Then I began diggin' into
American
history, and other history.
Ezra-Pound-Speaking
Montagu Webb, trying to tell you something.
When they didn't shut up, they were givin' jobs, sometimes quite nice jobs, OUT of London.
They were promoted to colonial posts, or as
? Kipling once wrote, "Jack Barret went to Quatta. " But that was another story, that was for a personal reason. .
Are you going to select a leader' ? You haven't followed, and won't follow any leader yet offered' ? Have you a selfless leader' ? Have you the sphincter strength to revive the old custom of meeting, or are all town meetings for bidden by now in England' ?
Was the war what you wanted' ? Were you TOLD in 1939 what Vice President Wallace has now at last told you, namely NO peace without the gold standard' ?
After Winston's visit to Washington, have you mental coherence enough to recall what happened in England when the fat boy brought back the gold standard' ? Must have been YEARS ago, did someone say 1925' ? I have plumb forgot when it happened. America is allus behindhand, gets round to a dead British idea about 20 years after England is thru with it.
NO peace without the gold standard. Why weren't you TOLD that before you set out to keep Danzig Polish and to defend Finland against Russian menace' ?
No peace without the gold standard. Is that the voice of "We the people of England, we have not spoken yet'? "
Pound speaking from Italy. Parlando da Roma. Pound speaking. Am I expected to wait for the people of England to speak' ? Of course you'll have to find your OWN leaders, I can't pick and choose 'em for you.
#16 (March 15, 1942) U. K. (B16) ENGLAND
? The enemy is Das Leihkapital. Your Enemy is Das Leihkapital, international, wandering Loan Capital. Your enemy is not Germany, your enemy is money on loan. And it would be better for you to be infected with typhus, and dysentery, and Bright's disease, than to be infected with this blindness which prevents you from understanding HOW you are under mined, how you are ruined.
The big Jew is so bound up with this Leihkapital that no one is able to unscramble that omelet. It would be better for you to retire to Darbyshire and defy New Jerusalem, better for you to retire to Gloucester and find one spot that is England than to go on fighting for Jewry and ignoring the process.
It is an outrage that any clean lad from the country--I suppose there are STILL a few ENGLISH lads from the country--it is an outrage that any nice young man from the suburbs should be expected to die for Victor Sassoon, it is an outrage that any drunken footman's byblow should be asked to die for Sassoon.
As to your Empire, it was not all of it won by clean fighting. But however you got it, you did for a time more or less justify keeping it, on the ground that you exported good government or better government than the natives would have had without England.
You let in the Jew and the Jew rotted your empire, and you yourselves out-Jewed the Jew. Your allies in your victimized holdings are the bunyah, you stand for NOTHING but usury.
And above metal usury; you have built up bank usury, 60% against 30 and 40%, and by that you WILL NOT be saved. Corrupting the whole earth, you have lost yourselves to yourselves.
And the big Jew has rotted EVERY nation he has wormed into. A mill stone. Well, an exceptionally good swimmer MIGHT conceivably be cast into the sea with a stone tied round his neck. He might perhaps
? untie it. If he were a Scotchman, he would remember his jackknife, before being thrown overboard.
You seem to remember NOTHING. It were better you were infected with typhus. As to federal union, or JEW/nion. There is NO question of race in Streit's proposition. It is as proposed a union of slaves, under Jewry. Offered by liars and abettors of thieves.
You have stolen land from your late Allies, and land slips from your control. The ONLY conquests of Britain and Rosenfeld are conquests FROM their alleged allies.
All right, say that Franklin Delany swipes ALL South America--to what end ? And ruin the United States of America while he is doing it.
What's that to you ? It is not England's salvation. Will you ever LOOK at the story of empire ? You are NOT even in the mercantile system, you are in a fake mercantile system, not even mercantile. It was for a time called mercantile or the mercantilist system and defined as considering the happiness of a nation to consist in the amount of MONEY it owned, and its process to consist in STEALING, welching, pouching the greatest possible amount of same (i. e. , of money) from other nations.
That defines the USURY system, the ONLY system Anglo Saxons have known or used in our time.
And it will not save you. NOR will Judaized Russia. Nor will the Kahal, the Jew's central committee of bleeders. WI-IAT is their
system ? Unvarying, cheap goods, sweated out of cheap labor, dung dust hurled on the world, the WORLD conceived as sweat shop, to hell with the 8-hour day, down with abundance. DUMPING sweated goods, dumped against any and every nation that pays a just price for labor. That is your ALLY.
And in your past a trail of blood and of infamy. You bought Hessians to kill your own blood in America. You bought 'em from a stinking feudal
? overlord, who was in the hands of the ROTHSCHILD; that is HISTORY. You stirred up the American savages against your own kin IN America. But now Eden and Cripps have called in the Muscovite, to burn and destroy all Eastern Europe, and kill Finland, for the sake of the stinking Jews nickel mines.
Your infamy is bound up with Judaea. You can not touch a sore or a shame in your empire but you find a Mond, a Sassoon, or a Goldsmid. YOU HAVE NO RACE left in your government.
God knows if it can be found still scattered in England.
IT must be found scattered in England. The white remnants of England, the white remnant of the races of England must be FOUND and find means to cohere; otherwise, you might as well lie down in your grave yards.
You have for years had cheap goods DUMPED in from Russia. Your alliance with Moscow will bring no relief to that wound. Your Jews have ruined your home manufactures. Loans from the city of London, loans to the Orient, interest paid in cheap cotton goods, loans to the South American countries, interest paid in beef from the Argentine, and ruin of English grazing. The laws of durable government have been known from the days of King Wen. When empires go to ROT, they go to rot for known reasons.
The Times, Telegraph, Manchester Guardian, are there to conceal these reasons. Your press is an infamy, has been throughout our time.
The laws of durable government have been known from the days of King Wen, and when the Roman Empire perished it perished from the same follies that your kikes, your Rothschilds, Beits, Sieffs, Schiffs, and Goldsmids have squirted into your veins.
? Cheap grain dumped from Egypt, ruin of the Italian farming, usury, and more usury, THAT is the answer.
For two centuries, ever since the brute Cromwell brought 'em back into England, the kikes have sucked out your vitals. A mild penetration, for a hundred years they have bootlicked your nobility and now where is your nobility ? You had at least the semblance of control; you had, let us say, some influence with the Lords of Judaea as long as they WANTED your titles, as long as Levy Levinstein Lawson WANTED to be addressed as Lord Burnham. You could turn the worst edge of their avarice, or rather you could turn it OFF, the upper or huppar clawses; and turn it ONTO the peer. As you did without mercy.
But when the same scroungers have moved over to New York City, how will you manage 'em ? The same bloody minded extortioners, or their descendents. The same FINANCIAL HOUSES. The same Rothschilds who plotted with Sherman, and Vandergould to KILL the American nation, who betrayed the United States in the "sixties". Head office in London, agents in the U. S. of America.
Now the address is altered. Main office in Wall Street and Cohen in London. You send Willie over to spy on us. You send 5000 usurers' pimps over to Washington and give special passports, diplomatic, to inveigle the United States into your plans to get cannon fodder from Idaho and from Iowa to weld your slaves cellar on Europe. And this time you get dumped into the ash can.
You have even forgotten your Kipling. Pig Baldwin has forgotten his cousin; if his obscene and treacherous mind ever grasped the meaning of Rudyard's stories. Let me recall one passage to the sow face:
"The Americans," wrote Rudyard, "obligingly slaughtered each other in order that the Czechoslovaks might inherit Boston Common. " Cras tibi, tomorrow is your turn. Damn it all, you slaughtered the flower of
? England in the Boer War. Then in 1914 in the first three months, the best of you went out and got slaughtered.
[TEXT MISSING IN ORIGINAL] been seen only too clearly. And your foul papers, the filth of your news print has been subsidized to keep your minds off it.
A dirty bit of meat by the name of Gollancz has used your book trade to conceal it. You have almost NO means of communication.
When a Brooks Adams writes five volumes that would help you to see it, six copies reach England. You have LOST the health of the mind. God knows how the scattered handful of Englishmen still in England can still speak one with another.
I see NO remedy in your parliament. I don't mean as parliament. I mean in the personnel. It is your problem. You do not NOW even elect your own parliament. Whether WITH an election you could get anything save old dead meat, I do not know. During the last war a few men had a glimmer of instinct. On whatever formula, they called it pacifism. Was it ? All of 'em I ever met were pugnacious. Was it an instinct to save the butt end of the RACE by not fighting ? Is it a mistake to combat Germans by force ?
Is there a RACE left in England ? Has it ANY will left to survive ? You can carry slaughter to Ireland. Will that save you ? I doubt it. Nothing can save you, save a purge. Nothing can save you, save an affirmation that you are English.
Whore Belisha is NOT. Isaccs is not. No Sassoon is an Englishman, racially. No Rothschild is English, no Strakosch is English, no Roosevelt is English, no Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Khan, Baruch, Schiff, Sieff, or Solomon was ever yet born Anglo-Saxon.
? And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you have murdered your empire, and it is this filth that elects your politicians.
You have lost your tradition. You have not even learned what Lord Byron told you. You are, as even that foul rag the Times tells you, a little late in making a start.
In the year 1942 Anno Domini, there is only one start you can make. And that is a start toward being England. A refusal to be a province of Israel, or an outpost of Yankee-Judaea.
Quando tutti saremo forti.
17 (March 19, 1942) U. K. (B21) AND THE TIME LAG
Speakin' of Fan mail. I got a funny lookin' card the other day headed Kriegs Statlag XXI A.
with the prisoners number runnin' up into the thousands.
Dear Mr. Pound. If this card reaches you and you can manage it, I would be very grateful if you will send me one or two of your recent works on economics. Reading matter from England rather scarce at present and not very enlightening.
Signed. So and so.
Well, mebbe this is all very flattering. But the point is the TIME LAG. If a man has to be made a prisoner of war before he will read my works on economics--what good does it do him ? Or let us say what IMMEDIATE good. Of course he may be gittin' ready to make a home fit for a hero; in a new order England when he GITS out of Gefangenenlager.
? But wouldn't it have been a sight easier if he and his 12000 fellow recliners in the Genfangenenlager had STARTED readin' my economics just a bit SOONER?
I ask particularly my American hearers, whether the START on the new economics, which would have PREVENTED the war and let the now so mangy ole worm eaten Trafalgar lion go on lying down with the French Rooster, and the assorted eagles of Europe; and left the old Killyloo bird screechin' away on the 4th of July every summer, and no bone broken, and a lot fewer oil ships sunk, and more cars on the American roads, and more rubber for tires. And abundance, no longer potential: but real. Wouldn't it have been bit nicer?
Mr. Brown, known as Buffalo Bill, tellin' you I am in propaganda. Waal, damn it all, I was runnin' this SAME propaganda, back before Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich.
I don't mean I dug down into it, not down to the bottom, I was leadin' the pleasant life, and to men like Hitler and Mussolini, if they had ever got wind of my bein' here, they would have thought me a possibly harmless eccentric. HOWever, in my perlite and refined manner, I did try to do a spot of work educatin', here or there, puttin' in a drop of enlightenment.
I didn't go in hell for leather, economics EXCLUSIVE, straight at once. I had to find out how the old show was runnin'. Runnin' DOWN.
I say it was runnin' DOWN. I began to say that in my poetry. "This land turns evil slowly. "
Treatin' it by way of young man's intuition, I said something about getting the SENSE of a city, like the savage hunter has the sense of the forest. Somethin' was running DOWN.
? There is a poem, not by me, back in Blast, about a mud hydro. That was healthy mud, by comparison.
Then after I saw it was BAD, I began to wonder how you could fix it. After ten year askin' questions, askin' 'em of Bank Lawyers, askin' 'em of Max Pam or any other wise guy I could git near to. After ten years, I say, I began to get top sides with the subject. Usury, profits, monopolization of money.
Then I began diggin' into American history, and other history. All there plain as a biscuit. But the means of TELLIN you people ? That was the question. Oh Hamlet. Oh village hamlets. Big papers did NOT want open discussion--it had to be bootlegged.
Then there was "education" beginning with the top shelves of the colleges. I am goin' to quote from a paper with an equine title printed out in Wisconsin. A little magazine, the kind that comes up alive and dies down usually rather sudden, inside a couple of years. Along in the Spring of 1935 I came up with this answer to those young editors in their quarterly as follows:
The best I can do in reply to yours is to offer programs recalling a few FACTS. For 30 years I have been trying to reorganize the study of literature so that it would be of some use to the student, and for 15 I have been trying to reorganize education, in general, to the same end.
The best I can tell you to date, is contained in my ABC of Reading and in my ABC of Economics with the volumes following it, Social Credit, an Impact; Jefferson and/or Mussolini (then in press).
Why aren't they used as YOUR textbooks ? For advanced students, there is my Make it New, which must be correlated with my ABC of Reading if you are clearly to see what it is driving at.
If American students will recognize that Universities are there to prepare students for life in a given country and in a given TIME, and insist on finding out what will help them to LIVE in that place and time, they can
? ? get their four years' worth. No body can do this for the students. They have got to do it for themselves.
"Mark Hopkins on one end of the log, and the student on the other. "
When Abelard was kicked out of the University of Paris 5,000 students followed him into the country, [where] there were no dormitories and million dollar gymnasia. That is the sort of thing that spells "revival of learning" or "intellectual rebirth. "
My generation was brought up ham ignorant of economics. History was taught with OMISSIONS of the most vital facts. Every page our generation read was over shadowed by usury. Not only was the press false, but every current idea had been warped by generations of antecedent perversion.
The ACID TEST of public men today is plain and simple. MISTRUST any man, no matter how high in office who tries to get you AWAY from the questions:
WHAT is money?
Who makes it?
How is it issued?
Why can't the WHOLE people buy what the WHOLE people produces?
Start on that at once, and throw out any man who won't give you a straight answer. You can not cure Wisconsin in Pekin. I mean, start where you are. Don't let anyone wriggle out of LOCAL honesty, by talking internationally. Investigate the Carnegie Peace Foundation. When you find out why they avoid the study of the economic causes of war, you'll be part way toward preventing another.
? Printed in Wisconsin in the spring of 1935, LONG before Hitler was so influential in world affairs.
You can lead a Rocking Horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.
And young America's problem is what was young England's problem. And the answers were KNOWN; the answers COULD have been broadcast, the answers could have been printed in daily papers, they could have been taught in the schools, they could have been used as the basis for action. I mean political action. And WHAT prevented it?
Waaal, go ask yourselves what prevented it ? Ask yourselves why these things were NOT widely printed ? Why the real thought of the American founders was hidden, stuffed into corners ? Why every man in England who foresaw disaster, and who saw HOW England could have avoided it IF . . . Why these men were NOT heeded. Why they were hugger-muggered out of the way, or reduced, shall we say often by FEAR, into silence.
Not all were afraid, some were prudent. Where are they ? Some of 'em got out in front. Now where are they ? Where are the back seaters, the men who knew, but saw no way to ACT on their knowledge ? The men who assembled tiny minorities ? Waaal, where are they ? And when will the people learn wisdom?
OZeus.
O Chan Ti, how long is the time lag?
#18 (March 22, 1942) U. K. (B20) BUT HOW?
? I unhooked my radio the other night and the word REVOLUTION came floatin' over the ambient air. Very English voice, usin' the word RE VO LU TION.
And I thought, yaaas, very nice but HOW' ? How CAN they revolute.
Conjure up to my mind the pale grey light in Kensington Gardens, and the gulls floatin' over the round pond, and the so very quiet demeanor of the nicely dressed females that used to float up the broadwalk, along about 1910. How CAN THEY revolute?
Yaas, I hear Bela Kun was over in England, he was a revolution, bloody murder and all the trimmings. But does Kensington revolute?
I am so old I can remember the end of the nineteenth century, that is the century before this one that is gettin' on to be nigh half gone. How impressed the American visitors were by the beef-eaters in the Tower, and the teacups at Windsor and Stratford-on-Avon, with the coats of arms glazed into the chimney, and the quiet lawn in the park, and a time when the Route du Roi wasn't so rotten. The Row, not of course that I knew the riders, save occasionally Mr. Cunninghame Graham, a fine figure on horse back, and ole Colonel Jackson, suggestin' I should dine at his club, he wantin' to see the expressions on the faces of his contemporaries when faced with the vorticist movement. Well, all that must be fairly well bygone.
The question is how do folks revolute ? The Rooshians do it with fire and sword, and very unpleasant tortures. Very unEnglish, as England used to be in my memory. How DO you revolute?
Can you revolute without contacts, without collaboration, without COMMUNICATION ? I think not.
Yaas, there is Cripps. He didn't use to be there so much. In fact my sole memory of Stafford is secondhand, old Nelly Weaver saying "A
? DREADFUL man! " Seems like she had a cousin, that was manager, or editor, or managing editor of a paper called Pig and Piffle, I mean by its own staff in private. And it sold for a lot less than it cost, I mean it cost, let us say, ten pence a copy to print, and sold retail for a six pence, and turned over ten or twenty thousand a year in net profits.
Anyhow, Nelly's cousin died, and left his sons in Cripps' charge, Cripps being trustee or guardian, so my memory of Stafford boils down to Miss Nelly a sayin'
"A DREADFUL man! Heaven KNOWS what he is teaching the boys! "
Waaal, if heaven didn't know then, mebbe heaven will find out during the next few week's course of hostilities.
I mean internal hostilities. I don't know that England learns from abroad. I dunno that the fall of Madras, or Calcutta will teach you folks anything, cause Hong Kong, Singapore and the Island Indies don't seem to have started you. But mebbe a few INTERNAL hostilities ? Heaven knows!
Back in Queen Elizabeth's time, farmin' out their estates to some usurer, gettin' out of their feudal duties, Cobbett and Hobhouse--all sorts of velleities toward reform; confined to a few special segments. Lord, can you call 'em segments. They were mostly kind hearted fellows, thought to be CRANKS by the public.
Can you have ANY collaboration if you don't MEET ? How can you meet in a CITY, unless you are financed?
Yaas, you can, or COULD meet on a street corner, or in by Mubble Arch, so long as you didn't do anything SERIOUS.
Ole Kun, Cohen, Be? la was serious. People in Budapest found out he was serious. Mebbe Sir Stafford is SERIOUS. The bolo agents in
? England were serious, when I was last there, the top numbers in the Communist Party were all paid by Moscow, which as you know is sometimes paid by New York or London.
It WAS known to your intelligence service, all their numbers were listed, all of 'em engaged in industrial espionage. I am not tellin' anything to you that some of your own rulers don't KNOW.
And now we hear of the SCORCHED EARTH policy. Git ready for an invasion. Cit ready to destroy all that is left you. Bum down your houses.
Waaal, WHO is a going to live in those ruins?
An invading army, if it ever gits into London, would, one would suppose, pick its own quarters; and a man that had burnt down his own bedroom would be left to sleep in the ashes.
Margey Daw, see saw, and the rest of it.
Do you think the people who tell you to burn down your houses and get ready for bombing raids for North Ireland, droppin' leaflets saying they only do it to help you ? Do you think that these people LOVE you?
Have you got any data about the Ukraine ? I am movin' toward this proposition. I assume that some of you did NOT want Mr. Churchill. He was not a pig in a poke. He may have been a Baldwin piglet, but he certainly was not CONcealed from the purchaser.
Take Carolyn Bellairs, for example, Carolyn Bellairs did NOT want Mr. Churchill. I dunno whether he, Bellairs, has yet joined Domvile in Jail. We do NOT git detailed news of your family squabbles. But I assume the Navy and the Army did contain at least a nucleus of men, with enough sense NOT to want Churchill.
? I assume that there was a tiny, and languid minority who did NOT acquiesce DEElightedly in a war, which was KNOWN to be going to have such consequences as the whole world now sees it havin'.
Revolution di PALAIS ? Is that it ? Do you think you can balayer the palais ? Do you think you can have a nice little revolution, in the colors of Mr. Watt's Hope Soap and Charity?
AH yes, but the MONEY. I am castin' about in my mind for some way you could CLEAN your own sewers.
Oh, but you say, we don't WANT to clean the sewers, we just want to dust out the draaaawin' room.
I comprehend you. But is that just what you can do?
I was for years all for a nice sensible bit of reform but Mr. Rothschild, and Mr. Sieff, and the rest of the British powers, Mond, Kataan, Sas soon, and the rest of 'em weren't very keen to nice reforms discussed in their papers.
They put in such blokes as Eden. They put OUT anybody who said anything sensible. Nice old gentlemen, who would edge up to the truth, talkin' about remonitization of silver, or some VERY mild infraction of the gold-bugs monopoly. They, the nice old members of the respectable knighthood, or elderly colonels, who remembered the end of the other war, they would get sent out to Karachi, to keep 'em from impeding the traffic (traffic in gold, and in loans at high interest) or at low interest, sometimes not more than 30 or 40% on the real money handled.
CAN YOU MEET one another ? Your air isn't free. Open organizations have been "put inside. " No chance of marching 'round swinging green banners; presenting petitions to the King, about Coventry. Nothing but SECRET organization. Ever hear of the Fenians?
? Or revolution in the PALACE ? Well, where do we go from here ? Art revolution ? Need three or four men even to make an ART movement function.
Can't do it in politics without at least some sort of COMMON ground, common agreement.
You do NOT believe in the total abolition of property--meaning of private ownership of your homes, and fir fields. Lord, who has any FIELDS left ? I dunno. Say your house and suburban garden. What about homesteads ? The air is NOT yours. The press is NOT yours. Communications by private automobile are said to be gettin' scarcer. In London you do not MEET, no man knows any other, at least not to any extent.
How can you defend your homesteads from Cripps ? Homesteads ? Your bed chamber, your kitchenette, and your telephone, all of 'em rented. God help you. You better start SOMETIME.
Ezra Pound speakin'.
Yaaas, SOME time, while Sir Stafford is goin' big out in India, agreein' on the TOTAL abolution of private property, him and the Aga Kahn, and the gaekwar of Baroda. Pardon me, the Tovarish of Baroda.
#19 (March 23, 1942) U. S. & U. K. (B22) BUT HOW ? SECOND ITEM
It was not the present speaker, but an Englishman, I believe an absolutely loyal Englishman, a sort of Royalist, not Mr. Eliot, but at any rate a King's man, and so far as I recall a man who had no Fascist or Nazi sympathies, who on May 11th, 1939 uttered the statement I am about to repeat to you. Get the date, May eleventh, 1939.
? There is NO mystery whatsoever about the disappearance of Mr. Litvinov from the political scene. The Soviet Foreign Minister vacated his office because he failed to deliver "the goods" demanded by the masters of Wall Street and Moscow. New methods to secure these "goods" will now assuredly be given a trial.
What are these "goods? " Nothing other than Great Britain, captive and in chains. Great Britain stripped of her empire, above all Great Britain, ruined financially by the collapse of the Pound Sterling and the system called "barter trading" which is based upon that money.
There, gentle Briton, you have it. Your own heroes have told you. And your own true men you have heard NOT.
? Kipling once wrote, "Jack Barret went to Quatta. " But that was another story, that was for a personal reason. .
Are you going to select a leader' ? You haven't followed, and won't follow any leader yet offered' ? Have you a selfless leader' ? Have you the sphincter strength to revive the old custom of meeting, or are all town meetings for bidden by now in England' ?
Was the war what you wanted' ? Were you TOLD in 1939 what Vice President Wallace has now at last told you, namely NO peace without the gold standard' ?
After Winston's visit to Washington, have you mental coherence enough to recall what happened in England when the fat boy brought back the gold standard' ? Must have been YEARS ago, did someone say 1925' ? I have plumb forgot when it happened. America is allus behindhand, gets round to a dead British idea about 20 years after England is thru with it.
NO peace without the gold standard. Why weren't you TOLD that before you set out to keep Danzig Polish and to defend Finland against Russian menace' ?
No peace without the gold standard. Is that the voice of "We the people of England, we have not spoken yet'? "
Pound speaking from Italy. Parlando da Roma. Pound speaking. Am I expected to wait for the people of England to speak' ? Of course you'll have to find your OWN leaders, I can't pick and choose 'em for you.
#16 (March 15, 1942) U. K. (B16) ENGLAND
? The enemy is Das Leihkapital. Your Enemy is Das Leihkapital, international, wandering Loan Capital. Your enemy is not Germany, your enemy is money on loan. And it would be better for you to be infected with typhus, and dysentery, and Bright's disease, than to be infected with this blindness which prevents you from understanding HOW you are under mined, how you are ruined.
The big Jew is so bound up with this Leihkapital that no one is able to unscramble that omelet. It would be better for you to retire to Darbyshire and defy New Jerusalem, better for you to retire to Gloucester and find one spot that is England than to go on fighting for Jewry and ignoring the process.
It is an outrage that any clean lad from the country--I suppose there are STILL a few ENGLISH lads from the country--it is an outrage that any nice young man from the suburbs should be expected to die for Victor Sassoon, it is an outrage that any drunken footman's byblow should be asked to die for Sassoon.
As to your Empire, it was not all of it won by clean fighting. But however you got it, you did for a time more or less justify keeping it, on the ground that you exported good government or better government than the natives would have had without England.
You let in the Jew and the Jew rotted your empire, and you yourselves out-Jewed the Jew. Your allies in your victimized holdings are the bunyah, you stand for NOTHING but usury.
And above metal usury; you have built up bank usury, 60% against 30 and 40%, and by that you WILL NOT be saved. Corrupting the whole earth, you have lost yourselves to yourselves.
And the big Jew has rotted EVERY nation he has wormed into. A mill stone. Well, an exceptionally good swimmer MIGHT conceivably be cast into the sea with a stone tied round his neck. He might perhaps
? untie it. If he were a Scotchman, he would remember his jackknife, before being thrown overboard.
You seem to remember NOTHING. It were better you were infected with typhus. As to federal union, or JEW/nion. There is NO question of race in Streit's proposition. It is as proposed a union of slaves, under Jewry. Offered by liars and abettors of thieves.
You have stolen land from your late Allies, and land slips from your control. The ONLY conquests of Britain and Rosenfeld are conquests FROM their alleged allies.
All right, say that Franklin Delany swipes ALL South America--to what end ? And ruin the United States of America while he is doing it.
What's that to you ? It is not England's salvation. Will you ever LOOK at the story of empire ? You are NOT even in the mercantile system, you are in a fake mercantile system, not even mercantile. It was for a time called mercantile or the mercantilist system and defined as considering the happiness of a nation to consist in the amount of MONEY it owned, and its process to consist in STEALING, welching, pouching the greatest possible amount of same (i. e. , of money) from other nations.
That defines the USURY system, the ONLY system Anglo Saxons have known or used in our time.
And it will not save you. NOR will Judaized Russia. Nor will the Kahal, the Jew's central committee of bleeders. WI-IAT is their
system ? Unvarying, cheap goods, sweated out of cheap labor, dung dust hurled on the world, the WORLD conceived as sweat shop, to hell with the 8-hour day, down with abundance. DUMPING sweated goods, dumped against any and every nation that pays a just price for labor. That is your ALLY.
And in your past a trail of blood and of infamy. You bought Hessians to kill your own blood in America. You bought 'em from a stinking feudal
? overlord, who was in the hands of the ROTHSCHILD; that is HISTORY. You stirred up the American savages against your own kin IN America. But now Eden and Cripps have called in the Muscovite, to burn and destroy all Eastern Europe, and kill Finland, for the sake of the stinking Jews nickel mines.
Your infamy is bound up with Judaea. You can not touch a sore or a shame in your empire but you find a Mond, a Sassoon, or a Goldsmid. YOU HAVE NO RACE left in your government.
God knows if it can be found still scattered in England.
IT must be found scattered in England. The white remnants of England, the white remnant of the races of England must be FOUND and find means to cohere; otherwise, you might as well lie down in your grave yards.
You have for years had cheap goods DUMPED in from Russia. Your alliance with Moscow will bring no relief to that wound. Your Jews have ruined your home manufactures. Loans from the city of London, loans to the Orient, interest paid in cheap cotton goods, loans to the South American countries, interest paid in beef from the Argentine, and ruin of English grazing. The laws of durable government have been known from the days of King Wen. When empires go to ROT, they go to rot for known reasons.
The Times, Telegraph, Manchester Guardian, are there to conceal these reasons. Your press is an infamy, has been throughout our time.
The laws of durable government have been known from the days of King Wen, and when the Roman Empire perished it perished from the same follies that your kikes, your Rothschilds, Beits, Sieffs, Schiffs, and Goldsmids have squirted into your veins.
? Cheap grain dumped from Egypt, ruin of the Italian farming, usury, and more usury, THAT is the answer.
For two centuries, ever since the brute Cromwell brought 'em back into England, the kikes have sucked out your vitals. A mild penetration, for a hundred years they have bootlicked your nobility and now where is your nobility ? You had at least the semblance of control; you had, let us say, some influence with the Lords of Judaea as long as they WANTED your titles, as long as Levy Levinstein Lawson WANTED to be addressed as Lord Burnham. You could turn the worst edge of their avarice, or rather you could turn it OFF, the upper or huppar clawses; and turn it ONTO the peer. As you did without mercy.
But when the same scroungers have moved over to New York City, how will you manage 'em ? The same bloody minded extortioners, or their descendents. The same FINANCIAL HOUSES. The same Rothschilds who plotted with Sherman, and Vandergould to KILL the American nation, who betrayed the United States in the "sixties". Head office in London, agents in the U. S. of America.
Now the address is altered. Main office in Wall Street and Cohen in London. You send Willie over to spy on us. You send 5000 usurers' pimps over to Washington and give special passports, diplomatic, to inveigle the United States into your plans to get cannon fodder from Idaho and from Iowa to weld your slaves cellar on Europe. And this time you get dumped into the ash can.
You have even forgotten your Kipling. Pig Baldwin has forgotten his cousin; if his obscene and treacherous mind ever grasped the meaning of Rudyard's stories. Let me recall one passage to the sow face:
"The Americans," wrote Rudyard, "obligingly slaughtered each other in order that the Czechoslovaks might inherit Boston Common. " Cras tibi, tomorrow is your turn. Damn it all, you slaughtered the flower of
? England in the Boer War. Then in 1914 in the first three months, the best of you went out and got slaughtered.
[TEXT MISSING IN ORIGINAL] been seen only too clearly. And your foul papers, the filth of your news print has been subsidized to keep your minds off it.
A dirty bit of meat by the name of Gollancz has used your book trade to conceal it. You have almost NO means of communication.
When a Brooks Adams writes five volumes that would help you to see it, six copies reach England. You have LOST the health of the mind. God knows how the scattered handful of Englishmen still in England can still speak one with another.
I see NO remedy in your parliament. I don't mean as parliament. I mean in the personnel. It is your problem. You do not NOW even elect your own parliament. Whether WITH an election you could get anything save old dead meat, I do not know. During the last war a few men had a glimmer of instinct. On whatever formula, they called it pacifism. Was it ? All of 'em I ever met were pugnacious. Was it an instinct to save the butt end of the RACE by not fighting ? Is it a mistake to combat Germans by force ?
Is there a RACE left in England ? Has it ANY will left to survive ? You can carry slaughter to Ireland. Will that save you ? I doubt it. Nothing can save you, save a purge. Nothing can save you, save an affirmation that you are English.
Whore Belisha is NOT. Isaccs is not. No Sassoon is an Englishman, racially. No Rothschild is English, no Strakosch is English, no Roosevelt is English, no Baruch, Morgenthau, Cohen, Lehman, Warburg, Kuhn, Khan, Baruch, Schiff, Sieff, or Solomon was ever yet born Anglo-Saxon.
? And it is for this filth that you fight. It is for this filth that you have murdered your empire, and it is this filth that elects your politicians.
You have lost your tradition. You have not even learned what Lord Byron told you. You are, as even that foul rag the Times tells you, a little late in making a start.
In the year 1942 Anno Domini, there is only one start you can make. And that is a start toward being England. A refusal to be a province of Israel, or an outpost of Yankee-Judaea.
Quando tutti saremo forti.
17 (March 19, 1942) U. K. (B21) AND THE TIME LAG
Speakin' of Fan mail. I got a funny lookin' card the other day headed Kriegs Statlag XXI A.
with the prisoners number runnin' up into the thousands.
Dear Mr. Pound. If this card reaches you and you can manage it, I would be very grateful if you will send me one or two of your recent works on economics. Reading matter from England rather scarce at present and not very enlightening.
Signed. So and so.
Well, mebbe this is all very flattering. But the point is the TIME LAG. If a man has to be made a prisoner of war before he will read my works on economics--what good does it do him ? Or let us say what IMMEDIATE good. Of course he may be gittin' ready to make a home fit for a hero; in a new order England when he GITS out of Gefangenenlager.
? But wouldn't it have been a sight easier if he and his 12000 fellow recliners in the Genfangenenlager had STARTED readin' my economics just a bit SOONER?
I ask particularly my American hearers, whether the START on the new economics, which would have PREVENTED the war and let the now so mangy ole worm eaten Trafalgar lion go on lying down with the French Rooster, and the assorted eagles of Europe; and left the old Killyloo bird screechin' away on the 4th of July every summer, and no bone broken, and a lot fewer oil ships sunk, and more cars on the American roads, and more rubber for tires. And abundance, no longer potential: but real. Wouldn't it have been bit nicer?
Mr. Brown, known as Buffalo Bill, tellin' you I am in propaganda. Waal, damn it all, I was runnin' this SAME propaganda, back before Hitler became Chancellor of the Reich.
I don't mean I dug down into it, not down to the bottom, I was leadin' the pleasant life, and to men like Hitler and Mussolini, if they had ever got wind of my bein' here, they would have thought me a possibly harmless eccentric. HOWever, in my perlite and refined manner, I did try to do a spot of work educatin', here or there, puttin' in a drop of enlightenment.
I didn't go in hell for leather, economics EXCLUSIVE, straight at once. I had to find out how the old show was runnin'. Runnin' DOWN.
I say it was runnin' DOWN. I began to say that in my poetry. "This land turns evil slowly. "
Treatin' it by way of young man's intuition, I said something about getting the SENSE of a city, like the savage hunter has the sense of the forest. Somethin' was running DOWN.
? There is a poem, not by me, back in Blast, about a mud hydro. That was healthy mud, by comparison.
Then after I saw it was BAD, I began to wonder how you could fix it. After ten year askin' questions, askin' 'em of Bank Lawyers, askin' 'em of Max Pam or any other wise guy I could git near to. After ten years, I say, I began to get top sides with the subject. Usury, profits, monopolization of money.
Then I began diggin' into American history, and other history. All there plain as a biscuit. But the means of TELLIN you people ? That was the question. Oh Hamlet. Oh village hamlets. Big papers did NOT want open discussion--it had to be bootlegged.
Then there was "education" beginning with the top shelves of the colleges. I am goin' to quote from a paper with an equine title printed out in Wisconsin. A little magazine, the kind that comes up alive and dies down usually rather sudden, inside a couple of years. Along in the Spring of 1935 I came up with this answer to those young editors in their quarterly as follows:
The best I can do in reply to yours is to offer programs recalling a few FACTS. For 30 years I have been trying to reorganize the study of literature so that it would be of some use to the student, and for 15 I have been trying to reorganize education, in general, to the same end.
The best I can tell you to date, is contained in my ABC of Reading and in my ABC of Economics with the volumes following it, Social Credit, an Impact; Jefferson and/or Mussolini (then in press).
Why aren't they used as YOUR textbooks ? For advanced students, there is my Make it New, which must be correlated with my ABC of Reading if you are clearly to see what it is driving at.
If American students will recognize that Universities are there to prepare students for life in a given country and in a given TIME, and insist on finding out what will help them to LIVE in that place and time, they can
? ? get their four years' worth. No body can do this for the students. They have got to do it for themselves.
"Mark Hopkins on one end of the log, and the student on the other. "
When Abelard was kicked out of the University of Paris 5,000 students followed him into the country, [where] there were no dormitories and million dollar gymnasia. That is the sort of thing that spells "revival of learning" or "intellectual rebirth. "
My generation was brought up ham ignorant of economics. History was taught with OMISSIONS of the most vital facts. Every page our generation read was over shadowed by usury. Not only was the press false, but every current idea had been warped by generations of antecedent perversion.
The ACID TEST of public men today is plain and simple. MISTRUST any man, no matter how high in office who tries to get you AWAY from the questions:
WHAT is money?
Who makes it?
How is it issued?
Why can't the WHOLE people buy what the WHOLE people produces?
Start on that at once, and throw out any man who won't give you a straight answer. You can not cure Wisconsin in Pekin. I mean, start where you are. Don't let anyone wriggle out of LOCAL honesty, by talking internationally. Investigate the Carnegie Peace Foundation. When you find out why they avoid the study of the economic causes of war, you'll be part way toward preventing another.
? Printed in Wisconsin in the spring of 1935, LONG before Hitler was so influential in world affairs.
You can lead a Rocking Horse to water, but you can't make him drink it.
And young America's problem is what was young England's problem. And the answers were KNOWN; the answers COULD have been broadcast, the answers could have been printed in daily papers, they could have been taught in the schools, they could have been used as the basis for action. I mean political action. And WHAT prevented it?
Waaal, go ask yourselves what prevented it ? Ask yourselves why these things were NOT widely printed ? Why the real thought of the American founders was hidden, stuffed into corners ? Why every man in England who foresaw disaster, and who saw HOW England could have avoided it IF . . . Why these men were NOT heeded. Why they were hugger-muggered out of the way, or reduced, shall we say often by FEAR, into silence.
Not all were afraid, some were prudent. Where are they ? Some of 'em got out in front. Now where are they ? Where are the back seaters, the men who knew, but saw no way to ACT on their knowledge ? The men who assembled tiny minorities ? Waaal, where are they ? And when will the people learn wisdom?
OZeus.
O Chan Ti, how long is the time lag?
#18 (March 22, 1942) U. K. (B20) BUT HOW?
? I unhooked my radio the other night and the word REVOLUTION came floatin' over the ambient air. Very English voice, usin' the word RE VO LU TION.
And I thought, yaaas, very nice but HOW' ? How CAN they revolute.
Conjure up to my mind the pale grey light in Kensington Gardens, and the gulls floatin' over the round pond, and the so very quiet demeanor of the nicely dressed females that used to float up the broadwalk, along about 1910. How CAN THEY revolute?
Yaas, I hear Bela Kun was over in England, he was a revolution, bloody murder and all the trimmings. But does Kensington revolute?
I am so old I can remember the end of the nineteenth century, that is the century before this one that is gettin' on to be nigh half gone. How impressed the American visitors were by the beef-eaters in the Tower, and the teacups at Windsor and Stratford-on-Avon, with the coats of arms glazed into the chimney, and the quiet lawn in the park, and a time when the Route du Roi wasn't so rotten. The Row, not of course that I knew the riders, save occasionally Mr. Cunninghame Graham, a fine figure on horse back, and ole Colonel Jackson, suggestin' I should dine at his club, he wantin' to see the expressions on the faces of his contemporaries when faced with the vorticist movement. Well, all that must be fairly well bygone.
The question is how do folks revolute ? The Rooshians do it with fire and sword, and very unpleasant tortures. Very unEnglish, as England used to be in my memory. How DO you revolute?
Can you revolute without contacts, without collaboration, without COMMUNICATION ? I think not.
Yaas, there is Cripps. He didn't use to be there so much. In fact my sole memory of Stafford is secondhand, old Nelly Weaver saying "A
? DREADFUL man! " Seems like she had a cousin, that was manager, or editor, or managing editor of a paper called Pig and Piffle, I mean by its own staff in private. And it sold for a lot less than it cost, I mean it cost, let us say, ten pence a copy to print, and sold retail for a six pence, and turned over ten or twenty thousand a year in net profits.
Anyhow, Nelly's cousin died, and left his sons in Cripps' charge, Cripps being trustee or guardian, so my memory of Stafford boils down to Miss Nelly a sayin'
"A DREADFUL man! Heaven KNOWS what he is teaching the boys! "
Waaal, if heaven didn't know then, mebbe heaven will find out during the next few week's course of hostilities.
I mean internal hostilities. I don't know that England learns from abroad. I dunno that the fall of Madras, or Calcutta will teach you folks anything, cause Hong Kong, Singapore and the Island Indies don't seem to have started you. But mebbe a few INTERNAL hostilities ? Heaven knows!
Back in Queen Elizabeth's time, farmin' out their estates to some usurer, gettin' out of their feudal duties, Cobbett and Hobhouse--all sorts of velleities toward reform; confined to a few special segments. Lord, can you call 'em segments. They were mostly kind hearted fellows, thought to be CRANKS by the public.
Can you have ANY collaboration if you don't MEET ? How can you meet in a CITY, unless you are financed?
Yaas, you can, or COULD meet on a street corner, or in by Mubble Arch, so long as you didn't do anything SERIOUS.
Ole Kun, Cohen, Be? la was serious. People in Budapest found out he was serious. Mebbe Sir Stafford is SERIOUS. The bolo agents in
? England were serious, when I was last there, the top numbers in the Communist Party were all paid by Moscow, which as you know is sometimes paid by New York or London.
It WAS known to your intelligence service, all their numbers were listed, all of 'em engaged in industrial espionage. I am not tellin' anything to you that some of your own rulers don't KNOW.
And now we hear of the SCORCHED EARTH policy. Git ready for an invasion. Cit ready to destroy all that is left you. Bum down your houses.
Waaal, WHO is a going to live in those ruins?
An invading army, if it ever gits into London, would, one would suppose, pick its own quarters; and a man that had burnt down his own bedroom would be left to sleep in the ashes.
Margey Daw, see saw, and the rest of it.
Do you think the people who tell you to burn down your houses and get ready for bombing raids for North Ireland, droppin' leaflets saying they only do it to help you ? Do you think that these people LOVE you?
Have you got any data about the Ukraine ? I am movin' toward this proposition. I assume that some of you did NOT want Mr. Churchill. He was not a pig in a poke. He may have been a Baldwin piglet, but he certainly was not CONcealed from the purchaser.
Take Carolyn Bellairs, for example, Carolyn Bellairs did NOT want Mr. Churchill. I dunno whether he, Bellairs, has yet joined Domvile in Jail. We do NOT git detailed news of your family squabbles. But I assume the Navy and the Army did contain at least a nucleus of men, with enough sense NOT to want Churchill.
? I assume that there was a tiny, and languid minority who did NOT acquiesce DEElightedly in a war, which was KNOWN to be going to have such consequences as the whole world now sees it havin'.
Revolution di PALAIS ? Is that it ? Do you think you can balayer the palais ? Do you think you can have a nice little revolution, in the colors of Mr. Watt's Hope Soap and Charity?
AH yes, but the MONEY. I am castin' about in my mind for some way you could CLEAN your own sewers.
Oh, but you say, we don't WANT to clean the sewers, we just want to dust out the draaaawin' room.
I comprehend you. But is that just what you can do?
I was for years all for a nice sensible bit of reform but Mr. Rothschild, and Mr. Sieff, and the rest of the British powers, Mond, Kataan, Sas soon, and the rest of 'em weren't very keen to nice reforms discussed in their papers.
They put in such blokes as Eden. They put OUT anybody who said anything sensible. Nice old gentlemen, who would edge up to the truth, talkin' about remonitization of silver, or some VERY mild infraction of the gold-bugs monopoly. They, the nice old members of the respectable knighthood, or elderly colonels, who remembered the end of the other war, they would get sent out to Karachi, to keep 'em from impeding the traffic (traffic in gold, and in loans at high interest) or at low interest, sometimes not more than 30 or 40% on the real money handled.
CAN YOU MEET one another ? Your air isn't free. Open organizations have been "put inside. " No chance of marching 'round swinging green banners; presenting petitions to the King, about Coventry. Nothing but SECRET organization. Ever hear of the Fenians?
? Or revolution in the PALACE ? Well, where do we go from here ? Art revolution ? Need three or four men even to make an ART movement function.
Can't do it in politics without at least some sort of COMMON ground, common agreement.
You do NOT believe in the total abolition of property--meaning of private ownership of your homes, and fir fields. Lord, who has any FIELDS left ? I dunno. Say your house and suburban garden. What about homesteads ? The air is NOT yours. The press is NOT yours. Communications by private automobile are said to be gettin' scarcer. In London you do not MEET, no man knows any other, at least not to any extent.
How can you defend your homesteads from Cripps ? Homesteads ? Your bed chamber, your kitchenette, and your telephone, all of 'em rented. God help you. You better start SOMETIME.
Ezra Pound speakin'.
Yaaas, SOME time, while Sir Stafford is goin' big out in India, agreein' on the TOTAL abolution of private property, him and the Aga Kahn, and the gaekwar of Baroda. Pardon me, the Tovarish of Baroda.
#19 (March 23, 1942) U. S. & U. K. (B22) BUT HOW ? SECOND ITEM
It was not the present speaker, but an Englishman, I believe an absolutely loyal Englishman, a sort of Royalist, not Mr. Eliot, but at any rate a King's man, and so far as I recall a man who had no Fascist or Nazi sympathies, who on May 11th, 1939 uttered the statement I am about to repeat to you. Get the date, May eleventh, 1939.
? There is NO mystery whatsoever about the disappearance of Mr. Litvinov from the political scene. The Soviet Foreign Minister vacated his office because he failed to deliver "the goods" demanded by the masters of Wall Street and Moscow. New methods to secure these "goods" will now assuredly be given a trial.
What are these "goods? " Nothing other than Great Britain, captive and in chains. Great Britain stripped of her empire, above all Great Britain, ruined financially by the collapse of the Pound Sterling and the system called "barter trading" which is based upon that money.
There, gentle Briton, you have it. Your own heroes have told you. And your own true men you have heard NOT.
