The Alien Menace

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THE ALIEN MENACE
A STATEMENT OF THE CASE
By
LIEUT.-COL. A. H. LANE.
FIFTH
(Revised and Enlarged)
EDITION
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LONDON:
BOSWELL PUBLISHING CO. LTD.
10, Essex Street, Strand,
London, W.C.1.
1934.
THE LEEDS CONFERENCE, 1917
The following is a copy of the Manifesto issued by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald
and other "Labour" leaders during the Great War.
Great Labour, Socialist and Democratic Convention
to hail the Russian Revolution
and to Organise the British Democracy
To follow Russia
May 23rd. 1917.
To Trades Councils, Trade Unions, Local Labour Parties, Socialist
Parties, Women's Organisations, and Democratic Bodies.
DEAR COMRADES,
The Conference to which we recently invited you is already assured of a
great success.
It will be one of the greatest Democratic Gatherings ever held in this country.
It will be historic. It will begin a new era of democratic power in Great Britain. It
will begin to do for this country what the Russian Revolution has accomplished in Russia.
There is little time for preparation. Action must be taken immediately by every
Branch and Society desiring to be represented. It seems not unlikely, owing to the
rush of applications for delegates' tickets, that the Committee may be unable to give
facilities for those who delay till the last moment.
The Conference will be held in the ALBERT HALL, LEEDS, on SUNDAY,
JUNE 3rd, commencing at 10.30 a.m.
We now send you the Resolutions which are to be discussed. Owing to the
shortness of time for the preparation for the Conference the proceedings will not be
subject to the rigid rules which usually govern Labour and Socialist Congresses. It
will be a Democratic Conference to establish Democracy in Great Britain.
Russia has called to us to follow her. You must not refuse to answer that appeal.
Send in your application for Delegates' Cards at once. You are entitled to send
one delegate however small your membership may be, but an additional delegate for
each 5,000 of your membership above the first 5,000, or part of 5,000.
Applications, accompanied by a fee of 2s. 6d. for each delegate, must be sent to
one of the Secretaries as under:
ALBERT INKPIN, Chandos Hall, 21a Maiden Lane, Strand, London, W.C.2.
FRANCIS JOHNSON, St. Bride's House, Salisbury Square, London, E.C.4.
In the confident hope that your Society will join in this great event,
On behalf of the United Socialist Council,
We remain,
Yours fraternally
H. ALEXANDER GEO. LANSBURY
CHAS. G. AMMON J. RAMSAY MACDONALD
W. C. ANDERSON TOM QUELCH
C. DESPARD ROBERT. SM1LLIE
E. C. FAIRCHILD PHILIP SNOWDEN
J F1NEBERG ROBERT WILLIAMS
F. W. JOWETT
"I want to examine the laws and regulations as to the
entry of Aliens into this country, for in these days no Alien
should be substituted for one of our own people when
we have not enough work at home to go round."
—Mr, Baldwin's Election Speech,
broadcast on 16 October, 1924.
TREBICH LINCOLN (centre) in 1916.
SIR E. CORNWALL asked the Prime Minister whether
his attention has been drawn to the statements made by
an ex-Member of the House [Trebich Lincoln] to the
effect that he had been acting as a German spy in this
country; and whether . .. he will introduce legislation
making it impossible in future for a person of such alien
antecedents to become a candidate for Parliament?
THE PRIME MINISTER [Mr. Asquith]: This is a matter
which must be left to the discrimination of the electors.
MR. BUTCHER: Will the right hon. Gentleman consider
the advisability of preventing recently naturalised aliens,
especially alien enemies, from becoming Members of
this House?
MR. HOGGE: Can the right hon. Gentleman say why
this gentleman was allowed to escape after the Govern­
ment had been warned that he was a spy?
THE PRIME MINISTER: How can I answer that?
(Hansard: House of Commons, 1915,
Vol. LXXII, col. 784.)
Preface to Fourth Edition
"I want to examine the laws and regulations as to
the entry of Aliens into this country, for in these days
no Alien should be substituted for one of our own
people when we have not enough work at home to go
round."
Mr. Baldwin in Election Speech
broadcast on 16 October, 1924.
OWING to the events which have occurred since May,
1929, when, under the leadership of Mr. Ramsay
MacDonald, a gang of International Socialists took over
the government of our unhappy country, I have decided
to publish a fourth and much enlarged edition of my Alien
Menace. In the Foreword to the second edition I wrote:
The difficulties through which our country has been
and is passing are due not to one cause but to many
causes... And one of the greatest of these is the Alien
trouble... which not only seriously retards our moral
and material progress, but even threatens our very
existence.
After the crash of the £ in 1931; after the formation
of a so-called National Government and after the General
Election which resulted in the return of an overwhelming
Conservative majority, patriotic Conservatives hoped that
foreigners and Aliens would cease to orient our Cabinet's
policy and that the innumerable evils produced by un­
desirable and enemy Aliens in our midst would be removed.
What has happened in the months following the General
Election convinces me that, if I was right in calling the
public's attention to the Alien Problem in 1928, I have still
greater justification in doing so to-day. Apart from its
Tariff Reform legislation and some belated anti-subversive
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measures in India, little has been done by the "National"
Government which a truly National Government would
have done.
To begin with: Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, whose private
secretary since 1924 has been Miss Rosa Rosenberg, and
who in Forward of 14 October, 1922, said
"we can now take the Moscow Soviet Communist
Revolutionary Government under our wing, and clothe
it in the furs of apology to shield it from the blasts of
criticism,"
has not expelled the Bolsheviks from their "embassy"
at Harington House or closed down Arcos. So far from
that, the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Sir John
Simon, has been recently accepting hospitality from the
Bolsheviks lurking there. Nor has The Daily Worker, a
Bolshevik organ printed in this country, been suppressed.
Nor has the Communist Party of Great Britain been
judicially declared—as the Communist Party of Canada
has lately been by a Court of Justice—to be an illegal
association. Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Baldwin, Sir Herbert
Samuel, Sir John Simon and their colleagues, despite the
Bolshevik-incited mutiny in the fleet at Invergordon and
the Bolshevik-engineered outbreak at Dartmoor, have
decided still to tolerate the presence in London of emis­
saries, with diplomatic privileges, from the Moscow Soviet
Communist Revolutionary Government!
From things which the "National" Government has
not done I turn to things which it has, and ought not to
have done. With a haste which can be mildly qualified as
indecent, it has passed the Statute of Westminster Bill,
a measure conceding to the Irish Free State, Newfoundland,
Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa the
right of declaring themselves virtually independent States.
Further, instead of rejecting once and for all the insane
idea of creating a democratic federation for the caste-
ridden provinces and principalities of India (325,000,000
of whose 350,000,000 inhabitants are wholly illiterate), our
"National" Government continued for a time to negotiate
Photographic reproduction of the page in Engels' letter of 4 May,
1887, containing (last paragraph) sentence "Aveling macht ein
famose Agitation im East End von London", quoted on pp. x and xi.
PREFACE vii
with openly declared enemies, like the political impostor
Gandhi, and it has proceeded to make preparations for
bringing into existence paper constitutions for India and
Burma calculated to produce civil war and chaos and,
incidentally, to ruin our trade with both Indians and
Burmese.
Lastly, our "National" Government has forced
through Parliament the Socialist London Passenger Trans­
port Bill, a Bill, on the face of it, bound to lead to the
nationalisation of our railways and all other means of
transporting goods and passengers, but more probably, like
the Electricity Act, designed to put greater power into
the hands of financial magnates.
In these circumstances, I make no apology for issuing
a fourth edition of my Alien Menace. The facts to which
I have referred demonstrate that, notwithstanding the
presence in both Houses of Parliament of huge Conserva­
tive majorities, the policy of our Government is being
dictated or inspired by foreigners bent on wrecking the
British Empire and working in conjunction with Aliens
and traitors living in it. Among those foreigners are
not only our avowed enemies the International bandits
who, having enslaved the Russians, are working to expel
the British from Asia and to stir up revolutions in every
part of our Empire, but, also, Communists at all points
of the globe; Germans thirsting to revenge the defeats
inflicted by us and our allies on the Vaterland; certain
International financiers; and the Brahmans. All of them
are working for the subjugation and even the destruction
of the British Empire. To defeat the machinations of
these persons and their agents in the British Empire, we
need, in my humble opinion, a real National Government,
immune from all Alien influence.
That for decades we have not possessed one has been
apparent to every observant patriot. Personally, I first
became aware that hidden hands were steering—or en­
deavouring to steer—the British Empire to its destruction,
a year or so before the second South African War. Serving
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in that and the Great War, I could not fail to notice that
many of the politicians and other individuals forming
public opinion regarded Germany as their "spiritual
home," and that the efforts of our armed forces were
being largely rendered nugatory by men and women who
were agents of Wilhelm II.
The German-directed and German-financed "Russian"
revolutions of 1917; the reception by Mr. Lloyd George of
a Bolshevik Trade Delegation in 1921, and the Midnight
Treaty with the murder-gang in Southern Ireland at the
end of that year, naturally strengthened my conviction that
Aliens and traitors in league with hostile foreigners were
deliberately fomenting revolutionary movements in our
islands, demoralising our war-weary people, and
removing, as it were, the bolts holding together the frame­
work of the British Empire. Subsequent events—e.g., the
establishment in 1924, when Mr. MacDonald was Premier,
of a Soviet Embassy in London, the Moscow-financed
General Strike of 1926, the abject surrender by Lord Irwin
to Gandhi, the surrender of Egypt and the forced
resignation of Lord Lloyd, the recent attack on sterling
leading to withdrawals of gold from England—amply con­
firmed the view I had previously formed.
Trusting that the facts and figures which I have
collected and which are presented in the following pages
may be of some service to all sane Imperialists, I invite
the reader to study the Alien Problem from the point of
view of a British patriot. As is well known, the Alien
Problem has for a long time been studied intensively by
patriots in the U.S.A. where, also, the Alien is a very real
peril.
I may add that I have approached the subject from
a non-sectarian standpoint. Whether an Alien be a
Christian, Jew, Moslem or Buddhist, seems to me to be
immaterial. The crucial question is this: Is he or she a
person whom it is desirable for us to harbour in our midst?
The Great War, when there was much most justifiable talk
of "The Hidden Hand," which "Hidden Hand" since the