WHY PICK ON THE JEW?

[CrackSmokeRepublican]

#14 (March 6, 1942) U.S.(B19)

WHY PICK ON THE JEW?

Well, why pick on the Jew? I have heard the term "Jewish impertinence," in fact Gaudier-Brzeska used to
use it. But I think it was a fellow named Brooks, along in January, had got 'em beat, and the name ain't
Hebrew and I don't reckon he is even a crypto. At any rate some murking broadcaster tellin' the world or
the Italian residents in the United States that America loves Italy and only got a grudge against the regime.
Waaal, as Franklin Delano was recently cursing out the Italian for what they did in 1911, before the word
fascist existed, he certainly has got NO alibi, no alibi whatsoever. Now all the United States did to show
how it loved Italy was to lie like billy Oh for 20 years, and try to starve Italy into submission: tariff wall,
refusal of Italian goods, refusal of emigrants. What way is that to show love?

DOUBTless somebody who wants 30 years sweat show now wants Italian workin' men in the United
States to go work—OVERTIME. Well Charlie Marx had a word for it. That part of Marx is sound, and if
bygones are gone by, and IF the Americans love the Eyetalians, there is a way to show it. Why not have a
little open communication? Why not print the Charter of Labor? Why not study how far the Italian law
code, the new law code, being published under Mussolini's regime IMPROVES on the old ones? How
many of you have heard of the Charter of Labor? How many of you have stopped to think whether trade
unions ought to have legal status? And the RESPONSIBILITY that goes with such status? If you are going
[toward] fascism or nazism why not do it with open EYE, why not learn what these systems of government
are? Why not ask and learn how far they are compatible with American habits, [what] is good in 'em, and
wherein their strength consists, INSTEAD of merely lying and cussing and trying to kill 'em on the
assumption (if you can call it by so mild a term) that they are something they ain't?
Conditions in German factories? How do they compare? I have seen some dirty lying in my time. I
can't hold an inquest on every separate lie, but I have seen something, I have heard something, and then I
have seen the American reports of 'em.

I have noticed DIScrepancies. I have heard the statement, I mean I HEARD it while it was being said.
I heard Mussolini say "WE need years of peace to get on with our internal affairs." And I have seen it
reported next day as a war speech. Twenty years of that sort of thing do not show LOVE of Italy. Not on
the part of the reporters or news owners. In fact Mr. Brooks, if it was Brooks, is showing a new love, store
label not yet taken off.

Also Mussolini talking about the fight to grow enough wheat to feed Italy as being the kind of fight he
prefers. Well, that was the effort that brought out American hostility all right enough.
Will you lay off it? And if so, when so? And while you are thinking, if so, on laying off, there is
something else to lay off of? Namely, a system of lending money to foreign nations in order to have a war
every 19 years.

That system I suggest you look into. Your British Allies were scared that a few rackets were bustin'.
They started a war to uphold a state of things that just were NOT UPHOLDABLE. Instead of admitting
that they would have to change it, they started a war singing the International and running up the cross,
sickle, and hammer. Do your Allies BELIEVE in communal ownership? They do not. Do the Chinamen
believe in dud cars sent over to Singapore, on not very favorable conditions, and on not very explicit
statements as to who gets commissions (several commissions)? I doubt it.
Very nice to hear, I mean you are mebbe comforted to HEAR that you got 100 million Chinese
soldiers all ready to die for democracy. I mean if you are a democracy. But you ain't got 'em. Well, why
lean on what ain't thaar?

There are plenty of people right here in Europe whose views on many subjects do not coincide with
my own, but we have, most of us, some points of agreement. Nan King, Manchu Kuo, both of them on the
map of old Asia and on the map of New Asia. And TWO points that I would, mebbe three points, like to
get into your binnacles. ONE that America COULD have stayed out of this war. Two, that IF America had
stayed neutral the war would now be over and America might have had a hand in composing the
differences; might not have so many hush hush agreements to buy; purchase, absorb such a lot of South
American stuff we don't need and can't use, cornering the market as usual, but mebbe not on stuff other
folks want to buy. Well, exchange is said to be a fountain of wealth.

Europe is fighting for something that is not merely material, But even so, a sane and natural exchange
of products between them that have 'em, places that grow 'em, and places where they don't grow or don't
grow so easy is certainly a factor in a plan for permanent ease and peace. Of course if you are going to
work 18 or 20 hours a day from now till the day after doomsday to buy all the world's gold and silver, to
content Uncle Henry A. Wallace, that may be a question of taste (mighty queer taste) on your part.
Mebbe Henry has erred (not the first time), mebbe he was kite flying to see how much hook, line, and
sinker the American people would swallow. 'Tain't going to do Brazil any good if the whole of Europe
goes back to drinking java and mocha coffee. And that ain't half of the story.
Cutting your nose off to spite your face is a very old saying.

Black lists are nothing new in world history. [FCC transcript: Hitherto there have been signs of
weakness and waning— —, not signs of rising power. I mean— —and following the regime had imposed
them. Not strong, confident powers.

And then, the— —of some of your allies. In fact, why did you take up with those gangs? Two gangs.
Jews' gang in London, and Jew murderous gang over in Moscow? Do you like Mr. Litvinov? Is that
face— —of our Colonial architecture? Do the people from Delaware and Virginia and Connecticut and
Massachusetts? Do the people who live in painted, neat white houses, with their little sign for the delivery
box, erected in 1790, built in 1815, and do these folks really approve that Mr. Litvinov and his gang, and
all that he stands for? Is he the implication of something that Mr. Jefferson liked best? Or— —the— —of
Boston and that the first white settlers of Massachusetts belong to a race now extinct?
Well, I hope before the Lord we ain't going to be replaced by a race of Litvinovs. The South got— —
and desolated in the Civil War, or— —to the city of New York, to bankers in New York City and in
London, (debts) conducive of slaughter, slaughter conducive to debt, as intended, and some day you may
start asking, I hope so, I hope to God you will start asking some day.]



#15 (March 8, 1942) U.K. (B15)

GOLD: ENGLAND

The ENEMY is Das Leihkapital. They're working day and night, pickin' your pockets. Every day and all
day and all night pickin' your pockets AND pickin' the Russian workin' man's pockets. They call it
international loan kapital. It is not international, it is not hypernational. It is subnational. A quicksand
UNDER the nations, destroying all nations, destroying all law and government, destroying the nations, one
at a time, Russian empire and Austria, 20 years past, France yesterday, England today.
Gold is a coward. Gold is not the backbone of nations. It is their ruin. A coward, at the first breath of
danger gold flows AWAY, gold flows OUT of the country.

England don't GROW it. There is no gold sproutin' up in England next morning to replace what is
gone. Taking usury rotteth the heart. I know you don't believe it. It has been going on for some time. Art
Golding a few years ago writin' the life of his famous ancestor, or perhaps I shouldn't say famous, one of
the best Shakespearean poets, Arthur Golding, translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses, about the best book of
poetry in our language. Shakespeare learned from it.

Well, his namesake and 84th generation or whatever, descendant points out that even in the time of
Queen Elisabeth the Earl of Oxford was falling. He was handing over his rents to some shyster in return for
a fixed income. Ten thousand, or whatever it was, a year and then the shyster had leave to squeeze what he
could out of the peasants and yeomen, out of the men working the land.

Decline of the feudal system. Ole F.M. Ford used to talk about that. Liberty is not a right but a duty.
[To] own property, not a right but a duty. I wonder how long it is going to take you to learn that. Rot and
laziness cutting in under, too lazy to FUNCTION as lords and proprietors, the nobility sold out to the
shysters.

In my 12 years in London, how many people did I meet (meeting as you might say the flower of the
writing class in your island), how many people did I meet who had read their own history, how many who
had read Anthony Trollope? It was said as extenuation of Professor Saintsbury, "at any rate he recognized
the merit of Trollope." Owning property not a right but a duty. That statement is rather emphatic. Even
Robespierre defined ownership of property, putting a limit on what the owner has right to. That being so,
you play round with Bolshevism, thinking you will get OUT of a duty? Is that it? Or is it just chickenheaded
on your part? This pinkness at afternoon tea parties.

People from East Europe, who have been over NEXT to Bolshevised countries, see different.
People that have been up against Red Bolshevism financed by Schiff in New York and Rothschild in
London, see different.

If you wait too long, you may see. So far I have never met any English who believed in the abolition
of personal ownership.

I see you have lost the habit of witan, the witenagemot and the town meeting. If you don't grow or
find a leader, you may have to wait for some kindhearted Bavarian, or Hungarian to come free you from
the Jews of New York.

Do I exaggerate?

DO YOU think that there is any basic, essential difference between a committee of kikes in LONDON
betraying the United States of America and a gang of kikes in New York selling up England, and putting
mortgages all over your island? Do you think that freedom and the roast beef of old England, or roast beef
of old Argentine, consists in taking orders from a gang of Jews in New York? Potatoes and point [?] for
yours, if potatoes, and point to where the roast beef had been or might have been.
I know it hasn't been stylish to read U.S.A. history in England. Lord Bryce and a few exceptions
looked at American history. However, along in 1863 the United States was sold up the river. Ikleheimer
handed it over to Rothschild. Can't let 'em print national money, all American money must be controlled
by the DEBT. And the debt controlled by the Rothschilds and their associated fellow Episcopalians.
I know, it was clever to send Willie over to New York City to look after your interests and get
information as to how Washington was conducting the United States' business. A nice little TUBE
instituted. And now the first thing you know, all your island strength has slipped down it.
Your bankers profiting by the decline of England. The hat trick? Yes, the hat trick. The banker gets on
a boat, his company is registered elsewhere. He casts down the mighty. I hear even Morgan has lost his
seat. Gold is a coward. At the first breath of danger gold flows out of the country.
Now Mr. Eden has declined to cooperate with the nations of Europe, oh most emphatically. He
wouldn't shake hands with Neville. He left the House in disgust.

And Winston? He toppled over Japan RIGHT on top of you. Sitting out side, I mean to anybody
sitting outside looking in, it would seem that this FLOP of Japan right on top of some of your select naval
bases has occurred at an inconvenient juncture.

BUT you are accustomed to your parliamentary leaders. No number of errors on their part induces you
to wonder whether your leaders are or are not the KIND of men who MAKE errors. Create 'em, you might
almost say, out of nothing.

DO YOU grow gold IN England? Do the froggies grow gold IN France? DO the Nigerian farmers get
anything but trouble out of having their government run from London, by the pimps, narks, and lackey of
the Jewish owners of gold mines? Did the ex-service men after the last war who went out to Africa, etc.,
etc. and etc. Is gold the CEMENT of empire? It is not.

Yes, you can gum on [to] the Arabs. You are allied to a few millionaires. Your Allies in India are the
bunyah. You do nothing in your colonies to compare with the COLONIZATION, real colonization as
Italians under stand it.

Well, I won't say you do nothing, but your main line is squeeze, squeeze, ruin the natives, exploit 'em.
With exceptions, a man here and there, I suppose still doing his job, along the line of Mr. Kipling's
romances. Jews all over the top of Australia. War on your dominions.
You are tired of the name of Alberta. You did everything but march troops into Alberta to keep it
under. So the orientation of Canadian trade is now southward.

England is to be a Jew-owned deer park with tearooms. UNLESS of course you lift a tired and tardy
eyelid. YOU have NO gold mines in England. And Hank Wallace, the American Vice President, yellin'
bloody murder that there will be, and shall be, NO peace till the whole world sells its birthright for the gold
now in Fort Knox.

Gold bought from your Jewish merchants at a rigged price. That has RUINED half the American
people. Gold that is totally useless, save for false teeth and spectacle frames. Not even in fashion for
goggles, replaced by porcelain in swell dentistry. Mr. Wallace says you got to go on blood and tears-ing till
mankind bows down to the calf. How did you get there?

I lose my thread some times. So much that I can't count on anyone's knowing. Thread, as they call it,
of discourse. A nation that pays two rents can't compete with a nation that pays only one. How many rents
and rates are you paying? How many were you paying before this new war was started? How many of you
meet to discuss things? Toynbee Hall and the rest of it nigh a hundred years ago, say 80 years ago, there
were "movements in England," amateur discussions of guilds.

Twenty-five, 26, 27 years ago night life, or night dance clubs started in London. Looked diverting,
nobody wondered WHY? Ole Frida started the cave of the calf, nobody thought any evil. Possibly a little
espionage, probably not even that. Wake up one morning and find the spirit of England, immortal spirit of
England's May Day, chained in a brothel. Just another hat trick, undermining, cutting away. Where did she
get the money to do it'?

In France things were much more professional. Marvelous fiber, England. Two hundred and 50 years
usury, cutting away. Hobhouse, Cobbett, Trollope, men coming back from the colonies, TELLING YOU
and being told to shut up. Montagu Webb, trying to tell you something. When they didn't shut up, they
were givin' jobs, sometimes quite nice jobs, OUT of London. They were promoted to colonial posts, or as
Kipling once wrote, "Jack Barret went to Quatta." But that was another story, that was for a personal
reason..

Are you going to select a leader'? You haven't followed, and won't follow any leader yet offered'?
Have you a selfless leader'? Have you the sphincter strength to revive the old custom of meeting, or are all
town meetings for bidden by now in England'?

Was the war what you wanted'? Were you TOLD in 1939 what Vice President Wallace has now at last
told you, namely NO peace without the gold standard'?

After Winston's visit to Washington, have you mental coherence enough to recall what happened in
England when the fat boy brought back the gold standard'? Must have been YEARS ago, did someone say
1925'? I have plumb forgot when it happened. America is allus behindhand, gets round to a dead British
idea about 20 years after England is thru with it.

NO peace without the gold standard. Why weren't you TOLD that before you set out to keep Danzig
Polish and to defend Finland against Russian menace'?

No peace without the gold standard. Is that the voice of "We the people of England, we have not
spoken yet'?"  

Pound speaking from Italy. Parlando da Roma. Pound speaking. Am I expected to wait for the people
of England to speak'? Of course you'll have to find your OWN leaders, I can't pick and choose 'em for
you.

"Ezra Pound Speaking"
RADIO SPEECHES OF WORLD WAR II
Edited by Leonard W. Doob