>From: "Jon Corlett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:@tonto.eunet.fi;> > >From: "Per Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Power to the People" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 11:46 PM ____________________________ >| >| ANTIFA INFO-BULLETIN >| News * Analysis * Research * Action >| ____________________________ >| >| SPECIAL EDITION >| - January 13, 2000 - >| >| * * * >| >___________________________________________________________________________ >| ___ >| >| REVEALED: NAZIS' FRIENDS INSIDE THE BRITISH ELITE >| >___________________________________________________________________________ >| ___ >| >| THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY >| UK News >| Sunday, 9 January 2000 >| http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/nazilead090100.shtml >| Exclusive by Paul Lashmar >| >| A list of leading Nazi sympathisers in the British establishment at the >| outbreak of the Second World War has at last been put on public view. >| >| The infamous Red Book, which reveals the membership of the upper-class >| Right Club, was written more than 60 years ago. It offers a chilling >| insight into the virulence of the anti-Semitism which was rife among >peers, >| MPs, knights of the realm and other leading society figures at that time. >| Those listed include the 5th Duke of Westminster, the second Baron >| Redesdale (the father of the Mitford sisters) and the famous aviator Lord >| Sempill who was later suspected of spying for the Japanese. Others named >| are The Earl of Galloway, Lord Carnegie, Lord Ronald Graham and William >| Joyce, who later achieved notoriety as Lord Haw-Haw, broadcasting >| propaganda from Germany . >| >| The Right Club was set up by Captain Archibald Ramsay MP, an outspoken >| anti-Semite, a few months before the war in May 1939 "to oppose and expose >| the activities of Organised Jewry". In meetings chaired by the Duke of >| Wellington it sought to influence government policy to stop war with >| Germany. >| >| Ramsay drew up the secret membership list in his distinctive spiky >| handwriting. There are 135 names on the men's list and 100 on the women's. >| In the women's list is Anna Wolkoff, who was later accused of spying with >| American cypher clerk Tyler Kent. Also listed is Majorie Amor, one of >| several MI5 agents who had infiltrated the club. >| >| Interleaved in the Red Book are a number of extraordinary documents >| relating to Ramsay and the Right Club. These included a manuscript of his >| vicious anti-semitic rhyme "Land of Dope and Jewry", hand-written by >Ramsay >| on House of Commons notepaper the day after war was declared. There is >also >| a letter from the man who was to become Lord Haw-Haw, apologising for >being >| able to afford only five shillings (25p) as his membership fee. >| >| The book was seized by MI5 in a dawn raid in May 1940. Later that day, its >| brass lock was forced in the presence of the American Ambassador. For many >| years it was lost. It now rests in the Wiener Library in London where it >| can be viewed with prior permission. >| >| * * * >| ____________________________________________________________________ >| >| THE WHO'S WHO OF BRITISH NAZIS >| Exposed: the establishment figures who wanted to turn the UK into a >fascist >| dictatorship >| ____________________________________________________________________ >| >| THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY >| UK News >| Sunday, 9 January 2000 >| http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/This_Britain/naziwho090100.shtml >| Report by Paul Lashmar >| >| It felt strange, almost eerie, to be the first person to hold and examine >| the notorious Red Book. On the face of it, this is just an ageing >| leather-bound ledger with a few pages of hand-written names. But its >| contents have a totemic significance and its blood-red leather is a symbol >| of the fascism and anti-Semitism that once held sway at the heart of the >| British establishment. >| >| In recent years, this heavy tome has been discretely locked up in the >| Wiener Library a private collection in central London. It was there, among >| the dusty shelves devoted to the Holocaust and Jewish history, that I was >| allowed to view it. >| >| The Red Book is the membership list of the Right Club, a secret >| organisation founded in May 1939 by Captain Archibald Ramsay MP. Unlike >the >| populist British Union of Fascists lead by the charismatic Sir Oswald >| Mosley, the Right Club was exclusive. >| >| Its members were aristocrats and Members of Parliament, academics, civil >| servants, clerics and rich dilettantes. Some of the men had distinguished >| themselves in the 1914-18 war and saw themselves as patriots. But they >were >| also virulent racists who supported Hitler's treatment of Germany's Jewish >| population. Many were Nazi sympathisers. From King Edward VIII downwards, >| there was a widespread view that only a powerful Germany could hold back >| the threat of Bolshevism, and that Britain should be supporting Hitler, >not >| preparing to attack him. >| >| The existence of the Red Book first emerged in 1943 during a heated debate >| in Parliament. By then, it had already been seized by MI5. For 40 years, >| the ledger was believed to have been lost and its whereabouts was much >| speculated upon. Some believed it was held by a secret clique of the >| extreme right awaiting a fascist revival. And the racist right did treat >it >| with a respect akin to ancestor worship. >| >| Among anti-fascist conspiracy theorists, it was believed to have been >| suppressed by the government to prevent the embarrassing exposure of >| establishment figures. The reality is somewhat different. >| >| The book is divided into male and female membership lists with notes as to >| whether they have paid their dues, made donations or received their club >| badge -- which featured an eagle killing a snake. >| >| But if the badge seems mildly comic now, the vehemence with which these >| establishment figures hated Jews was chilling. A "hymn" to the tune of >| "Land of Hope and Glory", entered in the book in Ramsay's handwriting and >| in a printed version for public distribution, reads: >| >| Hymn 1939 >| >| Land of dope and Jewry, >| land that once was free, >| All the Jew boys praise thee >| While they plunder thee. >| >| Poorer still and poorer >| Grow the trueborn sons, >| Faster still and faster >| They're sent to feed the guns. >| >| Land of Jewish finance, >| Fooled by Jewish lies, >| In press and books and movies >| While our birthright dies. >| >| Longer still and longer >| Is the rope they get >| But, by the God of battles >| T'will serve to hang them yet. >| >| Running my finger down the list, written with a fountain pen in Ramsay's >| hand, the names still resonate: Arthur Wellesley the 5th Duke of >| Wellington, the Second Baron Redesdale, The Earl of Galloway, Lord Ronald >| Graham, Princess Blucher, Sir Ernest Bennett, Prince Turka Galitzine and >| Britain's most notorious Second World War traitor, William Joyce, later >| known as Lord Haw-Haw as he broadcast propaganda from Germany. The book >| also lists donations. Sir Alexander Walker, then the head of the Johnnie >| Walker whisky dynasty, is shown to have donated the princely sum of �100. >| >| Another well known, anti-Semite member was A K Chesterton, a First World >| War military hero. Commander E H Cole was the Chancellor of the White >| Knights, a British version of the Ku Klux Klan. MPs included Sir James >| Edmondson, Colonel Charles I Kerr and John M'Kie. >| >| Many of those of those who appear in the Right Club list were also members >| of other extreme right-wing groups. Fifty four were in the Nordic League, >| which, like the Nazis, believed in an Aryan master race. >| >| Who was this man who founded the Right Club? Until the mid-1930s, Ramsay >| was a run-of-the-mill constituency MP. Born in India, educated at Eton and >| Sandhurst, he was an officer with the Coldstream Guards in France during >| the First World War and was invalided out in 1919. He was elected as the >| Conservative MP for Peebles and South Midlothian in 1931. Known to his >| friends as "Jock" he was, apparently, a charming man, closely connected to >| the aristocracy in Scotland. His questions and statements in the House of >| Commons were mainly about parochial issues. >| >| Then, during the Spanish Civil War, he was swept up by the tide of fascism >| and emerged as a virulent anti-Semite and enemy of international >Communism. >| A powerful orator, he toured the nation fulminating on the >| "Judaeo-Bolshevik Plot". He became closely associated with pro-Nazi >circles >| in Britain and, by 1938, was a leading figure in the Nordic League. >| >| Unlike some of his fellows, he was undeterred by the 1938 Kristallnacht >| pogrom, when the Nazis first showed the violence they could unleash on >| their fellow citizens if they were Jewish. As the clouds of war closed >over >| Europe, Ramsay became further convinced that Jews were orchestrating a >| confrontation -- which he much opposed -- between Britain and Germany. >| >| So he set up the Right Club. "Our first objective," he later wrote, "was >to >| clear the Conservative Party of Jewish influence." The list of some 235 >| members seems to have been drawn up that summer. The club held meetings, >| several of them chaired by Lord Wellesley. It forged connections with >other >| pro-Nazi, anti-Semitic groups, such as the 4,000-member Link, founded by >| Admiral Sir Barry Domville, a former Director of Naval Intelligence. >| >| When war broke out, Ramsay was undeterred. If anything, his zeal grew. >| While there is evidence that many Right Club members dropped from view, >| others shared his enthusiasm. Lord Sempill, a famous aviator of the >| inter-war years, was suspected of spying from his post at the Admiralty >and >| was secretly retired by Churchill to prevent a scandal. >| >| Ramsay nominally dissolved the Right Club when war began but continued >work >| with a 10-strong inner circle including his assistant, Anna Wolkoff. In >| April 1940, he took the Red Book to Tyler Kent for safekeeping because, as >| a cypher clerk at the US Embassy, he had diplomatic immunity. A month >| later, the police raided Kent's flat. He and Wolkoff were accused of >| supplying the Germans with secret cables between Churchill and the US >| President. >| >| The other members of the inner circle, including Ramsay, were rounded up >| and detained under Defence Regulation 18B, an anti-fifth-column clause. >| Ramsay, the only serving MP detained under this law, was released in 1944. >| He lost his seat in 1945 and died a decade later. >| >| What happened to the Red Book? According to Professor Richard Griffiths, >| the police had it until October 1944. But it seems likely that it was >| returned to Ramsay after his release. Nothing was seen of it until the >late >| 1980s, when it was discovered at the bottom of an old safe in a >solicitor's >| office. >| >| Luckily, the finder was familiar with Professor Griffiths's work and >passed >| it to him. Professor Griffiths used it as a primary source for his book, >| Patriotism Perverted: Captain Ramsay, The Right Club and British Anti >| Semitism 1939-40, then deposited the book at the Wiener Library. 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