By Knud Eriksen
In
Dronten no. 4 (“The
Dodo”
at the address Patriot.dk) I have dealt with the once world famous foreign correspondent and author,
Douglas Reed, who went from being widely known and respected before, during and
after the II.nd World War to becoming an expelled and completely forgotten
person.
Why
was he “forgotten”?
It
was simply because he wrote about “The Jewish Question!”
International
Jewry responded to his frank description of the problem with total censorship,
so that his new books could no longer be printed and the old ones would
disappear gradually from the bookstores and even from the library shelves.
After
a short period of slandering he was no longer mentioned at all in the world’s
media.
As
the author Ivor Benson (who has himself written a book on this subject: The Zionist Factor) says in the foreword to Douglas Reeds
masterpiece The Controversy of Zion,
which had to wait 22 years before it could be published, “the adversity, which
Reed encountered, would have made a lesser personality give up. But not he“.
After
his expulsion from the zionist-controlled media-world, he found himself free to start this most outstanding work, which
all the years as a foreign correspondent in Europe and his earlier books had
only been a preparation and an education for. His vision expanded from year to
year and from book to book. It was an education, which was not available in any
university.”
He
spent more than three years away from his family in the early fifties in New
York Central Library or in front of his typewriter in modest surroundings in New
York and in Montreal. He rewrote the whole book with an epilogue i 1956, where
the uprising in Hungary and the Suez-war were scrutinized as further examples of
the talmudic co-operation between communism and zionism. Then, as mentioned, the
book had to wait 22 years for a possibility of getting published!
It
is instructive to observe how Douglas Reed gradually penetrates deeper and
deeper into the Jewish problem from that
time, when he had hardly even thought about it in 1935 (as he writes in The controversy of Zion) until he delivers his harsh judgement in
the shape of The controversy of Zion.
The
mood of gloom and doom is not his own, but due to the gloomy character of the
subject, as he says in the epilogue to the book. In the cause of his work he has
felt the evil as an almost physical presence in the plans, he reveals. As
“forces from some dinosaur-lair projected into the twentieth century.” But,
he says, it is not for him to judge, what is evil. God must have had an
intention, in his wisdom, to allow this evil to exist, possibly for the progress
of the soul. But in that case he, himself, feels like being also a part of
God’s creation, who has the duty to reveal this evil, so that human beings can
be set free from it.
Ivor
Benson follows this line of thought in the epilogue to his
own book on the subject (1986) The Zionist
Factor, as follows: “There is no Jewish problem per
se, only a gigantic 20th century problem, in which the fate and
responsibility of Jews and Christians are inseperably intertwined”. The
irresponsible world power, built on money and dominated by Jews, is, in its
outstretched cob-web something, that we have all allowed to grow big and strong
through our irresponsibility.
But
if this power has now grown so strong, that it cannot be stopped, but must be
allowed to continue its predestined course, until, finally, it devours itself
like a worldwide wolf, what use is it then to us to get to know and fully
understand what goes on in the world?”
Ivor
Benson answers this as follows: “a short answer is given in a christian
concept with even older sources: “Thou
shalt know the truth and the truth shall set you free.”
In
1938 Reed wrote his first major – and world famous – book, Insanity
Fair, which was published in at least 35 editions
in English and published in danish, also in 1938, in 5
editions. In Danish the title was “Galskabens Kavalkade” (can still be
ordered from the library). It is scarcely 400 pages and is a mixture of an
autobiography and a political
description of Europe up to- and during the Second World War.
His
predictions of major political events were for many people surprisingly accurate
at a time, when the “responsible politicians” of the West were acting in
direct opposition to his advice and interpretations, and the unifying principle
of the book is one long warning against the threat from Hitler-Germany.
But
simultaneously he had, among other things, a few critical remarks about the jews,
which he had observed and come to know during his many travels as a reporter in
Europe. In his second book he deals with the subject of the jews a great deal
more thoroughly. All of two
chapters out of 37 are dedicated to his “becoming clear as crystal“ on the
subject, as he says. This book from
1939 had the english title “Disgrace
Abounding” and in danish (also 1939) “Grænseløs Skændsel”. (It can
still be procured from deposit libraries). The book – almost 500 pages – was
also a description of the prewar conditions, as he knew them in his capacity of
being one of the leading foreign correspondents in Southeastern Europe, and
through his close personal acquaintanceship with many of the leading politicians
of the time. It was yet another long warning against Hitler-Germany and a
reproach of the erroneous Western politics, in which he could not find the logic.
As
far as the Jews are concerned, he is definitely far more crystally clear in this
book than in the previous one, where there were actually just a few good-natured
teasing remarks about them.
I
have, in Dronten
no. 6, (danish) reproduced both of these two chapters and a couple
of other interesting descriptions of the Jews in Europe, seen through his eyes,
under the menu (in Dronten): “Grænseløs
Skændsel” (“Disgrace Abounding”).
By
this time he no longer holds any doubt, that there is most certainly a serious
Jewish problem. From the on he would get to study the problem thoroughly through
the following ten years.
His
well-intentioned advice, that the Jewish problem could only be solved by the
Jews getting their own nation (but not by killing arabs), was abandoned by him
again, when his studies of talmudic zionism, and the eventual establishment of
Israel, demonstrated to him, that the Jewish question implied much more than
just that, and was now so much bigger.
Also,
he discovered, it had in reality
been laid down in an ancient plan for world-conquest.
He
wrote a few more books which he managed to get published somehow (see the list
in Dronten no. 4, under the menu “Bibliography”- and now
(in english) the homepage
Douglas Reed Books, red.).
After
the books Somewhere South of Suez (1949) and Far and Wide (1951), which are not translated into danish, Reed was
practically banned by the most important publishers and bookstorechains because
of his ever more clear description of the Jewish problem. He does not end up by
being optimistic concerning the solution to the problem, as he actually thinks
that only God can solve it – in time. Nevertheless, it is also his opinion,
that the suffering of mankind, including the Jews, which will result in the
meantime, until this solution will appear, may be reduced and shortened by
people learning the truth about “The Contorversy of Zion”. In this issue of Dronten
(no. 6), I have translated, into danish, two more chapters of this – in my
opinion – vital work. With the knowledge, which the book gives the reader, he
understands the real background of the invasion of foreigners in The West, the
globalisation and the break-down of nations, culture and morals. Here, finally,
I will relay Douglas Reeds own description of the problems of the banning of Disgrace Abounding - “Aftertale”
in the book), and in this way introduce this, his encyclopaedic masterpiece, The
Controversy of Zion”:
.........”Chance,
and possibly my own sense of timing, enabled me to write additional chapters for
Insanity Fair immediately after publication, and this time the same
thing has happened again. But on this occasion chance has enabled me, in the
additional chapter, to give you the best possible example of the way organized
world-Jewry works and of the immense power it wields in goading world-opinion
against Germany. I imagine anybody who has read these two books will realize
that I hold Germany to be a menace to England, but that I do not identify the
cause of England with that of the foreign Jews.
After
I wrote Insanity Fair I was swamped by offers from American publishers
for my next book. I signed a contract with one firm. When I began Disgrace
Abounding I did not know that it would be an anti-Semitic book. The
anti-Semitic part is the result of my observation of the Jews in the last year
and of my conviction that the mass influx of Jews to England is a political
mistake and a national misfortune.
The
American publisher, after reading Disgrace Abounding, declined to
publish on the ground that the Semitic part was 'slanderous and libellous'. Read
the Jewish part for yourself and see if this is true. I, for my part, declined
to have the book published anywhere without the Jewish chapters. The real
meaning of that decision is that, in America, you may 'slander and libel'
Germany as much as you like, and be paid for it, but you must not discuss the
Jewish problem, you must not assert that there is a Jewish problem. Other
American publishers declined the book on the grounds that they could not publish
the Jewish chapters. One of them, not a Jew, said that an American publisher
would court misfortune by publishing it, because 90 per cent of the American
newspapers are Jewish, and the Jewish influence extends in similar proportion
throughout the whole ring of trades connected with publishing.
I
see very little difference between the Jewish and the Hitlerist method, in this
matter of free speech and free discussion. The Jews are for free attacks on
Germany, nothing else. The same thing happened in some of the Scandinavian
countries, where Insanity Fair had great success and where publishers
were clamouring for the next book - until they saw the Jewish chapters. They
asked to be allowed to publish the book without them. I refused. The same thing
happened in France even with Insanity Fair, where a publisher
contracted for the book who apparently could not read English and only realized
when he saw the French translation that there was a few passages in it which he
did not consider sufficiently favourable to the Jews. He demanded their
excision, I refused, and he sold the contract to another firm.
So
only in England, as yet, and possibly in France -- although I do not yet know
whether this book will appear in France -- may a non-Jew openly discuss the for
and against of the Jewish question.
The
importance of this, for you, is that you should realize that what is presented
to you as 'American approval' or 'American disapproval' of this or that action
of British policy is not American but Jewish opinion, and that this puts quite
another face on the matter. If you are to fight Germany again, you must do it
for England's sake. You must not allow yourselves to be egged on by Jews
masquerading to-day as 'German public opinion', to-morrow as 'Czechoslovak
public opinion', the day after as 'English public opinion', and the next day as
'American public opinion'. If England suffers disaster in coming years, the Jews
who have come to England in these latter years will not suffer that misfortune
in like measure; they will not feel it as Englishmen will feel it, they will
prosper in chaos, and when they feel that a lean time is coming for them they
will make up their minds to sail away.
As
I came up the Thames I wondered what my own future would be. I had promised
myself to decide within a very few days whether I would continue to write about
the daily European scene or whether I would cut loose [ed: altogether?] together,
go to Polynesia, Patagonia or Peking, write about other things than Hitler's
eternal invasions.
I
wondered whether, the next time I left England, I should go in one of those
steamers white and gold to some far distant foreign clime. The decision lay
before me. I had a few days' time. While I was locked up in the Legation at
Prague, Disgrace Abounding was published - the most curious things
happen to my books. After my departure from Prague I read the first reviews of
it. Somebody spoke compassionately of my inferiority complex. I never knew,
until I wrote Insanity Fair, what an inferiority complex was, or that I
had one. To understand these things you have to sit at the feet of some
venerable Jewish professor in Vienna, who soothes you by telling you that your
faults are not your own but the products of your ancestors' hereditary
alcoholism, or something of that sort, and this wise counsel gives you new
strength. The gins of the fathers. - Kraft durch Freud.
I
have no inferiority complex, but only the most normal longings for England to be
better. I have a heavy foreboding for England, whose rulers have made every
mistake they could. I want to see England safe at home and abroad. Safe at home
for the British Derelict Aryans, not for the Foreign Non-Aryans. Safe abroad
from Germany.
Neither
of these things is being done. The danger of a German ultimatum has been drawing
daily nearer. What shall it profit Britain if she lose her whole Empire and gain
only the Jews? Now, at the last moment, a faint hope offers that a stand will be
made - over Poland. Then why not for Czecho-Slovakia? Why have we handed over
the Czech Army, the Czech Air Force, the Skoda Works, the Czech gold, to Germany?
If we were from the beginning prepared to make this stand, we should have made
it years ago. Then you would have had none of this trouble. You could have
satisfied Germany's just grievances - but you could have compelled her to keep
the peace.......”
Knud
Eriksen, feb. 1998
(A translation from a danish article in my internet-site Dronten, no. 6 ("The Dodo") – a sub-site on Patriot.dk