B_345_The-Rulers-of-Russia

the Bank of England, those who control credit and manipulate
currency have gradually usurped the function of the Sovereign
Power in modern States and are now linked together in a Big
Combine. "Democracy" is simply another name for "a moneylenders'
Paradise," a country in which currency comes into existence
in the form of a debt to members of a big syndicate. Just as
the chain-shop aims at the extinction of the individual trader, so
the International Syndicate known as the Bank of International
Settlements aims at the extinction of those entities known as nations
or rather at their subjection to its dictates. The "Fascist"
nations are refusing to sell out and be absorbed by the great
monopolies, in a word, they refuse to borrow money.
"These 'sovereign states' we call Germany, Spain, Poland, Italy,
Japan, are relatively small independent businesses. . . . Incidentally,
they are businesses which have defied the big credit Institutions
or International Banks—upon whose accommodation such
businesses are supposed to depend for their continued existence.
And it is not us, the people of England, but the International
Banking Interests (of whom all democratic governments are the
agents) who loudly and threateningly demand their return into
the economic fold. And 'Soviets Limited* shouts it too. . . . What
is this notion of National Sovereignty as seen from the standpoint
of the monopolist (Mr. Litvinov representing the great Russian
Empire, stretching from the Baltic to Korea or Mr. Eden representing
the British Empire which sprawls all over the world) ? It
is a challenge to the all-powerful world-corporation he has in view,
and which is actually in process of formation. It makes him see
red literally. . . . Among the monopolist States, Great Britain,
France, and Russia are the great protagonists. ... In the background
is the United States of America, the most powerful single
State in the world. And Mr. Roosevelt is an arch-monopolist.
. . . The last four years have made it clear to any intelligent man.
. . . that 'Soviet Communism' is just a monopolist variation of
'Dollar Diplomacy' or the 'British Hegemony' ... It is Soviets
Limited with a propaganda Department as big as all the other
departments of State put together. . . . It is the most stupendous
racket that the world has ever seen. . . . We, that is,
Great Britain, are in with the monopolists . . . over against us
are a lot of States which represent relatively small-scale CapitaJ
. . . We stand for the Big Combine. They represent the little
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