WWII: UK's Paragraph 18B of the Defence Regulations

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Archibald Maule Ramsay - The Nameless War (1952, last popular edition (?) 1962)

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Here now follow some extracts from Ramsay and others...

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Paragraph 18B of the Defence Regulations


   Regulation 18B was originally introduced to deal with certain
members of the I.R.A.,who were committing a number of senseless minor
outrages in London. Without this Regulation, no liege of His Majesty
in the United Kingdom could be arrested and held in prison on suspicion.
   This practice had long been abandoned in this country, except
in short periods of grave proven conspiracy, and on those occasions
Habeas Corpus was always suspended.
   18B enabled the medieval process of arrest and imprisonment
on suspicion to be revived without the suspension of Habeas Corpus.
It was, in fact, a return to the system of Lettres de Cachet, by
which persons in pre-Revolutionary France were consigned to the Bastille.
   Here, it should be remembered, that those persons enjoyed full
social intercourse with their families, and were allowed their own
servants, plate, linen, food and drink whilst in prison; a very
different treatment to that meted out to persons held under 18B,
whose treatment for some time was little different from ordinary
criminals, and, in fact, worse than any remand prisoner.
   These I.R.A. outrages were so fatuous in themselves and so
apparently meaningless, at a time when there were no sharp differences
between this country and the Irish Free State, that I commenced making
a number of inquiries.
   I was not surprised to discover at length, that special
members of the I.R.A. had been enrolled for the committing of these
outrages; and that they were practically all Communists.
   I had it on excellent authority that the Left Book Club
of Dublin had been actively concerned in the matter; and finally
the names of 22 of these men were put into my hands; and again
I was informed on excellent authority that they were all
Communists.
   Immediately on receipt of this information I put down
a question to the Home Secretary, and offered to supply the
necessary information if the matter were taken up.
Nothing came of my representations. From these Communist-inspired
outrages, however, there resulted Regulation 18B.
   Though the I.R.A. were pleaded as an excuse to the
House for a Regulation, hardly any of their members were ever
arrested under it; but in due course it was employed to
arrest and hold for 4 or 5 years, uncharged, very many hundreds
of British subjects,whose one common denominator was that they
opposed the Jewish power over this country in general; and its
exertion to thrust her into a war in purely Jewish interests in
particular.

   Regulation 18B
   On the 23rd May, 1940, within the first fortnight of
Mr Churchill's Premiership, many hundreds of British subjects,
a large proportion of them ex-Servicemen, were suddenly
arrested and thrown into prison under Regulation 18B.
   For some days the entire press had been conducting
a whirlwind campaign, in rising crescendo, against a supposed
fifth column in this country, which was declared to be waiting
to assist the Germans when they landed.

...

   Four charges were actually framed against one lady, the
wife of a distinguished Admiral, Mrs Nicholson. She was tried
by a Judge and jury, and acquitted on all counts. This however,
did not prevent her being arrested as she left the Law Courts,
acquitted, and being thrown into Holloway Prison under
Regulation 18B, where she remained for years.

{I wonder if this is the spouse of the "Cabin Boy" mentioned
below??? Parvus}



[Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay was educated at Eton and
the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and served with the
2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards in the First World War until
he was severely wounded in 1916 - thereafter at Regimental
H.Q. and the War Office and the British War Mission in
Paris until the end of the war.
From 1920 he became a Member of H.M. Scottish Bodyguard.
In 1931 he was elected a Member of Parliament for
Midlothian and Peeblesshire.
Arrested under Regulation 18b on the 23rd May, 1940,
he was detained, without charge or trial, in a cell in
Brixton Prison until the 26th September, 1944. On the
following morning he resumed his seat in the House of Commons
and remained there until the end of that Parliament in 1945.]


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Admiral Sir Barry Domvile:
From Admiral To Cabin Boy (1943; published post-WWII)

...

II.
   The cause of our downfall was our efforts to improve
the friendly relations and mutual understanding between the
British and German nations before the war put a stop to all
such activities.
   The misfortunes suffered by ourselves and our allies
in the spring and early summer of 1940 sealed our fate.
...


   The first round-up of political suspects took place
at the end of May. We spent the month of June in Dorset
where our host was endeavouring patriotically to
reclaim some poor lands for the plough. The countryside
insisted that he was making a landing-ground for German
parachute troops. It would have been easy to laugh at
such absurdities, if they had not been so serious from
our point of view.
Suspicion was rife. Our host became the target for the
wildest rumours, and one fine day we were left without
him.
   He was on his way to Brixton Prison.
   At Petty Sessions and Assizes savage sentences
were being passed for the most trivial misdemeanours,
which a few months earlier would have landed both
magistrates and judges in the pillory of public opinion.
Now they were patriotic heroes.
   When two Jewish gentlemen in the House of Commons
made enquiries in regard to my political health, and asked
why my son and I were not shut up, I felt that
the moment was near.   We had not long to wait.


III.

   On Sunday, July 7th, at about 9 p.m., a few days
after our return to our home in Roehampton, a little party
arrived from Scotland Yard armed with a search warrant. The
only one I can identify, besides Inspector Keeble, was a
Jew called Abrahams who accompanied the police, and boasted
subsequently of his achievement to his friends, from one of
whom it reached me....
...


XXXIX.

   The famous, or should I say, infamous,
18B Defence Regulation, under which many of us have been
suffering, is clearly outlined in the Protocols. Curiously
enough Protocol No. 18 is one of those involved.
   Everything points to the fact that Jewry is closely
connected with the conception and conduct of this Regulation.
   Let me mention just a few indications of this nature,
which came within my immediate purview:—

1.   Two Jews, of whom I had no personal knowledge,
asked in the House of Commons why I was at large: I wasn't
for much longer. One of them, by name Strauss, became
subsequently Morrison's parliamentary private secretary,
where he could keep his eye on him.
2.   A Jew called Abrahams came down to my home to assist
the police with my arrest.
He boasted about this to his friends, from one of whom I
got the information: of course we had seen him at the time.
3.   There were many Intelligence Officers of Jewish
origin at the various internment camps for 18B prisoners.
4.   Latchmere House, Ham Common, the third degree
establishment of the British Ogpu was partially staffed by Jews.
   I was not invited there myself, but my son spent
a wretched month there, whilst his inquisitors were
vainly endeavouring to find out what a wicked man his
father was.
I have had a look at the place, and its Commandant,
since I came out.
5.   The "Jewish Chronicle," which is the "Times" of
Jewry, frequently contained a column headed in large
type "Jewish Defence."
   The contents of this column were nothing but
the garbage the Editor could rake up in connection with
18B matters. It is reasonable to wonder what these
doings, which the public were assured were concerned
with national security, had in common with a column
solely concerned with Jewish Defence.
6.   I saw a letter from the Editor of the
"Jewish Chronicle" to the wife of one of the 18B prisoners,
expressing his perturbation at the nature of the releases
which were taking place from the ranks of the 18B's, in
which he could see no definite policy of any kind.
Again, it is reasonable to ask what on earth the
Editor of the "Jewish Chronicle" had to do with the
policy of individual releases of persons suspected
of being a danger to national security.
7.   A neighbour of mine, who had been vainly trying
to get employment, after a long term of imprisonment
as an 18B, told me of his experience.
   He had had a long and blameless record as a
servant of the London Passenger Transport Board.
Whenever he applied for a job, the Board informed
his would-be employer of the unfortunate end to his
service. On one such occasion he found a
prosperous-looking Jew gazing at his record: he
said "I cannot employ you, you don't like Jews."
To which my poor comrade replied truthfully that
he had no feelings against Jews.  He was a Mason.
   The only answer he got was "You must have,
or you would not have been there."
   It is inconceivable that all this Jewish
connection with 18B affairs was purely accidental and
disinterested. Everything points to the fact that
Jewry was very intimately connected with the
administration of the Regulation; in all probability,
its main inspiration, so many things point this way.
   The so-called Swinton Committee was closely
concerned with 18B matters, and was consulted by
Morrison before making releases.
   Churchill refused to give the House any
information about this Committee, but informed
members that the Committee was directly responsible
to him. So we knew that there was a Gentile in
the Chair, but not that the Committee, from its
general composition, might have been the Local
Government Board of the Elders of Zion.
   It looks very much as if 18B is a 20th
Century edition of Shylock's pound of flesh:
it may prove as ill-advised for its sponsors, as
its prototype was to the Jew of Venice.


XL.

   It was not necessary to have attacked the
Jews to have incurred their enmity, merely to have
attempted to thwart their policy in any direction was
sufficient. And this is just what I had done in
founding the 'Link.'
   International Jewry was determined that nothing
should stand in the way of war with Germany. I do not
blame them for this, but am only engaged in shewing their
power in the land, and their hold over their brother Gentiles.
   We hear a great deal of the persecution of
Jew by Gentile: in 18B we have the reverse process.
   My whole-hearted contempt is reserved for
those Gentiles who lent themselves to this policy, and
without whose connivance, the persecution would not have
been feasible.
   We have reached a pretty pass in this country
when such conduct of public affairs is possible.
   Obviously the Jewish connection with 18B
had to be concealed from the public, who, docile as
they are, might have mustered a strong protest over
such a scandalous happening.

   This need for concealment lay at the root of
all the secrecy maintained in the administration of the
Regulation. The public had to be persuaded that the
persons detained were suspected of hostile action, or
contemplated action, against the State, whereas, in
the main, they were those who had incurred the displeasure
of Jewry.
   The Jews had succeeded in establishing a state
of affairs in which to be 'anti-Jewish' was equivalent
to being 'pro-German.'
   A certain number of 18B cases were deserving
of suspicion, and gave a more genuine appearance to the
unsavoury whole.   All this is laid down in the Protocols.
   I object to being dubbed anti-Jewish: I am not,
but I am fully alive to the harmful activities of the
most powerful section of Jewry, which are opposed to our
national interests: I shall do my humble best to draw
attention to the influence in our national policy
exercised by these exotic Englishmen. That is the extent
of my 'anti-Semitism.'
   If our future were to remain indefinitely at
the mercy of these alien interests, it would indeed
be precarious.
   Some people find it difficult to believe that
the Jews are supporters of both Capitalism and Bolshevism.
I do not know why these two policies should be incompatible:
Bolshevism is nothing but State Capitalism. The truth is
that the Jews, watching the social tendencies of the
world, endeavour to cater for all tastes, only being
concerned to maintain the whip hand. Capitalism and
Bolshevism represent the upper and nether millstones
of Jewish policy, between which the Gentiles can be
ground into an amorphous mass, pliable to the handling
of their masters.
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I thought this one was a find... the famous House of Lords speech by the Duke of Bedford (25 January 1944) regarding continued detention without trial of those incarcerated under Regulation 18B:

http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/lords/1944/jan/25/regulation-18b

In the words (or rather, title) of the song: "It Could Happen To You"! (bearing in mind what the cabin boy (supra) had to say...

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Yep carpe diem
It's another lesson from history and per Castaneda, no doubt coining a phrase, those who forget history are condemned to repeat (or *suffer*) it....

Then there is the case of Captain Ramsay, M.P., who is still detained, although he served with distinction in the last war and is still suffering from the effects of wounds. He is charged with desiring to assist the Germans in the event of invasion and even to take a post under the victorious German Government. It is, however, an open secret that the real reason why he has been detained is that he is anti-Semitic and anti-Communist and may perhaps know too much about certain prominent people. Not a scrap of evidence has been produced to prove that he is disloyal, for the very excellent reason that no such evidence exists. If Parliament had really been concerned with freedom and justice, whether the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary liked it or not, they would long ago have seen that this gentleman was allowed to defend himself in a proper manner. Too often, I am afraid, they have behaved like a pack of political hounds, so well disciplined by the Party Whips that they feared to take any new line of their own on any matter.

...

It is amusing, in view of this assault upon the Home Secretary, to remind ourselves that when Mr. Morrison released Sir Oswald Mosley he was not assailed on the ground that it ought to have been done long before, and that Order 18B was a perfect disgrace, or that the rights of Englishmen were being gravely assailed. Not at all. He was attacked by all sorts of people, including a great many people who did not like Order 18B at all, for releasing Mosley! Such are the strange experiences in times of war of a Home Secretary!

These two alone are sufficient to corroborate the writers' own remarks (above - notably "Cabin boy's")  that the people behind 18B was organised Jewry. Please recall that the ostensible fascist Mosley was married before WW2 to a Jewess.

There's additional reading in the speech report particularly about the ill-treatment of detainees, their restricted diet etc.