEnglish to fight Germany, get Mr. Roosevelt to insist on apurely "military objectives" war, evacuate the· Jews tocountry billets and safe hotels, conscript the native popula-tion, while exempting, but not interning, refugees, and thenallow -the -native populations to exterminate each other indefending the military objectives?

Anything more remarkable _than the situation whichnow exists, in which the whole of the British Empire isengaged in a death grapple with "Germany" and "Russia"who are "aiming at the domination of the world" while -theBritish Empire is fighting "to re-transfer the' prestige 'andthe -prerogatives of sovereignty . . _. from the local nationalstates by which sovereignty has been usurped . . . to someinstitution' embodying our society as a whole," (Dr: ArnoldToynbee, .Director of Studies at Chatham House, now:supported by the British Taxpayer), it would be difficult toimagine. ,While this mutual extermination: for an identicalobject is proceeding, Jews a~e in key positions of power andprofit everywhere, and fighting nowhere, not because ofcompetence, as the exposure of the company flotations of Mr. -Hore-Belisha demonstrates, but more probably by the corrupt- 'Ibility of their Gentile associates; and it is a matter of littleconsequence who _"wins" the war. The United States has

/ already announced that she will not fight but will dictate._) tI:ts!i. p~ac.e.:_, '

. One of the worse of the disillusionments which are the

lot of anyone who may hope to influence public' affairs is:the confirmation of Napoleon's remark that he was not sur-,prised that every man had his price, but he was surprised at the'smallness of it. Novelists appear to have a sixth sense by which-they find out that a barefaced puff of the Chosen Race willensure a good sale, while mention of the necessity ofmonetary reform will kill it. The landed interest, whichis the primary target for the world-dominators, has, insteadof tackling the problem of where all the "land for the people"nonsense comes from, together with the punitive taxation.which makes mortgage and loss inevitable, married its sons:to Jewesses if possible, and then angled for a bank director-ship. It does not even appear to have occurred to most ofits members that the people of the Socialist exemplar, Russia,have been dispossessed of their land with even greatercelerity than the original landholders; that their interest inthe collective farms is strictly confined to working on them,and that 'those facts are devastating counter-propaganda.

Any proposal put forward by the Right People (whosebrevet is countersigned by a banker) can command active-support from thousands who do not even expect to get a bitof coloured ribbon in return. They are demonstrating thatthey belong to the Right Set. Shades of Caerlaverock!

Is it strange that Lord (Sacrifice) Stamp is sure that theBritish Public will stand anything?

It is, of course, just as clear as ever it was, that the'monopoly of credit, which puts all the means of bribery intothe hands of a small ring of international gangsters, is thekey to the problem. , But it is the most dangerous of errorsto assume that this situation is static. The Enemy is wellaware that it -is only ignorance of banking technique whichhas left him in control of every Peace Conference and that'the power of arms 'could, "in -,the last'resort defeat him.Just as it is highly probable tharif fifty selected individuals'could be distributed amongst the mine-sweepers i~ the North

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A CANADIAN VIEW OF FEDERATIONBy L. D. Byrne

SOME ASPECTS OF THE JEWISH PROBLEM.By Mrs. Palmer

THE ETHICS OF NEUTRALITY. By William ..Bell .

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Sea, kept there during the freezing gales, and machine-gunned at intervals, a solution of the war would be found ina few weeks.

I feel sure that an application of the same techniquewould solve the money problem. It can't be done, yousay? .Well, that's just too bad, isn't it? Let's have tenmillion casualities instead, and a repetition of the troubleeach time the "defeated" party can re-arm.

There can be no solution of the world's troubles whichdoes not deal drastically with the individuals, of whateverrace or country, whose object is the final SUbjugation of theindividual to" the institution-the World Bank, and theWorld Police Force to see that the World Bank retains totaleconomic power. The problem is not a European problemonly, or even chiefly.

The revolt of the Canadian Provinces against theFederal Government is not an armed revolt-yet. TheAmerican States are quiescent partly because of the immensebribes distributed to the general population -in- the last fewyears, and also because of the far greater effectiveness ofCongress in checking President Roosevelt's advisers, than isthe case with the British Parliaments in Westminster,Ottawa, Canberra or Wellington in respect of their respectiveCabinets. The practical. steps to be taken if civilisationsurvives its present upheaval can begin with the resolutionof Germany into its original provinces-a step which wouldbe welcomed by every German except possibly the Prussians,

if the fear of outside aggression were removed. And the wayto remove the fear of outside aggression is equally toresolve Great Britain into its original Kingdoms and to

.carry out a- similar policy everywhere.Anyone possessed of a reasonable education in these

matters can assure himself that Herr Hitler's call for"lebensraum" and colonies, and Sir John Simon, SirWilliam Beveridge, and the Bank Chairmen's call for anintensified drive for Exports, mean exactly the same thing;are the excuse for the immense concentration of power forImperialistic purposes, and derive' directly from theMercantilist, or Jewish, propaganda for International"Trade" as an end in its Abolish the myth of thenecessity for "Trade" and "Employme ndamentalduties of mankind, and break the monopoly of ere , ~the unwieldy centralised State will stand out as the clumsy,---",____,inefficient and corrupt institution, which from its nature itis bound to be.

- Every· amalgamation renders the problem moredifficult, as the sponsors of centralisation know well. Lessand less rational, and more and more a pure exhibit of worldgangsterism, its solution seems to be inseparable from the"liquidation" in some form of the individual gangsters.

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THE SAPPING

When one considers the deadlyparalysing effect of poverty, it is notsurprising that some of "the poor" tendto lose initiative and come to expectothers to do things for them.

From practical experience of LocalGovernment Administration it is easy tovisualise whole families existing almostentirely by what some people would callthe efforts of others. My contention isthat under present '-cOiidilions. .thesefamilies have no alternative, but thepluck and grit with which they endureare worthy of better things.

Take the case of a man of 35 whohas been married nine years, was abaker's assistant and roundsman, anddeveloped tuberculosis (his father, anuncle and two cousins have died of it)three years ago and is now for the secondtime in a county sanatorium. His wife is29, married from "good service," keepsthe children and home spick and span andhas a quick eye for beauty and rightness.There are three children; the eldest boyof seven was born with a malformationof the right arm and hand, necessitatingthree long periods in an orthopsedichospital. The cost is two guineas a

OF INDEPENDiENCEBy H. M. CLIFFO.RP

week, which was beyond their means, soCounty Council machinery was set inmotion, resulting in their being assessedby the Finance Sub-committee of theMaternity and Child Welfare Committeeaccording to the county scale, to pay 3/6per week for the child while in residence,followed by 1/- per time for after visitsto the associated clinic.

The man's cough became at last so un-escapable-that his- doctor referred him tothe County tuberculosis specialist.

This time the machinery set inmotion was that of Public Health; aneconomic investigation was made, andthe man sent to the County Sanatoriumfor early cases.

The wife applied to the RelievingOfficer, and the local Public AssistanceCommittee placed her and the childrenon out-relief. She had to give up thehome and move into cheaper quarters inanother part of the county near hermother. Public Assistance machinerytransferred her relief to the new district.

The second child, a girl eighteenmonths old, then developed tuberculosisand was placed for an unspecifiedperiod in an open-air school for delicate

children run by the County PublicHealth Committee. As the mother wasdrawing relief she was not asked tocontribute, but the child's expenses weredebited to Public Assistance.

Her husband improved greatly atthe sanatorium and was allowed to returnhome, but after 4 months the oldsymptoms recurred and he voluntarilyreturned to the hospital. During thisperiod the woman became pregnant, andthe third child, a boy, was born severalmonths after the father went back to thesanatorium. Shortly before his returnfrom the sanatorium, the kindly healthvisitor approached the woman on theadvisability of her getting advice onBirth Control at the Women's WelfareCentre. The woman consented, but hadto get a certificate from the parish doctor(as she was living on relief) to say thatshe was attending on medical grounds. _

My object in giving thishistory of a family is to draw attentionto the vast number of people, bothprivate persons and officials, whobecause of poverty have access to theirprivate affairs, armed with all the

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NEWS AND VIEWSThere is no foundation for the

statement that Mr. Walter Elliott,Minister of Health, broadcast a -FuneralOde in Yiddish, on Thursday, February15.

The speech in question was a Bed-time Story about Evacuation, in a kindof Scottish. Very occasionally, it doessound like that.

•If Mr. A. P. Herbert, M.P. isn't

careful he will ruin the accepted traditionthat every interest should be representedin the House of Commons except thep---r b---y British Public.

•Planned Economy: Messrs. David

Greig Ltd., state that 59,000 pounds ofbacon have been wasted in their shopssince bacon was rationed, because theywere not allowed to sell it.

•More Planned Economy: As petrol

is to be conserved, coal-dealers areinstructed to deliver a ton of coal in tenconsignments, thus making ten journeysinstead of one.

•The wife of Mr. Cordell Hull, the

American Foreign Secretary, is a Jewess"of an old Southern family" (EveningStandard). Mr. Cordell Hull wreckedthe 1933 London Economic Conference,and is tipped for the next Presidency.

• • •DIFFICULT?

Arising from Sir John Simon'sstatement about the cost of living and themeasures taken to control retail foodprices by the use of public funds, Mr.'[ohn Morgan (Doncaster) asked in theHouse of Commons on January 31: Arethere any offsets to this cost to theTreasury, such as profits on sugar, or isthe Treasury also considering theabandonment of food taxes?

Mr. Stephen (Glasgow, Camlachie):In considering this question have theGovernment considered the appropria-tion by the Government of the socialcredit which is at present being taken bythe Banks?

Sir '[ohn Simon: I always findsocial credit an extremely difficult term.

•Mr. Stephen did not ask Sir John

-Simon what he "found the term" butwhat was to be done with the thing theterm stood for.

The major part of it has been takenby the Banks by their usurpation of theright of issuing financial credit on thebasis of the people's own physical assets-the real credit-and using this powerin pursuit of a policy counter to thatdesired by the majority of people con-cerned, the owners of the physical wealth

. on which the financial wealth is based.A case in point was described by

Sir William Jowitt in the House ofCommons on the same day. He wasreferring to the "Scottnicki" case:

" . . . Here is a firm in the Mid-lands making something which is ofgreat importance in the war. TheMinistry wanted to give orders toincrease the orders. There was onelimiting factor. The factory wasthere, the plant was there, one thingand one only held them up and thatwas lack of finance. To this veryday, at this very moment at which Iam speaking, they are still held up bylack of finance. For the last sixmonths the firm have been preventedfrom making what I believe is a mostimportant article, which the right hon.gentleman desires to get : simplythrough lack of finance. What Ithink is very deplorable is that the firmshould have been left in this difficulty... For goodness sake do not let us goon month after month with this hold-up, with the machinery and the skilledpeople standing idle."

• ••ALBERTA ELECTIONS

Mr. Aberhart, the premier ofAlberta, has said that the provincialelections in Alberta will be called whenthe next session of the legislature ends.

As the Federal Government willprobably be convened on April 25, Mr.Aberhart said that the latest date for anAlbertan election would be April 15.This date is suggested because theapplication for a provincial bank charterfor Alberta, which is part of thegovernment programme, - has to bepublished in the Canada Gazette oneweek before the opening of parliament.

The people would have an oppor-tunity to give the Provincial Governmenta definite mandate, so that beforeparliament convenes in April bothProvincial and Federal Governments willhave no doubt as to the will of thesovereign people of Alberta.

The opposition to the Social Creditparty in Alberta, which goes by thename of the Unity Council, has co-operated in the nomination of 22"independent non-party" candidates inthe election. The Council declares thatever since its foundation its mainobjective has been "to assist in bringingabout a situation in each constituencywhereby party-ism in the generalelection will be shelved," and "citizensof all political beliefs actively co-operatein bringing forward and supporting thebest non-party candidates."

The only qualification forcandidates seems to be that they mustoppose Social Credit! However"democratically" these candidates arenominated, it is difficult to imagine aform of government more dictatorial, inthe most exact sense, that one of non-party members not under sanction toproduce for their electors definite results.Since this safeguard is an integral partof Social Credit it must presumably berejected by Unity Council nominees.

• • •AGAINST FEDERAL UNION

A meeting at Manchester for thepurpose of forming a Federal Uniongroup in that district drew 100-150persons: it was summed up by one ofthe audience who described it as "aone-man debate in which the speakerhopelessly lost himself."

The address by Dr. Olaf Stapledon,consisted of a review of events since thelast war and various suggestions as tohow a Federal Union might be con-stituted. The questions that wereasked showed that there was considerabledivergence of opinion, distrust andopposition among the listeners, but anexecutive committee was formed with theobject of promoting an active group forthe study and propagation of FederalUnion, Professor Fleure accepted thepresidency on condition that the groupshould really study the subject. Beforethe meeting and after it leaflets weredistributed, showing how such a federa-tion must by its nature oppose freedom,which depends on a progressivedecentralisation of policy. The leafletswere a reprint of an article by WilliamGreen in the Stockport Express.

•At Liverpool a similar meeting was

held, and about the same number ofpeople were present. The audiencewas predominantly "intellectual" incharacter and there were more women

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-Mrs. .PALMER'S PAGE

Some A'Spects of the Jewish Problem. ,_Jo .those who .try to see .the world

as "it 'really is, it is p~iIl .that ... theuniversal conflict now raging is reflectedin every event that happens, . jQ .everycountry, town or village. We 'are sil-houetted against the red background ofwar. It would seem that peacefulassociation is becoming less and lesspossible.

Yet the principles of association arecapable of quite as exact defiriition asthe .principles of engineering.

While it would take more than acomplete issue of -this paper to set themforth in detail, it will suffice for thepresent purpose to .consider the firstonly, the principle relating to policy.

Now the correct application of thisprinciple means that whether ina family, tennis club, town or nation,members -must agree freely together as tothe definite results -which they requirefrom their association, without anyoutside pressure being put upon them inthe :way of coercion or .persuasion.

This basic truth can be expressed inother ways. In Christian philosophy ii.is set forth in the words "The Kingdomof -God is within you." It is the firstprinciple in democracy. It may also beconsidered as the assertion of thepersonal sovereignty of the individual.

The struggle _-now raging isthe culmination of a prolonged attackon this .principle. The opposing forcehas been called by some "dictatorships";'but this is too narrow a term. Let uspicture it as the __att_empLto exertextraneous control over individuals, orfree associations .of individuals. InDouglas's words it is 'the "extension of-non-immanent sovereignty'", the settingup of some outside force -to which theindividual must be compelled :to submit.

Individuals who desire passionatelyand instinctively to be free are fightingagainst this non-immanent sovereignty;including not only the dictators of thePower States, but every planner, everyman or woman who dares to tell otherswhat is good for them, or tries to arrangetheir lives for them, no matter whetherhe calls himself a Christian, or a'member of P.E.'P" Labour, or any other.party or institution.

The policy and religion of the

-1 See The Social :CreCliter for December 16,1939.

:Je:wish race. is centred on the extraneouscentaol. of the individual.

It .must be clearly understood that,.although scattered throughout the world,the 1:6 million- Jews are intenselynational in feeling. They have no titularhead, but are ruled 'by an omnipotentSanhedrin to whom the vast majoritypay their only real allegiance. Thereforethe true Jew cannot fail to be parasitic,no matter where he may live, for whilehe draws 'his livelihood from the countryef his' adoption .he (consciously orunconsciously) puts his own policy,the policy .of the Jewish race, first. Itis .Impossible for him to grasp the firstpninciple .of association by reason of thefact that his religion means .complete.submission .to his lawyers and priests. Inalldealings he must favour Jews beforeGentiles. He has been taught that heis superior to the .Goyim (cattle). Thisis instinctively .realised by the-'';Goyim.'' The Londoner, for instance,.is sometimes ashamed of his feelingtowards the Jews; yet he cannot explainit -away because it is .rooted in .his owninherent grasp of the rudiments ofdemocracy which he has never yet putinto -words.

Thus the position the Jews holdto-day is partly the result of a policy ofdiscrimination in favour of .their ownnationals. ,. But even more important isthe influence of Jewish philosophy onworld thought, which in its turn madepossible the development of the modernmoney system.

1 refer to the incalculable influenceof the Old Testament.

Its influence on christianity has beendisastrous, whittling it away to a mereshadow of the reality that it was meantto be. The New Testament is thewitness of a man who knew that theinherent nature of the human individualis part of reality, and based all histeaching upon it. Everything possible'has been done to nullify his work.

Those "Christian" sects which havebeen most imbued with the old doctrinesof non-immanent sovereignty, personifiedin Jehovah, -put the law before love,believe 'that man was made for thesabbath, and carefully shut their ears toall those parts of the New Testamentthat deal with present and materialhappiness. _ TllUS the lilies of the field

2 Some authorities double this figure.

that neither toil nor' spin, the waterwhich was rumed into 'wine, and thealabaster box of ointment so lavishlypoured out; the feasts at the house of thepublican, the giving of money to thepoor (not -social .services, mark you) areparts of t~ gospel which they hurryover or expnun- --awa.~'spiritual"terms. Toil to them is the oIily-licenceto .live, 'and they identify themselves ~Jehovah in daring to lay down the law,and setting themselves up as superior totheir fellows (i.e., the .. movement forteetotalism run by the pussyfoots inU.S.A.)

It has often been observed thatadherents of such religious sects seemparticularly apt at gathering in theshekels. This, in my opinion, is not acoincidence. 'Phe type of mind thatcan accept the doctrine of non-imman-ent sovereignty is particularly well-adapted for dealing with the unrealitiesof the .money system. It has also beenobjected that many world financiers arenot Jews either by birth or religion. Theymay not be, but for all practicalpurposes they have been co-opted, andthough they .may give lip service tochristianity, their Bible is confined to.the Jewish law of the Old Testament.

When such minds abandon beliefin the existence of Jehovah and become"agnostic" they search for some similarphilosophy. .CornmunismIs -an idealfulfilling all their needs. "Jehovah" is.new the state served by a hierarchy of-bureaucrats who spend their lives inrmciering other people about, and.segimenting them for their own good.

Toil is obligatory on all, andsacrifice to 'the state essential. But thereal enemy is never challenged.

Thus the Labour Party in thiscountry-a 'hybrid form of communism-while wishing to limit private property,is .quite -willing to adopt a capital levy'which would have the immediate effectof consolidating all real power in the'hands -of a few banks and insurancecompanies.

It is this net-work of Dark Forces'which is now being manipulated by theomnipotent .Sanhedrin for its own ends.The vast majority of the members ofthe J e.wish race are unconscious tools inthe hands of ·their masters, just 'as thecommunists and puritanically-mindedare tools. But the -Jews- can-be -more

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easily> used' because" through inbreedingand a restricted' environment, they havebeen, made. subservient to' them ownlawyers ana priests, They cannotprotect themselves by the practice ofdemocratic. principles. As a racethey have been rendered, incapableof understanding democracy-by thousandsof years of repression and regimentation.

It is to the interests of their rulersthat they should' never understandthe real nature of democracy. Hencepogroms are not unpleasing to therulers, in that they serve both as a red,herring and a rod in pickle.The idea that the leaders of theJewish race are more merciful to theirown nationals than Stalin or Hitler totheirs is a complete delusion.

Our case against the anonymousrulers of the Jews" is that having firstestablished complete despotic controlover their own people they are usingthem as tools to establish world control;and by' means of the control which theyexert over' the money market and the'press, manipulating any or all forms ofreligious. or political philosophy, .or evenmere. charlatanism, provided they lead toa paralysis of the individual will.

Their anonymous rulers-and' ours..Anonymity alone will' make successpossible: By sheltering behind the out-side authority, whet1ier Jehovah, theState, the' Banking System, or even justthe "Committee" or the "Board," it ispossible' to reduce democracy to acomplete farce; and establish centralisedcontrol' over whole nations. It iscollectivism versus the individual.

"Wnen you artach'the man to thepolicy . he is instrumenting, youapproach' 'the" point of successfulresistance to that policy, and nototherwise."

That is what we' mean to do:B. M. PALMER.

• • •Erratum:

For, Felix .Warborg. in "Letree- toRachel' (issue of January B) read JamesPaul Warburg and Frederick MarcusWarburg.

DO Y'OU?Do yeu, always carry a-. trial

subscription, form. for' T1i~ Social,Crediter in your pocket, for use-in the mang, opportunities whichoccur in. y01m day's work-andday:s: play.? .

IF" Nm;~ TR,Y Irr!:

Letters to the Editor'fine broadside, reprinted in your issue ofFebruary 3 from the Sunday" Express ofJanuary 28, is really: all within- the black

- circle-s-the bull's eye~ The .last sentence_The aptness of this description, (jf of the quotation reads: "I have no doubt

Mr. Wells's championship (?) of the that once again, after the war, sheRights of Man is well exe~plified by a [America 1 will pop off home thestatement he made recently 10 the press. moment the child' begins to yell."It concerns the "Rights" of German men' . __._ ..and women. Mr. Wells wrote: May not the U.S. of America (~all

. . '. and William, Streets and The Capitol)"The Germans insisted on being- on this occasion, if all goes well for her

a nuisan~e to all the .world. . ~.' I (?) consider the crying baby (a Fe?~r-am conv~nced that. VIgorous bombing, ated Europe )-for purely nU?,ItlVebombarding, wreckin~ towns, and the reasons, i.e., economic and financial-s-alike would ?e an ent!rely wholesom~ fit subject to be placed in the care of the .and chastemng experience for them. u:S: Marines, assisted of course by the

other expanding branches of Hernucleus of an "international" finance--orpolice force?

Mr. WELLS VERSUSCIVILISATION

Sir,

It was thoughtful of Mr. Wells todemonstrate in advance that his aim atany rate is chaos. The Daily Herald'spretentious debate is thus exposed forwhat' it is. Yet one more of the hollowpress "stunts" we know so well; anotherbubble which contact with Reality willburst.

•The moment is opportune' to' callthe

attention: of your readers: tn, . another-statement on similar lines made recentlyby' the Hon. L. S. Amery, r.c., M.P.The press report ran as follows': :

"Our air policy should be toforce on the German air arm. a war ofwastage, to. compel the enemy, bycontinual. raiding, to use petrol andmachines in defence, and provoke himto retaliatory. measures·, .againstBritain. Determination of our peopleto resist the aggressor would only beintensified by air damage . . . "

THis challenge has already beentaken up by The British' Council forChristian' Settlement in Europe, of 13,St. John Street, London, W.C.1. TheCouncil is giving publicity to the twostatements I have quoted, and has in-augurated a "Stop the Bomber"campaign and demand in London.

Yours truly,

C. HOWARD JONES.

Kingsley; Bordon, Hants;February 11, 1940.

Mr, HERBERT ANDTHE U.S.

Yours truly,

J: B. GALWAY.

Belfast; February 12, 1940.

P.EOPItES· ANDl THEIRGOVERNMENTS

Dear' Sill;,In, tlie early days of the war fairly

widespread publicity was given to thesuggestion that we were fighting theGerman government and not.the Germanpeople. It was. considered that·· mostGermans did not' recognise or that theywould not in freedom support, the policyof their government.

r tliinR· it is' correct; tU, say' that thereis now far less publicity given to thissuggestion and on the other hand onecommonly reads that people and gov-ernment- in Germany are united and thatboth, must" be taught a lesson.

It'is possible that some people thinkit best not to' over-emphasise' the firstsuggestion as- thereby there may spreada realisation that it characterises othercountries, besides Germany: that even inso-called Democracies the mass of people.do- note thr.ough- the years, formulate thegovernment policy ..

Yours' faithfully,

COLIN PRESSWOOD.

Dear Sir, st. Kitts, Boston Spa, Yorkshire;It wonder if Mr. A. P. Herbert's F6br.uary, lii, 1940.

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This journal expresses and supports the policy of the SocialCredit Secretariat, which is a non-party, non-class organisationneither connected with nor supporting any political party,Social Credit or otherwise.

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12, LORD STREET;LIVERPOOL, 2.

REVENUEThe Director of Revenue in the Social Credit Secretariat authorises

the publication of this letter to him.

Dear Sir,It is most interesting to note the

results of the non-taxing RevenueSchemes as operated by the BelfastGroup August-December, 1939.

As you know, the Schemes weredevised to raise revenue for the Move-ment without causing additional strainto the pockets of our loyal supporters.Briefly, the schemes operate by the saleto members and friends of members-through group members, eitherpioneering or with group co-operation-of certain items of goods which areordinarily purchased from widelydiversified retail sources. Thus, theaggregate result-which can become verysubstantial to the Movement-will notmaterially affect or penalize anyoneretailer.

The Belfast Group has been oper-ating all three schemes: R1, preserves;R2, cigarettes and tobacco; R3, tea; alsoodd sundries, e.g., apples, lettuce, films,-etc. In August the start was fromzero. From a month to month surveyit has been gratifying to note the con-tinual and still continued increased rate. of _flow, not only in respect of moneyreturns, but in the number supporting theeffort. Doubt and scepticism have, insome cases, been converted to enthusiasmby results achieved. We have yet a longway to go till the. group as a whole ispulling its weight in these schemes, butviewed from the angle of potentialresults, the results to date are therebyenhanced and the more cheering.

Without going into figure details itmay be said that R2-cigarettes, is shownto be by far the most lucrative scheme ofthe three. Through the efforts andingenuity of a number of our ladymembers R 1 scheme has given very

creditable returns and is being continued.R3-tea, though less useful, is beingcontinued as an adjunct to Rl. R4-sundries, is to be taken advantage of onall occasions when members or friendshave. garden, orchard, or other surplusesto give.

At December 31, after making fullprovision for all stock costs, etc., (some£12) a cash surplus of £20 was heldavailable at the discretion of the Super-visor of Revenue. As the group has nourgent financial need, the writer, con-fident of the group's approval, isenclosing herewith cheque for £20 pay-able to the funds of the Secretariat-afirst instalment with the expectation thatits successors may be still more satis-factory.

. These non-taxing schemes, byresults already available, carry their ownrecommendation. From notes availableat this date of writing the Belfast Group'srate of flow of non-taxing income is, at aconservative reckoning, £100 per an-num, of which some £70 is allotted toR2 ..

This report would not be completewithout recording the very materialassistance given by one of our memberswho holds a licence for the sale ofcigarettes and tobacco.

With best wishes.Yours sincerely,

A. THOMPSON,Supervisor of Revenue,Belfast D.S.C. Group.

February 6, 1940.

Always be ready to speak your mindand a base man will avoid you.

-William Blake.

"The gist of the matter," saidConfucius, "is goodness and duty.""Would you pray tell me," said LaoTzu, "are these qualities natural toman?" "Indeed these are," said Con-fucius. "We have a saying thatgentlemen

'Wirpout goodness cannot thrive,Without duty cannot live.'

Goodness and duty are indeed naturalto man. What else should they be?""And what pray, do you mean by good ______ness and duty?"

"'To have a heart without guile,To love all men without partiality,'.

that," said Confucius, "is the true stateof goodness and duty."

"Hum," said Lao Tzu, "the secondsaying sounds to me dangerous. Tospeak of 'loving all men' is a foolishexaggeration, and to make up one's mindto be impartial is in itself a kind ofpartiality. If you indeed want the menof the world not to lose the qualities thatare natural to them, you had best studyhow it is that Heaven and Earth maintaintheir eternal course, that the sun andmoon maintain their light, the stars theirserried ranks, the birds and beasts theirflocks, the trees and shrubs their station.Thus you too shall learn to guide yoursteps by inward Power, to follow thecourse that the Way of Nature sets; andsoon you will reach a goal where you willno longer need to go round laboriouslyadvertising goodness and duty, like thetown-crier with his drum, seeking fornews of a lost child. No, Sir! Whatyou are doing is to disjoint men'snatures! "

-From "Chuang Tzu," translatedby Arthur Waley in "Three Ways ofThought in Ancient China."

"Only an Expression""Lend to defend the right to be

free."-Contemporary poster.Protocols of the learned Elders of

Zion, page 32:-"LIBERTY, EQUALITY, FRAT-

ERNITY, will, when we come into ourkingdom, be changed by us into wordsno longer of a watchword, but onlyan expression of idealism, namelyinto: THE RIGHT OF LIBERTY,THE DUTY OF EQUALITY, THEIDEAL OF BROTHERlIQOP."

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A CANADIAN VIEWBy L. D. BYRNE

Q'F FEDERATION

The wide circulation accorded to the article below In the Eastern and Western Provinces of the Dominion ofCanada is evidence of clear-sighted recognition of the danger of Federalism.

It seems astounding that every British subject with redblood in his veins has not reacted violently against the latest

. attack which is being made upon the Empire and the Britishpeoples. The only explanation can be that as yet they havenot realized the grave implication of the suggestion, whichis being publicised with such vigour, that Britain's peace aimshould be the formation of a Federation of European States,of -which she would be a member as a preliminary to asimilar world federation.

As any such action by the Mother Country wouldinevitably involve the entire Empire it is necessary for thepeople of Canada and of the other nations within the Empireto examine this question with the utmost care.

That the propaganda being put about to win support forthe idea of an European Federation is carefully organized andis being carefully developed is indicated by the fact thathardly a week passes without two or three references to thesubject by speakers attracting wide publicity. For examplethe matter has been dealt with specifically or by indirectreference during the past three months by such influentialspeakers as Lord Lothian, Mr. Attlee, Mr. Duff Cooper andLord Marley. If such men are being deceived in regard tothe matter, it is more than probable that the deception maybecome general if left unchecked.

~ In order to gain a clear conception of what the advo-cates of this European Federation have in mind, it is butnecessary to quote two of the most definite statements whichhave been made on the subject. The first was made beforethe Canadian Club in Toronto and was reported in the pressin the following terms:

Toronto, Oct. 31, 1939 - Hugh S. Watt, correspon-dent for the London Telegraph and Sunday Times, saidMonday that Britain's leaders have virtually decided upona federation of European States as a step toward apermanent peace. He was addressing the Canadian Clubhere.

"I can say on the highest authority that BritisnPolitical circles are thinking in terms of federation afterthe war," he said.

"Britain is ready to give up some of the essentialelements of her sovereign powers in order to establishsome form of world order. Such a plan, of course,depends upon Germany not going Communist, as seemspossible right now.

"The plan is expected to be very similar to theorganization of the United States.

"Each unit would give up its external sovereignty,pass over complete control of its foreign relations to beruled by this CENTRAL AUTHORITY.

"Powers would be divided between the centralauthority and the various States, just as in the UnitedStates."

The emphasis is on the latter part of the report.

The second explanation of what is envisaged is fromeven a more authoritative source. The press report in thisinstance, too, is quoted:

Ottawa, Nov. 30, 1939 - Belief the peoples ofEurope after the war will be ready to enter into a federa-tion - "a league if you want to call it that, some societyof nations" was expressed here last night by Right Hon.Alfred Duff Cooper, British statesman and former FirstLord of the Admiralty.

He predicted the war would bring nations to realizethat even as individuals give up liberties for the sake ofcommon liberty, so nations must do the same thing.

The federation he envisioned would at first beconfined to the European nations. The smaller such afederation's circumference, the easier it would be for itsmembers to realize its obligations.

"There must be some international centre of authority,some international form of sanctions, some form of inter-national police, something in which the nations will makethe sacrifices for liberty that individuals do," he said. "Itwill be difficult to induce free peoples to make thesacrifice of some measure of their sovereignty. I believeit will come."

The foregoing quotations should be read carefully. Theuniformity ~f:these and other statements on this question canleave no doubt as to what is intended. Great Britain,according to these federalists, is to take the lead in estab-lishing as a preliminary to a World Federation, a federationof European States in sohich. she will be included. Underthis proposal, every state in the union will surrender some ofthe "essential elements" of sovereignty to an unspecifiedcentral authority to which will be entrusted an internationalpolice force-i.e., armed forces of such overwhelmingstrength that none of the states in the federation darechallenge the authority of the central power.

SOVEREIGNTYThe conflict in thc world to-day is essentially a clash

between two opposite and irreconcilable social philosophies.These social philosophies can be described in several terms:Democracy versus Totalitarianism, the Christian ethicversus the Pagan ethic, the Individual versus Institutional-ism, or the People versus the Money Power. However theissue is described, the principles involved are the same.

The democratic conception of society is based upon thefundamental Christian principle governing human relation-ships which is summed up in those inspired words: "Lovethy neighbour as thyself." It envisages a free associationof individuals who, because they collectively determine theresults accruing to them from the management of theiraffairs, are able to live together as a nation in completeharmony with each other and with other similarly organizednations.

The basis of democracy is sovereignty. Unless thepeople in a nation are sovereign, they cannot determine the

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results they obtain' individually and collectively from themanagement of their affairs and their relations as a nationwith other nations-and, unless they do, it is not ademocracy.

Within the Commonwealth of British Nations the con-stitutional sovereign rights of the peoples concerned are thefoundation of everything for which the Empire exists-democracy, freedom of the individual, British justice and thetraditionally free institutions existing to serve the people.Every Briton who has fought and given his life for King andCountry, has done so to preserve inviolable the sovereigntyof the Crown as a symbol of the sovereignty of a freedomseeking people.

The fact that the peoples of the British nations have,as yet, not fully realized their democratic rights andsovereign powers is immaterial to the issues at stake. Theessential facts to bear in mind are that they possess theseconstitutional rights and liberties,· that these are inseparablefrom the Crown which binds together the Empire, and that -these rights and liberties are the most precious heritage ofthe British peoples; destroy them and the destruction of theEmpire is certain.

. In contrast to the democratic social philosophy, whichis the basis of British culture and inseparable from Christ-ianity, we have rampant in the world to-day the. socialphilosophy of totalitarianism, based upon the pagan ethic ofthe domination and regimentation of the many by the few.Under this social system sovereign power-that is, the finalsupreme authority of the State-is vested in the rulinggroup. The people have to accept the conditions imposedupon them-in practice usually by means of a combinationof deceit and force. .

The totalitarian concept places all the institutions of theState and the lives of the people under the absolute domin-ation of the ruling group, who, because of the completepower concentrated in their hands, cannot be removed exceptby general revolt which plunges the country into civil strifeand does irreparable damage to the national life. Becauseof the type of person that is naturally attracted to the rulingpositions, this . social system always leads to aggression,brutality, murder and other characteristics of tyranny.

The Socialist regimes of Soviet Russia and NationalSocialist Germany are the natural products of the totalitarianideology. The policy of repression and rule by force,characterized by concentration camps, "liquidations," andhuge war machines which have been the consistent featuresof these forms of government now threatens to plunge the

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world into a carnage which might well shake to its founda-tions the structure of civilization-and if not met with forceand overthrown will spread its ghastly blight of tyranny andterror to every corner of the world. "-

The challenge of Totalitarianism has been taken up bythe British Empire. Why? Because it is a threat to everyprinciple and traditional ideal which is precious to theBritish peoples. This clash between these two opposite andconflicting social systems was inevitable.

WHEN WAR CAMEThe dominating facts in the lives of the people of the

British Empire on the outbreak of war were the growthof the problems of "poverty amidst plenty," ever mountingdebt, the breakdown of trade, the decay of national economiesand the increasing burdens of repressive taxation. -

It is significant that these features have been common toall countries-and, in the main, have been responsible forthe' spread of the poisonous doctrine of totalitarianism, undervarious labels, during the last twenty years. It would bechildish to suggest that in a world equipped to produceabundantly, it was or is impossible to distribute thisabundance to poverty-stricken populations. That the con-ditions of universal poverty combined with the everincreasing twin tyrannies of debt and. taxation have beenimposed upon the peoples of all countries can be explainedonly as a deliberate policy being pursued everywhere by somepower which has been able to override all national efforts toavert the disastrous results of that policy.

What international power has been able to do this: here;in Canada?

Canada has huge resources. The national- productive ~organizations have been capable of producing abundantly.All the materials, energy and knowledge to enable this to bedone are available in plenty. In, fact, there has been aconstant problem of unemployed resources and man-power.Yet the people have been and are, in the main, living underconditions of severe economic restriction. Poverty, debtand taxation are pressing on the nation.

In' this situation,' producers have been forded' to restrictproduction because of a lack. of markets: Yet the. marketsexists in a real sense-in the unsatisfied wants of the people -.In short, all that stands in the way of the satisfaction of thepeople's wants by a productive system capable of almostunlimited expansion, is the lack of purchasing power.

Purchasing power is the essential function of money, forthe proper management of which the financial systemsupposedly exists. Therefore, even a superficial examina-tion of the facts reveals that the cause of the country's plightcan be traced directly to the financial system. Debt andtaxation, too, are the products of that system.

Now what is true of conditions in Canada is true ofconditions in almost every country. If we pursue the-matterfurther we find that the financial systems: of all countries areso operated and linked together through. a: .chain of centralbanks that absolute power of control is centralised' in. a smallgroup of international banking houses-the controllers ofwhich are generally referred to as the Money Power.

A further examination of the facts will reveal that thepolicy pursued by the Money Power has led to' thesystematic centralisation of control of government policy,industry, commerce, finance, news, propaganda-s-and, in \

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fact, .every ;phase of human activity. And this has beengoing -nn everywhere.

CENTRALISATION OF POWERPolicies do not just happen. Every policy has an

olijem:ive and ,every policy is the product of a philosophy.;i! : Bearing this in mind, what is the objective of the

'International Money Power's policy-and of what philosophyis it a 'product? _

Clearly the objective is not to confer upon peoplefreedom and security. Centralisation of power and controlinevitably 'leads to loss of freedom and regimentation-thedomination -of the many by the few. It is the antithesis ofdemocracy; in fact it is the product of the social philosophyof .totalitarianism,

It is of ,the utmost importance to note that during the;past quarter of a century the Money Power's policy-restrlting ,in tota<llyunnecessary and terrible poverty, equallyunnecessary debt burdens and savage taxation-s-has been.pnrsued ,in violation of the constitutional rights of the peoplein .'democratic .countries, .and in particular within the British:Empire. The overriding policy of the Money Power has'rendered -democracy inoperative. This has become adominant issue within the Empire.

The deliberate 'objective towards which the Money'Power has been consciously working has been the destructionof democracy and the establishment of a world dictatorshiporganized 'on 'totalitarian lines. This would involve thedestruction of all -effective national sovereignties and theestablishment of a central international authority exercisingopen and undisputed domination over all peoples. To main-tain its .authority, 'this world government would, of course,requir.e ..a force which .no single nations nor group of nationscould .challenge, for we must recognize that in the last resortthe final safeguard of sovereign power either by the peopleor .a tyrant is stark -force.

That a .policy so fantastic should be seriously entertainedis evidenced by the following extracts from an address givenas-dong .ago,)lS June, 1931; in Copenhagen by a prominentcontemporary British historian, who has been attached torhe -British Foreign Office (April, 1918) and was a memberof -the .Middle Eastern Section of the British Delegation tothe Paris Peace Conference. Since 1925 he has been closelyidentified with the Royal Institute lor International Affairs.rChatham House, the constitution, policy 'and finances ofwhich were recently debated in the House of Commons.-Editor: The Social Crediter.]

"In the spirit of determination which happily animates us,we shall have no inclination to under-estimate the strength ofthe political force which we are striving to overcome. Whatis this force? If we are frank with ourselves, we shall admitthat we are engaged on a deliberate and sustained and con-centrated effort to impose limitations upon the sovereignty andthe independence of the fifty or sixty local sovereignindependent States which at present partition the "habitablesurface of the. earth .and divide the political allegiance ofmankind. - The surest sign, to my mind, that this fetish oflocal national' sovereignty is our intended victim is theemphasis with which .all our 'statesmen and our publicistsprotest with "one .accord, and -over and over again, at everystep forward which we take, that, whatever changes we maymake in the international situation, the sacred principle oflocal sovereignty will be maintained inviolable. This, 1repeat, is a sure sign that at each of those steps forward, theprinciple of local sovereignty is really being encroached uponand its sphere of action reduced and its power for evilrestricted. It is just because we are really attacking theprinCiple>Jif .:llill:alclOvereigntythat we keep on protesting our

loyalty to it so loudly. The harder we press our attack uponthe idol, the more pains we take to keep its priests anddevotees in a fool's paradise-lapped in a false sense ofsecurity which will inhibit them from taking up arms in theiridol's defence . . . .

" .... In plain terms, we have to re-transfer the prestigeand the prerogatives of sovereignty from the fifty or sixtyfragments of contemporary society to the whole of contempor-ary society-from the local national states by whichsovereignty has been usurped, with disastrous consequences, forhalf a millenium, to some institution embodying our societyas a whole.

"In the world as it is to-day, this institution can hardlybe a universal Church. It is more likely to be something likea League of Nations. I will not prophesy. I will merelyrepeat that we are at present working, discreetly but with allour might, to wrest this mysterious political force calledsovereignty out of the clutches of the local national states ofour world. And all the time we are denying with our lipswhat we are doing with OU1' hands."

(from an address delivered by Professor Arnold Toynbee tothe Fourth Annual Conference of Institutions for -theScientific Study of International Relations, in Copenhagen,June, 1931.)

BOLSHEVISMJust as there is no fundamental difference between

Nazi-ism, Bolshevism, Fascism and other by-products -of thesocialist doctrine of totalitarianism, so there is no differencebetween the ideologies of internationalism and totalitarianism.The basic concept is the centralisation of power in contrastto the democratic ideal of the greatest possible decentralisa-tion of power.

The arguments put forward in support of such inter-nationalist ideas as the world state and the destruction ofnational sovereignties are as fantastic as they are dangerous.One of the most plausible of these is that only under a worldorder governed by a powerful central authority will it bepossible to solve the grave economic problems confrontingall nations and to eliminate recurring wars.

It is preposterous to suggest that by making severalnational problems into one huge international problemit will be easier to solve. The United States of Americais a working example of a United States of the World. Thereis free trade within its borders-it is highly developed andhighly organized-and as an economic unit, it is ninetyper cent. self-sufficient. Yet consider its condition! Overeleven millions of unemployed, a colossal and rapidlymounting debt structure threatening economic collapse, andwidespread distress and social unrest.

Moreover, the argument in question ignores the fact thatthe plight of the world has its roots in the economic system.A system which condemns men, women and children tostarvation within sight of abundance, and keeps entirepopulations in a state of perpetual economic strife with eachother and with other nations, is bound to cause the economicdistress, the revolutions and the wars which have been thefeatures of our modern world. Unless the system is changed,universal disaster is inevitable and the manner in which toensure this disaster is to centralise power to such an extentthat no national grouping of people can change the system.

The essential nature of the change necessary is to renderdemocracy a functioning reality. The only hope ofachieving this by traditional British methods is for the peopleof the British nations to retain and exercise their sovereignrights and liberties.

Once this is achieved the cause of economic distress, of

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.wars and of revolutions will be removed. Not until thendoes anything in the nature of a League of Nations becomea practical proposition. But it would then be a league offree and absolutely sovereign nations. Surely the mischiefwrought in the world by the premature formation of aLeague of Nations after the last war should have demon-strated this fact.

The matter could not have been expressed with greater~ force and clarity than it was by His Highness the Aga Khan

when speaking at the Nelson Day Dinner of the NavyLeague in London (England) in 1934. He said, in regardto the question of arming the League of Nations with a"police force":

"There are innumerable technical objections to thecreation of an International Force under the orders of theLeague of Nations, with which I need not weary youto-night. But behind all these, I see two fundamentaldifficulties. . One is,. that the League itself includes toomany wolves in sheep's clothing--ox, shall I say, watch-dogs with an occasional hankering after a bit of mutton forthemselves-to be likely ever to show an effectiveunanimity in suppression of the meat-eating habit. Theother difficulty, and that to my mind goes even deeper, isthat no mechanical scheme, even if constructed for such adesirable object as maintaining the peace of the world,can command those deep-rooted instinctive loyalties forwhich nations are prepared to risk their fate, or individ-uals their lives. These loyalties are, for us, centred notin Geneva, but in that British Crown which is the symbolof our ordered freedom and of those institutions andtraditions which are of the very essence of our being.

More than that, our loyalty to the Crown is no narrowlocal or racial emotion; it has grown with the expansionof England to be the common and mutual loyalty of a \"world-wide Empire which is, in fact, a League of Nations,but one that has grown and not been artificially puttogether. It is a league based on the enlargement, noton the suppression of patriotism. It is a league that inthe hour of danger showed that it could summon a millionmen from the ends of the earth with the appeal: 'Whodies if England lives?' It is a league, in fact, that iscapable of action."

The contrary statements quoted earlier are not the out-pourings of some irresponsible nonentity; they are the public-ly expressed views of British statesmen.

And we have definite evidence, in Professor Toynbee'sCopenhagen address that this plan (or is it a plot?) has beenpursued since, at least, 1931 by persons who have been."denying with their lips what they have been doing withtheir hands."

These men, though they may not realize it, are tellingus that the British people are fighting-not to preserve theEmpire and its free institutions built upon the absolutesovereignty of its people and symbolized in the Crown-but that they are fighting and risking their lives to give uptheir sovereignty, to surrender their democratic rights,' todestroy the integrity of the Empire and to reduce the Crownto a meaningless farce.

There is an ugly word to describe this kind of poisonousintrigue, and it is high time we came to our senses andrealized just what is afoot.

"News and Views"-continued from page 3.

than men there. The speaker associateda predilection for Federal Union with anidea that a "change of heart" in thereligious sense was necessary for itsintroduction. He was tackled verystrongly by a number of members of theaudience, who showed very clearly thatthe state so rosily envisaged wouldamount to the antithesis of freedom.After the meeting leaflets "The Enemyin the Rear" were distributed.

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All over the country individuals areusing their initiative ceaselessly in thisfight against centralisation and those whoadvocate it. Local papers are receivingletters showing the true nature of Federal

Union. Meetings on the same-subjectare being attended by Social Crediters.Members of Parliament are havingtheir responsibilities brought home tothem in respect of national policy as wellas the affairs of the constituency, andother prominent men and women arebeing kept informed of the true wishesof the people and the facts that make itphysically possible for these wishes toprevail.

Social Crediters are interested in thedifficulties of the butchers and areattending their indignation meetings withsupplies of leaflets.

The result is a steady increase in thenumber of people interested in SocialCredit, and a flow of trial subscriptionsfor The Social Crediter.

American ViewA correspondent writes that in

cuttings that he has received from threedifferent American newspapers twocartoons show John Bull meddling withthe mail. In one he appears as a nastyold Jew and in the other he is brutish.The other cuttings are paragraphs, oneof which says that the German point ofview is interesting after so much Britishpropaganda, and the other protestsagainst our censorship.

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THETheir Lord High Moneymongers wereA highly righteous lot.They manufactured spondulicsFrom what they hadn't got.'Till, with a band of boodlebugs,They dined on Will-to-Power,And Federal Union blossomed forth-A Babylonian flower.

The plans, of course, were all prepared.The world was apprehensive.And when, at last, the war broke out,They sprang the big offensive.But don't you be a boodlebug,If you would go on living;For boodlebugs are noodledudsUntil they, too, are giving;

. K. L. McCUAIG.

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The Daily Telegraph reports that ina Mexican port 5,000 tons of UnitedStates copper are said to be on board aSoviet ship bound for Vladivostock andthence to Germany by the Trans-SiberianRailway. It also reports from Reuterthat grain prices recently advanced onRussian purchases of 1,000,000 bushelsof wheat for shipment to Vladivostock.It is known too that U.S.A. manufact-urers still provide Japan with at least 50per cent. of all that she needs forpursuing her war against China.

Parallel with this news in the in--conspicuous financial columns is thatunder big front-page headlines telling

.the world of the projected trip to Europeof Mr. Sumner Welles to explore onbehalf of President Roosevelt the possibleterms of peace between the belligerentstatesmen. And lately the captionsannounced the safe arrival in this countryof another batch of Canadian soldiers enroute for the Maginot Line.

No end of a fuss is made dailyabout tightening the blockade against

~ Germany; about welcoming the Canadianand other Commonwealth warriorscoming to Fight .for the Just Cause ofDemocracy; about the epic story beingwritten in blood by the heroic Finns;about the precise shade of meaning to beattached to the word Neutrality by thebelligerent-belligerents; by the neutral-belligerents; by the belligerent-neutrals;by the anti-belligerent-belligerents; or bythe other variantly named participantsand non-participants in this strangelyunbellicose war. Yet, behind the backsof the self-sacrificing combatants and ofthe patriotic non-combatants, the BigBusiness vampires are permitted by theMoney Monopolists to carry on business-as-usual under cover of the smoke-screen of Neutrality by selling, forinstance, Canadian wheat to the Russianskilling our proteges, the Finns, whomthe Americans declare they "morally"support-with their ledgers, not theirlegions.

Doubtless many of the Canadianboys are farmers' sons. Perhaps someof them actually ploughed, sowed andreaped the grain soon to be eaten by theGermans whom they have comethousands of miles to kill after having

" helped to fatten them for the slaughter?~, What a travesty of Democratic

ETHICS NEUTRALITYBy WILLIAM BELL

Justice and what an indictment of SoundFinance that the wheat-farmers inCanada a short while ago were too poorto buy bread for their children orclothes for their backs. Yet these sameyouths, no longer children, are now beingwell-fed and clothed and transported atthe public expenses in the Empire'shour of need in order to make the worldsafer for Bankocracy.

If the majority in the U.S.A. aresincere in their loudly trwnpeted wish foran Allied Victory, surely the mostpractical way of proving their sinceritywould be by their stopping the shipmentof arms to the "enemy." Are we toassume that the popular Americandefinition of Neutrality is: Watching thebelligerents killing one another but re-maining so "impartial" as to sellarmaments to Hitler and Stalin whilepiously mouthing humbug about theimmorality of the Dictators? Such self-exposure of the "morals" of Neutralitygoes to prove for the thousanth time theutter falsity of the ethics underlying the"solution" by War of the universalproblem of distribution that still facesmankind after nearly 2,000 years of"Christian progress" in warfare.

For War to-day is an extension ofthe national effort to force exports on the"enemy" for the time being-a free giftof bombs and shells and other missiles toan "enemy" who during peace-time wasunable likewise to export or to importother manufactures owing to the _flaw inthe sacrosanct Price System. SoundFinance was unable to "deliver thegoods" to the "foreigners." For"where was the money to come from?"Yet the same old Sound Finance in timeof war can easily "find" the money todeliver the bads, free of cost to the"enemy", to the tune of £6 millions aday.

Sound Finance kept parroting beforethe war that the country could not affordto distribute the national dividend,though it was proved possible to do sowithout either raising taxes or reducingservices. Yet for the war all thenecessary money can readily be "found"in bank-inkwells to pay for armaments tobe exported through the muzzles of gunsand rifles without the enemy's having torefund the capital outlay for those un-wanted "imports." And the enemyrains his "exports" on the Allies free

gratis too!Thus war is seen to be the wholesale

application of primitive barter, fromwhich the Money Monopolists are stillthe principal beneficiaries. Themunition-makers are permitted to "makemoney" only during the war. For their"ill-gotten gains," their blood-money,will be again cleverly whittled away bythe Dictatorship of the Bankolariat thatcontrols Deflation and the other devicesfor bringing both the "bosses" and the"hands" to their knees during what will.doubtless be called Peace. TheMaginot Line of great resistance is theproper place for Democrats, but not atall healthy for a wily Bankocrat havingimagination enough to follow the line ofleast resistance down the steps of hisfortified vaults.

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authority of the law: for without in-vestigation these people are powerless toobtain any help whatsoever.

The private individuals are on thevarious county and local committees,mostly very prosperous people trying to"do good."

They are usually most concernedabout the poverty of these people, andat once comforted that so much is "beingdone for them" and horrified at theincrease in the rates.

To those unfamiliar with theramifications of Local Government itmay come as a shock to realise thenumber of officials who have to dealwith this family; who, in fact, make theirliving out of poverty: officials of thelocal Labour Exchange, Public HealthDepartment, Public Assistance Depart-ment' Maternity and Child WelfareDepartment, and Education Department.They have access to all the most privatedetails of the lives of the poor; theyinvestigate and record them, and againstthis the individuals have no shield.

To state my belief that mostofficials are kind to them is beside themark. To Social Crediters thewhole fabric and structure which permitsand perpetuates such a society seemsincredibly stupid in its wastage of humanlife, happiness and initiative.

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CARDIFF Social Credit Association:Enquiries to the Hon, Sec. H. Steggles,73, Romilly Crescent, Cardiff.

DERBY and District-THE SOCIALCREDITER will be- obtainable outsidethe Central Bus Station - on Saturdaymornings from 7-15 a.m. to 8-4j' a.rn.,until further notice. It is also obtainablefrom Morley's, Newsagents and Tobaccon--ists, Market Hall.

LIVERPOOL Social Credit Association:Weekly meetings of social crediters andenquirers will continue, but at varyingaddresses. Get in touch with the Hon.Secretary, at "Greengates", Hillside Drive,Woolton, Liverpool.

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Name - ~.. .• '~ ,' ;.. : : .

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TO THE DIRECTOR OF REVENUE,THE SOCIAL CREDIT SECRETARIAT,12, ~ORD STREET, _LIYERPOOL, 2-

I wish to support Social Credit Policy as defined in the terms of association ofand pursued by The Social Credit Secretariat under the Advisory Chairmanship ofMajor C. H. Douglas.

I will, until further notice, contribute

{per month,

1. : : ,per quarter,per year,

towards the funds- of the Social Credit Secretariat.

Signature ; .I herewith enclose the sum of £

the above mentioned funds., as a donation towards

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LONDON Liaison Group: Next meeting-Saturday, February 24, subject "ActionNow." Enquiries to B. M. Palmer, 35,_Birchwood Avenue, Sidcup, Kent.

i..ONDON Social Crediters: Lunch-timerendezvous. Social crediters will meetf,rielJ-dsat The Cocoa Tree _Tea Rooms, 21,Palace Street, Westminster (5 minutesVictoria) on Wednesdays from 1-30 to 3·p.m, Basement dining room.

NEWCASTLE and GATESHEAD SocialCredit Association are compiling a register'of Social Crediters on the Tyneside, Reg-,ister now and keep informed of _ localactivities. What are YOU doing? . Lesus know, :we shall be glad of suggestions •.Write W. Dunsmore, Hon. Secretary, 27,Lawton Street" Newcastle-on- Tyne.

PORTSMOUTH D.S.C. Group: Enquiries.to rrs, Essex Road, Milton; 16, St. UrsulaGrove, -Southsea ; or 50 Ripley, Grove;Copnor. .'.

SOUTHAMPTON Group: Secretary C.Daish, 19, Merridale Road, Bitterne,Southampton.

WOL VERHAMPTON: Will all socialcrediters, old and new, keep in contact bywriting E. EVANS, 7, Oxbarn Avenue,Bradmore, Wolverhampton.

The Social CrediterIf you are not a subscriber to THESOCIAL CREDITER, send this orderwithout delay.K.R.P. Publications Ltd.,12, Lord Street, Liverpool, 2.

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EXPANSION FUNDTo the Teeasurer, -Social Credit Expansion Fund,c/o 'The 'Social. Credit Secretariat,12, Lord Street; ,Liverpool, 2. _I enclose the sum of £ _: ,as a donation towards the Social CreditExpansion Fund, to be expended by'the Administrators at the Sole Discretionof Major C. H. Douglas.Name ..Address ; ..(Cheques and Postal Orders should becrossed, and made payable to the SOCIAL.CREDIT EXPANSION FUND.) ,

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