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  THE BELMONT BROTHERHOOD


"Does the Brotherhood exist?"

"That Winston, you will never know. If we choose to set you free when we have
finished with you, and if you live to be ninety years old, still you will
never learn whether the answer to that question is yes or no. As long as you
live, it will be a riddle in your mind."

>From 1984 by George Orwell
Ladies and Gentlemen:
During the past year many of you have received sensitive material regarding
criminal abuses within the high command of The John Birch Society from the
following sources:

1. Harry Brandler -- former Illinois Coordinator
2. Tim Weir -- former JBS Staff Fund Raiser and St. Louis Coordinator
3. Donald Prang -- former JBS Comptroller
4. Rex Westerfield -- former JBS Public Relations Director
5. Bruce Taylor -- former JBS Director of Advertising and Sales
6. Dick Weiss -- former South Dakota Coordinator
7. Tim Heinan -- former JBS Ad Hoc Committee Coordinator
8. Nicholas J. Bove, Jr. -- former Research Assistant to Robert Welch
9. John Deckert -- former Coordinator for Central and Southern New Jersey
10. Ted Henrickson -- former Coordinator for Southern New Jersey and Delaware
(This is only a partial listing)
While our staff has been engaged in research for our forthcoming book (which
we shall publish in the very near future), it has discovered some surprising
coincidences in the backgrounds of certain members of the Council of the John
Birch Society (both past and present) -- coincidences we believe demand the
attention of all students of the Master Conspiracy of which we have come to
believe THE BELMONT BROTHERHOOD is an integral part.
JBS Council Members - Past and present
The following biographical sketches were taken, verbatim, from a book, THE
KANGAROO COURT VERSUS THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY. It was published in 1963 by
A.J. MacDonald and Associates and, we should add, written in defense of the
John Birch Society. We have reproduced nearby the full title page of this
particular volume. Observe - this copy we are using was once available from a
St. Paul American Opinion Bookstore. When you finish reading these
biographies, which include two thirds of Charter Members present in
Indianapolis on Dec. 8 & 9, 1958, we believe you will begin to understand why
American Opinion Bookstores no longer sells it.
KANGAROO COURT
VERSUS
THE JOHN BIRCH
SOCIETY
By
A.J. MacDonald
1963
PRICE $1.25
***
Published by
A.J. MACDONALD & ASSOCIATES
POLITICAL RESEARCH BUREAU
3025 W. 7th Street
Los Angeles, California 90005
CHAPTER 10

On the following pages are listed a few of those important people who are
backing and supporting the Society as members of the John Birch Council.

1. William J. Grede
In the February 1977 John Birch Society Bulletin, Welch describes Grede as a
"truly great American (p. 27)." This "great American" was a "director" of
none other than the 7th Federal Reserve Bank - an important arm of the
infamous Federal Reserve System. As Birch authority Gary Allen states in his
Rockefeller File: "For fifty years the Federal Reserve - CFR - Rockefeller
Insider crowd (observe how Allen uses all of these terms together and
interchangeably) has advocated and carried out policies aimed at increasing
the power of their satellite, the Soviet Union (p. 108)."

That being the case, what was a founding Council Member of the JBS - a man
who is now Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Council - doing as a
member of the crowd Allen says increases the power of the Soviet Union?
Coincidence?? No more a coincidence than Grede's membership in the
quasi-Masonic National Council of the YMCA - which we shall deal with later.

Incidentally, Grede is listed by Helen Peters in her treatise, Is the John
Birch Society Subversive? as Chairman of National Bible Week put up by the
Laymen's National Committee of the National Council of Churches. This we
suppose is the "Conservative" Arm of the National Council of Churches.

2. Robert D. Love
Although Bob Love is no longer on the Council, he was still a member for a
number of years and as such is entitled to some examination. Bob Love is
listed here as "a Thirty-second Degree KCCH Mason, a member of the Median
Shrine [emphasis ours]."

What was a Thirty-second Degree Mason doing on the Council of the John Birch
Society? Indeed, he was not the only highly placed Mason on the Council. What
is the significance of this?
In order to understand how significant it could be, we must consult Masonic
authority Albert Pike -- whom Welch himself has identified on numerous
occasions as one of the major Master Conspirators of the Nineteenth Century:

"To the crowd we must say: we worship a God, but it is the God one adores
without superstition. To you Sovereign Grand Inspectors General, we say this,
that you may repeat it to the Bretheren of the 32nd [which by the way was
Love's level - N.B.], 31st and 30th degrees: all of us initiates of the high
degrees should maintain the Masonic religion in the purity of the Luciferian
doctrine... Yes, Lucifer is God, and, unfortunately Adonay is also God...
religious philosophy in its purity and truth consists in the belief in
Lucifer, the equal of Adonay. (Albert Pike, quoted in A.C. de la Rive: La
Femme et l'Enfant dinis la Franc-Maconnerie Universelle, p. 588. Also quoted
by Vicomte Leon de Poncins, Freemasonry and the Vatican, p. 6).

Similar quotations abound in Pike's book, Morals and Dogma -- which can be
found in Welch's library in Belmont, Massachusetts. This writer knows this
because, as his former research assistant, he was in charge of organizing
Welch's personal book collection. Now, knowing this, what does Welch himself
think of one having a self-avowed Thirty-Second Degree KCCH Mason on the
Council? -- especially when, as Pike says, Bretheren of the 32nd Degree
(Love's level) worship Lucifer.

Believe it or not, Welch has given us his answer. It is in the John Birch
Society Bulletin of October, 1973. In this bulletin he does not refer
directly to Bob Love as a Thirty-Second Degree Mason. Instead he comments on
organized Masonry in general. On pages 13-14 he attempts to answer the charge
that he himself may be a Mason. And here is his startling response: "So
What?" (emphasis ours).
Then Welch continues to defend his strange (to put it mildly) defense by
adding "At least ninety-five percent of the four million ordinary (observe
that Pike told us what a 32nd Degree Mason believes -- a 32nd Degree Mason
like Love is no ordinary Mason) American Masons are just as patriotic as you
or I." Which kind of makes you wonder about Welch's concept of patriotism.
But he doesn't stop there. He goes on to state that he was invited on several
occasions to "speak out against Communism at Masonic Lodges (p. 14)." And he
assures us he did this with "no punches pulled." So he must have told them
about Pike - the occult high philosopher of all organized Masonry. In fact
Welch would have had to expose Pike if he was determined not to pull any
punches. He would have had to do this because a man who believes "veracity is
the very core of morality (p. 14)" would never conceal the truth. Or would
he?

Andrew Lane, a member of the Belmont Staff, has stated the following in
response to a concerned Bircher's inquiry (see reproduction of entire letter
nearby): "Mr. Welch had made speeches exposing parts (emphasis ours) of the
Communist Conspiracy before Masonic Lodges on several occasions." We wonder
why Welch declined to expose the whole operation instead of just the "parts"
Lane mentions. Certainly his speeches at some of these Lodges must have been
recorded. If Welch has nothing to hide, why doesn't he make public to
justifiably concerned members of the JBS the up-to-now secret comments which
he himself has admitted making in Masonic Lodges, not just once, but on
several occasions?

3. William Benton McMillan
McMillan is not listed anywhere, as far as we are concerned, as a 32nd Degree
Mason. He was, however, a member of the St. Louis Committee of the Council on
Foreign Relations (see reproduced page nearby from Power Behind The
Government Today by Helen P. Lasell: Liberty Publications, 520 Fifth Avenue,
N.Y., N.Y., 1963).

So McMillan, who was by the way present in Indianapolis for the founding of
the Society and was the first Life Member of the Society -- see pages 258 and
274 of the LIFE AND WORDS OF ROBERT WELCH by G. Edward Griffin) was a member
of what Dan Smoot has called the "Invisible Government." Any informed Bircher
knows that the CFR is a subversive clique preparing to merge us into a
Communist one-world Government. Read None Dare Call It Conspiracy for the
full story.

4. Frederick Chase Koch
If it should seem strange that a founding Council member like McMillan was
also a CFR member, it shouldn't be. Koch, another founding Council member
(JBS* that is) was -- according to the 1964-1965 Who's Who (page 1120),
available at your local non-JBS library (we have reproduced the section in
question nearby). -- President of The Coleman Company, Inc., "builder oil
refineries in England, France, Belgium, Germany, Russia (emphasis ours), Ruman
ia (emphasis ours), Portugal, Italy, Near East..." We wonder if Koch signed
that JBS petition to stop aid and trade with our Communist enemies. He
probably did. Should you dare to ask Welch about the apparent contradiction
here, he will very likely reply with a form letter saying: "So What? -- And
thank you for checking with this office."

5. J. Nelson Shepherd
Shepherd is a member of the quasi-Masonic Rotary Club, Elks Club, YMCA Board,
and last -- but not least of all -- the very elite Newcomen Society. The
current president of the Newcomen Society is Charles Penrose, Jr. Mr. Penrose
has been its President since at least 1959. Penrose is a member in good
standing of such sophisticated subversive one-world outfits as the "Pilgrims
of the United States" and the "English-Speaking Union" (see reproductions of
page 2456 of the 1976-1977 Who's Who in America (Volume II) and page 545 of
Volume I of the Encyclopedia of Associations on a nearby page).

So that you may get an idea of the kind of people involved with the Pilgrims
and the English-Speaking Union, we have reproduced nearby the remarks of the
U.S. Congressman from Montana, the Hon. J. Thorlkelson, given in a speech to
the U.S. House of Representatives on August 20, 1940:

Steps Toward British Union, a World State, and International Strife - Part III

REMARKS
of
HON. J. THORKELSON
OF MONTANA
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Tuesday, August 20, 1940
PAMPHLET BY JOHN J. WHITEFORD

Mr. THORKELSON. Mr. Speaker, under leave to extend my own remarks in the
RECORD, I include a pamphlet by John J. Whiteford. This pamphlet should be of
interest to every Member of Congress because it deals with a subject that
will soon confront us, as it did in 1917:

In the past it has been largely responsible for drawing this country into the
World War at a cost of thousands of our young men and billions of dollars and
a long period of depression. It does not work openly and it is not generally
recognized by the public. It does not yell from soap boxes in Union Square,
call strikes, picket or hold parades. It operates from the top down and so it
reaches into every juncture of American life. It is the far reaching power of
British propaganda to make this country subservient to Great Britain and the
British Empire.

The scene is a banquet held at the Hotel Plaza, New York City, October 25,
1939. This banquet was given by the Pilgrim Society of America in honor of
the Marquess of Lothian, British Ambassador of the United States. It is an
old custom of the American Pilgrims to extend this honor to every
newly-appointed British Ambassador, the same as the British Pilgrims invite
every new American Ambassador to their midst at a banquet in London.

There are several curious things about these Pilgrim functions. In the first
place there is present a these dinners an array of notables, such as it would
be difficult to bring together under one roof for any other purpose and by
any other society. The Lothian dinner was no exception. Presiding over this
affair was Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University, and
chairman of the American Pilgrim Society. Among the guests were John D.
Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont and other members of the House
of Morgan. Frank L. Polk, Jeremiah Milbank, James W. Gerard (former American
ambassador to Germany), the French Ambassador to the United States, Lt. Gen.
Hugh A. Drum, U.S.A. Maj. Gen. John O. Harbord (chairman of the Radio
Corporation of America), the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau, and
many other leading figures in government, diplomacy, politics, finance,
banking, shipping, law, industry, insurance and education. These men had come
especially to honor Lord Lothian and to hear him speak. Before this important
audience Lord Lothian's speech could not merely be a light after-dinner talk
of clever stories and witticisms. It was an important as front-page news.
* * * * * *

A few prominent Pilgrim members, past and present, are listed below: J.P.
Morgan, Russell Leffingwell, Henry P. Davison, John W. Davis, John D.
Rockefeller, Harry Rockefeller, Ogden Mills Reid, Henry Morgenthau, Otto
Kahn, Robert Fulton Cutting, James B. Clews, John B. Trevor, William Fellowes
Morgan, Henry W. Taft, Adolph Ochs, James Speyer, Charles H. Rabin, Sir
Ashley Sparks, George F. Trewbridge, Phillip Rhinelander, Andrew W. Mellon,
Albert H. Wiggin. J. W. Hill, John F. O'Ryan, Frank L. Polk, George R.
Goeshals, Julius Ochs Adler, Alfred I. Aiken, Herbert I. Aldrich, John
Whitney, W.B. Whitney, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vincent Astor, Julius S. Bache,
Robert Lew Boron, Ancell H. Bail, David H. Biddle, Robert W. Bigelow, Irving
T. Bush, Newcomb Carleton, Joseph H....

In the nature of their exclusive membership and... the Pilgrims may be termed
the wholesale agency for promoting the interests of Britain in this country.
It is strictly a Tory organization. The retail outlet is the more widely
known English-Speaking Union, which has for its avowed purpose:

"To draw together in the bond of comradeship the English-Speaking people of
the United States and of the British Empire by the disseminating knowledge of
each in the other and by reverence for their common institutions."

It is interesting to note that the English-Speaking Union originated in
London in the fateful year of 1917 when America bared her strong arm in
defense of democracy. Like the Pilgrims, the English-Speaking Union has a
British organization with headquarters in London and an American branch with
central offices in New York. The purposes of the two organizations are
virtually the same and there is an interlocking directorate and membership.

The patron of the English-Speaking Union (London) is His Majesty the King.
The honorary president of the American English-Speaking Union is the
prominent Pilgrim, John W. Davis, successor to the late Walter Hines Page as
America's wartime Ambassador to the Court of St. James, Presidential
Candidate in 1924, and member of J.P. Morgan & Co. As treasurer of the
American English-Speaking Union is listed Harry P. Davison, also a Morgan
partner whose father was instrumental in having J.P. Morgan & Co. appointed
exclusive purchasing agents for the British Government in America during the
World War. Another director of the English-...

[Editor's Note: see also The League of Nations for funders of the CFR & RIIA]

Elitist clubs like the Pilgrims and much less sophisticated offshoots from
Masonry like the YMCA and the seemingly innocuous Elks and Rotary Clubs are
in reality philosophically interconnected sects within the overall Masonic
framework of the Luciferian tradition of Albert Pike. Pope Leo XIII pointed
this out in his famous Encyclical, Humanum Genus:

"There exists in the world a certain number of sects which although seemingly
different one from another as to name, ritual, form and origin are, however,
similar due to the analogy of their aim and chief principles. Indeed, they
are identical to Freemasonry which is, for them all, the central point from
which they proceed and toward which they converge." (Leo XIII, as quoted by
Monseigneur Jouin: The Papacy and Freemasonry, pp. 3,4)

Organizations such as the YMCA comprise the type of sects, though different
in name, yet similar in general Masonic principles to the cardinal tenets of
Freemasonry which Leo XIII warned against in Humanum Genus. Years later Pope
Benedict XV noted this in his condemnation of November 5, 1920 and prior to
this in a letter from the Holy Office to the Ordinaries on June 15, 1916 (a
letter which called upon their vigilant attention because of special new
machinations being directed against the Faith by anti-Catholic organizations
-- foremost among them being the YMCA. In the letter of November 5, Benedict
XV stated: "The YMCA intends to purify and spread a more perfect knowledge of
real life placing itself above all Churches and outside of any religious
jurisdiction." (Benedict XV, as quoted by Monsigneur Jouin, op.cit., p. 28)

6. Robert Waring Stoddard
Stoddard is Mr. Big on the Council. He too was a director and president of
the YMCA. Even more interesting is that he is Chairman of the Board of the
Worcester Telegram and Gazette (this according to the 1976-1977 Who's Who In
America, page 3030 -- see reproduction nearby) --influential papers whose
editors belong to the local Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations.

When John F. McManus -- during a speech he gave in Worcester, Massachusetts
in the summer of 1973 -- was asked by a reporter from the Gazette about the
patent contradiction of Birch Council Member Stoddard allowing CFR members to
determine editorial policy for his paper, Birch Society Public Relations
Director McManus replied, "Why don't you ask Bob Stoddard?" The next day
McManus was severely chewed out by Welch himself for "embarrassing" Stoddard.
Jack was so upset over the incident that he told the whole story to his
research assistant who just happened to be this writer during that particular
summer.

Stoddard is Mr. Establishment Massachusetts. After all, a Director of the
First National Bank of Boston, the Wyman-Gordon Company, and the Raytheon
Company (a good size defense contractor) is the Establishment. We wonder
about his dedication to the "cause" which so many less fortunate Birchers
have given their all for. Or perhaps Stoddard knows better? And like Welch
would simply say, "So What?"

7. T. Coleman Andrews
Andrews was a founding member of the Society, present at its creation in
Indianapolis -- and like Robert Love -- a 32nd degree Mason (see 1960-61 Who's
 Who in America reproduced Pg. 12). But we already know that being a 32nd
degree Mason does not disqualify one from being on the Council. For Welch's
position on Masonry is expressed in two words "So What?"

Oswald Wirth would not agree at all with those two words. Wirth speaks with
some authority, being a 33rd Degree Mason and an author of many books on
Freemasonry, he held an eminent position with fellow Masons as an initiate of
he Grand Lodge of France. In Wirth's L'deal Iniatique, he explains the great
significance of an initiation into a Masonic Order:

"It is a serious matter to ask for Initiation, for one has to sign a
pact...it demands that the man's soul be truly committed in the act."
(op.cit., de Poncins, p. 48)

Wirth cites The Book of Genesis to arrive at the cardinal tenet of all
Freemasonry:

"The beguiling serpent, who incites us to eat the fruit from the tree of
knowledge of good and evil, symbolizes one particular instinct. He breaks
away from the conservative instinct and represents both a nobler and subtler
instinct, whose purpose is to make man aware of his need to rise in the scale
of beings".

"This secret spur is the promoter of all progress, and of all the conquests
which enlarge the sphere of action both of individuals and of groups"

"That explains why the Serpent, inspiring disobedience, in subordination and
revolt, was held accursed by the ancient theocracies, while at the same time
he was honoured among the initiated." (op.cit., de Poncins, pp. 87-88)

Welch puts it a little differently. But the more it changes, the more it
stays the same. For Welch calls man's need to rise to a higher scale of
beings his "upward reach." As he wrote in The Blue Book:

"I want to convince you as I am convinced, that even under such leadership
(his, that is -- N.B) we have no chance (emphasis ours) unless the specific
battles are fought as part of a larger and more lasting movement (like
Wirth's or Pike's Grand Orient Masonry perhaps? -- N.B.) to restore once
again an upward reach in the heart of man." (The Blue Book, p. 115)

Andrews, in addition to being a Mason, was also the Commissioner of the U.S.
Internal Revenue from 1953-1955.

8. Spruille Braden
Braden had quite an impressive record with the U.S. State Department. He was
a resident member of the Council on Foreign Relations -- check the index in
The Invisible Government by Dan Smoot. But even more interesting, according
to Volume 26, page 295 of Who's Who in America 1976-1977 (reproduced nearby),
Braden was a director of the W. Averell Harriman Securities Corporation.

For those of you who have not heard of Averell Harriman, we refer you to page
217 of the wirebound paperback edition of The Politician by Robert Welch:

"So we'll skip all of the documentation and most of the comment in listing
just a few more of the Communists, Communist Sympathizers, or extreme left
wingers with whom Eisenhower has been on very friendly terms. Such a list
would include: John G. Winant, Harry Dexter White, Henry Morgenthau, Jr.,
Anna M. Rosenberg, Sidney Hillman, Perl Mesta, Jacob Javits, W. Averell
Harriman (emphasis ours), Milton Katz, and Harry Hopkins."

Braden authored a book in 1971 -- "Diplomats and Demagogues" the Memoirs of
Spruille Braden, published by Arlington House.

On page 89 we find the following interesting admission:

"The banking house in which I had agreed to become a partner never passed the
planning stage. I arranged with Averell Harriman to become an associate of W.
A. Harriman & Company, and to make my offices with them, occupying a desk in
the partners' room with Averell and Roland Harriman and other partners in the
firm. Although I was a partner not in but of the firm, I bought about $25,000
worth of stock and about the same amount in the W. A. Harriman Securities
Corporation, a very closely held investment trust."

We have called your attention to one Federal Reserve Bank connections thus
far on the John Birch Society Council.

Therefore, the following quote from page 94 of Braden's 1971 book we believe
merits your attention:

"I was appointed an advisor particularly to help one of the delegates, Paul
Warburg, distinguished (sic) as a principal architect of the Federal Reserve
System deal with the Chilean delegation. I knew Samuel Claro Lastarria, its
chief, and his colleagues on the delegation. I was one of a dozen or so
American advisors. We would all sit around the table with delegates, who were
supposed to be discussing inter-American financial problems following World
War I."

"But if there was little real activity on the financial side, the social side
was lively enough and Maria and I had a fine time. We became very friendly
with Paul Warburg; (emphasis added) also with John J. Raskob (one of my
fellow advisors on the Chilean Committee), the Dupont official who later
became national chairman of the Democratic Party. It was at a reception
during the conference that I first met and briefly chatted with Franklin D.
Roosevelt, then Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He was a magnificent looking
man, still of course in full possession of his physical powers."

So Braden as on a first name basis with Averell Harriman, Paul Warburg and
John Raskob.
Much is available on Paul Warburg. As an example Gary Allen wrote an article
in the March 1970 "American Opinion" entitled "The Bankers" - Conspiratorial
Origins of the Federal Reserve. We quote from pages 27 and 28 of that
article:

"Among other international bankers financing the Russian Revolution were Olaf
Aschberg of the Nye Banken of Stockholm, the Rhine Westphalian Syndicate, and
a wealthy banker named Jivotovsky whose daughter later married Leon Trotsky.
However, the chief European funding came from Max Warburg of Hamburg,
Germany, who was the brother of Jacob Schiff's son-in-law, Felix Warburg, as
well as Schiff's partner, Paul Warburg. Curiously, the latter was the man
most instrumental in the establishment of the Federal Reserve System."

Reproduced nearby are two photographs of Spruille Braden in the act of making
awards to President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and President Dwight David
Eisenhower.

Apparently Braden wasn't aware of things like Operation Keelhaul or maybe
that's why he is smiling, and if asked about Eisenhower's participation in
the murder of millions of innocent people in World War II and after, he would
simply reply, "So What?"

It is hardly necessary to reproduce here the "position" of the Belmont
Brotherhood on Roosevelt or Eisenhower. Although it is worth noting that
these two photographs are at least 20 years apart, indicating a certain
constancy on the part of Mr. Braden.

About the time of Braden's appointment as "our" Ambassador to Cuba, he
reports on page 264 of his book Diplomats and Demogogues the following
conversation between he (Braden) and Nelson Rockefeller:

"Now," Nelson asked, "what would you like us to do in regard to Cuba?"

"Nelson," I answered, "there's just one thing I insist on, and that is that I
am the Ambassador. I want your solemn promise that nothing - and I mean
nothing - will be done there by your office without my (emphasis added) prior
approval. I'll be coordinating committee there and I'll cooperate with you.
(emphasis added) But absolutely nothing is to be done - no one is to be
employed, no contract is to be signed without my knowledge and approval. If
that is understood I think we can work together very well. (emphasis added)

"Nelson agreed with alacrity."

"Obviously I had averted a great peril by obtaining Nelson's agreement to
keep hands off in Cuba. And he kept his word scrupulously, even to the point
of asking my approval (emphasis added) before sending down representatives to
carry out an order from the President himself."

So Braden was on a first name basis with Nelson Rockefeller. Please note
Braden's promise to cooperate and work with Rockefeller. This even went to
the point of having Rockefeller ask Braden's approval "before sending down
representatives to carry out an order from the President himself."

Braden devotes fourteen pages of his book to a description of a pleasant
relationship between himself and Nelson Rockefeller. What, may we be so bold
as to ask, was a "conservative" and future JBS Council member doing in such a
relationship?

9. Louis Ruthenberg
The late Ruthenberg, like the living Bill Grede, was a Director of a Federal
Reserve Bank -- this one in St. Louis. Thus we have another man who was once
on the Council associated in a major way with the infamous Federal Reserve
System.

10. Ralph E. Davis
Davis is another Mason on the Council. We are not told what degree he it. Not
that it matters all that much however, for the lower degrees supply the pool
for the higher degrees. So for all we know Davis may be a 34th Degree Mason.
That would even make him higher than Albert Lantoine -- a Mason who aroused a
great deal of controversy with his Lettre au Souverain Pontife in 1937.
Masons of any degree should, if they are truly consistent - concur with his
following observation.

"There is a higher sphere where knowledge and Faith, though they cannot meet,
can at least tolerate one another. To those seeking the one, to those who
possess the other, they give the same delights and the same anguish. There is
much purity and grandeur in the words of the philosophers in the Word of the
Redeemer.

So much the better, I say. Possessing critical and inquiring minds, we are
the servants of Satan. You the guardians of truth, are the servants of God.
These two complement one another. Each needs the other." Albert Lantaine, as
quoted in Freemasonry and the Vatican, p. 111.

11. Frank E. Masland, Jr.
Masland is not in THE KANGAROO COURT VERSUS THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY. But he
was listed by Welch as a member of the Council in the JBS Bulletin for
February 1960 (p. 4) which can be found in the wirebound White Book of the
John Birch Society for 1960. Welch forgets to tell you here that Masland was
a Mason. Who's Who for 1964-65 mentions this conveniently omitted fact (see
reproduction nearby of page 1297 of 1964-65 of Who's Who].

12. Cola Godden Parker
Parker was also mentioned in the February, 1960 Bulletin (p. 4) by Welch.
Although Welch forgot to mention that he was both a Mason and a member of the
mysterious Newcomen Society (whose president, Charles Penrose, Jr. is
directly tied in with the subversive Pilgrims and English-Speaking Union).
Observe page 2106 of the 1950-51 Who's Who reproduced nearby.

13. Joseph Bracken Lee
Lee was an early JBS Council member. He is described in the 1976-77 Who's Who
in America page 1856 as a 33rd degree Mason, Knight Commander Court of Honor.
This puts Mr. Lee at the same level as Albert Lantoine and Oswald Wirth who,
as you may recall from the above, say Masons as high as Lee honor and serve
Satan!

Incidentally, we find in Who's Who in America a whole raft of extreme left
wingers who are either 32nd or 33rd degree Masons. Such a list would include
George McGovern (1972 Democratic Presidential Candidate) and Earl Warren
(former Supreme Court Justice) who we understand the Belmont Brotherhood was
trying to "impeach".

II. Other Council Members
For the most part, the remaining Council members constitute a form of window
dressing to impress the average Bircher (potential, that is) with the
"distinguished" leadership of the Society. We have some doctors to impress
other doctors (e.g. Grady, Adamson, and McDonald); Stillwell J. Conner - a
relative of Robert J. Koenig, former Major Coordinator for the Midwest
currently hiding in Belmont as a Home Office Coordinator after having
instructed at least one Coordinator to commit loan and stock fraud in the
State of Illinois; a couple of military men (Bunker and Stone), and a variety
of directors of publicly held corporations.

III. Other Birch Figures -- Inner and Outer Circles

1. Martin J. Condon, III
Condon is a non-Council member whose name appears on the Editorial Advisory
Committee of American Opinion magazine. It appeared on the flyleaf of a
recent 1976 issue (see page nearby.) He is a director of Schering-Plough
Corporation, one of the many publicly-held corporations represented by
members of the JBS Council. Condon, according to Who's Who in America,
1976-77 (see reproduction nearby of page 634), is also a member of the
mysterious Newcomen Society.

2. George Schuyler - Contributing Editor to American Opinion
Schuyler is reputed to be a "conservative" journalist. Yet in 1934-35 he was
-- according to volume 2 page 2795 of Who's Who in America 1976-77 (reproduced
 nearby) -- a special assistant in publicity for no less a notorious
organization for the NAACP. From 1937 to 1944 he was business manager of the
NAACP publication: The Crisis. For those of you who are unaware of the
Communist connections of the NAACP, check it out in Volume One of the Biograph
ical Dictionary of the Left by Francis X. Gannon -- available at the nearest
bookstore. We are in the process of completing a study of the other current
connections of Mr. Schuyler listed at the bottom of the attached Who's Who and
 we intend to publish these disturbing facts in an upcoming book.

3. E. Merrill Root - Former Associate Editor of American Opinion
Root, prior to his death a number of years ago, had numerous articles
published in American Opinion -- not to mention those which appeared in Review
 of the News. Western Island (the JBS publishing affiliate) published the
book, America's Steadfast Dream. He was also a close confidant and personal
friend of Robert Welch.

Imagine our surprise when his name appeared in the index of a New York State
Investigating Committee (see the title page of the Investigation and the
article in question) which was charged with exposing the Communist Conspiracy
in America in the early 1920's under the leadership of the Hon. Clayton R.
Lusk.

REVOLUTIONARY RADICALISM
ITS HISTORY, PURPOSE AND TACTICS
WITH AN EXPOSITION OF THE STEPS BEING TAKEN AND REQUIRED TO CURB IT

BEING THE REPORT OF THE JOINT LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
INVESTIGATING SEDITIOUS ACTIVITIES,
FILED APRIL 24, 1920 IN THE SENATE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK
PART I
REVOLUTIONARY AND SUBVERSIVE MOVEMENTS ABROAD AND AT HOME
VOLUME II
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
36. GOOD MORNING

(This is a "humorous" weekly that is frankly apologetic towards revolutionary
radicalism.)
1330. PROPAGANDA

...because they all admit it. In one respect they are all the same kind of
Socialists, the kind that carefully avoids doing anything to bring Socialism
about. Now if Mr. Lenin and Mr. Trotsky would only become that kind of
Socialist, nothing would be too good for them.

Contempt for jail is the beginning of liberty.

(Issue of July 10, 1919)
We call your attention to the Marxist Periodical Good Morning in which Root
wrote: "In the matter of adopting the red flag, I can, with all my heart
subscribe to that blessed phrase: AMERICA FIRST." SCATTERED MUSINGS OF A
JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRAT

It is so comfortable to find oneself 100% American. In the matter of adopting
the red flag, I can, with all my heart, say AMERICA FIRST.

No one can say nowadays that he doesn't know what we fought the war for --
the reason becomes clearer every day: it was to decide the momentous issue
whether we should be jailed by the Kaiser or Woodrow Wilson.

Personally, I would find the Kaiser more comfortable -- his sentences are
much more lenient!
Another puzzle is no longer obscure, too -- Why the Statue of Liberty turns
her back on America.
I don't like sermons, but I would like to hear one on the text, "Let not your
left hand know what your right hand doeth, preached by Woodrow Wilson and
illustrated by incidents in his own life.

E. Merrill Root

(Issue of July 10, 1919.)

4. Harold Lord Varney - Contributing Editor to American Opinion
Varney's Committee on Pan American Policy has now become part of The John
Birch Society Bulletin Agenda Section (number IV). Varney himself is writing
this section of the Bulletin. Just who or what is Harold Lord Varney?

The Lusk Committee Report. Part I. Volume 2. Page 1387, reveals that Eugene
Lyons and Harold Lord Varney were on the editorial board of The Workers'
World: an openly pro-Communist publication. Nearby are some pages from this
magazine -- note the use of the terms "class" and "comrades" -- also note the
way they refer to May Day as the Workers' Holiday. Perhaps Welch will say "So
What?" to this coincidence also.

NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS
57. THE WORKERS' WORLD

Published at 7 East 15 Street, New York, Home 301 Editorial Board. Andie A.
Cleveland, Eugene Lyons, Harold L Varney Published weekly by the Workers'
International Information Group

May 1, 1919

The workers of the United States have a sore grievance. The polls are crowded
with men and women who spoke what they thought the truth, and spoke it
unafraid, who would not be driven to prostitute their consciences by threats,
who dared to protest that the class war transcends and is more important than
any war between groups of nations. Men and women are arrested for terms
equivalent to life imprisonment for ... adherence to an ideal and loyalty to
their...

There is no more appropriate time than May Day, the Workers' Holiday. Every
jailer must lay down his ... And no shop or factory should be in operation.
Hotels, restaurants, theatres, department stores, etc., must be closed on May
1st.

WILLIAM B. WILSON - LET HIM LOOK TO HIS BOND
Harold Lord Varney

The foulest blackguardry in history has always been the blackguardry of our
own class. The blackest despotism has always been the despotism of our own
labor renegades -- bloated, for brief moments, with dishonourable power. It
is these "men of the people" these..., these Briands, these Benedict Arnolds,
these men of craven hearts and cankered souls, who stalk through history,
...labor for a handful of the masters' gold. And while liberty writhes, they
exult. Such is the figure of our own American Noske -- our Secretary of
Labor, William B. Wilson, the Great Despoter.
(May 30, 1919).

"THE FOLLOWING IS A SAMPLE OF THE BOLSHEVIK PROPAGANDA AT THE...PRINT, THE
SHAME OF BEING A SCAB.

"Is there a more contemptible creature in the world than the one who deserts
his fellows and helps defeat his own side? No, there is not.

"Are you aware, America and British soldiers, that you are earning such
contempt for yourselves?...

"All their talk of intervention to 'save' Russia, amounts to this: that they
are going to return the land to the landlords, the factories and mines to the
capitalists, and incidentally to grab a bit for themselves in the way of
trading rights and concessions. For of course, they want to compel the
Russian workers to repay the loans contracted by the tyrannical and corrupt
Czar...
"Cannot you see that this is part of the same class war that you have been
carrying on in England and America?...

"Comrades! Drop your dirty work. Turn your guns on your real enemies, the ...
and the capitalists?"

5. Robert Bartlett Dresser
Dresser is listed in the 1976-77 Who's Who in America (reproduced nearby) as
a Mason. He is currently a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of
American Opinion.

6. Charles Edison
Edison was also listed as a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee of
American Opinion early in the life of that magazine.

He was, as you may note from the attached 1958-59 Who's Who in America,
Director of the Federal Housing Administration as well as a member of the
Pilgrim connected Newcomen Society.

* * * * *
In the preceding sections we have dealt with a number of individuals on the
Council and those connected in other ways with the Belmont Brotherhood. This
is merely a small sampling -- the tip of the iceberg. As we write, our staff
is coming up with many more "coincidences" which we just can't include to
meet our publication deadline. But all of it will appear in our forthcoming
book -- including more high-level Masons and members of the mysterious
Newcomen Society.
* * * * *
IV. The Official JBS Position on Freemasonry
As we have already mentioned, Welch's position on having High Level Masons
involved with the Society is: "So What?" And just to show you that we are not
kidding about this or, as Welch would say, "pulling punches," we now present
an uncut, uncensored official JBS reply to a specific inquiry by a then JBS
member.

December 20, 1972

Dear Mr. Leiske,

The JBS has no position on Freemasonry. Some of our staunchest JBS members
are also Masons. George Washington was a Mason, seek the highest degree he
could earn, and so were many others among our Founding Fathers. The Boston
Tea Party was perpetrated by an adjourned meeting of Masons. Dr. Joseph
Warren, one of the instigators of the American War of Independence, was head
of all the Masons in America. The Masons today are usually the outstanding
and solid citizens of their communities. Beyond the earned degree, there may
be other degrees, upon open invitation, so secret that no one but those
inside know about them. It is in these upper echelons that the Conspiracy may
have taken root, or may use the lower echelons as a recruiting ground. But
that is only conjecture or opinion. It is not a position.

As for Dr. Stuart Crane, he is developing into a king-sized troublemaker and
neutralizer and source of divisiveness. The less you listen to him, the more
effective you will be as a fighter against the Communist Conspiracy.

May you have a very merry Christmas and emerge from the holiday... with a
renewed spirit for this fight.

Sincerely yours, Andrew Lane

But Leiske was not satisfied. Like most well-meaning Birchers, all he wanted
was a straight answer (Belmont was not fond of giving these). He sent to Lane
some substantiation of his charges. And Lane replied (see nearby reproduction
-- Also note Lane states he is related to a number of Mason.)

February 20, 1973

Dear Mr. Leiske,

The information you sent on the Masonic Order is very revealing and I thank
you for it. I know absolutely nothing about the Order and make no claim to,
but I do know many members of the Order, have over the years worked with many
of them in a book, and related to several, all of whom are of unquestioned
patriotism and loyalty to all that is finest in American and in Christian
traditions. Now, if it is true that the Communist Conspiracy has infiltrated
the Masonic Order, that does not surprise me in the least. The Conspirators
have infiltrated every organization worth infiltrating, including our
churches.

As for the League of Just Men, what they profess is precisely the opposite of
what promote privately. Please read the enclosed copy of "More Stately
Mansions" for a quick reminder of what The League really wants to institute.
Nothing could be further from the minds of the Masons I know.

I do not want to engage in an interchange or whatever with you over the
Masonic Orders because I know nothing about them; and if I were the coward
you seem to think I am, I would hardly be in the JBS.

Sincerely yours, Andrew Lane

But Leiske kept on asking questions Belmont could not (or would not) answer.
Finally, in desperation, Belmont asked him to resign from the Society. This
request came in a letter dated July 31, 1973, by Home Office Coordinator,
John Fall. In his three page letter (copies available on request) Fall
states:

"Having made our views in these areas abundantly clear in various
publications with which you as a member should be familiar, and having
summarized those views once again in this letter, we can only add the
following for the record, and so as to dispel any suggestion that we are
unwilling to answer such charges directly:

'Mr. Welch is not now, nor has he ever been a member of any Masonic order.'

'To the best of our knowledge (emphasis ours -- N.B.) this is true also of
the members of our Council, although we have never seen any need to poll them
in this regard.'"

It is interesting to observe that Fall does not completely deny that some
Council Members have been Masons. He qualifies his denial with the phrase:
"To the best of our knowledge" This gives him an out should anyone happen to
find an old copy of THE KANGAROO COURT VERSUS THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY
collecting dust in his attic. Still, in view of the many new facts we are now
bringing out, we suggest it is time for Fall and Belmont to reconsider the
"need to poll them in this regard."

Naturally we don't expect such a thing to happen. Fall also included this
phrase as a qualification in his letter to Leiske: "although we have never
seen any need to (investigate the charges -- N.B.)" You would have to be
deaf, dumb and blind not to see the need for such an investigation. Unless,
of course, you knew the charges were true and wanted to prevent them from
becoming widely-known to members of the John Birch Society. Color it a
cover-up -- an art at which the BELMONT BROTHERHOOD is very proficient.

Fall, like a number of Staff people in Belmont, is ostensibly a Catholic. In
fact, it has been said by a number of sources that some 50% of the JBS Staff
is Catholic. If that indeed is the case, those Catholics had better do their
homework. Masonry has been explicitly condemned by the Catholic Church for
generations and has prohibited its members from cooperation in the
propagation of Masonic ideas in any way whatsoever. Below we submit a partial
list of the proclamations against Masonry issued by the Catholic Church in
the hope that all Christians (especially those remaining Catholics on the JBS
staff) give it some sober reflection.

Clement XII In Eminenti April 18, 1738
Benedict XIV    Providas    March 16, 1751
Clement XIII    A. Quodie   Sept. 14, 1758
Clement XIII    Ut Primum   Sept. 3, 1759
Clement XIII    Christianae Republicae Salus    Nov. 25, 1760
Pius VI Inscrutabile    Dec. 25, 1775
Pius VII    Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo    Sept. 14, 1820
Leo XII Quo Graviora    March 13, 1826
Pius VIII   Traditi May 21, 1829
Gregory XVI Mirari Vos  Aug. 15, 1832
Pius IX Qui Pluribus    Nov. 9, 1846
Pius IX     Omnibus Quantisque  April 20, 1849
Pius IX     Multiplices Inter   Sept. 25, 1865
Leo XIII    Humanum Genus   April 20, 1864
Leo XIII    Letter to Italian Episcopate    Dec. 8, 1892
Leo XIII    Letter to the Italian People    Dec. 8, 1892
Pius X  Vehementer  Feb. 11, 1906
Pius X  Letter to France    Jan. 6, 1907

V. The Unknown Soldier
The late E. Merrill Root, in his introduction to The Life and Words of Robert
Welch, wrote the following paragraph:

"Until Robert Welch is fully known, he may well be the Unknown Soldier of our
time. But in the time to come, if there is to be a future and a history for
the United States of America, Robert Welch will be revered (emphasis ours) as
the Unknown Soldier should be, with a shrine and the undying flame (emphasis
ours). (E. Root, as quoted in The Life and Words of Robert Welch, p. xv).

That is quite a mouthful. Root talks of Welch as an object of reverence and
mentions that a "shrine and the undying flame" would be appropriate. We feel
obliged to point out that -- according to Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary
-- another definition for revere is "to venerate, a regarding as holy,
sacred, or sacrosanct." Welch, of course, shares that opinion of himself --
otherwise he would not have authorized the publication of his own biography
(or should we add his autobiography since it was written by Stang in Belmont
under Welch's own personal direction several months prior to its publication
by G. Edward Griffin). We suspect that Welch's "shrine" will be the John
Birch University he has talked so much about. The average Bircher is
dedicated to winning the "battle" and saving his family form Communism, not
in building shrines like John Birch University to Welch. When this writer
worked on the JBS Staff with Welch, Welch's obsession with his University was
beginning to upset the membership and even some people on the Staff who felt
the "battle" should be won first.

But Welch always maintained John Birch University was paramount in his plans
for the "movement". That movement (not what misled Birchers incorrectly
perceive it to be) is what we intend to discuss now. In doing so, however, we
do not intend to review again the repeated examples of moral turpitude in the
Belmont office; the frequent instances of Birch (Belmont level) No-Win
policies sabotaging local JBS operations; the questionable accounting
practices to inflate the Society's financial reports; state investigations of
illegal JBS securities transactions; nepotism financed by membership dues and
donations and the vicious smear campaigns directed against those Birchers who
dared to speak out. Much of this material has already been covered in THE
BELMONT CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE and THE ANATOMY OF A SMEAR as well as in the
well-documented material of John DeFriend. Many more details will emerge in
our forthcoming book -- of which this brief article is just a short preview.

In all of the preceding material, we were content to expose what was going on
in Belmont without attempting to give our theories as to why such strange
things were happening. But not we believe we have the answers -- answers
which may explain why Welch's only explanation so far has been: "So What?"
And believe it or not, most of the answers can be found in the Blue Book of
the John Birch Society.

So let's look at some sections of it to discover exactly what Welch believes.
Welch's reflections on religion and Christianity in particular strongly
resemble those of Freemasonry. Most important of all, Welch proclaims
Christianity has failed:

Through many centuries Christianity, despite all of its splits and schisms,
supplied the fabric of morality for the whole Western World - through its
threats of punishment, promises of rewards, and the humanizing effect of its
proffered love by and for a Divine Father. But despite all the billions of
words that have been written to the contrary, that fabric is now pierced and
torn and weakened beyond dependability (emphasis ours). For a vast majority
of those who proclaim themselves Christians today, and attend Church
Services, do not really and literally believe in either the punishments, the
rewards (note he never explains how he found this out) or even in the
physical and biological existence of a Divine Father with any interest in
their personal lives and actions. The momentum of a former belief, and the
customs which grew out of it, still have great value. But the fabric is worn
too thin to have its old effectiveness. (The Blue Book, p. 52)

Welch feels Christianity still has some momentum left. But the essential
fabric, in his opinion, is worthless and "weakened beyond dependability." He
proposes a new faith, one which is a "broader and more encompassing faith
(actually it was not new at all -- it was as old as Freemasonry) to which we
can all subscribe without any of us doing any violation to the more specific
doctrines of his own creed or altars of his own devotion." (Blue Book, p. 53)
As any critical reader can see, these quotations definitively place Welch
within the orthodox (even the occult Pike would approve) realm of
Freemasonry. The concept of a broad toleration of al beliefs is a calling
card of Masonry. All one need believe is the universal upward reach potential
of humanity in general. Welch believes in that too -- in fact, it forms the
central dogma of his "new" faith. Only a universal Masonic faith could link
the philosophy of the Catholic Hilaire Belloc with that of the agnostic
Thomas Jefferson which Welch describes on page fifty-three of The Blue Book.
On pages 138-141 Welch outdoes himself. On page 140 he states: "One
philosopher will tell you that the possession of these upward traits in some
species was purely an accident of nature, another that it was due to the plan
of a Divine Being. To me they are both saying the same thing." Observe the
similarity of that to this statement of Albert Lantoine, a 33rd Degree Mason:

"There is a higher sphere where knowledge and faith, though they cannot meet,
can at least tolerate one another. To those seeking the one, to those who
possess the other, they give the same delights and the same anguish. There is
as much parity and grandeur in the words of the philosophers as in the Word
of the Redeemer." (Albert Lantoine, as quoted by Vicomte Leon de Poncins, Free
masonry and the Vatican, p. 11)

Welch points out the problem results not only from a loss of faith in God but
also in man. As he puts it: "And putting that matter bluntly at once, the
reason is simply loss of faith. Not just loss of faith in God and all His
works but loss of faith in man and his works too, in his reasons for
existence, in his purposes, and in his hopes." (The Blue Book, p. 47) But
don't think that Welch is describing the same God Christianity worships.
Welch clarifies this:

Let all of us thank whatever God we severally worship (the Masonic Great
Architect of the Universe perhaps -- N.B.) that there is so large a remnant
of the really true believers still left. We (who is we? People like 33rd
Degree Albert Lantoine and 32nd Degree Bob Love perhaps -- N.B.) honor them.
We need (to use for what purpose? -- N.B.) their steadying adherence to the
rock of reverence, and their aspiration of unwavering obedience to ancient
and Divine Commandments (observe he does not say which ancient and Divine
Commandments). (The Blue Book, p. 47)
Welch tells you what he is. His diabolical genius resides in the fact that he
said it all nearly twenty years ago without his words being taken at face
value. Read The Blue Book carefully and you will discover that he believes
(like Albert Pike) man, by giving free rein to his noblest aspirations (or
his "upward reach" as he puts it) is sufficient to save humanity. As 33rd
Degree Mason Oswald Wirth explained it:

The object of the ancient mysteries was to make men like unto gods. The myster
y took on more of the divine nature as it rose morally and intellectually
further beyond the level of common humanity. The programme of Initiation has
not changed even in our own day: the modern Mason, too, also becomes more
divine, but he realizes that he can only become so if he works divinely, that
is, by completing the unfulfilled task of creation. Raised above the level of
man's animal nature, the Builder, by carrying out the divine plan, himself
became a god, in the ancient sense of the word. (O. Wirth, Le Livre du
Compagnon, p. 74 - as quoted by Vicomte Leon de Poncins, Freemasonry and the
Vatican, p. 88)

In the beginning of this pamphlet you may remember the quote form 1984 where
Winston asked O'Brien: "Does the Brotherhood exist?" To which we respond:
"Yes, Winston, there is a Brotherhood." It is Freemasonry. Its ancient
Commandments are as old as Christianity itself. Freemasonry conceives of God
as the deity immanent in nature (so does Welch -- the leader of The Belmont
Brotherhood) and it is in this life force or energy that it deifies,
venerates and worships under the name The Great Architect of the Universe.
This is the only "God" of Freemasonry. This is the only "God" of Welch (see
pages 140-144 of The Blue Book). And those, who with Spencer (Welch's
favorite philosopher by the way, see Blue Book, p. 51) and other naturalist
philosophers of the age call the hidden all-powerful principle working in
nature, God, are acknowledged by the craft as Freemasons, whether or not they
have been formally initiated into the institution. A Mason then is one who
(like Welch and Pike) believes this life energy in nature, in the totality of
its various qualities, is the Divine nature or the true God, though he never
may have been initiated into the Order itself.

Fantastic? Of course it's fantastic. But everything we are talking about is
fantastic. We are living in fantastic times and a fantastic situation. Or as
Welch said in The Blue Book (p. 96): "We are in circumstances where it is
realistic to be fantastic."

So let's be realistic here. The reason why Welch said "So What?" is because
he is on the side of Freemasonry. No other explanation is possible. To try to
explain away these passages in The Blue Book and Welch's nebulous position on
Freemasonry is like insisting the earth is flat. But, unfortunately for
Welch, we know that it is not.

You may object: 'Look at all the great things Welch has done - he has exposed
the Illuminati.' Baloney. The Illuminati was merely a branch of the
Conspiracy. How can one attack the Illuminati without attacking the
diabolical power behind it: organized Freemasonry? Welch has provided the
most valuable service of all time to the Conspiracy. He founded an
organization to neutralize millions of Americans from discovering what the tru
e power behind the Illuminati really was. And we concede the Mason's chose an
extremely clever man to do the job. Welch, with the help of the Belmont
Brotherhood, plays his role very effectively.

This author and countless other former Birchers and Staff members will be
smeared for bringing these facts to life. But that no longer matters to us,
for our enemy is Belmont, and we do not intend to lose sight of that fact for
a minute. We are fighting the Masonic Belmont Brotherhood -- nobody else.
Being fully aware of the imminence and horror of the danger we face from that
source, we have no intention of being distracted by the carping of our
friends, or of those who should be our friends and we hope will be our
friends in time. For if we do there is entirely too much likelihood -- as we
have already said elsewhere many times -- that in a few short years we shall
all be hanging from the same lamp posts, while MASONIC TERROR reigns around
us.

Our greatest problem, however, has been neither the lies of Belmont nor its
subsequent recriminations. It has been the difficulty of getting the average
Bircher to sit up and take an honest look at what is really happening.
Contributing most to that difficulty are three factors. First is the apathy
of the Birchers, induced by the incessant cackling of the Belmont chorus:
"There is nobody here but us conservatives." Second is the vested interest in
error, now held by so many thousands of Birchers (though it is, thank God,
rapidly decreasing due mainly to the activities of The Belmont Brotherhood).
They have accepted and believed so much Belmont propaganda in the past that
they must now defend it as their own. Third is a circumstance which, unlike
the other two, has not been created by The Belmont Brotherhood itself. But it
has long been depended on by the Brotherhood, and is still depended on by
them, as one of the greatest forces working in their favor. This is the fact
that the fundamentally decent Bircher simply refuses to grasp the kind of
enemy with which he now has to deal.

It is our hope that this small preview of what is to come will serve to give
any interested individual a clear understanding of what we are trying to do
and why it must be done, in this project for which we are now receiving so
much help and encouragement from all parts of the country.
Sincerely,
Nicholas J. Bove, Jr.
Chairman, The GET US OUT! (of the JBS) Committee
P.O. Box 6167
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55406

The Pilgrim Society & English-Speaking Union
The John Birch Society
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Em Hotep, Peace Be,
All My Relations.
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