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BRITISH GUARDIANNo. I. VOL. VI. FRIDAY, JAN UARY 9th , 1925. P RICE T WOPESCE \VEE KLY.

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THE BRITISH GUARDIAN, WEEKLY.

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\Ve ha ve much plea sure in announcing th at withthe. present number we commence the weekly publi­cation of the BRITISH GUARDIAN. The price hasbeen fixed at two-pence to meet th e wishes o f theclass o f people whom we have found f rom experi­ence to be th e most sympatheti c an d respons ive toour views, and d esirous o f hearing- and knowing'the truth. They are the true national stock elipure British blood -c-simple, honest , st raigh tforwardpeople, mostly working for a wa ge whidr does 'l otallow of inconsiderate expenditure, even o f pence .It has taken some years for the truth of our insis­tent messa ge to d awn on the consciousness o f thesepeople. For live years we have persisted in bring­ing the facts be fore them-in the begi nni ng in spi teof the ir amused contempt and derision, if not ofthe ir actual hostility. But now we comm ence th is,our sixth volume, conscious tha t -se arc receivingat the h and s of a great number o f these peopl e ofBritish blood acknowledgement , even some praise.and, greatest of all, their active suppo rt and help .

I'his support is all th e more needed when therea! nature o f the fo rces behind the act ivit ies of theJews in this an d every cou ntry in the world IS

beginning to be better understood. \Vith suchbetter un de rstanding the battle- front widens, andwhat we were at first d eceived in t reatinR.as astruggle o f an oppressed race for relig ious andpoli tical freedom is seen to be an organised assaulton Christian civilisation, with a view to its over­throw, and the setting up of another world-poweron its ruins . Such and no less is the fight in whi chthe B RITI SH GT.'ARDIAN is asking its read ers , andall members of the Brit ish race, to bea r their part.But without in telligence and informatio n of th eenemy 's movements and methods of operation, r-cd efen ce can be effective. It is he re that we, withou r long experience an d special knowledge o f thest-btle tactics o f. the Jew and hi s Gent ile allies,modestly claim to be in a posi tio n to supply wh atis needed . But our ability to do so is depend anton the . measure of support we receive .

T he struggle in which we are engaged is notwholly, no r chiefly, one o f race and blood . It IS,

in its present stage a moral and spiritual contestbetween two (a nd 'are they not the only two? )Great Forces for the dominion over mall. Raceand blood with aU that these connote , are . togetherwith weal th and all material th ing s, only the mean sthrough which such a contest can ' be waged. j nso far as they are natural , they are God' s by right ,

and we indignantly deny the claim to their owner­ship set up on behalf of the Author o f Evil. Butin est imat ing them as forces in the assault againstChristian civilisation to wh ich we have referred, wemust face the s tartling fact that one race of men ,and one on ly, the J ews, are and have ever beenopposed to Christianity-to Christ and H is claims .Non-Christian races and rel igions exist, but noneare de fin itely Anti~Christian except the J ewish- ­unique both in solidarity and consequent st rength."J here is abun dant evidence, apart from Scriptureand Church H istor y, to justi fy the belief that theAuthor of E vil has used, and is still using, the j ewsa<; his chief human instruments in his fight ford omi nion over mankind. F urther, as we haveshown in this J ourn al, it is through the supinenesso f Christians, and the ir disobedience of the preceptsv i the Church , that the Jews have succeeded mob taining an entran ce, on the foot in g of equality ,into Chr istian nations, and by exploiting theirneed s, have obtained poss ession of the greater pa rt0 1 the world's material wealth . Is it a wonder ,then, that by such means Christianity has beCOIlW

corrupted, and lost its savour , and the Brit ish rac eand cha rac ter, wh ich it used to inspire in a ma nnerall u s own , are becom ing d egenerate an d weak?

\Ve have sai d enou gh to show ou r stan dpoint andanus. \Ve appeal to all men and women of Briti shrace and blood to help us to preserve the purity ofour heritage. We appeal to the Clergy andMinisters of Religion, both Catholic and Protestant ,to purge our common Christianity from the cor ­ruption o f . the J ew and J udaism . \Ve welcometh eir personal help, and even the ir criticism, feel ­ing assured that no thing is mo re calculated to healour divisions, and promote the un ity for wh ich welong, than the recogniti on and removal of thecommon Per il which is hinde ring the acceptance o fthe true F aith , and the progress of Ch risti anity inour land .

In another column will be found par t iculars ofrates of subscript ion for consecutive number s ofour Journ al and suggest ions for increas in g its cir­culauon. \Ve would draw spe cial attent ion to thescheme for provision of a fund to cover the workingexpenses of production and di st r ibut ion, 110.t onlyof this J ournal , but o f suitable lite rature whi ch v eshall hol d ourselves open to provide III special cast's .W ill our f riends kindly support us [ibe rally acco rd ­ing to the ir mea ns j' II

, THE BRITISH GUARDIAN.

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NOTES OF THi MONTH.

FOOO PRICES COMMISSION.Ha\in~ some knowledge of the attempt which is

being made in Americ a by a J ewish fin ancia l g roupto obtain the control of the a gricultural produceof that cou nt ry and to ex tend th is con trol to otherfoo d-prod ucing co untries we were natur allv startledby the evidence ' of the gra in experts who 'appearedbefore the Roval Commission on Food P rice s.This evidence ilas been remarkable for th e con­si stency with which all are ag reed tha t any unifiedcont rol of this country's wheat supply was an even­tuality so impo ssible as to be ridiculou s even tocon template. This I S so utterlv co ntradictorv tothe fact s as we know them that we considerIt amatter of nat ion a l importance to publis h thesefact s fo r the info rmation of the Brit i sh publi c inorder th a t they may underst and the g rave s itua­tion .....-ith wh ich the y are faced in regard to theirfood sup ply and the absurd ity of re lying upontheir own nation al experts who se du ty they wou ldnatu ral ly ha ve expected it to b e to look af ter theirintere s ts . The first in st almen t of this inform at ionis con tained in the presen t number , an d we invitethe part icular atten t ion of all patriotic Br iti sh menand wom en to the serious menace wh ich the stateof affairs consti tutes to this count ry.

TNE ALIEN QUESTION.The attention which h as been giv en to th e Alien

Qu~stion recen tly is not , as some may suppose ,entlre~y du e to the appointment of Sir Wm . j oyn­son-Hicks as Home Secreta ry . It is true that hehas for long been the protagonist of those whoseslogan is .. Brita in for the Briton s, " and in this heha s , 0,( c,ourse, ou r f':ll.1 suppo r t. But his a ppoint ­ment IS In all p robability merely one of th e mani­festa t ions , like the articles in TIle T imes and T heSpe,clatOf and, the const ant har ping o f the DailyJfatl , of a del ibe ra te and well-planned campa ign todJ\-~ r t t he leg it imate a t tention of the publ ic fr omtheir undoubted interes t a nd concern in the ma tter.How "ery reassuring it is to be sure to be told bvthe Home Secreta ry that there are ve ry few morethan 3: q tl~ rte~ of a million aliens in this country--an infin ite -s imal number having rega rd to ourpopula t ion, A statement whi ch our p at rio tic pressimmedia tely took ful l advan tage of to assure thepublic that th ere could obviously be nothing in thi..'; to~y of a n alien menace . and that it was "en'foo lish of them to all ow themselves to be so dis­turbed by the raving s of a few fanaticalIgnoramuses. But the public are not to be gull ed

an)' longer. They ca n see for th emselves , everyd av of their lives , that there IS an alien menace,they cannot get away from it , and they are begin­ning to realise tha t their fellow count ry-men ine"ery other district , as well as the ir own , cannotget away from it either. They ha ve been mysti­fred for the moment by this sta temen t of the HomeSec retary ' s to kno w how to reconcile it wi th theconditions ,....hich they can see for themselvesactually exist , b ut when they realis e that the y arebeing tricked by a quibble there is likely to b et rou ble, and the politician s and the pre ss will b emorally responsible fo r it. And what a poor sortof a qu ibble it is too! Th e figure gi ven by t heHome Secretary and used so assiduous ly by thepress, refers to aliens in the legal sense only, anddoes not include the mill ions of obvious alienswhose p resence in thi s co untry the pub lic sostrongly resents. Through the t rea chery of poli t i­cians in the past , and it is still goin g on , the selatter have been" naturalised " - a s it is called­and conve rted into Brit ish subjects. T he maj orityof th e qu arter of a million aliens in regard towhom the Home Secretary is referring- alien s inthe limited legal sense-are not disturbing th epublic one lit tle bit , many of them being thesubjects of f rien dly' na tions , visi tors to till s coun t rywith whom the public a re on the b est of term s anddesire to re main so. The only aliens the [ublicare at all worried about are the J ews, an theyhave practically all been given the s tatus ofBritish nationals on their own ridiculous claim thatthey can at the same t ime be good Brit ish subjectsand J ews. Legal casuistry of this kind , when theyunderstand it , the public will h ave none of , andthe sooner ou r polit icians recog nise this and sa t isfythe perfectly legitimate demands of the pub lic thebetter. The last thing any of us wo uld wish tose e repeated here are reg rettable incident s , suchas the J ews have b rought upon themselve s a tvarious t ime s in some of the con tinent al count rie s ,

INTER·ALLIEO OEBTS.We ar e hea rin g a great deal about in ter-Allied

debts again, and f rom our point of view qu iter ig htly so . O ur po sit ion in this matter is an in­tolerable one , and it is h ardlv surprising that theee act ing attitude of America sho uld give the peopleof this count ry a feeling of con tempt for theAmericans. T he French are a more excitablepeople than ou rs elves ana they m ay not take thepress,!re which is being exerted upon them by theAmencans qu ite so fa talist ically. If there is tobe any trou ble it is j ust al'; well for u s to remindth e public that the real cause of thi s usuriou satti tude is not the true America a t all , bu t, asusu al, the J ew. Rem em ber what it savs in Proto­col 2lr:"- " Nowa days, wi th external -loans thesetrick s ca nnot be played by the GOJ'im, fo~ theyknow that 1('t! slwll demand all ;'u, 11tOlUys hack .It

It shou ld also be understood that th e J ews h averecen tly foist ed on to the American S late anom inally State Banking system , which is exactlys imilar to the system the y have also imposed uponGermany . Beh ind bo th the se so-c alled S ta teBa nking systems is the same g roup of jews-c-the\\'a rburg s and their associa tes. It may be somet ime before this country will realise what it h a scost the country by the appoi ntment of Mr . Win ­ston Chu rchill to the positively vital posit ion ofChancello r of the Exche quer at- thi s cruc ial periodIII our his tory .

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EH, GOY I VITeH VEIGHS MOST?

THE BRITISH GU~RDIAN.•THE .MENACE OF ALIEN FOOD CONTROL.

Some Information for the Royal Commission on Food Prices.

Sir Herbert Rob son is reported in T /u Ti 11lt'Sof December 18th , '24 , to have given evidencebefor e The Roval Commiss ion on Food Price s tothe following cfre-ct : -

" . . T he re were , however, 3 few professiona ispeculators. Corners in wheat and und ue inflation owing10 specu faticn were almo~t unk nown. T here ha d t...enunly two corn ....r s in Jl.merka in the last 30 years thewr-ll-known Le iter corn er in May . 1Il98, and the cornerin !'Il ay , 19[7, neit he r of which had . anv marked (' t'FI' ("\or. t he pric e of br-ead in t h i ~ country .

1'\'0 CO R NE R ING POSS IB LE.Replying to the Chairman with reference to spec ula tio n,

the witn!'s.. ~aid rbat in the case of the Lei ter corner, ll.verv foc fish vo u ng man Ihou i'ht he would co r ner thewheat market ." He succeeded in corner-ing th e May opuona nd h e had, on pa pe r, a n enormous profit. Ha"in" beentheorcticaljy successful, he tried to corner the Ehi cagoJuly option, hut Iaited ignominious.ly and lost dl his11 0 111')". For a short tunc thi s corner in the ~ay optiona tlect ed the pr ice of wheat in th is count ry , bu t it lastedonly for a short lime ............... . .

;;i.p~~f~~i~~~Y ·~~~·1~ t~~~·1~I'~eor~~r.~m~ri~~rtib~S ~A.mat:dCanada}, and in Chi cago particularly, but they realisedthat if they attempted to make a corner the Ch icaec Boardof Trade would in ter vene prcmprlv, and he had not thelust doubt tha t the United Stat" Governm!'nt al so wouldintervene. Canada was now a large market , and to boldup supphes in the U'nit ed States would be practicallyimposeible , fina ncially and poli tically .

...................... ...... ... ........ .. : It wasno t unreasonable to presume that if any combination ofbuyers in this cou ntry, or if the Governmen t a tt empted toforce down the pr ice of im po rt ed North American wheatby controlled buying, the Ccvcrnmenu of both the UnitedSta tes and Canada woul d lak e such measu res as theythouRht proper to prevent thei r fa rmers from beingexploi ted :"

~nw th is wou ld seem to b e mos t reassurinvindt'cd. It wa s evidence supported by all th e othr';witnesses, each in his own wav, all of whom aremen who , like Sir Herbert Robson, hold in flue-n tia lposition s in the wheal trade. And it was funht'r

emphasised a nd made to read almost mo re reassur­ing" th an before hy a judicious question pu t toSir Herbert Robson by a member of the Commis­s icn, ~Irs. Ph ilip Snowde n , the report of wh ich inT/". Times reads as follows : -"~fr~. Phil ip Snowden said it was VI'Ty widel y stated

a hi bel ie,· !'d in th is country th at the worl d's wheat suppl ywas cont ro ll ed by fewer than a dc aen men , and that their" am r-, could be g iven . Shl' as ked if that were true.

• T he \ \ ' ito!'55 : 1 do not kn ow any of them. ILa ujl"hlerl... ~frs. % owd!'n ; l ask the question, not because I

mY"W'1f beli!',·e it, but it is widely stated a nd believed asa fact , and I hope thi s Commission will he ab le eilherto refu te statemo:-nls o f tha t sor t , or , if they be in anyrn('asur e proved , to sa y how fa r the)' are t rue.

" T hc \"itnes.s; I ('an hel p you in th is way. T he q ua n­tity of wheat in the wodd is so enormous that it isimpo5~iblc to con trol it . The a mou nt of money neededwOllld hc so la rge Ihat it woul d be di fficult to do so;;In<i thr phy~ica l control of it would be extreme ly d ifficult.\Vheat is ver y iiquid. If 80mI' man in London says,' I 3m ~oing- to buy a ll the wheat in Lo ndon an d hol dit, an d put the price up ~s." til!'n the men in Liverpoolwould brin~ their wheat h!'re . Suc h a th ing is incon­ceivabl!'. If a ma n in Chicalol"o says, 'I am going toco rnf"r wheat,' ltve rtone would pu~h whea t in to Chicago,an d if he got the pnce h igh !'no ullh, wheat wou ld flow infrom ~very part of the world . T hat makes it extremelydifficult for anyone individu al or Ifrou p of ind ividu alsto control it . T here are inn umerable unknown sellen

who would appear Ircm unknown places, and wheat wouldbe pushed in as pr ices wer e pushed u p .

" " I n . Snowden said il would not seem 10 be u n reason­able that th ere sho u ld he some movement in the duvcticnof combination in th i:> g rt'M ind us try. She asked whetherthe witnt'~" would sugg est that inte r-Gove rnment a l actionwould he wise in order to sta bilise prices a nd 10 securethe production o f wheat .

" The witness : I th ink you would find it difficult to J!'t'lall the Govern ment s of the world to agree as to a pricefor whea t. A pr-ice which might please the fa rm er inInd ia wou ld Dot please the farmer in the United States."

Not pre- tendi ng- to any special knowled ge of th ewh eat t rade , it is na turally with the g reatest dim.deuce that th e value of the evidence of such anexpert witnevs a s S ir Herbert Rob son is ques­tioned, ami it would not he hut for knowledge ofthe existence in those co un tries wh ich Sir Herber thimself descrihl"s as .. bv far th e mos t important-ourr e of overcea su pplies of whC'at " to thi scoun t ry of Official Report !'> an d published s ta te­ment s giving information directly contrary to thet'\ ide-nee of Sir Herber t , and, [f they are to bebelieved , en tirely refuting it . ..

For some twelve or eigh teen I.,nths there ha sbeen in Canada a Royal Gr ain Inquiry Commiss iontouring that co unt ry collec ting evidence for it s re ­po rt. The s itt ings of th e Com mis sion ha ve beenheld ir. public and the proceedings reported 1II thedaily pres s. When c; itt mg in \\'inmpeg the Commi s­..ion had before them a gentleman o f the name ofAaron Sapiro of 3,400, Sheridan Road, Chicago.),(r . Scpiro is an American subicct an artom cv andmember of .the law firm of S apiro, LeY\", Hitfif"ldand Haye s of First National Bank BUlld lllg , SanFrancisco. IIf" is extrcmelv well-known in theUnited States a s the protagonist of a system ofco ..opera tive marketing- of agricultural produceas socia ted with his name, an d clearly he is ahonot unknown in Can ada, for in the report of theproceedings when he wa s examined before the­Commission at \\"innipe-g can he found the follow .109" : - -

.. Q. by Mr . '''oods : Mr. Sapirc, we have had theopportuni ty of rl'ad inll', some of us hea ring , your g l'lll'u ls ta te men ts on the sub jec t o f co -o pe r ative marketing; and11 ma y be assumed, therefor!' , tha t WI' are familiar ,gr-nerallv speakmg, with the way in which you havepresented the mailer from the platform. Con eequ enfly.OU I time hei n ll' valuabl e . )' ltu will und erstand me if tlimit ffi )"M':f t .") inq uirm q ftem \ '00 as to ce rtain of Ibema tters that the p ta n raises that ha ve suggl"5ted them ­se lves to me, fo r the inform at ion of the commission. IS1.l IlPOS~ you a re Iamihar with the generat nature of whatIhi s com mission ii in \'es lili:atinlol"?

" A. J ust \'ef)' genNally." Q. T he order-in-co une ll of Ihe Fede r31 Gon'rnment

a ppo inting the commission 10 invest i!!:al !' ...·ery broad ly andgl'lll' ra lly all ma!lf"B corllll'c tf"d with th e wl'stern whl'iltc rop, onl' o f which is Ihe marketing of the crop · andinasmuch as the ·p l:!n of co-ope rat i,·c ma rk eting th;t weha ve heard of fro!ll you, a mong othl' fS, is of considerablein t.... rest in that rell"ard, we ha ve askl'd you to come andRive us an ex plana tion of some of the mattl'rs that haveoccu rred to us. "

Th e Commission wc ri' ahle to get ou t of ),·fr.Sapiro som ething of hi s aims and intention s, andit is clear from the report tha t he holds no suchview as that hf"ld by Sir Herbert Rob son of thecontrol of the world' s wheat being "practicaUvimpossible " or .. incon cei\'a ble " and so OIl. Thereport reads:-

THE BRITISH GUARDIAN.

" By )Ir . Woods :-" Q. T he next fun damenta l thin~ I had .in my mind

in thinki ng over th is matter as being a thing I .....ouldlike to hear f rom yo u, is this: Havin g regard to whatI have described as the pith and essence of the pool Idea,that is, the keeping of the price up, at a!l event s anaverage fair, even price all over, and getting a higherpr ce fOT the product, iS,it or is it nC!:! necessary an d essen­rial to the fu ll accomplishment of tnat pu rpose that. thereht" no t merely a pool in Canada, bUi. also that allied tothe pool III Ca nada there be a pool tn the . othe~ wheat ­prod ucin g counmes that 1I1lght compete With Canadianwheat ? .

j'A I Will c:.:pJain thai In this way: If there were' apool fOTDl('d In any one of the provinces of Canada itwou ld have sorne good elfco(l gil the marker. If ther.ewere It pool formed In each of the three prOVlnC1"5, and Ifthese th ree pocls were to jl:el together and farm a dominionpool, it would have a larger c,ffcrt In stopping .du~plngand helpmg to givl" the basic pnct; a chance to raise itself.If in addition to that, the pool In Canada were to umtew-j~h a similar pool in Australia and ~e" Zealand, andwere ulnmatejv to unite with a similar pool in the UnitedStates, it would have a ..till greater measure of succesIn hclpin the ba ic price of wheat to 1J:e roused 10 areasonable level. In each one of these lIlSt:U'Cl"s tbevwould bave a measure of SUC("f'<;S dependant upon thefield in wh ich they operated.

" Q. Then it wou ld be nl"res~arv to the complete successof the pool idea , a fully on:anlsl"d marketing system, th a tthe pool sho u ld be a ltied ..nIh pools in ,thl" other count.T1t"Sthat produce gra in in ccmpeuuon ....-itb or that mightcompete with Canadian gram?

"A, No, I would no t S3)' tha i at all, unless wbat youmean b)' " com plete SUCCI'SS' is a condition where theta nners ac tually name the price for wheat-c-which I donot contemplate a t all.

"Q. You do not then contemplate the co mplete join ingup of these poo ls? .

"A. Not under our present human condinons. I th inkwe will be able to g~t three or four countries together Inthe period of a few years.

"Q. That is an international pool ( A. Yes."Q. Whnt three or four countries? ."A. I think it would be possible to Ret Austrafia, to

get the Canadian crops, and 10 ~:Tt the be tter crop!' inthe Un ited Slat .. , and perhaps the Arg'e ntme .

"Q. You think that tha t would be a possible thing, tohave these controlled hy onl" srl1inr.- orjranisation P

"A, No, just simply the ex por t surplus of each ont'of thos c four (ountries to nHl\"C through one channl"1 atLiverpool and on thl' Cont inc n t.

"Q. And be so ld hy one selling organisation? A. Yes .' . Bv thl' Chairman:"Q', ' Vhl'n you say, 'a few years,' wou ld yOll givl"

u~ an idpa of what vou mean bv t. h at ?"A. t do not want 10 he a prophet. In Amtralia th ey

Irl"ad v ha v!' made a ~ tar t, In the Unitecl States it willprohll~ly t akr- a hit longer on account of the con fusioncall~ed by the McNary·lIau~an Bill. It will taK(" usin the Unitl"i! Statn, I would say, at least fj\'e )"ear~to l'omplele a co-op.erative pooling of grain there. Inthe Arll'clltinco it all dcop(nd,; on whether or not there is~overnmf'ot anion, he<'au<e somf' of the m~n who h:n-eheen iT: my ",fIice Wl"re int~ndi ng to go back and IIrRethe Ar enlinl' Govt"mm~nt 10 cr ....le whole5llie gov~:-nment

p<:'<>1. f1:al might he done in a yl"~r and might takl" two\·ear". I should think it would t.:okt a pt' riod-it may bedonco in onl' )"l"ar to unite Au"tralia and Canad:l. Itwou ld t..ke from two to five "ears to ~et these fourcontltries tog-ether. .

" By ~Ir. Pit bl ado :"0. Sow I am comiug on to this world pool idea,

Yo'..! na\·e in ~ome of your ~~oeech.., pointed out to yoor1:eareT!l l·our vif' .... of what I milrbt ca.1I this i ernationalpool. do nOI ",ant to fa I it a 'world I' bvindicatlug that all Ihe CQuntries are in it. You pointed

tit fo· in~tance, I t hink , this at Edmonton :-Augu~1·3rd: Speaking of the Old Countl')' dea!('T'" : • Tbn· makethe'r priCf', looking lit lthc-a t llS a world commodity.'That is the correct view, is it not, to-da,· ~

.. Dr. 'IagllI: I want to J(f't th e righi idea and ~et he Comml<;Slon gelS the right idea of the pool idea.Th!'n you wcont on to sa}· in VOnr speec h at Sask at oonthai )"ou 'hoped Australia wou1d joi n the pool ..;th bersurlllu.. wh l"at as wc-II as :\ t w Zea land.' That is CGfTectis it nc t ? '

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.. A. Yes."Q.' T hllt' Arg ent ine is in it'? A. No, I did no t

say th at."Q. Well, that 15 th e way it is printed. " Ar gentine

is in it, There were two representatives of .~ rgentmaat my office to gN all the contracts and oprmo ns asto whether or not they should have a compulsory poo lor a voluntary contract pooL'

"A. That is correct. .... Q. You mean they were wor kmg on It? ."A, • ·0, that there are people from Argentina who

were intere ted in it. They do not know yet whetherthe v are going to realtse a. form of pool by governmen tfiat; or have a vo luntary pool. . ,

"Q. t'\gillO quoting from the repo rt of Saoirc sspeech)' 'That is the espectanon of the Americanleader" as welI as the best Canadian leaders, tha t wewill fum pooh in eacb of the great wheat -preduciugccuntriea and that .. ithin th ree years from that datethere WIll be II pool at Liverpool selfing the whea t o fCanada, the L'nit..d State, Australia, Kew Zealand andthe Argentine.' .. ..

"A. And that is within the r~lon of pos~biht}'.

"Q. Then yeu ~nt on to 5ay this a li tt le la ter cu :'I tef l you that the thin!" is as good as do ne. andthat the growers of the world will name the price ofthe .."heat instead of it being named lJ". the gamblersof the "WOrld. (Lord cheers and applause],"

.. A. I think that is true,, Q, This is the inlet national pool or world pool )'ou

have in mind?"A. Yes which I consider inevitable ove r a te rm of

years."Q, Then yo u would have some other cou nt ries you

have not mentioned the re ?" A, Ye 5, tbere a re some,"Q. India A. RuuilJ, Rou",ania, Serbia."Q, .\ 11 these wheat-producing counrries ? A, Yes ."Q. Of eeurse, wou ld be, whi le these other poo ls

were form.ing, competinl{ ~, ; A, Neccssarity. Ycu may not know it, but (' Ht of

au bnf,o,g,1Itiud (oultt,its in lltt 'l!'llol~ 'Il'o ,lJ on ca;opll,ali1'6 ",a,lut!nK is Rft$!;a.

" By Mr. Pltbtadcr-c-.. Q, At any rate, }'OU did no t mention th ose coumrles."A. Because I was afraid it might no t be po pular

with you people to speak of Russia, hut lI OW , sinceF:ngland. h;ls recog ni sed Russia and sinc e commercialrelatton s can 1,<" made, it is fairly likely tha t som ethin gcan he done with reference to RU5si an su rplus whe at ."

Fronl thi~ reJlOft it is, therdore, es tahlis hed thatthere is at It"ast one person in the wo rld activelyinterested in the g-rain tnuIe, who does not re g-ardlht' c('ntrol hv Oll t" single " selling organisation "of the wheat ·sllpply (If th is country as being- " im­possihlf' " of attainmf'nt, hut is, in fact , actin ' lyworking to that end. It makes no d ifference thatthe control is plann('d to be ex ercised by "thegrowers of lhe world" who" will n ame the p riceof the whe:lt," for " the growers " are a boilyexternal to this country . and therefore, outs idf"the juri.,diction of thi" country. In any case. tha tthat is the intention i~ challeng("d , fo r, a ltho ugh" thl" ~ro\\,-Its .. are df'arly un der the impressionthat they arl" to exercise this co ntrol when enteringinto thiS co-operati\'e scheme with ~Jr. Sapiro,th("re is e\ iden('"(' 10 show that thet' ultimateh' findthemse-h ("s to h:1\ e no sa\' in the- matter what so­I"H"r. and ("nhrdv in the hands of a group of" intt'mational fmanciers ", but this point will beraised later. 1 he pomt is now that The Roy alCommission on food Prices should su rely t ake upthiS matt('"r and make enquiry: ( I) a5 to the ex tentto which ~fr. Sal iTO has been able to carry outhi~ ",c}.emt'; (2) the people associated with Ium init; (3~ the possibilities of its ultimate comple te"u('"ce-s by an examination into the proposals, there~ourc('s and the capabili ties of those concernedin it· and (4) the ('xtf"nt to which it is affecting- thi !!countf\" and likely to do in the fu t,ur e.

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THE JEWISH NATION.BY

M. Urbain Gohier.{M. Gohier is a well-known French Journalist, formerly Edito r of La Villt Frana.]

OXE of the J ewish Leaders, Baruch Hagani, III

a book on Tbcodor H erzl , published in 1918, de­plo res the ignorance a nd ind ifference of the public0 11 the subject of the J ewish qu estion ; he calls uponthe Press, Pu blic O pin ion, and the Nations tointe rest themselves ill the problems which conce rnthe j ewish People. I endorse this invi tation. Icannot comprehend the terror and rage sho wn l-yth e ma jority o f the Jew s, when the interest in theira ffairs. such as Baruch Hagani invites. is accorded.But I wish to place the qu estion on its true foot ing.

'1 he inva riable tacti cs of the Iews are to side­tr ack the d iscu ssion into the sphere o f rel igiousbel ief in order to raise the cry of religious pcrsecu­non and to Invoke the broad principles of tolera­tion" T he J ewish Problem has nothing to d o eitherwith religion or con scien ce. It is a qu estion o f:~ATIOXALlTY; a nd it is a q uesti on o f RACE.

1.THE QUESTION OF NATIONALITY.

The qu est ion o f Nationality may be thus put.No man can serve t .....o masters; no man can claimat the same time to belong to two nations; nor toenjoy the prerogatives attaching to each national itywhi lst evading the burde ns of the one and of t fieother .

T he Germans invented what is called the Dc1­bruck Law, by virtue of which they pretended toget naturalised in any country they pleased , andto become citize ns of these countries , wifhout losingtln-ir quality of German citizens in Germany .

Hut the German sys tem was only an imitationof the lewlsb , which allows the Hebrew to d isg uisehimself as a cit izen of one or even o f severalGenti le nation s without relinquishing his quality , 1';5privileges. and h is claims, as a Jew.

We have only to be fai rminded to und erstan dtha t a J ew cannot any more than a German be loy alto the foreig n nation into .....hicb he wishes to enter ,and at the same time fa ithfully serve the nationfrom wh ich he sprang. T oo many occa sions arisewhere the inter ts of these two nations stand inopposit ion; in cr itical circumstances it is naturally,nay necessaril y, the call o f the blood, o f a ncest ry ,o f race, o f first beliefs which is the determin ingfactor.

This truth is SO evident that the Jews (fo notattempt to contes t it; they si mply contest theexistence of th e J EWISH NATlO~. At all eve nt s,they contest it in their cont rove rsy wiffi us.

The ex istence and vigour of th e jewish nationas a nation have bee n demonst ra ted by its .owntea ching , by the repeated declarations o f us leaders;of the Exilarchs and of the Princes of Israelqualified to act as its mouthpieces-c-notablv byLouis n. Brand eis , member of the Supreme Courtof the United States, who declares" :

"Let us recognise that we, the Jews, are aDISTl~CT NATION, of which each Jew IS nece ssarilya member, whatever h is country of origi n , hi sposition, or his beliefs."

Other d ecla rat ion s, other claims, and s ignificant

facts abound, which add force to the alreadynumerou s proofs in this respect. The SOCIal andpo litical up heavals o f the present time ha ve broughtin to the light of day many perso nages and manynotions .....hich hitherto lay sh rou ded. in gloom.When we saw the world overrun in every d irection,th e capita ls occup ied , ministers besieged, the PeaceConference hemmed in by the Dd i!gatu, by the.4.mhds,sadoTS , by the Plenipotentiaries o f theJEWISH NATIOK, we were really compelled to adm itthat there is a jewish nation. \Vhen we saw theGrey BQo~ brought ou t with the official reports ofthe j ewi sh Ambassadors , the selections fro m thecorrespo nd ence between the Prince of Israel and thechiefs o f the Gent ile Govern ments, in sho rt , theactua l documents of J ewish d iplomacy , we werereally obliged to recognise that there is a JEWISHGO\'ER~MES T. We al rea dy knew the jeu-islt Aatio"'11Fund which is fed by regular collection s on publicho lid ay s or at the pnvate meetings o f Jewish com ­muniues or families , a nd for wh ich one day 'sea rn ings have to be set as ide at certain periods h~.·

Jewry all over the world . What have we here huta Budg~t ?

A Bud get implies a Govemmenr , a .. Nation rlFund " implies a ~ATIO~. T he J ewish Press. sopowerful, so keen, so violen tly nationalist , is theorgan of a na tion, and it boasts of it.

On J anuary 30t h, 1920 , the Jewish Guardian,reporting the delibera t ions of J ewry ' s Authorit iesfor E ngland , put 011 record th ese tw o incidents. Adelegate, Bertram Jacobs , brought forward aIlla tion relative to the secret propagand a carried 011by the " Press Com mission." On the other hand ,the Committee o f Fore ign Affairs" repo rted thatit ha d app roached the Entente Governments in orderto obtain th e repat ria t ion o f 5,000 jewish" A ust rian " sold iers, prisoners in Siberia.

A ll this officia l phraseology evide nces the workingo f a Gooemmem and reveals the exi stence o f aNATIO~ careful of it ." propag and a , occu pied indefending its NATIO~ALS even in enemy uniform.

The follo ..... ing issue (F ebru ary 6th, 1920) o f thefrois lt Guardimr en umerat ed the benefits whichthe J EWI SH NATIO~ has drawn from the terriblewa r ; it extolled the " sple ndid work of the PeaceConference in favou r of the j ews It in the new Stateso f Ce nt ra l Eu rope; it drew attention to theplenipo tent ia ry of the J EWISH NATIO~ in Paris,Lucien \Vol £, as having "actua lly pulled thest rmgs o f the Conference with striking and com ­plete success. It T he mere mention o f the advan­tages assured to j ewry by the Con ference filledseveral pages of the paper.

The decision of the Allied Powers at San Remo,April 24th, 1920, handing over Palestine to . theJews, roused among the t ribes the~ enthusiasmas did the Bal four Declaration thirty monthsbefore. And the j ewish chiefs met "in London ,under the presidency o f Dr. Cbaim Weismann. sup­ported bv Lord Rothschild, Nahum Sokolow, RabbiGoldbloom, and Rabbi Samuel Daiches, to bestow

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One of the first problems with \....hich 11r.Chamberlain had to contend on his appointment 20S

Foreign Secretary \....as that of Egypt. Thedastardly assassination of the Governor-General ofthe Sudan and Sirdar of the Egyptian Army, SirLee Stack, aroused the keenest resentment in thiscountry, and the Government had the whole-heartedsupport of the country in its firm handling of thesituation. Moreover the action 'taken certainlygave the greatest satisfaction to the subjects of theother powers in Egypt, and in all probability savedus from all that would have been involved inattempts at interference. \Ve regret that the atti­tude of the British Government, in other respectsso morally justifiable, should have been so marredby the introduction into the Note to the EgyptianGovernment of the provision notifying theEgyptian Government that the concession made toEgyptian opinion by a conditional promise to limitthe irrigation area in the Gezira is withdrawn. Tounderstand how singularly unfortunate and" regret­table this was, it is necessary to understand sOIQ..e·t hing of certain conditions m the Sudan, and theway in which they are exploited to our· discredit.

The whole Geeira irrigation scheme has for itspurpose the irrigation of certain cotton-growinglands under the eegis of a concern known as " T heSudan Plantations Syndicate, Limited ," of whichMr. F . Eckstein-of South African fame-is theChairman. In the nature of the arrangement madebetween this Syndicate and the Sudanese native,who actually does the work of growing the cotton,it is perhaps natural that the Sudanese should, fromtime to tim e, imagine himself to be treated unfairlyor improperly exploited in some way. It may notseem so natural to some, and yet it is in fact equallyso , that there are men of Mr. E ckstein' s own racewho find the time to encourage the native in hisdissatisfaction, fan it into a greatly increasedvigour, and assure him that, so long as Britishrule continues, this exploitation for the benefit ofthe hated Capitalist will also continue. And whatmore natural again , than that the native shouldbelieve this to be true, "for cer tain of the BritishOfficials have, unfortunately, and no d oubt -m­consciously, done much to make it appear so, as forinstance when Sir Lee Stack himself allowed Mr.Eckstein to accompany him (as we unders tand liedid) ...."hen he made his las t tour of inspect ion o fthe Sudan. Even certain of the Br it ish Officialsthemselves are saying that the Su d an seems to l.eno thing else than a J ewish possession; and it canhardly be wondered at that the native shouldbelieve it when -he is told that the Brit ish are run­ning the country for the benefit of the Capitalist­Capitalist and Jew being merely different names forone and the same thing, although, of cou rse , theBolshevist agent would be the last person to pu t thelatter term into the mind of the native. And nowth e Brit ish Government itself confi rms thi s v iew fo rthe native by taking action which it seems to vs ,and apparently seems to certain members of theHouse of 'Commons , and must certainly seem to then at ive himself to have been taken solely out atconsideration for the Sudan Plantations Syndicate."T here have been rumours in the past of some undueinfluence which it was alleged the Sudan P lanta­tions were in a position to bring upon the Govern ­ment. Mr. Asquith's d ignified treatment of theattack upon hi~ in the House o f Common s ~:nctime ago when It was suggested diat the positron

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SUDAN.THE

TIle Editor regrets bd ng una ble to p ublish lellers 1ueived

in tlds number owiflg to lack oj sjJace.

on the Entente the national testimony of theirsa tisfaction.

In every country, in their meetings, In t heirde monstra t ion s, in thei r pa rades in the public street ,th e Jew s sing their NATIO~AL hynms (Hatikvah).

It is N ATIOKAL organisations , such as Zeire ZIOO,Sch mar in , Gave Zion, which prepare and now C011­

duct the re turn to the Promised Land {EretzIsrael).

The Armist ice had not yet been signed when(Temps , P aris , Oc tober l ith , 19'18) the Jews ofAustria met at Vienna (October 14th) to demandin the new Austria State a place for JewishN ATIONALITY, a N ATIONAL home in P a le st in e ,NATIO~AL rights in all countries; finally that in thefutu re League of Nations the Jewish Peoole shouldhave eq ual r ights with those o f any other people.

At the same period Dr. Chaim Weizman informedth e Jewish communities throughout the whole worldthat in P alestine from the very start, the Powerswould recognise Jewish NATIONALITYas distinct andsovereign (see "Pro Israel, " Salanika , 14 Tishri5679).

T he bon d of unity of a NATIO~ is its lang uage.D r. Izhac Epstein " the most represen-tati ve figureof contemporary H ebrew pedagogy," disciple orcollaborator of Ichel ),fihal P ines, of Mcyonbassand of R abb i Zceb Yahbetz, proclaimed that theHebrew la nguage is the bond of the Jewish NATIOi\,that it has upheld the collective memory, and themor al uni ty of Israel in spi te of the D ispersion.On J une 8th , 1919, a t a Council of W ar held atP ar is in the Ru e d e L an cry , by the chiefs of _theJ ewish garrison, Mr. Slatopolsky , president of theT arbooth, revealed that:

, ; In R ussia , as soon as the Revolut ion had g-iv~n

t he Jews the means of developing their activity,they beg an to erect by hun dreds H eb rew schoolsand lycees where all the subjec ts are dealt with Jl1

Hebrew. ""In Palestine, it h as been decided that while

everyone can be an elector, only those who speakHebrew will be eligible , because H ebrew will bethe only language admitted to the Parliament ofEretz Israel."

In PTa Israel ( 12 H eschwan 5679 or Oc tober 18th ,1918) we read" the true Jew d oes not assimilate,"and" Isr ael is a NATIONALITY as much as F ran ce. "In the army o f General AUenby in P alest ine , " .ueNATIONAL Jewi sh fla g floated besides the otherAllied standard s, an d for the firs t time in J ewishhistory for 18 centuries , a JEWISH ARMY foughtwhere the orders were given in H ebrew."

A language, a fla g, a hymn , an army, a d iplo­placy, a budget, a press , a propaganda, a worsh ipof hi s own which is shared by no othe r humangroup; if there is not in these the cha racte ristics 0 fa NATION, what more is needed ?

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g iven to h is son in the Sudan Plantations Syndicatehad profit ed th at concern in some way in i ts deal­mgs with the Government will not have been for­gotten. ( Incidentally, it seems to us to have beensingula rly appropnate that ~[r. Asquith sho uld havebeen present at the death of the Si rdar). Hutwha tever influence It was that was brou~ht to bearon the Fore ign Office in drafting the No te to theEgyptian Government, there can be absolutely '10doubt t hat it ' was influenced in a way wh ich Mr.Cham berlain later fou nd it impossible to defend.He had been specifically in formed in the d ebate mthe H ou se that the Note " had an immediate COID ­

mercia! effect. The shares of the Sudan Planta­t ions Syndicate rose at once. The Ti,"es next d aysaid 'a spectacular rise ' ," yet he found it con­vement to ignore tha t point altogether, in fact hefound it convenient to ignore mos t poi nts, appar­ently recognising Ins position to be en t irely ind c fen­sible. The report of this part o f his speech reads :

.. T he re is one subject to which I must make apasslO~ reference, and that is the demand put for­wa rd In regard to the Geeireb irr ig at ion scheme­a demand phrased ID q uite un lim ited terms.Nobody but a fool eyer supposed that itcould beth e intention of any Br it ish Governm ent to sta rveEgypt into submission by thirs t. (Oppositionla ugh ter). I need scarcely say tha t never enteredthe mind of Lord AlIenby nor the minds o f H isMajesty' s Ministers at home. (An H an. Member :.. Why did y ou use that phrase? OJ). May I l.>eghon. members to cons ult With their Lea d er, my pre­decesscr, a nd ask him whether the course of publiceve nts while he was Prime Minister and ForeignSecretary alwa ys left h im as much time fo r cons ide r­anon befo re he was obliged to take action as l-ewould have desired , or If he always fou nd thehappiest phraseolog y when he was obl ige d to actin a great hurry ? I think that if a little more t imehad been ava ilable we might, from the first, ha vedefined more exactly what our position wa s. 1have only to say now that if we have a fr ien dlyE gypt ian Government to de al with who, on theirside, are loyal to th e conditions on which o ur co­operation is base d , we shall invite them to join usin an inquir y as to what water is available for theSudan, after making full all owance for Egypt, andwe shall propose to them that the Chairman of th atCommission, on which Egypt and the Sudan arerespect ively represented, shall ~ drawn fr~m anent irely neutral source. (Oppos ition .cheers).. .

A reply which is surely a masterpiece of Parlia­mentary evasion.

THf: MENi\ CE Of 101lEN fOOD COSTROL.

( CO" tj"t«4/'OM page 5 ).

articles; a s , for ins tance, that associated with Mr.Sa pirc a re suc h men a s Mr. Otto Kahn, the beadof the banking firm ot Kahn, Loeb & Co., Mr .Bemard ~1. Baruch, the former head of the WarIndustries Board, ~fr. Eugene Meyer, the fo rmerhead of the War Finance Corporat ion, and Mr .Albert D. La sker , the former he ad of the ShippingBoard; that Mr. Sapiro 's method s of organisationcons tit ute an exact parallel .....ith the me thod sad opted by the Bolsheviks in Rus sia; that h isorganisations are also used as bolshevik p apa­ganda agencies; that they have been extended into

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