The Truth about the Slump: What the News Never Tells PDF
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ABOUT (With a Postscript) A. N. FIELD THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SLUMP What the News Never Tells. By A. N. FIELD SIXTH EDITION Published by A. N. FIELD, Okiwi Bay, CroixelIes; P.O. Box154,Nelson, New Zealand 1934. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED "Democracy has no more persistent or insidious foe than the money power, to which it may say, as Dante said when he reached in his journey through Hell the dwelling of the God of Riches, 'Here we found Wealth, the great enemy.' That enemy is formidable because he works secretly, by persuasion or deceit, rather than by force, and so takes men unawares. He is a danger to good government everywhere. "The truth seems to be that democracy has only one marked advantage over other govern ments in defending itself against the submarine warfare which wealth can wage, viz., Publicity and the force of Public Opinion. So long as Ministers can be interrogated in an assembly, so long as the press is free to call attention to alleged scandals and require explanations from persons suspected of an improper use of money or an improper submission to its influences, so long will the people be at least warned of the dangers that threaten them. If they refuse to take the warning they are already untrue to the duties that freedom prescribes." -The late Lord Bryce in "Modern Democracies" (1921). First Printing: March, 1931. Second Printing: June, 1931. Third Printing: October, 1931. Fourth Printing: May, 1932. Fifth Printing: October, 1932. Sixth Printing: March, 1934. Furthercopies ofthis bookmay be obtained from A. N. Field, Box 154, Nelson. Price, 4/- post free. AUTHOR'S NOTE. Since this book was written at the beginning of 1931 many momentous changes have occurred. It has not been practicable to revise the text throughout, but a post script has now been added to the book bringing it up to date. -A. N. F. October, 1932. CONTENTS. Chapter Page Introduction 9 I-Some Facts About Money 11 I1-0ne Commodity Controls All 16 Ill-Some Tricks of the Trade 22 IV-Where We Are Ruled From .... 28 V-The Men at the Top .... 33 VI-The German Side of the Story 45 VII-How Russia was Smashed Up 58 VIII-The Strange Story of the Federal Reserve Board .... 74 IX-Britain is Drawn into the Toils 93 X-The Strangle-hold Increases .... 111 XI-Henry Ford Retracts .... 128 XII-The Mystery of the Protocols 139 XIII-The Position Today 154 XIV-Seif-help the Only Way Out .... 164 XV-The Basis of Security.... 176 XVI-Conclusion and Remedies 185 XVII-Postcript 195 Appendix- (1) British v, Continental Freemasonry (I1) "The Alien Menace" (Ill) Who's Who: Persons Mentioned in this Book 111 (IV) "Honour or Dollars" ix Index x
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