Mr. McFADDEN. Mr. Speaker, under leave
to extend my remarks in the RECORD I include the following address made
by me yesterday evening over Station WOL in Washington, D.C.:
Just prior to and since the election of
President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932 this country has been educated
to a new phase in government, "brain trust advisers", and
through them the "new deal" has introduced a national
political economic planning scheme which seems to have permeated all
branches of Government.
The original "brain trust" was
composed of Prof. Raymond Moley, Prof. Rexford Tugwell, and Justice
Brandeis' contribution, A. A. Berle, Jr., and Bernard M. Baruch's
contribution, Gen. Hugh S. Johnson. To these must be added Prof.
George F. Warren and Prof. James Rogers, the gold specialist twins,
and another Justice Louis D. Brandeis confrere, Prof. Felix
Frankfurter, James M. Landis, Jerome Frank, and another Bernard M.
Baruch contribution, Donald Richberg, Frederic C. Howe, Harry L.
Hopkins, Clarence Darrow, Mordecai Ezekial, Harold Ickes, and one must
not omit Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, nor the other Cabinet member,
Henry Morgenthau, Jr., nor should we omit Henry Morgenthau, Sr., who
is a sort of super-adviser for his illustrious son.
These men are now or have been actively engaged
in the various phases of the political economic plan called the "new
deal."
The country has recently been treated to the
spectacle of the present administration's attempt to ridicule the idea
that there is a definite new plan of government in process. Without
attempting to comment in any manner whatever on the attempt to disarm
the public, I desire now to refer briefly to a plan that was advocated
as far back as 1918 when A. A. Berle had some very definite ideas
regarding the establishing of a new State. Indeed, he wrote a little
book on "The Significance of a Jewish State", dedicated to
his friend, Louis D. Brandeis. In it he regarded the Jew as "the
barometer of civilization at all times." He recognized the
inability of Christianity to avert war or "to do a single thing
towards mitigating its worst effects," and seemed to think the
Jews were the only power that could do anything about it.
He believed "A Jewish state would be a
'Hague' which could, and which would, command the attention and govern
the thought of the world."
He did not wait for the public recognition of
the "brain trust" to start a campaign for social
regeneration. In 1918 he said: "There have been many of us who
for many years have seen in the Hebrew laws the elements of the social
regeneration of the world.... It would have commanded interest to the
entire world to see a State, albeit a small one, work these problems
through, and especially a State which could, and which would, call to
its aid the finest body, collectively, of intellectual force and
discrimination which the world knows.... A rationalized Hebrew State,
founded on Hebrew fundamental laws - ethical, social, sanitary,
dietary, and all the rest - would be a working laboratory of social
regeneration which would excite breathless attention...."
In this State he advocated: "Concessions
to intending builders could be made on the national plan and
automatically agreeing with the national interest and the public
welfare. The industrial expansion, therefore, could be without those
weary steps toward freedom, which all other industrial civilizations
have to undergo. Almost from the beginning land and industries, public
resources, mineral and otherwise, could be nationally administered,
and all this would make a most novel and striking page in
statecraft...."
An attempt to establish a political economic
plan is now in operation under the leadership of a group, formerly
connected with the Fabian Society in England. This, until the present,
secret political economic plan was drawn up by Israel Moses Sieff, an
Israelite, the director of a chain-store enterprise in England, called
"Marks & Spencer," which house handles almost
exclusively imports from Soviet Russia, which enables them to
undersell its competitors. Prominent members of this organization in
England, besides Sieff, are Ramsay Macdonald; his son, Malcolm
Macdonald; Sir George May; Kenneth Lindsey; Gerald Barry; I.
Nicholson; Sir Henry Bunbary; Graeme Haldane; I. Hodges; Lady Reading;
Daniel Neal; Sir Basil P. Blackett; Sir Arthur Salter; Sir Oswald
Moseley; Sir George Allan Powell; Sir Sydney Chapman; Lord Eustace
Percy; Ronald Davison; Lord Melchett; Sir Christopher Tumor; Mrs.
Leonard Elmhirst, formerly Dorothy Willard Straight nee Whitney, of
New York.
This political economic plan organization, now
secretly operating in England, is designated "Freedom and
Planning," and is divided into many well-organized and
well-financed departments, such as Town and Country Planning,
Industry, International Relations, Transportation, Banking, Social
Services, Civil Division. It is already in operation in the British
Government by means of the Tariff Advisory Board. It has gathered all
data and statistics obtainable by governmental and private
organizations in administrative, industrial, trade, social,
educational, agricultural, and other circles. Through its Tariff
Advisory Board it has control over industry and trade and works in
direct connection with the British Treasury, and together they devise
the British tariff policy. It has also been granted the power of a law
court and can exact, under oath, that all information concerning
industry and trade be given it. Iron and steel and cotton industrials
have been ordered by the Tariff Advisory Board to prepare and submit
plans for the reorganization of their industries, and have been warned
that should they fail to do so a plan for complete reconstruction will
be imposed upon them. This board has been granted default powers, and
can, therefore, enforce its plans.
May I pause here to suggest the similarity of
the "Freedom and Planning" scheme of the political economic
group in England with the N.R.A., the Bankhead cotton bill, the
control of farm acreage, and the other planned developments of the "new
deal" under the direction of the "brain trust" and
their cohorts?
Neither you nor I are particularly interested
in what takes place in England, but what should interest us Americans,
it seems to me, are the strong indications that point to the putting
into operation definitely of this plan in the United States, with the
necessary changes to adapt it to our conditions. This is made
pertinent by the well-known fact that this particular English group
have very close connections with the Foreign Policy Association of New
York. This association was largely organized and fostered by Felix
Frankfurter and the late Paul N. Warburg. In this group we must also
place Henry A. Wallace, the present Secretary of Agriculture, for the
reason that he has recently caused to be published under the auspices
of the Foreign Policy Association a copyrighted article entitled "America
Must Choose." This article is quite in keeping with the "Freedom
and Planning" group in England.
There is no doubt, I think, that Professors
Frankfurter, Moley, Tugwell, Berle, Jr., and the mysterious Mordecai
Ezekiel are all members of this particular group who are carrying out
a world plan.
That this political economic group practically
control the British Government is indicated by the fact that Prime
Minister MacDonald and his son and J. H. Thomas and other influential
Britishers are officers of the group.
An interesting sidelight is that some 6 months
ago when the father of this plan, Israel Moses Sieff, was urged to
show more activity by the members of his committee, his answer was "Let
us go slowly for awhile and wait until we see how our plan carries out
in America" That statement indicates that a plan similar to
theirs is being tried in America.
When we consider Professor Tugwell's announced
plans for control of all land in the United States and the production
therefrom, and when we consider the plans of Professor Berle, Jr., for
the railroads and finances of this country, and when we consider the
Mordecai Ezekiel-Tugwell-Bankhead cotton control bill and the
Wallace hog, corn, and wheat control plans, and the Ickes control of
mineral and petroleum industries, and General Johnson's N.R.A. control
of industry, we must know that something is being tried out here. And,
again, when we hear President Roosevelt say, as he did on April 25,
1934, that this is "evolution not revolution," in his
address at the opening of a subsistence homestead exhibit, at which
time, according to press reports, he made an appeal for the
recognition of the importance of long-range national planning as a
step toward permanent improvement of the economic and social structure
of the Nation, and he stated that the administration was going ahead
with its experiments, can we say that this is mere experimentation?
Further the President said, "If we look at this thing from the
broad national viewpoint, we are going to make it a national policy if
it takes 50 years." Again he said, "The time is now ripe,
overripe, for planning to prevent in the future the errors of the past
and to carry out social and economic views new to the Nation."
Also, yesterday, President Roosevelt announced the formation of a "plan
committee on national land problems," with the apparent purpose
of coordinating and stimulating the Federal program for retiring
submarginal land - the Tugwell plan - which he designated as one of
the main divisions of national 'long-range planning." The avowed
purpose of the committee, according to the White House announcement,
will be to improve "practices of land utilization" and
achieve "better balancing of agricultural production, aiding in
the solution of human problems in land use and developing of a
national land program."
In view of all these things, can we say that
this is mere experimentation? Or shall we say that which it is? It is
assuredly "Freedom and Planning," adapted to the United
States. Stripped of all its camouflage, it is the guild form of
government, and is the kind of government that has recently been
established in Italy and Austria and which will be established in
England if this particular group under the leadership of Israel Moses
Sieff succeed in their plans. The guild form of government is directly
the opposite of the constitutional form of government. It is the
Jewish plan of a World State.