Immigration, Damon Runyon, And New York City

Immigration, Damon Runyon,

And New York City

by

R.E. Prindle

 

In the 2019 March-April issue of Foreign Affairs devoted to discussion of the idea of New Nationalism, Jill Lepore a Harvard Professor of History opens the discussion with an article entitled:  The New Americanism.  No, she isn’t talking about Pres. Donald Trump.  Her proposition is this:  Why a Nation Needs a National Story.

Apparently Liberals have given up on the idea that there is no such thing as a nation.  Even a social construct needs a reason to exist.  I quote here first two paragraphs:

Quote:

In 1986, the Pulitzer Prize-winning, bowtie-wearing Stanford historian Carl Degler delivered something other than the usual pipe-smoking, scotch-on-the-rocks, after-dinner disquisition that had plagued the evening program of the annual meeting of the American Historical Association for nearly all of its centurylong history.  Instead, Degler, a gentle and quietly heroic man, accused his colleagues of nothing short of dereliction of duty: appalled by nationalism, they had abandoned the study of the nation.

“We can write history that implicitly denies or ignores the nation-state, but it would be a history that flew in the face of what people who live in a nation-state require and demand,” Degler said that night in Chicago.  He issued a warning: “If we historians fail to provide a nationally defined history, others less critical and less informed will take over the job for us.”

Unquote.

I empathize with Prof. Degler’s concerns, however ‘nationally defined history’ already exists and has existed for some time, it is called the Immigrant Narrative of American History.  According to it ‘Americans’ are good people, indeed, the very best but only because we have opened our hearts, minds and national home to immigrants from wherever and whatever condition provided only that they be colored, POC (People of Color); that is, not White.  We know by this narrative that Whites have caused all the ills of the world while not deserving to live.

In the nineteenth century, it’s true that after the country became a nation in 1793 the immigrants, much to our shame today, were White, with the exception of African Negroes who were needed for work that White people wouldn’t do.  That immigration would have the direst consequences even though the Negroes are good hearted POC who wouldn’t never do nobody no harm.

The principle port of entry was NYC, first at a facility called Castle Gardens and then the fabled sacred site of the Immigrant Narrative, Ellis Island.  It was there that the ‘wretched refuse’ of ‘Europe’s teeming shore’ as Emma Lazarus’ poem quaintly expressed it and she pasted it on the base of the Statue of Liberty.  Thus the Immigrant National Narrative was enshrined.

They were coming to America as the Jewish poet Neil Diamond sang in the twentieth century from every country in Europe and a great many of them stuck in New York City giving that town its peculiar character.

Immigration was cut off at the knees by Conservative bigots beginning in the 1920s coinciding with that abominable experiment, Prohibition.  This was a license to steal for the immigrants.  Whoo, boy howdy, was that a combination- immigration and prohibition.  A third ingredient was the introduction of women’s suffrage.  The ladies obtained the vote.  And somewhen at this time the Hero of our national narrative also arrived in NYC, Damon Runyon.  He was the redoubtable historian with the national narrative much longed for by Carl Degler.

Damon Runyon sat in his favorite hangout of Mindy’s Deli in the heart of NYC’s Satan’s Square Mile and surveyed the scene.  Of course, his history is fictionalized but no matter it is accurate, playfully accurate.

Some will say his history is too one sided but then so are all national narratives, they’re all fictional too, cut to measure from the whole fabric.  It’s something like Einstein’s ‘fabric of space and time’ which no one has ever seen or touched but is still an article of faith.

For those who don’t know Damon Runyon, perhaps America’s least known historian, who wrote about ninety years ago, you may have seen an even more fictional representation of the work in the movie Guys And Dolls starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra, two legendary characters that were once flesh and blood, if you follow them, in 1955 nearly seventy years ago if you’re still too young to remember.

So, Damon Runyon sat studying the immigrant type for that is what he portrays.  The key nationalities that he describes are the Irish, the Sicilians and the Jews.  The main Irish influx arrived in the 1840 and hence were the most assimilated, but only partially so, while the Jews and Sicilians were in the gold rush to America from 1890 to 1914.  Those two groups were all only partially assimilated, the Sicilians least of all.

In Runyon’s stories they are all criminals.  Like, who else hangs around in Satan’s Square Mile?  Runyon really romanticizes these criminal types.  Without knowledge of the situation they were all a bunch of lovable guys and dolls.  Who could not like the Butch of Butch Mind’s The Baby.  The only problem is that Butch is a killer wherein the humor of a thug minding a baby.

I first became acquainted with Runyon’s stories when I was sixteen.  Perhaps my attention was called to him by the movie Guys and Dolls that was released at that time.  Not being familiar with the context I was entranced by Runyon’s undeniable Flash.  I was knocked off my feet and remained so until the last several years.  Over time I reread the stories with a fair amount of regularity, each time gaining in worldly experience and a deepening sense of reality as to the deeper meaning of the stories content.

I still read the stories with some regularity having acquired original copies of the collections and a number of collections from a few stories to omnibus comprehensive collections.  However when I now read it is with a sickening realization of their underlying brutality.  For instance, the story, The Old Doll’s House, that particularly enchanted me, that involves a thug evading a shoot out in the process of which he jumps a wall and seeks refuge in the Old Doll’s house.

The Old Doll, we’re talking Guys and Dolls here and all women are Dolls, is a lady of advanced years.  As she is blind she can’t see the thug waving his gun around and pleased to have company invites him to tea.  Orienting himself the thug sees a clock that reads 12:30 which is the approximately correct hour.  A half hour later it still reads 12:30 and that clues him in to the fact that the Old Doll is blind. Now he won’t have to kill her because she can’t identify him.

The story stops being funny on the third or fourth reading, twenty or thirty years later.

And so with all the stories.  Dream Street Rose for instance.  On a first reading Dream Street has a figurative meaning but in fact, Dream St. is a couple of blocks in Satan’s Square Mile.  When they designate the square mile as Satan’s they aren’t just whistling Dixie either.  That square mile was the criminal sink of NYC, the US, the world and without doubt the universe and beyond.  The Metropole Hotel was there.

If you start researching Runyon’s characters you find people like the Jewish newspaper columnist Walter Winchell.  If you want a fictional portrayal of Walter Winchell view the movie The Sweet Smell Of Success.  And then there is the Jewish criminal mastermind called the Brain by Runyon who was Arnold Rothstein.  The Brain Goes Home is pretty much a true story.  The stories in their own way are real and out of the clothing of ‘poetry’, true.

At this time and experience in my life I find the stories blood curdling, even the Lily of St. Pierre, one of my favorites.  You need a little background to understand Lily.  St. Pierre is an island in the North Atlantic fishing grounds, back when the cod were plentiful.  During Prohibition the Mob moved in and used the island as a way station for booze.  St. Pierre et Miquelon was a French administrative unit.  So, the world was corrupted by Prohibition and ‘American’ immigrant criminals.

Of course, as ‘Americans’, these partially assimilated Immigrants blackened the eye of native Americans who were tarred with the same brush as these ‘American’ criminals.  And in the United States according to the Immigrant National Narrative those natives were styled ‘bigots’ and racists for declining to accept responsibility for what were actually native Europeans activities.

So, Miss Lepore and her hero Carl Degler, the ‘American’ historian may find no national narrative lacking; they’re just not looking in the right place.  The national narrative may not be very attractive but then it’s not very American either.   Immigration has consequences.

Slavery In America

Slavery In America

by

R.E. Prindle

 

Let’s get something straight about the different forms of slavery that have existed in the United States.  In the first place no one has clean hands, just as in Africa, even Negroes had slaves in the US and elsewhere in the New World, even in Haiti.  Whites owned chattels in the South, Northern Whites mined Europe to work in their factories as wage slaves to keep labor costs minimal.

Slavery in the US, other than sex slavery that is still tolerated today, had three forms:  chattel slavery, indentured slavery and wage slavery.

Indentured slavery was part and parcel of US history from its very beginning.  Indentured slavery was White men ‘owning’ White people according to contract.  A person for whatever reason indentured himself for a period of years after which he was supposed to be freed.  There were many ways for his master to increase the period.  During the period of his indenture he was another man’s slave.  At the same time adults and children were shanghaied from the streets of London and England for sale in the colonies.

These Whites usually described as indentured ‘servants’ were slaves in fact.   Many, many indentured ‘servants’ worked cheek by jowl with the Negro chattel slaves in the fields.  In that manner White women bore many Negro children thus diluting the African blood.

Chattel slavery of Negroes was legal in every English colony, there were no exceptions.  In certain States such as Massachusetts and Connecticut chattel slavery was not commercially viable and it fell into disuse.  After 1812 Chattel slavery was discontinued at varying times by the various States.   Chattel slavery existed in Northern States nearly to the beginning of the Civil War.  Nor did the Emancipation Proclamation pertain to any chattel slaves in slave holding States that were not in rebellion.  Thus, only Negro slaves in the deep South were affected by Emancipation.

Now, just as chattel slavery was not viable in States like Massachusetts and Connecticut it did not suit the manufacturing economy of the North otherwise chattel slavery would have existed North of the Mason-Dixon line.

The basis of slavery was providing the producers with labor.  Slavery was a labor problem.  In the agricultural South, especially in the cotton belt, slavery was the best labor mode possible because the laborers were tied to the land and couldn’t migrate.

Providing for the slaves was the Producers responsibility, hence food, clothing and shelter was provided as a cost of doing business.  There were no Negro chattel slaves that went hungry.  Conditions might vary but the slaves had to be cared for.  If you read in the Negro slave narratives, available on the Internet, you will be amazed at what you find.

One ex-slave didn’t regret slavery that much because he said the you never went hungry in those days.  If wanted food you culled a hog from herd, killed it, roasted it and ate it.  Whether that was universal or not the chattel slaves did not go hungry or unclothed.

In the North where producers wanted labor at the lowest possible cost they had to resort to wage slavery.  The industrialists worked their wage slavery.  The industrialists worked their wage slave harder than any chattel slave.  The wage slaves worked in horrible conditions for twelve hour a day seven day a week for a pittance.  The wage slavers provided nothing but that pittance.  Where possible they resorted to using children, young children, and women and paid them even less than a pittance.

The wage slaves then were on their own lookout for food, clothing and shelter.  All those indefensible shanty towns.  In all cases they were less well off than the Agricultural slaves.  The Negroes definitely had it better.

While the chattel slaves were required by law to a certain level of benevolence, the wage slave had no protections whatever.   If in desperation they resisted exploitation by trying to organize they were shot down dead.  They were blacklisted and were unemployable.  Hence a reason for armies of hoboes roaming the land.

The ‘Saints’ from New England, the Holy Abolitionists whose sea captains bought in Africa and sold in the New World, that is North and South America and the Caribbean were also those who sought cheap White labor from European countries.  The principle was to have as many different nationalities and languages as possible in order to make it difficult to combine for better wages and working conditions.  Slavery was slavery and conditions were harsher for wage slaves than for chattel slaves.

Thus Negroes have no more to complain about than Whites.  Slavery was part of the woof and warp of the fabric of American society.

Lincoln freed certain of the slaves in 1860 and then came Henry Ford to ameliorate the conditions of the wage slaves.  Lincoln was murdered for his role in ending chattel slavery and Henry Ford has been a victim of horrible character assassination for his role in ameliorating wage slavery.  Most likely the reason that good men are hard to find.

Foreign Affairs And The CFR Discuss Nationalism

Foreign Affairs

And The CFR Discuss

Nationalism

by

R.E. Prindle

 

The March-April 1919 edition of Foreign Affairs so its cover proclaims, is a discussion of nationalism resulting it hopes in a New Nationalism.  I wasn’t too impressed.  The contributors are one step ahead of high school papers.  The issue might better have been called the New Globalism but put that aside and let us just interpret the image of the cover.  Perhaps subconsciously the CFR indicates its true mission.

The cover is a black and white composograph of a mass of forearms giving the Communist power salute.  You know how symbols go.  The Jews for instance co-opted the Star of David as a symbol of the Jewish nation in the Middle Ages.  As every organization needs a symbol to represent them, in answer to the Jewish symbol the German National Socialists adopted the ancient symbol of the Swastika in the twentieth century.  The National Socialists borrowed the Open Palm stiff armed salute from the Italian Fascists who in turn had borrowed it from the ancient Romans.

This left the Communists with a yellow hammer and sickle on a red flag for a symbol but no hand symbol.  Well, there were clever Communists too and they came up with the clenched fist and bent elbow salute.  Very attractive in a rough and ready way.  So, after, 1917, that salute represented the look out world, we’re taking over, defiant power salute.

Whether consciously or unconsciously the CFR globalists have adopted the aggressive Communist power salute.  That sign basically means get in line or we’ll kill you and this is verified by numerous incredible holocausts.

Above the raised fists emblazoned on the cover are the words:  The New Nationalism.  Communism is a one world universal or global ideology so one is led to think that New Nationalism is globalism under a disguise that, so to speak, leaves unbelievers without a country, or nation without a leg to stand on, outside the pale of Communist civilization and hence disposable.  The threat is palpable.

And then on page 42, one Richard Sopolsky, a Professor of Biology, Neurosurgery and Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University relates this parable under the title of The Biology of Us and Them:

He never stood a chance.  His first mistake was looking for food alone; perhaps things would have turned out differently if he’d been with someone else.  The second, bigger mistake was wandering too far up the valley into a dangerous wooded area.  This was where he risked running into the Others, the ones from the ridge above the valley.  At first, there were two of them, and he tried to fight, but another four crept up behind him and he was surrounded.  They left him there to bleed to death and later returned to mutilate his body.  Eventually, nearly 20 such killings took place, until there was no one left, and the Others took over the whole valley.

The protagonists in this tale of blood and conquest, first told by the primatologist John Mitani, are not people; they are chimpanzees in a national park in Uganda.  Over the course of a decade, the male chimps in one group systematically killed every neighboring male, kidnapped the surviving females, and expanded their territory.  Similar attacks occur in chimp populations elsewhere; a 2014 study found that chimps are about 30 times as likely to kill a chimp from a neighboring group as to kill one of their own.  On average eight males gang up on the victim.

 

If one compares this parable with the cover symbol one might be led to believe that what we have is an instructional tale.  In fact isn’t this what, more or less, the Antifa Fascisti are doing.  Isn’t this what Hillary Clinton was hinting at when she called opponents Deplorables.

As the Red hero, Victor Hugo, said about the Chouans, that they would never accept the Liberal Dispensation and hence they must be destroyed, eliminated, and in fact that’s what the French Revolution did, the French Revolution was the first great modern holocaust.  And then came another and another and yet another.  Is there any reason to imagine that we have reached the end of the great holocausts.  It may be too soon to tell and then…once again.

There is more of interest in the issue so I’ll tackle it a little further in another post.

Immigration, Al Smith And The 1928 Election

Immigration, Al Smith, And The 1928 Election

by

R.E. Prindle

 

People don’t seem to realize that time and changes pass quickly.  What was applicable yesterday will not apply to today or tomorrow.  Nothing changes society more rapidly than immigration.  While attention is applied to race and religion it might better be applied to manners and mores.  Whether you think immigration is good or bad immigration changes reality very quickly while all one’s reactions are predicated on a vanished state of affairs.

The cultural changes, that is manners and mores had been occurring at a rapid rate during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century driven by immigration.  By 1921 and 1924 unlimited indiscriminate immigration had been limited to more or less controllable numbers.  Nevertheless the damage had been done.  While the attempt was made to limit the most different mores and manners by favoring Northern European immigrants it was too late.  The two chief groups of immigrants, the Irish and the Jews had acculturated enough to challenge the traditional  English and Protestant supremacy.

Thus, led by Al Smith, a Catholic Irishman who surrounded himself with Jews the two nationalities were ready to challenge the Anglo-Protestant majority.  Note that the Jews are considered a distinct nationality with their own manners and mores acting in their own interests. He, Al, or they chose the inappropriate moment to challenge the Anglo-Protestant majority as the country was in a period of roaring prosperity, had two presidents, Harding and Coolidge and were to be followed by Herbert Hoover who in the circumstances there was no chance of defeating.  And so it was that Herbert Hoover became the last ‘American’ president.  Hoover was followed by Roosevelt to whom the Jews transferred their alliance while the Irish were forgotten.  Thus the Liberal  and Jewish combination have written all histories and distorted the old American contribution to founding the US.

Now, in the 1928 election the Jewish-Irish faction could not accept their loss on any other grounds than the bigotry of Anglo-American voters.  In fact, Al Smith was merely a New York City machine politician who, used to campaigning in New York chose as his theme song ‘The Streets of New York’ and spoke with a heavy New York City accent.  His manners and mores were those of his home town.  To the rest of the country those manners and mores were humorous.

The New York accent alone would have made him unpalatable to the rest of Americans who thought that NYC had an economic stranglehold on America.  And then the to thrust The Streets of New York into their faces was sheer folly.

Being Catholic, of course, didn’t help Al with the Protestants but it surely was a charm for the Catholics who were the largest religious denomination in America.  But there appears to have been no block voting along religious lines.  The Economy ruled.

Whether Al’s Irish background swung the electorate against him is open to conjecture but I would put more weight behind that than the religion.  At that point, 1928, there was still a strong antipathy between the Anglos and the Irish.  Even in 1956 in my home town the antipathy was noticeable.  Apart from Jack Kennedy’s being a Democrat and offensive because of his father’s criminal background his Catholicism and nationality was a factor in my voting against him in 1960.  The Irish came over to what they call the New Island in large numbers during the potato famine in Ireland in the eighteen forties and beyond.  There was immediately a huge conflict between them and the Anglos in which bloody battles were fought largely aggravated by the Irish.  Thus the Irish-English conflict was carried to American shores.

With the Irish came the notion that immigrants rights were superior to nativist rights.  Hence the political organization known as the Know Nothing Party that arose to oppose Irish violence was demonized out of existence for its efforts to protect American manners and mores and some kind of control of their destiny.  They lost that control as the Irish formed a sort of competing government called Tammany that seized control of NYC and retained it until Jimmy Walker the last Tammany mayor was booted out of the country in the early thirties.  It was as though the Irish had control of London.

The Irish were then replaced by the Jews who seized both NYC and New York State.  As an immigrant group, the Jews, although the smallest national supplier of immigrants also came as the highest percentage of their nation and thus had equality of numbers with the other national immigrants.  There were more Jews in NYC than in any other city of the world.  The only place with a higher number was the Russian Pale of the Settlement that covered millions of square acres. 

The vast majority of Jews arrived from 1890 to 1914.  Like the Irish the Jews created a national enclave, or colony, in NYC.  By 1913 they were able to effect a socialist revolution by electing Woodrow Wilson as presidient.  This revolution, for such it was, has been unrecognized by Jewish and Liberal historians but the Wilson Administration, turned out in 1920, after a hiatus of the twelve years of the Republican Interregnum would morph into the fully fledged socialist presidency of Franklin Roosevelt beginning in 1932 and ending only with his death in 1945.  Thus Roosevelt was the undeclared president for life.

So, Al Smith represented the end of Irish dominance in the affairs of NY and the hope of national dominance in a Jewish-Irish coalition.  If that attempt had succeeded immigrants would have seized control of the United States of America.  An entire new set of manners and mores would have replaced those of the original settlers.  Immigration has adverse consequences like it or not.

While there was a conflict then between the Catholic and Protestant religions and between the English and Irish and Jewish nationalities the election itself was determined on the basis of extreme economic prosperity that Republicans could claim as their own and, indeed, it was called the Coolidge Prosperity after the middle Republican president of the Interregnum- Harding, Coolidge, Hoover.

Then came the deluge.  Collectivism replaced Individualism and Socialism replaced Laissez-faire, which had been the system of the nineteenth century Gilded Age.  A new set of manners and mores appeared based on an immigrant ideal with its symbol of Ellis Island.

A similar transition is occurring today.

Thoughts On Mr. Bezos Pecker Problem

Thoughts On Mr. Bezos’ Pecker Problem

by

R.E. Prindle

https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos/no-thank-you-mr-pecker-146e3922310f

Let’s keep the ball rolling on this issue that Mr. Bezos has brought to our attention.   We have little idea of the behind the senses activity so we can only deal with what is public.

It seems that the Mr. Bezos owned Washington Post has been attacking Mr. David Pecker’s publication the National Enquirer, itself owned by a corporation calling itself AMI.

The sin of the NE as identified  by Mr. Bezos is being in contact with Saudi Arabia.  This seems strange as the Saudis are publicized as one of our stalwart allies, second only to Israel.  It is difficult to see the offence  even if it relates somehow to Pres. Trump.  Yet this seems to be the basis of Mr. Bezos’ and the WP’s complaint.

There does seem to be some involvement with government investigators between Mr. Bezos, the WP and the Mueller outfit.

Mr. Bezos make this incomprehensible statement:

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Federal investigators and legitimate media…suspected and proved that Mr. Pecker has used the Enquirer and AMI for political reasons.

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I have always held Mr. Bezos in high regard for his unbelievable commercial success but here he makes the incomprehensible statement that it is wrong that newspapers have political reasons in publishing.  Has Mr. Bezos never heard of the Editorial page?  Are not stories and their characterizations used for political purposes?  Do not newspapers endorse and recommend their favorite candidates?  Good Lord, doesn’t Mr. Bezos own the Washington Post and use it for defaming Pres. Trump.

Actually, he does know it.  (One wonders if Mr. Bezos doesn’t also own the Medium site,  the site on which he chooses to expose himself.)  Mr. Bezos calls his ownership of the WP a ‘complexifier’.  In other words it compromises him.

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Even though the Post is a complexifier for me, I do not regret my investment.  (The Post loses tens of millions of dollars a year; some investment.  More a vanity and/or political project.)

The Post is a critical institution with a critical mission.  My stewardship (note the word) of the Post and my support of its mission, which will be unswerving (and) remain unswerving…

Unquote.

Very well, but can’t Mr. Pecker say the same about his relationship with the National Enquirer.  Is the NE really any less legitimate than the WP?  Is Mr. Bezos mouthpiece any less reprehensible in its political ‘mission’ to discredit Pres. Trump?

Mr. Bezos then says:

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Back to the story:  Several days ago, an AMI leader, (Editor I presume Mr. Bezos means) advised us (us being whom?) that Mr. Pecker went  “apoplectic” about our investigation.  For reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to be a particularly sensitive nerve.

Unquote.

Why should it?  Didn’t Pres. Obama make an obsequious bow from the hip while place his hand in the Saudi king’s hand as a sign of fealty?

There we have the crux of the matter.  Mr. Pecker’s counter attack.  Apparently fighting back is not kosher to Mr. Bezos.

After having been married to a lovely lady for twenty-five years, and building the most successful gigantic business on the planet Mr. Bezos decided he needs a hot babe and so he went out and bought one (for lack of a better word) not only that he bought a married one.

In this romance Mr. Bezos, who is perhaps one of the top ten tech wizards in the world inexplicably sent and exchanged pornographic photos with his Hot Tamale.  These emails and photos were then given or sold to the NE.

Mr. Bezos believes that the Pres. somehow hacked them.  Where they came from is beside the point but the NE categorically denies they got them by hacking.  Using Occam’s Razor the most obvious suspect is the Hot Tamale.  After all if you had bagged a guy worth 150 billion dollars wouldn’t you want the world to know?  What Hot Tamale wouldn’t?  Anent that we have heard no objections from the husband and no filing for divorce.

In frustration the NE tried to negotiate with  Mr. Bezos offering to squelch publication if he gave up his unwarranted persecution of them on the WP.

Mr. Bezos chooses to call this offer extortion and blackmail.  Mr. Bezos will hopefully pardon a knowing smile on our part.

One wonders at what strategic moment Mr. Bezos will choose to announce his candidacy for President of the United States.  I think you just killed your chances, Sir.

Part 2b-11 Mysteries Of The Second Thirty Years War

 

Eugenics and Dysgenics Part 2b-11

The Mysteries of the Second Thirty Years War

by

R.E. Prindle

A Recapitulation And Exit

 

Having run through the sequence of events of the Second Thirty Years War I think it necessary to make some background reflections.  The first nine sections, about 30,000 words have been published here on the internet.  Most of what I’ve written has been new to the readers who have commented.  It seems necessary then to offer a few explanations.

When one begins to write one seemingly has a clear idea of what one intends but the end product upon review indicates a somewhat different perspective.  It seems to me at points that the text was written by someone other than myself.  What is, is.

And so it is with the historical actors.  What they thought they were doing is understood differently, perhaps, by those watching and those analyzing.  Of course, different analysts have different assumptions and perspectives.  The conventional histories of the period, at least those taught in universities uniformly have a Leftist, Jewish slant.  Thus, Howard Zinn seems to be the most read historian of those commenting and behind him Arthur Schlesinger, Kearns Goodwin and similar Jewish Leftists.  Their slant should be quite obvious.

This writer, then, isn’t surprised to be considered anti-Semitic by such a fraternity.  And, I suppose, if readers reject my interpretation of history, which is soundly based on facts, one can only consider them indoctrinated and conditioned, what may be considered orthodox.  Orthodoxy is, of course, a form of bigotry.  The most I can say is that if the facts appeared differently to me I would have written the history differently.  What is, is and cannot not be.

Thus, any histories of the period that fail to emphasize the activities of Bernard Baruch, who billed himself as the most powerful man in America are missing a most significant point.  From random inquiries by myself there are but few people who have ever heard of Bernard Baruch and any who have know nothing about him.  Indeed, before I began this study though I had heard of Bernard Baruch, who for some mysterious reason was supposed to have been important, I knew little about him.  Perhaps a few words may clarify his position in the times.

Baruch bears a close resemblance to the Jud Suss.  I think the key fact about Baruch is his ownership of his huge estate in South Carolina called The Hobcaw Barony.  Many thought the name Barony made Baruch a Baron and he was sometimes addressed as such.  I consider the Barony to have been a strategic move on the part of Baruch.  Born in 1870, by 1900 he had made a fortune in Wall Street.  If you remember he began life as a gambler but soon saw that the only successful gamblers bet only on sure things, fixed horse races and what not.  If you’re in on the fix you’re a sure winner, if not you’re one of the losers.  Such a course would lead inevitably to associating with coarse types and brushes with the law.  Better to go to Wall Street where shady practices had been institutionalized and made lawful but still disreputable.  He would be a speculator and respond to unsavory accusations.

Having made his fortune at thirty the future of merely amassing money seemed sort of barren and probably at that time Baruch fixed his fantasies on politics, or what was called public service, much more respectable.  In 1905-07 to establish a base of influence he began to acquire his sixteen thousand acres, many square miles of Hobcaw Barony.  The Barony, still existent, is located on Waccamaw Neck, South Carolina, even at the time the Barony had a history of a couple centuries, so Baruch was associating himself with the earliest colonists.

It has the Old Manse, what the Negroes would have called The Big House, many shacks for the Black Folk and miles and miles of waterways, square miles of woods and fields.  Wonderful hunting, shooting, cruising and fishing.  If you want to impress and Baruch did, he had the location.  It was the perfect political tool and Baruch knew how to use it.  He spared no expense.

Bernard began fishing around for a political entry.  At this time of maximum immigration when millions of Eastern Jews were entering prejudices against Jews ran fairly high and Baruch was, of course, what was called a Hebrew then.  Also working against him was his reputation as a Wall Street gambler, speculator to put it nicely.

As noted, every year brought another half million Jews to these welcoming shores and Jewish influence was growing rapidly.  The transition from President Teddy Roosevelt to William Howard Taft in 1908 was a little too early but in 1912 opportunity opened its doors to the Jews.  A fish appeared from South Carolina via New Jersey, not Hobcaw Barony but close, by the name of Woodrow Wilson.  Baruch and the Jews fastened onto Wilson like a lamprey eel on a trout.

There was a problem with Wilson, he was a bit limp, not palatable, there was no contest between Taft and Wilson.  Opportunity must be seized by the scruff of the neck and neither Baruch nor his fellow Jews were daunted.  A rift appeared between Taft and Roosevelt.  The latter had returned from his African shooting jaunt to discover that Taft hadn’t been governing to this liking.

The Jews cleverly stepped in whispering a third party and this became the famous Bull Moose Party.  Unknowingly TR committed the crime of the century.  He split the Republican vote allowing the Socialist, Wilson to be elected.  TR had enough votes to defeat Taft but too few to defeat Wilson.  Then Wilson and the Jews slipped in.  Socialism had arrived in the US under the sobriquet of Wilson’s New Freedom.  It was neither new nor free.

Piles of Baruch’s money had been contributed to elect Wilson.  While other Jewish donors crowded around Wilson for their rewards Baruch stood back rather than accept a minor post and in his eyes demeaning position.  In 1913 appointing a Jew to important positions would have caused a row crippling Wilson so he had to be circumspect.  However, he broke the Jewish barrier in 1916 when he appointed the Jew Louis Brandeis to the Supreme Court.  Brandeis was always looked at askance.

Baruch had contributed big to get Wilson elected while talking him up to his fellow Jews.  However, he and Wilson had become buds.  They understood each other. Baruch had ingratiated himself and Wilson accepted him at face value.  After a fashion a revolution no less momentous than the Menshevik Revolution in Russia five years later had taken place.  Both revolutions were spearheaded by the Jews.

By this time Baruch was burdened by his reputation as the Bear of Wall Street, a somewhat unsavory title.  He had begun to use Hobcaw Barony for its intended purpose, that of charming and serving people who might be important to him.

To be invited to the Barony for a holiday was a desirable situation.  What could be more delightful?  Thus, Baruch was treated with commensurate consideration.  He was a man to be on the right side of.  He was the consummate Jew, considerate and obliging on the outside but haughty, proud and vain on the inside.  His vanity was well known and politely ignored. On an annual gathering of the ex-WIB personnel in the thirties a bust of himself was given him as a present.  He accepted it with no show of the funnin’.

From 1913 he busied himself about Wilson’s White House while Hobcaw Barony would play an important part.  The Old Manse was stocked with the finest liquors and wines both before and after prohibition.  The food was superb; Negro flunkeys attended to all needs.  Baruch know how to make his money work.

Of course, it was money obtained by fixing outcomes of stock prices and required little effort to acquire while being readably renewable.  Perhaps a representative description of what a sojourn at Hobcaw was like can be found in one of FDR’s sons Elliot Roosevelt’s Eleanor Roosevelt mystery novels titled Murder at Hobcaw Barony.

While fictional the novel employs a mix of actual celebrities and a couple fictional characters.  Obviously the murderer has to be fictional.  In the novel for instance the actor Humphrey Bogart figured prominently as well as the Roosevelts.  The high point of the novel is the Saturday Night fish fry in which Whites mix with Negroes in the revelry.  Mix may not be the right word but let us say the Whites condescended to associate with the Negroes and receiving the adulation of both Blacks and Whites.  It was a wonderful party at which a good time was had by all. My point is that it would be a sad thing not to be on the good side of Bernie Baruch.  Not a little of Baruch’s power came from Hobcaw Barony.

The Barony eventually passed to his daughter, Belle, by sale.  She died in 1964 leaving the estate as a legacy to the State.  Baruch survived his daughter by a year dying in 1965 at the age of ninety-five.

Thus, Baruch had a magnificent position with Wilson stained a little by his reputation as a Wall Street speculator.  However, he was A1 with his bud, President Woodrow Wilson.  This paid off in 1917 when as the US entered the war Baruch angled for the job of the Czar of the WIB, War Industries Board.

War had changed a great deal from the age of, say, Napoleon.  War no longer involved generals and small professional armies fighting pitched battles with rather primitive but improving weapons.  In 1914, the first of modern war, perhaps barring the Boer War, meant the whole population was at war employing the resources of the whole country- a concept called Total War.  At the beginning of the war the nations didn’t fully realize this even as lines of warfare stretched across hundreds and hundreds of miles with millions and millions of men employing weapons that blew the men and environment apart.

Watching from the sidelines for three quarters of the war Wilson and his government drew certain conclusions and when the US entered the war the entire country with all its resources were mobilized.  Chief of this mobilization, it’s ‘Czar’, was Bernard Baruch.

Baruch was a Jew and the Second Thirty Years War was a Jewish war against Europe.  The nineteenth century and the rise of the US changed all the dynamics of the world situation.  For the Jews the US was the New Promised Land.  American were naïve suckers and the Jews took full advantage.

As the mass of new Jewish immigrants came from Eastern Europe and the war of the Jews against Russia and its Czar, they brought old negative habits with them.  One of these was the tradition of the blood libel.  It was unknown in the US so that a tradition had to be established.  This was not so easy.  But, in Russia in 1913 a Blood Libel accusation was lodged against one Menahem Beilis that was almost certainly manufactured for political purposes while in the US  in the same year the Leo Frank case arose in the State of Georgia.

If one believes Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver in his book Messianism In The History of the Jews, and I do, he says that when the belief of an individual messiah was destroyed by the failure of one Sabbatai Zevi in 1666 that the Jewish international government decided that the whole Jewish people would have to be their own messiah without supernatural help.  Hence the search began to effect this goal, what was now a political and social revolution, an attack on Aryan society.  The template was worked out by a Joseph Oppenheimer, he was known as the Jew Suss, in the South of Germany in the 1730-40s.  It was perfected and effectuated but the Rothschilds beginning a couple decades later. Thus, the date of the Revolution was set for 1913-28.  The significance then of the Jews backing Wilson is made clear along with a number of developments from 1910-13, not least of which was securing the control of US currency by the establishment of the Jewish wholly owned Federal Reserve.

Having inadequate physical means of control, the Redemption would have to be achieved by asymmetrical warfare, by psychological means.  As it happened a messiah of sorts, a guide, appeared about 1895 in the person of the Viennese Jewish psychologist, Sigmund Freud.  Using Slightly different terms Freud determined that the best method for allowing a peaceful Redemption was to change the mores of Europeans and by extension North America.  Emasculation and guilt would be the front along which the battle would form.

Hence it is not coincidental that the Beilis and Frank affairs took place in 1913, the former in Europe and the latter in the US.  For whatever reason the Jews love these two incidents that are held up as supreme examples of European or Aryan injustice.  The Beilis Affair is less important here than the Leo frank murder trial in Atlanta, Georgia beginning in 1913.  Very fortuitous indeed, although straining credibility.  It is necessary to report this event, then, here in some detail.

Leo Frank was a young Jew sent down from NYC to run a pencil factory in Atlanta Georgia.   He employed and exploited exclusively young girls.  He apparently took a fancy to one.  Thus, as a festival was being celebrated on a Saturday Frank withheld the Friday paycheck of a couple dollars of his choice, requiring her to come in to pick it up on the mentioned festival Saturday when he and she would be alone except for the Negro janitor.  So, only two suspects for this murder were possible.  Either the Jew Frank or the Negro janitor.  The janitor was sent home for the day leaving Frank as the sole possibility for the girl’s murder.  Her body was found in the vicinity of the janitor’s quarters to implicate him.

This ploy failed.  Frank was tried and found guilty, sentenced to death.  In need of a ‘blood libel’ type cause the New York City Jews of the American Jewish Committee were galvanized into action led by their redoubtable president, Louis Marshall.  A national campaign was organized to convict the Georgians of being inveterate bigots accusing an innocent Jew.

The entire political Jewish organization was mobilized.  Albert Lasker, now unknown but then a famous advertising executive, was put in charge of arousing public opinion in favor of Frank.  He claims he put in a stellar performance arousing the entire country, even overselling his case.  However, he erred in portraying the Georgians as ‘deplorables’ and Southern louts.

He himself interviewed Frank in prison.  He says he found him a thoroughly objectionable person who he hated.  Strong word.  He believed that Frank had killed the girl, but a job is a job, orders must be followed and he had to try to get him off.  By whatever means the governor of Georgia was persuaded to remit the death sentence.  You didn’t have to be too prescient to realize the next step was to get Frank released and spirited out of Georgia.

The infuriated Georgians stormed Frank’s jail, seized the man and strung him up.  As far as Marshall and the AJC was concerned this was an ideal outcome that could be turned to account in establishing the guilt of the ‘blood libel’ in the US.  Against all evidence the AJC proclaimed Frank an innocent victim of prejudice.  White guilt was paraded publicly; Frank was another innocent Jew in their four thousand year history destroyed by a rabid goyish mob.  If American’s had little reason for guilt before, Frank’s death gave the Jews something to rally around.  Hence the constant references to the Frank affair that today’s Whites have no knowledge of and presumably couldn’t care less.  Today a monstrously large plaque has been erected under the tree Frank hung suspended reminding Georgians of what animals they’re supposed to be.

Along with Robert E. Lee statues this plaque should be removed and thrown in the garbage.  Frank was guilty.  This whole brouhaha had taken place a scant three years before Baruch finagled his position on the War Industries Board.  With his appointment to the WIB began a tumultuous decade in US history.  Both Baruch and Albert Lasker would figure prominently in it.

As Freud pointed out the attack would be on American mores and customs.  These must be displaced and replaced by Jewish mores and customs.  American must be collectivized as were the Jews and their individualistic laissez faire identity replaced by regimentation.  Baruch in conjunction with Wilson would go a long way to do that.  Their tragedy was that the war was too short; it ended before they could finalize their plans.

Actually, US industry had tried to form collectives in the nineteenth century.  They were called Trusts or cartels.  In reaction, the first decade of the twentieth century was one of trust busting, but now, in one fell swoop, Baruch organized all of American industry into one huge trust of many divisions.

At the same time millions of men were drafted into the Army where they were stripped of as much individuality as could be while on the civilian side George Creel, another bud of Wilson’s, was regimenting citizens into a unified way of thinking.  If anyone made a fuss about it, he was condemned to prison.  Naturally the direction was toward Socialism.  The war state was a Socialist state.

Socialism is a collectivization and collectivization is thorough regulated Judaism.  Under Baruch’s guidance the population was being regulated and collectivized.  Industry was organized into industrial units no different than trusts or cartels.  It is difficult to say what the industrial information Baruch collected was used for.  All companies were required to submit their vital statistics. One may be sure that the info was shared by the Jewish government that gave them intimate knowledge of the organization of each company.

It should be clear that Baruch shared this information with Jewish agencies so that post-war the Jews knew the total industrial organization of the US.  What they did with the information isn’t clear but let no good disaster go to waste.  Obviously the information given Baruch, a Wall Street speculator, was put to his good use regardless of any denials.

Along those lines I quote from Jordan Scwharz’s biography of Baruch, The Speculator, footnote to page 175:  

“From the diary of Colonel House, 25 March 1920, comes the report that a Democratic official, Harry Marsh, “said that he has kept a dictagraph record in which Baruch figures.  Among other things, Baruch tells his companions that he expects to rank in history as the greatest of all Jews.  In Baruch’s opinion, Disraeli was the greatest, but times were so different then and opportunities were [now] so much wider to do big things that he felt certain that he could eclipse him.”

 

We could argue about who is the greatest Jew of all time but obviously advancing the Jewish revolution was uppermost in Baruch’s mind.  His achievements with the WIB and his success in Paris for the Peace treaty probably seemed to him to be a big leg up.

What is clear is that Baruch had unlimited personal funds that he didn’t hoard but spread around liberally.  Money is an excellent tool as George Soros career today indicates.  Actually George Soros may be angling to be the greatest Jew of all time.

Baruch, for instance, was quite liberal in dispensing funds to his friend Winston Churchill who he cultivated assiduously, when he had no hope of repayment, but hopes for repayment in a different kind.

And once again his establishments were enormous.  Hobcaw, plus a wife, daughter and son in a huge mansion in NYC, other houses and many, many female relationships in which he was a Sugar Daddy.  He was on very good terms with FDR’s estranged wife, Eleanor, and at one time Clare Booth was his mistress who he relinquished to Henry Luce of Time, Life making her the famous Clare Booth Luce.  Her relationship to Baruch continued after her marriage. 

In his administration of the WIB, while most industries patriotically complied with his demands, the industrialists of Detroit objected strenuously refusing to comply.  Their product, trucks and autos, was not considered an essential industry so they were demanded to shut down.  One can imagine the rage.  Chief among these objectors was the redoubtable Henry Ford whose great River Rouge industrial complex  was fully integrated.  That meant that Ford owned all the means of his production, iron mines, coal mines, railroads, the whole works.  He felt himself self-sufficient and immune to threats.

He, the Dodge Brothers and others put up a tremendous battle with Baruch.  Harsh comments ensued with national epithets issued.  Baruch would not forget these.  Still as an ‘unessential industry’ in Baruch’s mind these companies were to be denied the materials to run their business, putting them out of business for the duration of the war and perhaps permanently.  When Ford proclaimed that his materials were secured, including a mountain of coal and that as this was America, the land of the free, Baruch could do nothing about it.

In this he was mistaken, Baruch could have commandeered Detroit’s plants, that he was reluctant to do, but he could commandeer Ford’s coal pile.  On that threat the Detroiters caved.

Still, the huge industrial complex that was Detroit couldn’t go idle in a war in which every industrial sinew was supposed to be dedicated to war production.  Besides if their plants were idled the whole city of Detroit would be unemployed.  A knotty problem for Baruch so orders were directed to Detroit. 

Ford was given the ridiculous task of mass producing so-called Eagle Boats.  These boats were small anti-submarine craft of which but few were delivered by war’s end.  The Navy designated these ships as PEs.  I actually served on one for a weekend as a high school Naval Reservist in 1956.  Very small, useless ships, poorly conceived and designed.  The living quarters were so tight as to be nearly torture chambers.  Just as well not many were made.

As the Czar of the WIB employing high handed methods that worked well during the war but in the cooler post-war atmosphere left lingering resentments that cost Baruch credibility.  Baruch labelled himself as one who held no grudges but that was mere camouflage.

One who worships the ‘God of Vengeance’ adopts the attitude of his god.  Baruch could not forgive the insult to his national identity.  Both of the Dodge Brothers died in 1920 under suspicious circumstances while an assassination attempt was made on Ford.  Of course, there was nothing indicating Baruch’s involvement.

Baruch said that he served without recompense, even using large amounts of his own money for government projects with no hope of recompense.  Many believed that he had used his position to loot a two hundred million dollar war chest.  It seems certain the latter must be true.  As corroboration, Baruch using his connection to Roosevelt is reported by FDR’s son-in-law, Curtis Dall, to have bought up one sixth of above ground silver before FDR’s election and shortly after the inauguration he induced FDR to raise the price of silver substantially.  How many millions he made by that was unrecorded.  Baruch was obviously refilling his war chest.

It would seem that from 1900 on Baruch was handling enormous amounts of money that he redistributed liberally to men and causes.  Yet, when he died in 1965 his estate had the paltry evaluation of only something over ten million and those were inflated dollars.  In 1900 terms it would be only five hundred thousand to a million dollars.  A rather inexplicable anomaly.

Baruch held no official positions during the drifting years of the twenties although Hoover used him and his expertise that he employed in much the same manner as Suss but he managed to maintain a reputation of advisor to presidents and the wisest of men.

For whatever reasons he busied himself with agricultural affairs apparently angling for a corner in wheat through Aaron Sapiro’s agricultural cooperatives.  This let to a further clash with Henry Ford.  Ford, himself with his own farm plan, scented the apparent conspiracy to control food stuffs by, in his opinion, the Jews, and set about to derail the scheme through a long series of exposes in his newspaper, the International Dearborn Independent.  This resulted in a lawsuit against him filed by Sapiro.  The result of that was a legal draw but the scheme was disrupted.  Baruch suffered a defeat.

Always as liberal with his opinions as with his money, Baruch pushed for a garrison State somewhat along the lines of the despised Prussians.  He urged President Harding to maintain ultimate preparedness for another or the next war.  It would seem then that WWII was already planned almost before the WWI was ended.

In this respect he cultivated relationships with key WWII military figures.  For some time Baruch had been cultivating and become an intimate of a politician some consider the foremost war monger of the period, Winston Churchill.  During the summers spent in Europe, this is really astonishing, Baruch would rent a ten thousand acre estate in Scotland from which to operate and to which he invited hundreds if not thousands of influential men and entertained them lavishly.  Over a month or two this must have amounted to an expenditure of at least a couple hundred thousand dollars.  He was then able to invite both notable Jews and Europeans so that the Jews could get the measure of the Europeans.  This also gave him occasions for learning and planning sessions for the upcoming WWII.

Baruch made a point of hanging with Winston Churchill even residing in Churchill’s home for a week or two.  He lent Churchill money with no hope of repayment.  Indeed, Churchill was also heavily in debt to the Rothschilds, of whom Natty Rothschild virtually supported him.  With that in mind, when Lindbergh was to say later that the only people who wanted to involve the US in the European war were the Jews, Churchill, (the English) and Roosevelt he definitely knew whereof he spoke.

As a warmonger Churchill certainly repaid the loans with interest by helping draw FDR and consequently the US into underwriting the entire war with his Lend-Lease plan and millions of US troops.  The whole American nation.

Astonishingly Churchill could not see the terrible consequences for England of another total war.  I have come to the conclusion that he was totally mad.  Consequently while his professed goal was to maintain the British Empire, he sacrificed it.

At home Baruch cultivated a relationship with an army Colonel by the name of Dwight David Eisenhower.  It would be a relationship lasting for twenty-five years during which Eisenhower was catapulted over numerous generals senior to him into the position of Commander of European operations, then post-war in the job (president) of Columbia University and from thence to two terms as President of the United States  Eisenhower would say that he was honored to sit at the feet of the wisest man he ever knew for twenty-five years.  People wonder how Eisenhower was promoted over all those senior generals.  Look no further than Bernard M. Baruch.  Eisenhower was Baruch’s last hurrah as Time removed him from the seat of operations.

The Jewish humorist Dorothy Parker once said that she knew Baruch was important, but what did he do.  He operated behind the scenes, that’s what he did.  Between Churchill who was the driving force getting the US into the war and as importantly Eisenhower after the war punishing German soldiers in violation of all the rules of war thereby acting for the Jews, this man, Baruch, may indeed have been able to claim that was as powerful as presidents.  Whether he became the most important Jew is history is apparently still an open question.

The WIB had shown industrialists what could be done.  The WIB had hundreds of supremely talented executives, dollar-a-men, organized into industrial cartels.  What lessons were these guys learning?  First they were told Trusts, or in other words, cartels, were bad, then under a Socialistic government bureau they were directed to form cartels.  This same lesson would be repeated in 1933 under Roosevelt when he formed the NIRA- National Industrial Recovery Act.  This was a Baruch inspired repeat of the WIB.  Baruch had worked with Colonel Hugh Johnson on the WIB and then maintained a close business relationship with him during the Interregnum. 

Now, Roosevelt appointed Baruch’s man to head the NIRA installing the same WIB program.  At the same time FDR was arresting and punishing the very men who had enacted this Socialistic/Democratic program.  These were interesting times indeed.

Baruch couldn’t worm his way into FDR’s confidence and was not called upon to serve although he ardently wanted it.  But, time was passing and as it did the men of the previous era lost their luster.  Passed over by FDR, Baruch would be openly insulted by Harry Truman.  Baruch endorsed his neophyte Eisenhower in 1952 but that was Baruch’s Last Hurrah.  He crossed the bar and put out to sea in 1965 under the Lyndon Johnson administration.

He had had an astonishing career over fifty years during which in one way or another an actor on the scene.  During his lifetime he had handled and apparently disbursed hundreds of millions of dollars that in today’s valuation would be many billions and then died with the pittance of less than million in today’s dollars. 

Ou est les neiges d’antan?

 

End of Mysteries Of The Second Thirty Years War