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'stable* banking system for the world. With the whole of the
world's gold stocks centralised, and with each country's internal
banking system co-ordinated under an all-powerful central bank,
bank crashes and bank 'runs' (whether on a localised or national
scale) would be impossible: an illusory gold backing to a world
currency could be successfully maintained, and international gold
tokens issued and 'redeemed' in any quantities which suited the
policy of the board of the World Bank. At the same time, all hope
of freedom and plenty—for the individual, for industry, and for
nations—would automatically disappear, and the world would be
relentlessly driven into complete idolatry under an international
gold-idol." 1
Against this process of reduction to financial slavery,
the Hitlerite government is struggling. As Wyndham Lewis puts
it: "What Herr Hitler is required to do is to merge Germany in
the league of monopolist States." 2
When Hitler is exhorted to
make a contribution to peace, Wyndham Lewis goes so far as to
say that it really means: "the peace-loving nations are more
heavily-armed than you are, Herr Hitler, and have at their back
unlimited resources, and they will unquestionably make war on
you, if you do not submit to their will, and if you persist in going
on with this Sovereign State stuff." And we must always bear
in mind that Marxism, as we have seen in the Foreword, is an
instrument of International Finance as well as Capitalism. The
end of the war between the "Democracies" and "Fascism" may see
the process of reducing the world to slavery definitively achieved,
or at least considerably advanced, and the reign of the natural
messias inaugurated, by the installation of a Communist or semi-
^An Analysis of Usury, by Jeffrey Mark, pp. 214, 215.
2
Count Your Dead; They Are Alive! p. 318.
When the Federal Reserve Bank had been a few years in existence, in
1916, to be precise, President Woodrow Wilson thus summed up the situation
in U.S.A.: "A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of
credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation,
therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. . . . We
have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled
and dominated Governments in the civilised world—no longer a Government
by conviction and the free vote of the majority, but a Government
by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men." That is what
"democracy" means, and it is a good description of the system which the
Board of International Settlements has been quietly setting up all over the
world. Cf. Wealth, Virtual Wealth, and Debt, by Professor Soddy, pp.
290 et seq.
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