The Jewish Hand Behind The American Civil War
"In every war (except World War II, which was for survival of Jewry) these same Jews have taken both sides, sold both sides the guns and uniforms and flags to wave at each other. In the Civil War, for instance, the British Rothschilds backed the South while the French Rothschilds back the North!"-GL, Rockwell, Naval Commander and ANP Founder.
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
From Which Way Western Man?
By William Gayley Simpson
I pass on to our Civil War, or the War of Secession.
European bankers, looking on from afar, saw what a rich harvest they could reap if only the growing tension between the North and the South could be brought to open conflict. And Miss Coogan records that "the American Civil War was planned in London in 1857"four years before the first guns were fired.[219] "Certain bankers," she continues, "made an agreement that the Paris branch of one group would support and finance the South, and the British branch of the same group would take the similar role for the North." Behind both was the House of Rothschild. In the North, it was represented by a Jew known to history as "August Belmont";[220] in the South by his uncle Senator John Slidell of Louisiana, a New Yorker who was Jewish on his father's side. His financial partner was Judah Benjamin, Secretary of the Confederacy during the War, another Jew and a close friend of Disraeli. According to the Jewish Encyclopaedia (Vol. III, p. 30) Benjamin "was generally described as `the brains of the Confederacy,' " though it adds "particularly during his incumbency of the secretaryship of War, he was extremely unpopular." Both Benjamin and Slidell "were agents of the Rothschilds and obtained Rothschild Bloc funds for the South during the Civil War (via the d'Erlanger banks)." [221] Propaganda pushed the issue of slavery to the fore, but the actual purpose behind it all was to get both sides loaded down with a mountain of debt, and to exploit the desperate exigencies which must arise in the struggle, to drive both sides to accept the same money system that the House of Rothschild had already fastened on England and the Continent. The creation and issuing of money would then be given to a "national" bank, and money, instead of being issued free, on the credit of the whole country, would be issued, every cent of it, as a national debt, secured on the taxes and solvency of the entire people, and yielding interest forever until the day it was paid. That is, the purpose of the bankers was to bleed the vast productivity of the whole American people.[222]
Lincoln, however, saw through their game. He realized that the worst enemy was not the South, but the Jewish bankers of Europe. Their maneuvers[223] filled him with the greatest anxiety for his country that he had ever known.[224] He was convinced that the Constitution "gave to the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they ever hadtheir own paper to pay their own debts." He said:
"Government possessing power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest, as the means of financing Governmental work and public enterprise. The Government should create, issue and circulate all currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is . . . the supreme prerogative of Government. . ." [225]
He meant what he said. Under his initiative Congress actually issued 150 million dollars in paper greenbacks, good for paying all debts public and private. And they have circulated ever since, debt-free.[226]
Lincoln thus placed himself squarely across the bankers' path and cut at the very root of their power. Accordingly it was decided to get him out of the way. And nothing was easier than to find a dupe to shoot him down.[227]
There is a mass of evidence to prove that the assassin Booth was no "loner," but, as his mother often said of him, "the tool of men higher up," the operative end of a conspiracy of long standing, which had taken him not only on frequent trips to the Confederate "Secret Cabinet" in Canada, but once also even to London and Paris, and related him by cipher code to Judah Benjamin, Confederate Jewish Secretary of State, a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, who had already made his cryptic remark about the world's being "governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." [228]
The upshot of it all, Ezra Pound summed up bluntly in the words: "The United States were sold to the Rothschilds in 1863." [229] But the deal was certainly not consummated until 1913, when Paul Warburg, sent over for the express purpose, finally succeeded in saddling the country with the Federal Reserve Bank. By that time, it would seem, the Jews were ready at last to move boldly onto the world stage with plans, matured and tested through centuries, to make themselves at last masters of the Earth. It is to be noted, and noted well, that the First World War was not precipitated until after the United States, like Europe, had been saddled and bridled with the financial control by which to direct the war toward the achievement of Jewish objectives.[230]
From here on, this drive of the Jews for world dominion with their capital in Palestine, must be kept constantly in mind. To this end, it was of vital importance that sooner or later they get a foothold in Palestine, economically the most valuable spot in the whole world and one of the most strategic;[231] and likewise that they establish a solid beachhead in some country that would serve as a suitable base for their aboveboard operations and as a nucleus from which their empire could be expanded. It is virtually certain that from the beginning they had their eye on Russia. But what was absolutely essential was a tremendous European civil war that would shatter the White man's whole world, throw up a host of desperate emergencies (which the Jews know so well how to exploit for their own enrichment), and by the weakening of every European nation clear the road for their own advance. Thus, in the course of the cataclysm, they might come upon opportunities to seize the beachhead, and also to get a hold on Palestine.
FOOTNOTES
219. In the same way, as I shall shortly relate, in the case of the Second World War, the Jewish financial powers of the world, assembled in Amsterdam in August 1933, declared war on Hitler six years before actual fighting began, and launched an enormous crusade to enlist the entire world to destroy him.
220. Belmont's original name was August Schoenberg. He was a German-born Jew who spoke English as thickly as Henry Kissinger does today.
221. For some of these facts about Belmont, Slidell and Benjamin, I am indebted to the research department of The Councilor, Shreveport, La. See its issue for Oct. 5-25, 1973 (Vol. 10, No. 15).
222. Gertrude M. Coogan, op. cit., p. 210ff. See also Bismarck's remarks to Conrad Siem in 1876 as reported in La Vieille France, No. 216, March 1921. A passage from this is quoted by Francis Neilson in his The Makers Of War, C.C. Nelson, Appleton, Wisc., 1950, p. 53f. Mr. Neilson, at one time a member of the British Parliament, was a revisionist historian of distinction. Further and longer excerpts from the article published in La Vieille France are to be found in Gertrude Coogan's Money Creators, pp. 214-6, and in Uncovering the Forces for War by Conrad K. Grieb, Examiner Books, New York City, 1947, pp. 91-3. From these I quote the following:
Bismarck declared: "It is not to be doubted, I know of absolute certainty, that the division of the United States into two federations of equal power had been decided upon well in advance of the Civil War by the top financial power of Europe (la Haute Finance). These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they were to remain entirely one and were to develop into one Nation only, would achieve economic and financial independence, and this latter would completely upset the capitalist domination of Europe over the world.
"Of course, within the `inner circle' of Finance, the voice of Rothschild dominated. They foresaw the chance of prodigious booty if they could substitute two weak democracies, burdened with debt, imploring the aid of the Jewish financiers, in place of the vigorous Republic, confident and proud, sufficient unto herself. Consequently they put their emissaries in the field to exploit the question of slavery, to open up an abyss between the two sections of the Union. . .
"The rupture between the North and the South became inevitable; the masters of European finance employed all the forces to bring it about and to turn it to their own account."
Bismarck then went on to tell of Lincoln's part in the unfolding drama.
223. See, for instance, "the infamous Hazard Circular . . . written by an agent of London bankers, and very judiciously distributed among the professional money lenders of America," including U.S. Senators and Congressmen. That infamous circular favored the abolition of slavery in America, but only to pave the way for a more subtle form of slavery. It said, in part:
"Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power and chattel slavery destroyed. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan, led by England, is that capital (money lenders) shall control labor by controlling wages." (Banishing purchasing power at will and making the laborers victims of unemployment.) [Parenthesis added by Miss Coogan.]
"This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt (national) that capitalists (money lenders) will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money . . . It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate . . . for we cannot control them." See Gertrude M. Coogan, op. cit., p. 212.
The final sentence of the quotation is supplied by Ezra Pound. See his Impact, p. 104.
224. Lincoln wrote: "As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war." Coogan, op. cit., p. 1. See also, Francis Neilson, op. cit., p. 53f.
225. Quoted by John R. Elson in his Lightning over the Treasury Building, Meador, Boston, 1941, p. 78.
226. See Gertrude M. Coogan, op. cit., p. 322, 215.
227. Bismark realized this was what had happened, and said soto Conrad Siemin 1876. See the conclusion of the conversation recorded in La Vieille France, March, 1921, as quoted in Coogan, op. cit., p. 216, and in Conrad K. Grieb, op. cit., pp. 91-3.
228. See Isola ForresterThis One Mad Act, Boston, 1937. The author was the granddaughter of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. She states that "the same secret cipher that was later found in the office of Judah Benjamin was found in Booth's trunk after the assassination." This was manifest evidence of clandestine communication between them. Booth was of Spanish descent and was one-quarter Jewish. The book is of absorbing interest, and completely convincing that he was the tool of a conspiracy. And the fact that he made a secret trip to London and Paris at least suggests that foreign parties of some sort desired Lincoln's removal. The book is eminently worth reading in its entirety, but valuable impressions can be gleaned by reading only pages 51, 54, 117f., 186, 194-7, 203, 206, 214, 248-293, 344, 356, 359f., 451. On the whole it is fully substantiated by Otto Eisenschiml's Why Was Lincoln Murdered? Little Brown, 1937. Cp. Francis Neilson, op. cit., pp. 53-4.
229. Ezra Pound, op. cit., p. 102.
230. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador to the U.S. during the years just before the outbreak of the First World War, made such observations as the following: One by one the Jews were getting control of the big newspapers. They had acquired the New York Times. The Jewish banks were supreme. They had captured our Treasury Department. They forced upon Woodrow Wilson "the appointment of the German, Warburg, on the Federal Reserve Board, which he dominates." This Paul Warburg, nearly related to Kuhn, Loeb and Schiff, and a brother of Max Warburg, a dominant figure in German finance, "practically controls the financial policy of the [Woodrow Wilson] administration." See Letters And Friendships Of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, Houghton, 1929, Vol. II, pp. 242-3, 245.
231. The facts seem to be, (1) that repeated scientific investigations, sent out from Britain, the U.S.A., Germany, France, and elsewhere, from the beginning of this century and even earlier, kept reporting that "an extensive oil-field exists in the Jordan and Dead Sea Valley" (Arnold S. LeeseDevilry in the Holy Land, London, 1938, p. 8); (2) that Palestine is within easy striking distance of Arab lands "that contain between 50 and 55 per cent of the estimated crude oil reserves of the world" (Alfred LilienthalWhat Price Israel, Devin-Adair, 1953, pp. 149-150); (3) that as early as 1925 an official British Report entitled Production of Minerals from the Waters of the Dead Sea, stated that "the value of the chemical deposits of the Dead Sea may be estimated . . . at more than that of all the gold stored at Fort Knox." (Douglas ReedFrom Smoke to Smother, Jonathan Cape, 1948, p. 297.) In terms of the prices current in the late Forties, this wealth was estimated at 5 trillion dollars. (See the full page article published in the New York Herald Tribune for Jan. 14, 1947.) A somewhat more conservative but still "staggering figure" was given by the London Daily Telegraph for Jan. 26, 1934. (A.S. Leese, op. cit., p. 11.)
Douglas Reed, I must remind my readers, was for years the European correspondent of the London Times, and gained considerable fame as the author of Insanity Fair and Disgrace Abounding, and then of From Smoke to Smother (mentioned above), and finally of Somewhere South Of Suez.
In the last of these books (p. 317), he comments:
"This wealth in the Dead Sea may explain the enormous output of energy which has been devoted to acquiring Palestine, and might serve as the basis on which world power would be built there. If that is the explanation, Count Bernadotte [with his proposals] cut right across the design. Therefore, with perfect logic, he was killed. . ."
Apparently the Jews' plan, before the First World War resulted in the Balfour Declaration and the promise of Palestine "as a National Home," was to work very clandestinely to get a concession for the exploitation of its enormous treasure while at the same time maintaining strict silence about it and doing their utmost to suppress all knowledge of it. Even in 1921, such was their control over the British Government that they were able, illegally, to secure the cancellation of all existing rival concessions, and, without the knowledge of Parliament, to secure the grant of a monopoly concession for themselves. (Douglas ReedFrom Smoke To Smother, p. 297.)
But evidently this was not enough. More and more, "since 1916, Zionists have proceeded on the theory that their plan for creating an independent Jewish state in Palestine [emphasis added] was the only certain method by which Zionists could acquire complete control and outright ownership of the proven Five Trillion Dollar ($5,000,000,000,000) chemical and mineral wealth of the Dead Sea. A Jewish state possessing this fabulous wealth would by virtue of its financial power soon become a nation with greater international importance than any nation in the world." (Herald Tribune article cited above.)
Only after the Zionists felt sure of the outcome, and that nothing henceforth could break their hold on the country, did they begin to loosen up a bit in regard to the intensity with which they had concentrated on getting it. In May, 1929, in a speech before the Zionist Federation Conference at Sydney, Australia, the Jew, M. Ettinger said: "Capitalists of all countries have been turning heaven and earth in order to get this concession. In time to come, particulars over the Dead Sea Concession may become public, and they will probably read like a most exciting detective story, with intrigues, political and financial, covering all countries . . . Had we lost this Concession, our whole future might have been endangered." (A.S. Leese, op. cit., p. 11. Cp. Douglas ReedFrom Smoke To Smother, p. 297. Also Borge JensenThe `Palestine' Plot, Lawers by Aberfeldy, Scotland, 1948, p. 5, where excerpts from the Herald Tribune article of 1/14/47 are quoted.)
And as for "strategic importance," Douglas Reed pronounced Palestine "geographically the centre of the world, roughly speaking." While Nahum Goldman, a president of the World Jewish Congress, quite gave the game away when he bluntly declared:
"The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they want absolutely nothing except Palestine: not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce Five Trillion Dollars worth of metaloids and powdered metal; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable centre of world political power, the strategic centre for world control."
No wonder that Major Tulloch, of the Palestine Potash Co., Ltd., in a speech before the Royal Society of Arts, in July 1934, declared that Palestine was "the most valuable spot in the whole world."
"In every war (except World War II, which was for survival of Jewry) these same Jews have taken both sides, sold both sides the guns and uniforms and flags to wave at each other. In the Civil War, for instance, the British Rothschilds backed the South while the French Rothschilds back the North!"-GL, Rockwell, Naval Commander and ANP Founder.
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
From Which Way Western Man?
By William Gayley Simpson
I pass on to our Civil War, or the War of Secession.
European bankers, looking on from afar, saw what a rich harvest they could reap if only the growing tension between the North and the South could be brought to open conflict. And Miss Coogan records that "the American Civil War was planned in London in 1857"four years before the first guns were fired.[219] "Certain bankers," she continues, "made an agreement that the Paris branch of one group would support and finance the South, and the British branch of the same group would take the similar role for the North." Behind both was the House of Rothschild. In the North, it was represented by a Jew known to history as "August Belmont";[220] in the South by his uncle Senator John Slidell of Louisiana, a New Yorker who was Jewish on his father's side. His financial partner was Judah Benjamin, Secretary of the Confederacy during the War, another Jew and a close friend of Disraeli. According to the Jewish Encyclopaedia (Vol. III, p. 30) Benjamin "was generally described as `the brains of the Confederacy,' " though it adds "particularly during his incumbency of the secretaryship of War, he was extremely unpopular." Both Benjamin and Slidell "were agents of the Rothschilds and obtained Rothschild Bloc funds for the South during the Civil War (via the d'Erlanger banks)." [221] Propaganda pushed the issue of slavery to the fore, but the actual purpose behind it all was to get both sides loaded down with a mountain of debt, and to exploit the desperate exigencies which must arise in the struggle, to drive both sides to accept the same money system that the House of Rothschild had already fastened on England and the Continent. The creation and issuing of money would then be given to a "national" bank, and money, instead of being issued free, on the credit of the whole country, would be issued, every cent of it, as a national debt, secured on the taxes and solvency of the entire people, and yielding interest forever until the day it was paid. That is, the purpose of the bankers was to bleed the vast productivity of the whole American people.[222]
Lincoln, however, saw through their game. He realized that the worst enemy was not the South, but the Jewish bankers of Europe. Their maneuvers[223] filled him with the greatest anxiety for his country that he had ever known.[224] He was convinced that the Constitution "gave to the people of this Republic the greatest blessing they ever hadtheir own paper to pay their own debts." He said:
"Government possessing power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest, as the means of financing Governmental work and public enterprise. The Government should create, issue and circulate all currency and credit needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. The privilege of creating and issuing money is . . . the supreme prerogative of Government. . ." [225]
He meant what he said. Under his initiative Congress actually issued 150 million dollars in paper greenbacks, good for paying all debts public and private. And they have circulated ever since, debt-free.[226]
Lincoln thus placed himself squarely across the bankers' path and cut at the very root of their power. Accordingly it was decided to get him out of the way. And nothing was easier than to find a dupe to shoot him down.[227]
There is a mass of evidence to prove that the assassin Booth was no "loner," but, as his mother often said of him, "the tool of men higher up," the operative end of a conspiracy of long standing, which had taken him not only on frequent trips to the Confederate "Secret Cabinet" in Canada, but once also even to London and Paris, and related him by cipher code to Judah Benjamin, Confederate Jewish Secretary of State, a friend of Benjamin Disraeli, who had already made his cryptic remark about the world's being "governed by very different personages to what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes." [228]
The upshot of it all, Ezra Pound summed up bluntly in the words: "The United States were sold to the Rothschilds in 1863." [229] But the deal was certainly not consummated until 1913, when Paul Warburg, sent over for the express purpose, finally succeeded in saddling the country with the Federal Reserve Bank. By that time, it would seem, the Jews were ready at last to move boldly onto the world stage with plans, matured and tested through centuries, to make themselves at last masters of the Earth. It is to be noted, and noted well, that the First World War was not precipitated until after the United States, like Europe, had been saddled and bridled with the financial control by which to direct the war toward the achievement of Jewish objectives.[230]
From here on, this drive of the Jews for world dominion with their capital in Palestine, must be kept constantly in mind. To this end, it was of vital importance that sooner or later they get a foothold in Palestine, economically the most valuable spot in the whole world and one of the most strategic;[231] and likewise that they establish a solid beachhead in some country that would serve as a suitable base for their aboveboard operations and as a nucleus from which their empire could be expanded. It is virtually certain that from the beginning they had their eye on Russia. But what was absolutely essential was a tremendous European civil war that would shatter the White man's whole world, throw up a host of desperate emergencies (which the Jews know so well how to exploit for their own enrichment), and by the weakening of every European nation clear the road for their own advance. Thus, in the course of the cataclysm, they might come upon opportunities to seize the beachhead, and also to get a hold on Palestine.
FOOTNOTES
219. In the same way, as I shall shortly relate, in the case of the Second World War, the Jewish financial powers of the world, assembled in Amsterdam in August 1933, declared war on Hitler six years before actual fighting began, and launched an enormous crusade to enlist the entire world to destroy him.
220. Belmont's original name was August Schoenberg. He was a German-born Jew who spoke English as thickly as Henry Kissinger does today.
221. For some of these facts about Belmont, Slidell and Benjamin, I am indebted to the research department of The Councilor, Shreveport, La. See its issue for Oct. 5-25, 1973 (Vol. 10, No. 15).
222. Gertrude M. Coogan, op. cit., p. 210ff. See also Bismarck's remarks to Conrad Siem in 1876 as reported in La Vieille France, No. 216, March 1921. A passage from this is quoted by Francis Neilson in his The Makers Of War, C.C. Nelson, Appleton, Wisc., 1950, p. 53f. Mr. Neilson, at one time a member of the British Parliament, was a revisionist historian of distinction. Further and longer excerpts from the article published in La Vieille France are to be found in Gertrude Coogan's Money Creators, pp. 214-6, and in Uncovering the Forces for War by Conrad K. Grieb, Examiner Books, New York City, 1947, pp. 91-3. From these I quote the following:
Bismarck declared: "It is not to be doubted, I know of absolute certainty, that the division of the United States into two federations of equal power had been decided upon well in advance of the Civil War by the top financial power of Europe (la Haute Finance). These bankers were afraid that the United States, if they were to remain entirely one and were to develop into one Nation only, would achieve economic and financial independence, and this latter would completely upset the capitalist domination of Europe over the world.
"Of course, within the `inner circle' of Finance, the voice of Rothschild dominated. They foresaw the chance of prodigious booty if they could substitute two weak democracies, burdened with debt, imploring the aid of the Jewish financiers, in place of the vigorous Republic, confident and proud, sufficient unto herself. Consequently they put their emissaries in the field to exploit the question of slavery, to open up an abyss between the two sections of the Union. . .
"The rupture between the North and the South became inevitable; the masters of European finance employed all the forces to bring it about and to turn it to their own account."
Bismarck then went on to tell of Lincoln's part in the unfolding drama.
223. See, for instance, "the infamous Hazard Circular . . . written by an agent of London bankers, and very judiciously distributed among the professional money lenders of America," including U.S. Senators and Congressmen. That infamous circular favored the abolition of slavery in America, but only to pave the way for a more subtle form of slavery. It said, in part:
"Slavery is likely to be abolished by the war power and chattel slavery destroyed. This I and my European friends are in favor of, for slavery is but the owning of labor and carries with it the care of the laborers, while the European plan, led by England, is that capital (money lenders) shall control labor by controlling wages." (Banishing purchasing power at will and making the laborers victims of unemployment.) [Parenthesis added by Miss Coogan.]
"This can be done by controlling the money. The great debt (national) that capitalists (money lenders) will see to it is made out of the war, must be used as a means to control the volume of money . . . It will not do to allow the greenback, as it is called, to circulate . . . for we cannot control them." See Gertrude M. Coogan, op. cit., p. 212.
The final sentence of the quotation is supplied by Ezra Pound. See his Impact, p. 104.
224. Lincoln wrote: "As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few and the republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of the war." Coogan, op. cit., p. 1. See also, Francis Neilson, op. cit., p. 53f.
225. Quoted by John R. Elson in his Lightning over the Treasury Building, Meador, Boston, 1941, p. 78.
226. See Gertrude M. Coogan, op. cit., p. 322, 215.
227. Bismark realized this was what had happened, and said soto Conrad Siemin 1876. See the conclusion of the conversation recorded in La Vieille France, March, 1921, as quoted in Coogan, op. cit., p. 216, and in Conrad K. Grieb, op. cit., pp. 91-3.
228. See Isola ForresterThis One Mad Act, Boston, 1937. The author was the granddaughter of John Wilkes Booth, Lincoln's assassin. She states that "the same secret cipher that was later found in the office of Judah Benjamin was found in Booth's trunk after the assassination." This was manifest evidence of clandestine communication between them. Booth was of Spanish descent and was one-quarter Jewish. The book is of absorbing interest, and completely convincing that he was the tool of a conspiracy. And the fact that he made a secret trip to London and Paris at least suggests that foreign parties of some sort desired Lincoln's removal. The book is eminently worth reading in its entirety, but valuable impressions can be gleaned by reading only pages 51, 54, 117f., 186, 194-7, 203, 206, 214, 248-293, 344, 356, 359f., 451. On the whole it is fully substantiated by Otto Eisenschiml's Why Was Lincoln Murdered? Little Brown, 1937. Cp. Francis Neilson, op. cit., pp. 53-4.
229. Ezra Pound, op. cit., p. 102.
230. Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, British Ambassador to the U.S. during the years just before the outbreak of the First World War, made such observations as the following: One by one the Jews were getting control of the big newspapers. They had acquired the New York Times. The Jewish banks were supreme. They had captured our Treasury Department. They forced upon Woodrow Wilson "the appointment of the German, Warburg, on the Federal Reserve Board, which he dominates." This Paul Warburg, nearly related to Kuhn, Loeb and Schiff, and a brother of Max Warburg, a dominant figure in German finance, "practically controls the financial policy of the [Woodrow Wilson] administration." See Letters And Friendships Of Sir Cecil Spring-Rice, Houghton, 1929, Vol. II, pp. 242-3, 245.
231. The facts seem to be, (1) that repeated scientific investigations, sent out from Britain, the U.S.A., Germany, France, and elsewhere, from the beginning of this century and even earlier, kept reporting that "an extensive oil-field exists in the Jordan and Dead Sea Valley" (Arnold S. LeeseDevilry in the Holy Land, London, 1938, p. 8); (2) that Palestine is within easy striking distance of Arab lands "that contain between 50 and 55 per cent of the estimated crude oil reserves of the world" (Alfred LilienthalWhat Price Israel, Devin-Adair, 1953, pp. 149-150); (3) that as early as 1925 an official British Report entitled Production of Minerals from the Waters of the Dead Sea, stated that "the value of the chemical deposits of the Dead Sea may be estimated . . . at more than that of all the gold stored at Fort Knox." (Douglas ReedFrom Smoke to Smother, Jonathan Cape, 1948, p. 297.) In terms of the prices current in the late Forties, this wealth was estimated at 5 trillion dollars. (See the full page article published in the New York Herald Tribune for Jan. 14, 1947.) A somewhat more conservative but still "staggering figure" was given by the London Daily Telegraph for Jan. 26, 1934. (A.S. Leese, op. cit., p. 11.)
Douglas Reed, I must remind my readers, was for years the European correspondent of the London Times, and gained considerable fame as the author of Insanity Fair and Disgrace Abounding, and then of From Smoke to Smother (mentioned above), and finally of Somewhere South Of Suez.
In the last of these books (p. 317), he comments:
"This wealth in the Dead Sea may explain the enormous output of energy which has been devoted to acquiring Palestine, and might serve as the basis on which world power would be built there. If that is the explanation, Count Bernadotte [with his proposals] cut right across the design. Therefore, with perfect logic, he was killed. . ."
Apparently the Jews' plan, before the First World War resulted in the Balfour Declaration and the promise of Palestine "as a National Home," was to work very clandestinely to get a concession for the exploitation of its enormous treasure while at the same time maintaining strict silence about it and doing their utmost to suppress all knowledge of it. Even in 1921, such was their control over the British Government that they were able, illegally, to secure the cancellation of all existing rival concessions, and, without the knowledge of Parliament, to secure the grant of a monopoly concession for themselves. (Douglas ReedFrom Smoke To Smother, p. 297.)
But evidently this was not enough. More and more, "since 1916, Zionists have proceeded on the theory that their plan for creating an independent Jewish state in Palestine [emphasis added] was the only certain method by which Zionists could acquire complete control and outright ownership of the proven Five Trillion Dollar ($5,000,000,000,000) chemical and mineral wealth of the Dead Sea. A Jewish state possessing this fabulous wealth would by virtue of its financial power soon become a nation with greater international importance than any nation in the world." (Herald Tribune article cited above.)
Only after the Zionists felt sure of the outcome, and that nothing henceforth could break their hold on the country, did they begin to loosen up a bit in regard to the intensity with which they had concentrated on getting it. In May, 1929, in a speech before the Zionist Federation Conference at Sydney, Australia, the Jew, M. Ettinger said: "Capitalists of all countries have been turning heaven and earth in order to get this concession. In time to come, particulars over the Dead Sea Concession may become public, and they will probably read like a most exciting detective story, with intrigues, political and financial, covering all countries . . . Had we lost this Concession, our whole future might have been endangered." (A.S. Leese, op. cit., p. 11. Cp. Douglas ReedFrom Smoke To Smother, p. 297. Also Borge JensenThe `Palestine' Plot, Lawers by Aberfeldy, Scotland, 1948, p. 5, where excerpts from the Herald Tribune article of 1/14/47 are quoted.)
And as for "strategic importance," Douglas Reed pronounced Palestine "geographically the centre of the world, roughly speaking." While Nahum Goldman, a president of the World Jewish Congress, quite gave the game away when he bluntly declared:
"The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they want absolutely nothing except Palestine: not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce Five Trillion Dollars worth of metaloids and powdered metal; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable centre of world political power, the strategic centre for world control."
No wonder that Major Tulloch, of the Palestine Potash Co., Ltd., in a speech before the Royal Society of Arts, in July 1934, declared that Palestine was "the most valuable spot in the whole world."
