Midsummer, 1950

FOUR PAGES

No. 11

οὖ ταῦτα πρὸς κακοῦσι δειλίαν εὖν;

"THE WHOLE AIM of the gang that runs Russia, U.S.A., Britain and France is to destroy the contemplative life altogether, to its last vestige, and to create 'WORK' until no one shall be left with time to think about anything."

1. C. Pellizzi's analysis of Italian mistakes and pointers in LA RIVOLUZIONA MANCATA has dated and relegated all thought that omits the distinction between Authority and Power, between Government and State, and, ultimately, between Anarchy and Chaos. A strong Government, he says, is an efficient servant, but a strong State is a tyrranous and interfering master. The book has fallen between all the Italian stools and been little noticed in Britain. Of Britain's failure to co-operate in African work, noted in our last issue, he writes that, unfortunately, this situation belongs to the past, but "a good deal could be done, even now, to interlock British and Italian initiatives. This country has a human surplus, mostly of people willing to do good work where no other white race will or can. It is sad that this 'human surplus' should be generally considered a nuisance, and almost a scandal."

If such distinctions are blurred, irreparable harm is done to culture. And as principles, they still hold in larger fusions which past mistakes and ambitions render inevitable if anything is to hold the Asiatic tide. Signor Pellizzi recognized, in his book, that another 'seventh wave' was almost due.—H.S.

A PROGRAMME — COMMENTS

2(a). The best figure we have for farmable land in Great Britain is Dudley Stamp's. He puts it at 33¼ mill. ac., considerably under 1 ac. per head. N.I. has about 2½ mill. a.c. farmable. Eire's figure I should put at about 12 mill. a.c. We are still only round about an acre per person, and that includes a lot of very "marginal" land.—J. JENKS.

2(b). (i) Intelligent Gesellism can only exist among those who continually measure their ideas against the facts published in THE SOCIAL CREDITOR 30/-p.a., KRP Publications, 7 Victoria Street, Liverpool, 2. Anyone who has not read the issue for Jan. 14, especially p.5, should get it at all costs.
(ii) The problem is not Who wrote the "Protocols," but whether a given individual is for or against the policy advocated by them—E.

2(c). I don't think Parliament should go on the air. Ideally one should be able to trust one's elected member. Practically, members would waste even more time in demagogic perorations. I don't say parliamentary business should be CONCEALED from the public, but the more it is thrust

upon them, the more it will become a display of buffoonery while still
more of the real business of the nation will be transacted in secret behind
the scenes.—J. DRUMMOND (Rome).

2(c). The only proposal with which I agree.—J. HURLEY (Coventry).

2(c). Have we a tame and furioso M.P. behind us?—J. HOLMSTROM
(Cambridge). (Ed.: Not yet).

3. Corporations were introduced by Numa who, finding the city torn to pieces by the rival factions of Sabines and Romans, thought it a politic measure to subdivide these two into many smaller ones, by instituting separate societies of every manual trade and profession. (BLACKSTONE).

4. The equation Education=Representation means that the "administrative" (or "welfare") state has gained an advantage over the "power state." Nowadays the elector, by his vote, confers POWER on certain people who in turn will confer even greater concentration of power on the few. By its own nature, power is never exercised "by and for the people." To delegate power means to "create" power in the hands of the delegates. I suggest that we should begin to study the whole thing from the angle of the good father, the good teacher, the good leader in research, etc. These people have immeasurably more "welfare responsibility" than they have "power"; those who depend on them are not "less free" because they are represented by mothers, fathers, teachers etc. Those who are "represented and educated" should be free to choose different representative-educators. One does not undestand what people want and need, unless one is in some way "responsible" for them, in the way a father, churchman, doctor, teacher, scientist is responsible; nor should one be responsible for others without understanding what they want and need.—C. PELLIZZI (Rome).

### ITALIANS AND POLITICAL IMMATURITY—continued

5. The Italian is passionately parochial yet irresistibly attracted to universal ideas. He is not and never has been a nationalist. When Mazzini wanted to create United Italy, he had to convince himself and his followers that they were working not for Young Italy alone, but for Young Europe, for the Poles, Hungarians, Germans, South Slavs; that all might enjoy as peoples the individual personality which the Italian holds sacred in man. When Fascism fired the Italian imagination it was by seeking a solution for a world-felt need of harmonising the interests of capital, management and labour in the Guild or Corporative State. The Guild State may yet save the world from the Servile State. It was when Mussolini ceased to be guided by his Italian instinct that he failed. Because the Italians are not a "racial" people, they neither despise the African nor hate the Jew. When Fascism rejected parochialism (the individual) and internationalism (man-kind), it ceased to be Italian and it died before the "liberators" arrived. But a day will come when Italy's contribution to the solution of local and universal problems will be studied and understood.—O. R. AGRESTI (Rome).

6. It seems that the American Dollar is the hard currency par excellence. A dollar or any currency is nothing more than the chips in a game of bridge—a symbol. Money stands for wages to be paid by the society for services rendered by the individual. If equal wages ought to be paid for equal work, it is clear that there is actually no difference between hard and soft currencies. Modern scientific economists and politicians are wrestling in a losing fight with humanity's age-old invention—money. But this fight must be won before the problem of atomic weapons can be solved.
—O. Schutte (Wetzlar).

### FLASHES (from correspondence)

7(a) The State is like fire and water: too much worse than none at all.

(b) I have not seen a copy of PIVOT in any book shop in Delhi. (K. Kripalani, 31.3.50). This bad business is clearing up at last. The book was held up for some months following information that—have a contract regarding it, but now they agree to give up their claims.—B. Bose. (Calcutta).

(c) A bad government is one which levies heavy taxes. The popular instinct in this regard is perfectly sound. Tyranny begins when any government has power to raise taxation above 12% of the nation's production.

(d) In the Republican party, Republican ideas (1. Agriculture, 2. Industry, 3. Commerce) were suppressed. The idea of Exporting for Prosperity was given precedence.—B.A. (Melrose, Mass.)

(e) Count Corti's REIGN OF THE HOUSE OF ROTHSCHILD should be made available, as this was one of the first largely circulated volumes of realistic history. It is not anti-semitic, the main villain in the first volume being William of Hesse. Corti himself is a descendant of one of the Rothschild affiliates, and all Cortis I know are Jews. It was not Rothchild's fault that all Europe was infectable. The point is the squalid ignorance that makes 99% of a doomed race incapable of recognising the swindles put over on them by the owners of newspapers. Each generation has to learn certain things for itself, despite the efforts of education and press to augment public ignorance.

(f) I had hopes that the afterbirth of the last war would be less bloody and nauseating than the ugly mess that preceded it. I still haven't lost faith but my fears for the future are growing faster than the weeds in my garden. The vet problem is growing; many of them are out of jobs, thousands lack decent places to live. Industry and production here is gradually tapering off. Our chief employers, Aircraft, Rubber, Building, Oil, are still holding out in a fashion. Thousands of new dwellings are going up; the city—now well over fifty miles long—is still spreading. This will last as long as folks still have war bonds, etc. to cash in. But the poor man is getting poorer. The time will come when they have pried loose the last dollar from the poor man's purse.—D. J. Pasquette. (Los Angeles).

(g) The ultimate value of a currency depends on what a state spends money FOR.

(h) I visited La Grande Chatreuse recently... the one thing that strikes one is the quiet. Deep in a valley with the nearest village about 4 miles away, the remoteness and the silence of the Order just combine for perfect peace.—(O.P.)

Received: Kavita (Bengal), The Mood (St. Louis, Mo.), Vigil (Calcutta), Vou (Tokio) and Contributo alla lotta contro l'alta delinquenza—Ferri.

I receive many pamphlets ... why cannot they bury their ego and strive upward together? There is no need for an OGPU in our country. One's fellow men are a cheaper substitute.—R. RATCLIFFE.

Stokes ... will have moderating influence as a minister.—M. BELGION.

Editor: H. SWABEY. Secretary: R. HUGHES, 40 Westbourne Road, Whitchurch, nr. Cardiff, South Wales.