" To defend Britain it was not
necessary
to intervene in every Balkan problem.
Ezra-Pound-Speaking
K.
up to a point.
Fight for survival, that's health.
Man ought to fight for survival, and for RACIAL survival.
But are you fightin' for racial survival?
I doubt it.
I doubt if you have got to thinkin' of racial survival.
I suggest you start thinkin'.
British instinct had paled, lot of 'em so worn down they are ready to prefer suicide. I mean consciously. De facto, as a matter of fact, they've been suicidin' their race for some time. Even openly gloryin' in the small family, gloryin' in not breedin'. That is NOT aimed at survival. My fight from bad temper and natural kussedness, that also is understandable, but not admirable.
The English and the Americans, IF they ever fight to survive will, I think, have to come to the European state of enlightenment. They will have to fight on a basis of race. Other bases have failed 'em. Got to organize on basis of race, thereAFTER you might arrange an agreement
? of races, of racial strains, but be careful. One bad apple stinks up the whole barrel. Congressional votin' systems are all superficial, well not wholly superficial, BUT there has got to be something down under, got to be conviction, a reality, can't be all hoakum and shysters.
Of course you COULD put Congress on the air. Then you would know more of what your representatives are puttin' ON you. You could AGAIN learn from Europe. Remember our system was set up after careful study of anterior institutions, study of the British old system, with hopes to improve it.
You could keep the Constitution, and under that Constitution every state in the Union could reorganize its system of representation. Any or every state could elect its Congressmen on trade basis. Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, or Delaware (it might be rather difficult in the barony) but any or every state could organize its congressional representation on a corporate basis. Carpenters, artisans, mechanics, could have one representative; writers, doctors, and lawyers could have one representative. You could perfectly legally and constitutionally divide up the representatives of any or every state on the basis of trades and professions and the life of that state, every man in it, would gain REPRESENTATION in Congress; and Congress would take on an honesty and reality that no American in our time has dreamed of.
Present Congressmen are mostly so ignorant that some people have thought it might be useful to have a bit of congressional education. Insist on Congressmen being able to pass an exam in at least SOME of the subject matters they are expected to vote on. That would be like Chinese Mandarin system. Well no, that glorious exam system in China had merits. It also presents possibilities for not workin' perfectly. It might, I don't say it mightn't be well for Congressmen to pass an exam, before they become eligible for NOMINATION. That I would tend to be all for. BUT I see difficulties. I think the representation by trades and profession would be a better way out, with, if you like, DIFFERENT exams for the
? different trades and professions. That could do no harm whatsoever. Man to represent steel workers, to be able to show he knows the workin' of steel; miner to know the workin' of mines; professional to
REPRESENT his profession, really to represent his profession, the best qualities, most acute knowledge of his profession. That would certainly lead to efficiency, health regulations would be decided by someone who knew something about sanitation. Rules for minin' coal, rates per day, decided by someone who knows coal don't just crawl out of a mine, while somebody sits round playin' pinochle.
On that memorable occasion when I penetrated the dim and useless halls of the British Parliament, TWO men said somethin' sensible. Of course no attention was paid to 'em. Lloyd George got up and barked, and Cecil emitted some dribble. But one man had been down in a mine, he explained how coal lies in the rock; one man had been in an engine room. Of course no attention was paid to 'em. BUT if they had been talkin' to representatives of their own trades and professions, what they said would have been effective.
When the interest and knowledge of a trade has been concentrated in a proposal, that proposal should go to the kindred trades, and when there is a clash of THEIR interests, that should work up and be decided according to the national interest. As practically DOES not occur in the present English and American parliamentary systems, in which the people merely get buffaloed. Where decisions are bought, or hugger- muggered thru by what is called "pressure," alias bribes and boycott. All these devilments would be much harder to put over in a chamber organized on trade and professional basis. I am tellin' you. I am just tellin' you. As Jimmy Whistler said to the painter, Chase, I say I am not arguin', I am just tellin' you.
You can keep the ole Constitution. Mostly sailors and landlubbers no longer care, but as a technicality (if no more than that) I am tellin' you. Lots of folks want to bust it, so as to fish in the troubled waters, lots of
? folks want to keep it rusty and inefficient, so'z it won't interfere with their various rackets.
I am tellin' you how to oil up the machine, and change a few gadgets so that it would work as the founders intended.
#56 (July 17, 1942) U. S. (B69) PERFECT PHRASING
As a writer, oh a quite persistent writer (if I am not patient, thank God I am persistent) as a writer I object to the misuse of words. No man will ever be a great writer, not even a good writer, a useful craftsman of letters if he persists in misusin' words. Such for example as writin' or sayin' DEMocracy when he means judeaocracy, or when nothin' but his bone ignorance of the facts, past and present, prevents him from knowin' that he is talkin' about judaeocracy. I suggest that with 8 or 10 million hebes in America, it is time you at least devoted as much attention to the problem (Oh it's a problem O. K. ) as has been devoted to Pueblos, the Spanish convents in N. Mexico and S. California.
Cause you haven't yet done so, and time presses, oh yes, time presses, and politics became pressure politics, and Jews became very precious or at least very dear to some circles, dear AND expensive. All them Morgenthau dollars for example: your dollars pumped into London, buyin' NO food for the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of that metropolis.
Take it back to the Talmud, dirty, greasy old Talmud, all flesh is grass for the Hebrew pasture, human material, just browsin' 'round, innocent as lambkins at Easter, cute an' amusin', no shame. Appeal to pity, and-- -- more so, appeal to greed; if you got it, appeal to vanity, that is, give you publicity, advertise everything you don't need or want until you think you want it. And then, brother, you are hooked. You want a new automobile violet tinted, you want a Tudor mansion, a trailer, a penthouse, all in the fashion paper, keep up with the Jones's. And lose
? the colonial ease, lose that homemade product of thick cream by the quart solid with peaches, that ice cream like used to be made in American kitchens. Mortgage your farm to the milk companies.
Why don't you study the phenomenon, the mode of being of your invaders? Don't get excited. The subject is full of interest for the psychologist . . . and sociologist. "The fewer the higher. " Lord, how that phrase puzzled us sophomores back in 1900 and one or two. The fewer, the higher. How ANY bit of absolute nonsense catches on in America. How the substitution of the ridiculous for the fine order is popular. Billikins, and the rest of it, ain't he cute!
Now in proportion to a nation's ignorance, or its chickenheadedness (its habit of INattention), it is easy to victimize. [The] Roman empire got a bit lazy and sleepy, back in the old Roman imperial days' great upheavals, upheavals, persecutin's of Christians. Factions within the church, crusades (vide Brooks Adams). Economic factors, all very interestin' if you have a serious turn of mind! Then the wars of religion. What caused 'em? Then the turn about, one nation after another decided to turn out the Jews. France turned 'em out under some Louis or other. Been makin' laws since time of Philippe le Bel and Philippe Auguste. Anyhow, when France got rid of 'em, France rose up and became La Grande Nation. I don't fancy Louis XIV but in his day France was important. Had, in fact according to some sort of reckonin' 38% of the population of the great powers. I don't know just what they figured to be great powers on that statistical table, but by 1789 France had 27%, and now has 13%.
And nobody with ANY historical knowledge says that the French revolution occurred without Jewish assistance. Nor that since that somewhat bloody upset and series of subsequent upsets the Jew warnt cockawhoop in the French capital. A knowledge of the French commune would have helped us to understand the Russian November revolution IF
? we had had it. But handy and useful knowledge has a teasy way of gettin' mislaid. Now what causes that?
Napoleon wanted to be real nice to the Hebrews, and they ditched him. Oh yes, they ditched him. Italy was bein' humane to the Jews, and they started gittin' rambunctious. Partly because of Italian clarity. Italian perception that Kuhn Loeb had a hand in Russia. Wasn't that funny? And now you got Soviets right in the home. Or at least in old English cloisters almost adjacent. [The] Archbishop prayin' for no-goditer Russia. The British are funny people. Character, England the home of what was called character, crusted, crusted characters, crusted pert. Why don't you meet your allies? Now Mr. Browder is out to be President, with ten million Jewish votes. For democracy.
Do you admire what the Jews have done for England? I mean, is that what you want done to YOU? Or the work in the Stalin canal zone? Is that your ideal for the future? And the substitution of the Talmud for Tacitus in our most refined university circles?
Lady I know met her dusky ex-kitchen maid goin' to, is it George Washington University, the dark one in Washington, takin' elective subjects, in her case, black lady's case, it was Hebrew. How quaint.
As the damsel of color said to Mr. Sitwell: "are you high class? " Mr. S. allowed he was class, and she continued: "I don't hold with race prejudice, but I think the classes should be kept separate. "
I don't believe in race prejudice, but I do believe in the study of history. So far as is known the dark Africans have done no harm to civilization for over two thousand years. S. Zeno was an African, St. Augustine had an African style, as they tell me, and it warn't good for the writin' of Latin, or at least some writers objected. But that is about the extent, debatable extent, of the damage. But all races are perhaps not useful to the concert or concord of nations.
? Undoubtedly the simpler the race, the easier it is to bamboozle it. Look at the Mujiks, perfect happy huntin' ground for the Hebrews. And the slow witted Britons, well they hold up being slow. Their wreck took at least from Cromwell to 1939. A tough and pugnacious people, but your fibre is thinner. I don't mean your granddad's personal fiber wasn't as tough as or more so than any Britons, but your social order is looser, more gangly. Organized political action has NOT been an American talent, no CONstructive political organization for the past 80 years. And your ignorance has been a spreadin'. [The] contents of the American mind been gittin' more and more flimsy every day of the week since Andrew Johnson got pushed out of the White House.
Even Henry James noted the strength of the executive, but bein' a kid glover did not dwell much on the topic. Notice the habit of JOININ, Mr. Gallatin joined Mr. Jefferson. It is said they do not want to form any opinion IN PARTICULAR, they just want to be in a position to form opinion. Look at that lousy KEN [? ] assembled a committee to decide which policy would PAY best, then started on those lines. Always on BOTH side of a question, some of 'em here, some there. Always have conservative papers and left-wing papers, both of which avoid severe topics, such as the problem of interest.
Man said to me, "[Why] his manager spent 30 thousand dollars gettin' the nomination! He was goof, he could have had it for SIX, six thousand dollars. " Otherwise to be classified: devise on temporary debility of a so- called great party.
Why confuse judaeocracy with DEMocracy? And why not DO somethin' about it, if you wish to survive. I personally am all for survival. I should like some AMERICAN life to survive. I should like to see some 100 million Americans represented in Washington, I mean in the government, gettin' the things they want.
? I can't believe the sons or descendents of the Massachusetts colony, the Connecticut colony, or even the sons of Rhode Island really want to PAY two dollars for every dollar spent by the government. I feel sure Alabama doesn't. Nor does Nebraska, nor Kansas, nor Idaho, nor Wyoming.
I am sorry this question of industrial silver has come up so soon after the arrival of Sassoon in America. I wonder if you have mortgaged any of your silver mines to him. I wonder if you have, or had, swapped a few of 'em to him for some of his hop joints, opium smokeries in Singapore and Shanghai, just a bit before the Japanese got so active.
Of course industrial use is the future of silver. As for gold it is a bit heavy to use copper-bottomin' in boats with, and said to be a soft metal. I s'pose they'll find some kind of alloy that will harden it up into sothing useful . . . some day . . . and plenty of people still wearin' it inside their faces. But porcelain is more in fashion for high class dentist's work in most countries.
EZRA Pound speaking. Why did you get into this war?
#57 (July 19, 1942) U. K. (B73) JULY 16TH, AN ANNIVERSARY
Several thousands of people in England may recall where they spent the evening of July 16th in the far off and happy year of 1939. In fact only three years ago, the British world bore a different aspect. And of the thousands [who] remember that evening, a few may be fortunate enough to be able to hear the reminder. A. British patriot was offering them in the midst of the world's most prosperous empire, a patriot was offering them FOUR points of sanity. And the text was "A Million Britons shall not die in a Jew's quarrel.
" To defend Britain it was not necessary to intervene in every Balkan problem. Britain could be strong enough to defend herself WITHOUT entangling alliances in Eastern Europe, I
? might add in the interests of the Sassoon. Britain had her own man power. Live and let live.
FOUR POINTS: 1. Disinterest in Eastern Europe. 2. Disarmament in Western Europe. 3. Return of the German colonies, which England did not need, as [she] already held a quarter of the world. 4. Concentration on their shamefully neglected British Empire itself.
Might of Japan as the more imminent threat to British Empire. The speaker at Earls Court also pointed out that Japan constituted a far more effective menace to the Empire than did Germany. That Europe was divided by a financier's vendetta. He even mentioned kicking [out] of [the] British at Tientsin. Three years have passed. I think Germany will get back her colonies. Japan has already demonstrated her capacity. The British Press was then, and still is controlled by Jew financiers. Money then could not be found for New Zealand and Newfoundland, but industries in China, India, and Japan were being financed with British capital in order to depress the industries of Lancashire and Yorkshire. There was no such thing as free press in England. The Union of the British people was urged. The old parties do NOT seem to have served you up to the "optimum" if I may be permitted to use that new bit of slang.
My scrapbooks may be unsystematic, my plan doesn't run. I don't run to a filing system, but the oddments are fairly rich. Next to that Earl's Court program I find a cuttin' of August 3 of the same fatal year, 1939. And the olive blossoms were rich in that year. LOANS from England to friendly nations in Europe then totaled, according to the Times, thirty-one million sterling plus: Turkey, 16; Poland, a bit over 8; Rumania, 5 and a half; Greece, 2 million 40 thousand. Poles had not accepted conditions for another 5 million. The 8 million plus said to be repayable during 16 years, beginning 1941. Loan to the Orient, interest paid in cheap cotton goods, ruin of Manchester. Loans to South America, interest in beef and
? ruin of British cattle grazing. British people will never apparently understand the effects of international usury.
Nor of course that of usury in the home, municipal rates, proportion of taxes that go to interest payment, in short strangle hold of high kikers, its servants and its affiliates. Death by exhaustion of England, unless the RACE revives, and stands as a race, and until you stop accepting foreign Jews setting up every kike refugee as a provisional government of some country that IS NOT the land of his fathers. The only kike country is probably Samaria, and you have not yet appointed an ambassador to Tel Aviv. Or have you, or would that imply welching a bit on your promises to the Arabs?
Masochistic yidds shrieking, howling for the destruction of Paris (along with dear Winnie). Eve Curie howling that America shall not feed French children. YOU will have to look into the question of race. You will have to remember the tradition of thoroughbreds if you want to make ANY sort of comeback. An alternative? Laski's protocols. Well: COMPARE Laski's aims WITH the protocols. Dear old Snow White, and tender, or Young or whatever his name is ought to meet Laski right in the home, right in ZION, right in the Talmud, which is his spiritual habitat. It is the touching and surprising ignorance of that more than wasteland, oh-- --don't suppose it IS surprising. You have read the Times and the Telegraph for so long. And I still have somewhere in my files the correspondence with the old Morning Post received here when I suggested they print a line from the Raffalovitch correspondence concerning a little douceurs to the Times and Telegraph.
Well, I wonder where the old honest Englishmen are in this hour? -- -- still mildly elegiaic, I suppose. Still thinking there is some other reading of Genesis. The Gods made heaven and earth. Then came Jehoveh and the Jew boy. I made it, get the hell out of here.
? That is your story, oh England! Wilberforce may be regretted, men who remember a DIFFERENT England haven't all died yet. Normalization of chewisch relations, Jew promises the rump of England world dominion, no, not even that promise. In partnership mit dh yitts. The distinguished French, Dutch, Polish, etc. Yitts, and of course the Yitt are to hold, well let us say 51% of the stock, or that isss too little if Rothschildt puts up 75% of the money, by chewisch consortium. Call it Geneva or what not, so the chews should have 87% of the control. But the lords will all have dummy directorates, at from 5 to 40 thousand per year. Lord Beit, Lord Melchett, Lord Goldsmid, the flower of Chivalry und Lord Burnham. And Lord Laski, and then the commune. Laski's program IS the program of the Protocols? Have you yet heard of the Protocols? The intrinsic matter OF the protocols, whoever wrote 'em. Compare IT. Compare it with what you are offered.
And then the so-called racial hatreds, what chance the Frenchman you dislike ISN'T a Frenchman AT ALL? That the European you dislike, the continental you dislike, isn't a European AT all? That needs looking into. Yes, you all have a few Jews that you like? Think it over? Is it quite satisfactory? They are everywhere save in one or two small organizations. I know of a third which applied the proportional quota.
Horrors of antisemitism. What about the horrors of NOT having a sane bit of discretion, as France under Blum, and Reynaud?
When I started walkin' 'round the South and Center of France in 1912 I found a VERY different race and spirit from that of Paris Montmartre and putridity-- --and the rest of it. As late as 1922 there were still some French left in the onzie`me arrondissement.
I saw Blum at a press lunch sometime after 1927. I am not sure of the date. The impression was unfavorable. I don't think he fooled Sparrow Robertson either. There was a certain lack of frankness in Blum's exposition. Certain phases he seemed rather to wish to avoid. And you in
? England seem to me rather to fall short in that swift perception of relations, which Aristotle so admired. I mean if YOU fail and PERSIST in failing to perceive a relation between Blum, Laski and Reynaud, verbum sapienti verbum.
Well, a word to the sap-head is quite ineffective, it leaves the sap-head unsatisfied.
#58 (July 20, 1942) U. K. (B71) SUPERSTITION
You ought not to be at war against Italy. You ought not to be giving or ever to have given the slightest or most picayune aid to any man or nation engaged in makin' war against Italy. You are doin' it for a false accountancy system. You ought to go down on your knees and thank God for Italy, thank God an Italian, possessed of Mediterranean sanity, showed the first ray of light in the general darkness, showed a way to git you out of the hell made by a false accountancy system. Or I don't care if you go down on your knees you can set with your head in your hands or you can go out muskelunge fishin', but you ought to be thankful.
All purchasin' power does NOT come from labor, not in the world as you have known it. And NOTHING good in that world NEEDED to have come from false accountancy. You were buffaloed into thinking that false accountancy helped some of you to play golf and own automobiles. And that was just BUNCOMB. The Loeb chart showed it was buncomb. But you didn't read or didn't understand the Loeb chart. All purchasing power does NOT come from labor. But you were so ignorant of the timing of labor that you thought you needed to be scared to death of Gottfried Feder
You are at war to conceal the fact that a lot of purchasing power, a lot of capital comes from a hoax. Damn the hoax. But don't go out and die for
? just bein' idiots. Or for your tolerance of being run and ruled over by dumheads who are pushed on by shysters.
Feder's sentence was simple and clear. It contains about all mankind needs to know about economics. But only the very intelligent know enough that it is the root fact. Hence the need for more explanation.
Feder got it into one sentence and Germany rose from her ashes, ran from her miseries and her chaos. Douglas (C. H. ) found it out. But he said it with more wrappings and trappin's; and England went further and FURTHER into the discard. However, that sentence of Feder's gives about all you need as a basis for Social Credit, by the light of which truth Alberta at least had a Prime Minister. At least declined to lie passive and sign on the dotted line, and SAY all glory to the Soviet's owners.
Douglas was a worryin' about so much, his first volume is very moral. He made a mistake (or not) as the case may be, but mebbe he made a mistake in not being more moral. He was gunnin' for practicality. He knew the kind of S. O. B. who was runnin' the rackets. The rackets INC. The high courtly, pompous high hatted rackets, the British Empire and its succursales. The slave works on which the sun never rose. Page Judge Colahan about the Kingdom of England's interests. And Douglas tried to argue. Thought avarice was the human motive, thought comfort was the human motive.
England doesn't much like ideas. We have been buffaloed. English so worn down they glorified muddle. Glory of the intellect was represented as spiritual pride, by such low grade intellects as the Episcopal British bumbishops. Oh Lord! grovelin' humility is an old wheeze. Every time a Christian wanted to get anything done he was told to be humble. Veritable grovel of humility was set up as an idol as an ideal norm of conduct, also muddle. Brits were told muddle was kindness, and proof of a superior civilization. Gloried in muddle, abhorred anything lucid. You
? can put the blame on the climate. Well the U. S. hasn't the fog-bound excuse, there is clear air. Arizona and Nebraska. Why muddle, why muddle any longer, why grovel before your bond-holders? And why, on the other hand, be buffaloed by the half-baked idiot who says there ought to be NO stock that pays interest on productive investment, by which I mean share holding, sharing in [a] proper sense, SHARIN' in the fruits of labor and design combined into industry. Why be bolshevised, that is, hoaxed, into thinking every man ought to be a lavatory attendant?
There are resources of American production, or at least there WERE, before Roosevelt canned 'em. Before ALL useful effort, or half the national income, or whatever you hoaxers call it, should be turned into making tank for Chiang Kai-Shek that he can't get because your air force ain't strong enough to tote them over the N. Pole BY AIR.
Naturally IF all or most the American production effort is turned into making munitions to be sunk on the high seas, there will be LESS production of American comfort. Mince pies will have less proper ingredients, short cake will run short, and strawberries rise in price on the internal market. You will be told: yes, we have no bananas, sweet potatoes, or even cabbage.
Mebbe the Americans of European origin and of African origin for that matter ought to leave N. Y. , leave Manhattan Island, retire to the American mainland, and make the cloak and suit trade pay for its eggs and spinach.
But the world's thought goes marchin' on. No Lenin's body, no cubic mausoleum, all that is old stuff. You ought to wake up and listen. I mean listen to something BETTER, and can the shysters; turn out the pikers and shysters, and at least put a dent in your ignorance. I am willing to believe in the existence of Christians. I have met very few. I know one obstinate Christian, obstinate from sheer ignorance, but with rather less
? e? lan, less enthusiasm than one associates with feelings about a Yale- Princeton game.
I have known men go into the church from policy. I can recall one serious Christian, the head of Fordham University. When I talk into [the] microphone, I have to think of at least one or more people who might conceivably understand what I am saying. I should like someone to notify Father Miller or any other serious Christian that I propose to speak on the topic: what is wrong with Christianity? And the answer is: it is completely DEmoralized. I mean that in [the] strict sense, ALL morality has been carefully and gradually and over a period of centuries [been] removed from it. All coherent ethics, or all ethical system has been extracted from it. Trickled out, got mislaid. The lllovely hymns sung in Equador by the strawberry tenor, no, not a whisky tenor, a real strawberry ice-cream-soda tenor, down in Equador singing sentimental church hymns, or singing Christian hymns in a moonlight manner. ALL for the sake of diddling the S. Americans and maintainin' a ROTTEN false accountancy system. That is one phase. Temple prayin' for the no- godites in Cuntyburry Cathedrau. That's another. Identification of Christianity with greed. The American Catholic bishop's economic manifesto, that is a sign the other way. I will allude to that some time.
Christian ethics. I 'spose there must be a chair or settee of Christian ethics in some American theological college, must be courses in ethics in at least four or five universities. How does ethics match up with Christianity, I mean Christianity on the hoof, as preached and as practiced? Perhaps ought to say: as muddled.
Restoration of slavery in Abyssinia, or looking back a bit, policy of maintaining a powder keg "in the Balkans. " POLICY, British policy, your Ally's policy of deliberately maintaining impoverished, disordered areas hither an' yon. Abyssinia, Balkans (proverbial powder keg), Skoda gun works. NOT for any honest avowable aim. Simply for [the] sake of having something into which war torch can be thrown.
British instinct had paled, lot of 'em so worn down they are ready to prefer suicide. I mean consciously. De facto, as a matter of fact, they've been suicidin' their race for some time. Even openly gloryin' in the small family, gloryin' in not breedin'. That is NOT aimed at survival. My fight from bad temper and natural kussedness, that also is understandable, but not admirable.
The English and the Americans, IF they ever fight to survive will, I think, have to come to the European state of enlightenment. They will have to fight on a basis of race. Other bases have failed 'em. Got to organize on basis of race, thereAFTER you might arrange an agreement
? of races, of racial strains, but be careful. One bad apple stinks up the whole barrel. Congressional votin' systems are all superficial, well not wholly superficial, BUT there has got to be something down under, got to be conviction, a reality, can't be all hoakum and shysters.
Of course you COULD put Congress on the air. Then you would know more of what your representatives are puttin' ON you. You could AGAIN learn from Europe. Remember our system was set up after careful study of anterior institutions, study of the British old system, with hopes to improve it.
You could keep the Constitution, and under that Constitution every state in the Union could reorganize its system of representation. Any or every state could elect its Congressmen on trade basis. Pennsylvania, or New Jersey, or Delaware (it might be rather difficult in the barony) but any or every state could organize its congressional representation on a corporate basis. Carpenters, artisans, mechanics, could have one representative; writers, doctors, and lawyers could have one representative. You could perfectly legally and constitutionally divide up the representatives of any or every state on the basis of trades and professions and the life of that state, every man in it, would gain REPRESENTATION in Congress; and Congress would take on an honesty and reality that no American in our time has dreamed of.
Present Congressmen are mostly so ignorant that some people have thought it might be useful to have a bit of congressional education. Insist on Congressmen being able to pass an exam in at least SOME of the subject matters they are expected to vote on. That would be like Chinese Mandarin system. Well no, that glorious exam system in China had merits. It also presents possibilities for not workin' perfectly. It might, I don't say it mightn't be well for Congressmen to pass an exam, before they become eligible for NOMINATION. That I would tend to be all for. BUT I see difficulties. I think the representation by trades and profession would be a better way out, with, if you like, DIFFERENT exams for the
? different trades and professions. That could do no harm whatsoever. Man to represent steel workers, to be able to show he knows the workin' of steel; miner to know the workin' of mines; professional to
REPRESENT his profession, really to represent his profession, the best qualities, most acute knowledge of his profession. That would certainly lead to efficiency, health regulations would be decided by someone who knew something about sanitation. Rules for minin' coal, rates per day, decided by someone who knows coal don't just crawl out of a mine, while somebody sits round playin' pinochle.
On that memorable occasion when I penetrated the dim and useless halls of the British Parliament, TWO men said somethin' sensible. Of course no attention was paid to 'em. Lloyd George got up and barked, and Cecil emitted some dribble. But one man had been down in a mine, he explained how coal lies in the rock; one man had been in an engine room. Of course no attention was paid to 'em. BUT if they had been talkin' to representatives of their own trades and professions, what they said would have been effective.
When the interest and knowledge of a trade has been concentrated in a proposal, that proposal should go to the kindred trades, and when there is a clash of THEIR interests, that should work up and be decided according to the national interest. As practically DOES not occur in the present English and American parliamentary systems, in which the people merely get buffaloed. Where decisions are bought, or hugger- muggered thru by what is called "pressure," alias bribes and boycott. All these devilments would be much harder to put over in a chamber organized on trade and professional basis. I am tellin' you. I am just tellin' you. As Jimmy Whistler said to the painter, Chase, I say I am not arguin', I am just tellin' you.
You can keep the ole Constitution. Mostly sailors and landlubbers no longer care, but as a technicality (if no more than that) I am tellin' you. Lots of folks want to bust it, so as to fish in the troubled waters, lots of
? folks want to keep it rusty and inefficient, so'z it won't interfere with their various rackets.
I am tellin' you how to oil up the machine, and change a few gadgets so that it would work as the founders intended.
#56 (July 17, 1942) U. S. (B69) PERFECT PHRASING
As a writer, oh a quite persistent writer (if I am not patient, thank God I am persistent) as a writer I object to the misuse of words. No man will ever be a great writer, not even a good writer, a useful craftsman of letters if he persists in misusin' words. Such for example as writin' or sayin' DEMocracy when he means judeaocracy, or when nothin' but his bone ignorance of the facts, past and present, prevents him from knowin' that he is talkin' about judaeocracy. I suggest that with 8 or 10 million hebes in America, it is time you at least devoted as much attention to the problem (Oh it's a problem O. K. ) as has been devoted to Pueblos, the Spanish convents in N. Mexico and S. California.
Cause you haven't yet done so, and time presses, oh yes, time presses, and politics became pressure politics, and Jews became very precious or at least very dear to some circles, dear AND expensive. All them Morgenthau dollars for example: your dollars pumped into London, buyin' NO food for the Anglo-Saxon inhabitants of that metropolis.
Take it back to the Talmud, dirty, greasy old Talmud, all flesh is grass for the Hebrew pasture, human material, just browsin' 'round, innocent as lambkins at Easter, cute an' amusin', no shame. Appeal to pity, and-- -- more so, appeal to greed; if you got it, appeal to vanity, that is, give you publicity, advertise everything you don't need or want until you think you want it. And then, brother, you are hooked. You want a new automobile violet tinted, you want a Tudor mansion, a trailer, a penthouse, all in the fashion paper, keep up with the Jones's. And lose
? the colonial ease, lose that homemade product of thick cream by the quart solid with peaches, that ice cream like used to be made in American kitchens. Mortgage your farm to the milk companies.
Why don't you study the phenomenon, the mode of being of your invaders? Don't get excited. The subject is full of interest for the psychologist . . . and sociologist. "The fewer the higher. " Lord, how that phrase puzzled us sophomores back in 1900 and one or two. The fewer, the higher. How ANY bit of absolute nonsense catches on in America. How the substitution of the ridiculous for the fine order is popular. Billikins, and the rest of it, ain't he cute!
Now in proportion to a nation's ignorance, or its chickenheadedness (its habit of INattention), it is easy to victimize. [The] Roman empire got a bit lazy and sleepy, back in the old Roman imperial days' great upheavals, upheavals, persecutin's of Christians. Factions within the church, crusades (vide Brooks Adams). Economic factors, all very interestin' if you have a serious turn of mind! Then the wars of religion. What caused 'em? Then the turn about, one nation after another decided to turn out the Jews. France turned 'em out under some Louis or other. Been makin' laws since time of Philippe le Bel and Philippe Auguste. Anyhow, when France got rid of 'em, France rose up and became La Grande Nation. I don't fancy Louis XIV but in his day France was important. Had, in fact according to some sort of reckonin' 38% of the population of the great powers. I don't know just what they figured to be great powers on that statistical table, but by 1789 France had 27%, and now has 13%.
And nobody with ANY historical knowledge says that the French revolution occurred without Jewish assistance. Nor that since that somewhat bloody upset and series of subsequent upsets the Jew warnt cockawhoop in the French capital. A knowledge of the French commune would have helped us to understand the Russian November revolution IF
? we had had it. But handy and useful knowledge has a teasy way of gettin' mislaid. Now what causes that?
Napoleon wanted to be real nice to the Hebrews, and they ditched him. Oh yes, they ditched him. Italy was bein' humane to the Jews, and they started gittin' rambunctious. Partly because of Italian clarity. Italian perception that Kuhn Loeb had a hand in Russia. Wasn't that funny? And now you got Soviets right in the home. Or at least in old English cloisters almost adjacent. [The] Archbishop prayin' for no-goditer Russia. The British are funny people. Character, England the home of what was called character, crusted, crusted characters, crusted pert. Why don't you meet your allies? Now Mr. Browder is out to be President, with ten million Jewish votes. For democracy.
Do you admire what the Jews have done for England? I mean, is that what you want done to YOU? Or the work in the Stalin canal zone? Is that your ideal for the future? And the substitution of the Talmud for Tacitus in our most refined university circles?
Lady I know met her dusky ex-kitchen maid goin' to, is it George Washington University, the dark one in Washington, takin' elective subjects, in her case, black lady's case, it was Hebrew. How quaint.
As the damsel of color said to Mr. Sitwell: "are you high class? " Mr. S. allowed he was class, and she continued: "I don't hold with race prejudice, but I think the classes should be kept separate. "
I don't believe in race prejudice, but I do believe in the study of history. So far as is known the dark Africans have done no harm to civilization for over two thousand years. S. Zeno was an African, St. Augustine had an African style, as they tell me, and it warn't good for the writin' of Latin, or at least some writers objected. But that is about the extent, debatable extent, of the damage. But all races are perhaps not useful to the concert or concord of nations.
? Undoubtedly the simpler the race, the easier it is to bamboozle it. Look at the Mujiks, perfect happy huntin' ground for the Hebrews. And the slow witted Britons, well they hold up being slow. Their wreck took at least from Cromwell to 1939. A tough and pugnacious people, but your fibre is thinner. I don't mean your granddad's personal fiber wasn't as tough as or more so than any Britons, but your social order is looser, more gangly. Organized political action has NOT been an American talent, no CONstructive political organization for the past 80 years. And your ignorance has been a spreadin'. [The] contents of the American mind been gittin' more and more flimsy every day of the week since Andrew Johnson got pushed out of the White House.
Even Henry James noted the strength of the executive, but bein' a kid glover did not dwell much on the topic. Notice the habit of JOININ, Mr. Gallatin joined Mr. Jefferson. It is said they do not want to form any opinion IN PARTICULAR, they just want to be in a position to form opinion. Look at that lousy KEN [? ] assembled a committee to decide which policy would PAY best, then started on those lines. Always on BOTH side of a question, some of 'em here, some there. Always have conservative papers and left-wing papers, both of which avoid severe topics, such as the problem of interest.
Man said to me, "[Why] his manager spent 30 thousand dollars gettin' the nomination! He was goof, he could have had it for SIX, six thousand dollars. " Otherwise to be classified: devise on temporary debility of a so- called great party.
Why confuse judaeocracy with DEMocracy? And why not DO somethin' about it, if you wish to survive. I personally am all for survival. I should like some AMERICAN life to survive. I should like to see some 100 million Americans represented in Washington, I mean in the government, gettin' the things they want.
? I can't believe the sons or descendents of the Massachusetts colony, the Connecticut colony, or even the sons of Rhode Island really want to PAY two dollars for every dollar spent by the government. I feel sure Alabama doesn't. Nor does Nebraska, nor Kansas, nor Idaho, nor Wyoming.
I am sorry this question of industrial silver has come up so soon after the arrival of Sassoon in America. I wonder if you have mortgaged any of your silver mines to him. I wonder if you have, or had, swapped a few of 'em to him for some of his hop joints, opium smokeries in Singapore and Shanghai, just a bit before the Japanese got so active.
Of course industrial use is the future of silver. As for gold it is a bit heavy to use copper-bottomin' in boats with, and said to be a soft metal. I s'pose they'll find some kind of alloy that will harden it up into sothing useful . . . some day . . . and plenty of people still wearin' it inside their faces. But porcelain is more in fashion for high class dentist's work in most countries.
EZRA Pound speaking. Why did you get into this war?
#57 (July 19, 1942) U. K. (B73) JULY 16TH, AN ANNIVERSARY
Several thousands of people in England may recall where they spent the evening of July 16th in the far off and happy year of 1939. In fact only three years ago, the British world bore a different aspect. And of the thousands [who] remember that evening, a few may be fortunate enough to be able to hear the reminder. A. British patriot was offering them in the midst of the world's most prosperous empire, a patriot was offering them FOUR points of sanity. And the text was "A Million Britons shall not die in a Jew's quarrel.
" To defend Britain it was not necessary to intervene in every Balkan problem. Britain could be strong enough to defend herself WITHOUT entangling alliances in Eastern Europe, I
? might add in the interests of the Sassoon. Britain had her own man power. Live and let live.
FOUR POINTS: 1. Disinterest in Eastern Europe. 2. Disarmament in Western Europe. 3. Return of the German colonies, which England did not need, as [she] already held a quarter of the world. 4. Concentration on their shamefully neglected British Empire itself.
Might of Japan as the more imminent threat to British Empire. The speaker at Earls Court also pointed out that Japan constituted a far more effective menace to the Empire than did Germany. That Europe was divided by a financier's vendetta. He even mentioned kicking [out] of [the] British at Tientsin. Three years have passed. I think Germany will get back her colonies. Japan has already demonstrated her capacity. The British Press was then, and still is controlled by Jew financiers. Money then could not be found for New Zealand and Newfoundland, but industries in China, India, and Japan were being financed with British capital in order to depress the industries of Lancashire and Yorkshire. There was no such thing as free press in England. The Union of the British people was urged. The old parties do NOT seem to have served you up to the "optimum" if I may be permitted to use that new bit of slang.
My scrapbooks may be unsystematic, my plan doesn't run. I don't run to a filing system, but the oddments are fairly rich. Next to that Earl's Court program I find a cuttin' of August 3 of the same fatal year, 1939. And the olive blossoms were rich in that year. LOANS from England to friendly nations in Europe then totaled, according to the Times, thirty-one million sterling plus: Turkey, 16; Poland, a bit over 8; Rumania, 5 and a half; Greece, 2 million 40 thousand. Poles had not accepted conditions for another 5 million. The 8 million plus said to be repayable during 16 years, beginning 1941. Loan to the Orient, interest paid in cheap cotton goods, ruin of Manchester. Loans to South America, interest in beef and
? ruin of British cattle grazing. British people will never apparently understand the effects of international usury.
Nor of course that of usury in the home, municipal rates, proportion of taxes that go to interest payment, in short strangle hold of high kikers, its servants and its affiliates. Death by exhaustion of England, unless the RACE revives, and stands as a race, and until you stop accepting foreign Jews setting up every kike refugee as a provisional government of some country that IS NOT the land of his fathers. The only kike country is probably Samaria, and you have not yet appointed an ambassador to Tel Aviv. Or have you, or would that imply welching a bit on your promises to the Arabs?
Masochistic yidds shrieking, howling for the destruction of Paris (along with dear Winnie). Eve Curie howling that America shall not feed French children. YOU will have to look into the question of race. You will have to remember the tradition of thoroughbreds if you want to make ANY sort of comeback. An alternative? Laski's protocols. Well: COMPARE Laski's aims WITH the protocols. Dear old Snow White, and tender, or Young or whatever his name is ought to meet Laski right in the home, right in ZION, right in the Talmud, which is his spiritual habitat. It is the touching and surprising ignorance of that more than wasteland, oh-- --don't suppose it IS surprising. You have read the Times and the Telegraph for so long. And I still have somewhere in my files the correspondence with the old Morning Post received here when I suggested they print a line from the Raffalovitch correspondence concerning a little douceurs to the Times and Telegraph.
Well, I wonder where the old honest Englishmen are in this hour? -- -- still mildly elegiaic, I suppose. Still thinking there is some other reading of Genesis. The Gods made heaven and earth. Then came Jehoveh and the Jew boy. I made it, get the hell out of here.
? That is your story, oh England! Wilberforce may be regretted, men who remember a DIFFERENT England haven't all died yet. Normalization of chewisch relations, Jew promises the rump of England world dominion, no, not even that promise. In partnership mit dh yitts. The distinguished French, Dutch, Polish, etc. Yitts, and of course the Yitt are to hold, well let us say 51% of the stock, or that isss too little if Rothschildt puts up 75% of the money, by chewisch consortium. Call it Geneva or what not, so the chews should have 87% of the control. But the lords will all have dummy directorates, at from 5 to 40 thousand per year. Lord Beit, Lord Melchett, Lord Goldsmid, the flower of Chivalry und Lord Burnham. And Lord Laski, and then the commune. Laski's program IS the program of the Protocols? Have you yet heard of the Protocols? The intrinsic matter OF the protocols, whoever wrote 'em. Compare IT. Compare it with what you are offered.
And then the so-called racial hatreds, what chance the Frenchman you dislike ISN'T a Frenchman AT ALL? That the European you dislike, the continental you dislike, isn't a European AT all? That needs looking into. Yes, you all have a few Jews that you like? Think it over? Is it quite satisfactory? They are everywhere save in one or two small organizations. I know of a third which applied the proportional quota.
Horrors of antisemitism. What about the horrors of NOT having a sane bit of discretion, as France under Blum, and Reynaud?
When I started walkin' 'round the South and Center of France in 1912 I found a VERY different race and spirit from that of Paris Montmartre and putridity-- --and the rest of it. As late as 1922 there were still some French left in the onzie`me arrondissement.
I saw Blum at a press lunch sometime after 1927. I am not sure of the date. The impression was unfavorable. I don't think he fooled Sparrow Robertson either. There was a certain lack of frankness in Blum's exposition. Certain phases he seemed rather to wish to avoid. And you in
? England seem to me rather to fall short in that swift perception of relations, which Aristotle so admired. I mean if YOU fail and PERSIST in failing to perceive a relation between Blum, Laski and Reynaud, verbum sapienti verbum.
Well, a word to the sap-head is quite ineffective, it leaves the sap-head unsatisfied.
#58 (July 20, 1942) U. K. (B71) SUPERSTITION
You ought not to be at war against Italy. You ought not to be giving or ever to have given the slightest or most picayune aid to any man or nation engaged in makin' war against Italy. You are doin' it for a false accountancy system. You ought to go down on your knees and thank God for Italy, thank God an Italian, possessed of Mediterranean sanity, showed the first ray of light in the general darkness, showed a way to git you out of the hell made by a false accountancy system. Or I don't care if you go down on your knees you can set with your head in your hands or you can go out muskelunge fishin', but you ought to be thankful.
All purchasin' power does NOT come from labor, not in the world as you have known it. And NOTHING good in that world NEEDED to have come from false accountancy. You were buffaloed into thinking that false accountancy helped some of you to play golf and own automobiles. And that was just BUNCOMB. The Loeb chart showed it was buncomb. But you didn't read or didn't understand the Loeb chart. All purchasing power does NOT come from labor. But you were so ignorant of the timing of labor that you thought you needed to be scared to death of Gottfried Feder
You are at war to conceal the fact that a lot of purchasing power, a lot of capital comes from a hoax. Damn the hoax. But don't go out and die for
? just bein' idiots. Or for your tolerance of being run and ruled over by dumheads who are pushed on by shysters.
Feder's sentence was simple and clear. It contains about all mankind needs to know about economics. But only the very intelligent know enough that it is the root fact. Hence the need for more explanation.
Feder got it into one sentence and Germany rose from her ashes, ran from her miseries and her chaos. Douglas (C. H. ) found it out. But he said it with more wrappings and trappin's; and England went further and FURTHER into the discard. However, that sentence of Feder's gives about all you need as a basis for Social Credit, by the light of which truth Alberta at least had a Prime Minister. At least declined to lie passive and sign on the dotted line, and SAY all glory to the Soviet's owners.
Douglas was a worryin' about so much, his first volume is very moral. He made a mistake (or not) as the case may be, but mebbe he made a mistake in not being more moral. He was gunnin' for practicality. He knew the kind of S. O. B. who was runnin' the rackets. The rackets INC. The high courtly, pompous high hatted rackets, the British Empire and its succursales. The slave works on which the sun never rose. Page Judge Colahan about the Kingdom of England's interests. And Douglas tried to argue. Thought avarice was the human motive, thought comfort was the human motive.
England doesn't much like ideas. We have been buffaloed. English so worn down they glorified muddle. Glory of the intellect was represented as spiritual pride, by such low grade intellects as the Episcopal British bumbishops. Oh Lord! grovelin' humility is an old wheeze. Every time a Christian wanted to get anything done he was told to be humble. Veritable grovel of humility was set up as an idol as an ideal norm of conduct, also muddle. Brits were told muddle was kindness, and proof of a superior civilization. Gloried in muddle, abhorred anything lucid. You
? can put the blame on the climate. Well the U. S. hasn't the fog-bound excuse, there is clear air. Arizona and Nebraska. Why muddle, why muddle any longer, why grovel before your bond-holders? And why, on the other hand, be buffaloed by the half-baked idiot who says there ought to be NO stock that pays interest on productive investment, by which I mean share holding, sharing in [a] proper sense, SHARIN' in the fruits of labor and design combined into industry. Why be bolshevised, that is, hoaxed, into thinking every man ought to be a lavatory attendant?
There are resources of American production, or at least there WERE, before Roosevelt canned 'em. Before ALL useful effort, or half the national income, or whatever you hoaxers call it, should be turned into making tank for Chiang Kai-Shek that he can't get because your air force ain't strong enough to tote them over the N. Pole BY AIR.
Naturally IF all or most the American production effort is turned into making munitions to be sunk on the high seas, there will be LESS production of American comfort. Mince pies will have less proper ingredients, short cake will run short, and strawberries rise in price on the internal market. You will be told: yes, we have no bananas, sweet potatoes, or even cabbage.
Mebbe the Americans of European origin and of African origin for that matter ought to leave N. Y. , leave Manhattan Island, retire to the American mainland, and make the cloak and suit trade pay for its eggs and spinach.
But the world's thought goes marchin' on. No Lenin's body, no cubic mausoleum, all that is old stuff. You ought to wake up and listen. I mean listen to something BETTER, and can the shysters; turn out the pikers and shysters, and at least put a dent in your ignorance. I am willing to believe in the existence of Christians. I have met very few. I know one obstinate Christian, obstinate from sheer ignorance, but with rather less
? e? lan, less enthusiasm than one associates with feelings about a Yale- Princeton game.
I have known men go into the church from policy. I can recall one serious Christian, the head of Fordham University. When I talk into [the] microphone, I have to think of at least one or more people who might conceivably understand what I am saying. I should like someone to notify Father Miller or any other serious Christian that I propose to speak on the topic: what is wrong with Christianity? And the answer is: it is completely DEmoralized. I mean that in [the] strict sense, ALL morality has been carefully and gradually and over a period of centuries [been] removed from it. All coherent ethics, or all ethical system has been extracted from it. Trickled out, got mislaid. The lllovely hymns sung in Equador by the strawberry tenor, no, not a whisky tenor, a real strawberry ice-cream-soda tenor, down in Equador singing sentimental church hymns, or singing Christian hymns in a moonlight manner. ALL for the sake of diddling the S. Americans and maintainin' a ROTTEN false accountancy system. That is one phase. Temple prayin' for the no- godites in Cuntyburry Cathedrau. That's another. Identification of Christianity with greed. The American Catholic bishop's economic manifesto, that is a sign the other way. I will allude to that some time.
Christian ethics. I 'spose there must be a chair or settee of Christian ethics in some American theological college, must be courses in ethics in at least four or five universities. How does ethics match up with Christianity, I mean Christianity on the hoof, as preached and as practiced? Perhaps ought to say: as muddled.
Restoration of slavery in Abyssinia, or looking back a bit, policy of maintaining a powder keg "in the Balkans. " POLICY, British policy, your Ally's policy of deliberately maintaining impoverished, disordered areas hither an' yon. Abyssinia, Balkans (proverbial powder keg), Skoda gun works. NOT for any honest avowable aim. Simply for [the] sake of having something into which war torch can be thrown.
