This Worldwide Conspiracy

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by  Ivor Benson

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THIS WORLDWIDE
CONSPIRACY
by
IVOR BENSON
Copyright (C) Ivor Benson 1972
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'rn6ers
This worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow of
civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the
basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and
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impossible equality.-Winston Churchill.
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THE BOOK
Much of the material in this little book has already
been published, in one form or another, in Behind the News,
a monthly newsletter produced by Ivor Benson and airmailed
Contents:
as a personal service to a widening circle of subscribers all
over the world.
The book will, therefore, serve as an introduction to
the newsletter which provides a running commentary on
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important news of the day, filling in some of the missing
Some Dare Call It Conspiracy
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scene which makes sense.
The Battleg~ound of the Mind
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THE AUTHOR
The Socialist Trap
Ivor Benson is a well-known 11
South African journalist with several
years of Fleet Street experience. Music of the Revolution
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A former Chief Assistant Editor of
The Rand Daily Mail, Johannes The Youth Revolt
burg, he came into great prominence ·················· 30
in 1963 when he delivered news
commentaries from Radio South The Race Issue as a Weapon in Mind Warfare 43
Africa and was afterwards employed
by the Rhodesian Government as Dissecting a Racial Mystique
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Information Adviser.
Mr. Benson has travelled ex .. The New Scramble for Africa
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tensively in Africa and has witnessed
at close quarters some of the
Middle East Jigsaw Puzzle
major development of recent years, . . . . . . . . . . . ···············•····· 81
including the Congo turmoil of
Encouraging Signs
1960. ················ ···············" 100
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For nothing is secret, that shall not, be made manifest; neither
anything hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.- Luke 8.17.
b~t in general my chief difference of opinion is that it
wishes to remain unknown, and I believe its role in
history is significant enough to be known" (P 953).
SOME DARE CALL IT CONSPIRACY
Dr. Quigley speaks with authority when he admits that
the super-capitalists of this "network" have worked in close
So you see .. . that the world i_s $ove~ned partnership with Communists and Socialists in the United
by very different personages to what ts 11:1-agined St~!es, expla~ning, however, that "the power these energetic
by those who are not themselves . behm~ . the lelt1sts exercised was never their own power or Communist
scenes.-Benjamin Disraeli, former Prime Minister power but was ultimately the power of the international
of England. linancial coterie".
This, too, leading conservatives have been saying for
THERE are only two ways of trying to explain years - Communism is not a power in its own right, but is
only an instrument, or part of a much bigger conspiracy.
contemporary history. .
One is that history is the product of blmd chance, or Another Liberal Establishment "insider", Dr. Nicholas
of forces entirely outside our control. . Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, nominated
This has been called "the idiot theory of hE_tory" and for that post by J. P. Morgan and Co. of Wall Street has
is promoted most zealously by the mass media of the made this interesting pronouncement: "The workl -i-s -di;iood
Liberal Establishment all over the world. . in~o three kinds of people - a very small group that makes
The other view is that while it is true accident or thmgs happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things
chance always have some contribution to make to the end happen, and a great multitude that never knows what has
result much of what has been happening in the world, and happened".
conti~ues to happen, can only be explained as the product It is the purpose of this little book to increase the
number of those who watch things happen and understand
of ingenious long-range planning. .
Leftists who continue to attack what they hke to what they see.
describe as "the much-discredited conspiracy theory" need These, after all, are the only ones who can hope to be
to catch up with their own leftist reading. able to influence the way things happen.
What they don't seem to know is that one o~ the And it goes without saying that the few who make
greatest living spokesmen of the lef_t, Dr. C~rroll Quigley, things happen would much rather not be watched at all.
Professor of History at the Foreign . Service Scho?l at Surely, then, we have only ourselves to blame if,
Georgetown University, U.S.A., and a hig~ly placed Liberal knowing all this, we finish up confused, sick at heart and
Establishment "insider", has bluntly admitted the truth of powerless, with that great multitude that never knows what
what conservatives have been saying for years. . has happened.
In his massive book "Tragedy and Hope - a History
of the World in our Time", Dr. Quigley writes:
"I know of the operations of this network _because
I have studied it for 20 years and wa5 _peri:mtted for
two years, in the early 1960's to _examu~e its papers
and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most
of its aims and have, for much of my life, been. close
to it and to many of its instruments. I _have _o?Jected
both in the past and recently to a few of its policies ...
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h .1f J~e ca1~ be persuaded by t~e newspapers he reads or
h~I the, ~edm of mass co_mmun~cation to permit and even
, P. t~ promote .changes m society which are harmful to
hJJnsclf ~nd to his community then he can be said to be
J'IIE '.BATTLEGROUND OF THE MIND tlrcacly m. a .state of "arrested development" .
. _For 1t 1s surely obvious that the fully developed
l11d1v1du~l, k?ows what is best_ for himself and his community
That we have attained the final step on the ttnd the1efo1e cannot be mampulated like a puppet by those
evolutionary ladder of war is most unlikely. For who have succeeded in placing themselves at all the main
mechanical and chemical weapons may disappear avenues of access to his mind!
and be replaced by others more terrible. This. , T!1i~ kind of mind control, however, can only be of a
method of imposing the will of one man on another l mpornry nature; much more is needed if people are to be
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may in turn be replaced by purely psychological or pu~hed all the way into what Churchill called
warfare wherein weapons are not even used or A reconstituted society", in other words a world which
battlefields sought or loss of life and limb aimed at. has underg_one revol_utionary changes. '
But in its place the corruption of human reason, W~at 1s needed 1s a form of psychological warfare which
the dimming of the human intellect and the 111~~1.ermmes the individual at depth, reducing him to a state
disintegration of the moral and spiritual life of ol arrested development" from which there is no quick and
one nation by the will of another is accomplished. 'asy escape.
-General J. F. C. Fuller, in his book Tanks Instead ~f being dece_ived, like the victim of any ordinary
confidence tnckster, he 1s demoralised and thereby made
in the Great War.
mor~ vulne~able than ever to all the arts of persuasion and
deceit practised by the professional opinion makers.
. Part of the story of how all this is done will be found
TARGET No.· 1 for modern revolutionary forces is the m the chapters of this book.
mind and soul of man. ~nstea~ of the cultural exercise and education he must
People must be persuaded to permit and even help
hav~ if he ~s to unfold all the rich possibilities of his nature
promote those c~anges in society required by the con- he 1s s:1pphed almost exclusively with a spurious substitute'.
spirators. , a cunnmgly concocted anti-culture
No one understood this better than Winston Churchill, His ~iterature is poisoned, a~d his art and his music;
who in 192;0 as Se<;retary for War and Air in the British and. massive pressure and propaganda, including the pro
Government, h,ad unequalled _access to top-secret military,
n:otron . of ~a.bit-forming drugs, are used to sever all those
police and diplomatic intelligence on the Bolshe<;ik Revolu-
ties which _JOm ~im to his family, his nation and his race,
tion in Russia. thu~, reducmg him to a more or less permanent condition
Writing in the Illustrated Sunday Herald of February 8, of arrested development".
1920, Churchill threw a great deal of light on what he ~ut w~o is behind all this revolutionary activity? The
described as "this worldwide conspiracy for the overthrow followmg will provide part of the answer to that question.
of civilisation and for the reconstitution of society on the
basis of arrested development, of envious malevolence and
TWO FACES OF REVOLUTION
impossible equality . . ."
All this is being achieved today in a variety of ways.
Jerry ~,Ubin, ,;h~ ?~arded American revolutionary
The first and most obvious way to influence the
whose book Do It! , mc1tmg to urban guerilla warfare is
individual is through his mind, that is, his ordinary thinking now to be seen in Establishment book stores all over 'the
and opinion-forming processes.
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U.S.A., .is a great admirer of American r~,dio and teievisiori. 'l;hc most powerful 0£ the three networks is the Columbia
He has described television as "a commercial for the 11111 l I a ting System (CBS), whose empire comprises TV
revolution", explaining: "Every revolution needs a colour 1111[1 'lH in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia
TV". 111d St. Louis, and 200 affiliated stations all over the United
In his book, he praises Walter Cronkite of the Columbia , 1111 s. The big boss of CBS is William S. Paley, son of
Broadcasting System News as the best organiser for the , '11111u ,1a nd Gold Palinsky, who came to America from Russia
revolutionary Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and h l'orc the turn of the century. Sam, who became a wealthy
praises him for bringing out, from time to time, the map l'I ,,11r manufacturer, bought the infant CBS from Paramount
of the United States '•with circles around the campuses which 1'1• Lllrcs and later put his son William in charge. Among the
blew up today". hip i,;hareholders is the international banking firm of Lehman
llr >thcrs, a satellite of the world-wide Rothschild investment
If the revolutionaries themselves personally owned the
three great radio and television networks - CBS, NBS 11 lwork. Another big sr.areholder is Dr. Leon Levy, William
I' II 'y's brother-in-law.
and ABC - these networks could not be used more
effectively to undermine a generation and help create the A whole book could be written about Paley's dubious
sort of conditions which revolution requires. h L ·kground, but we have space here only for one significant
pnragraph which tells the whole story. Mr. Paley was
Writes Gary Allen in American Opinion: "The media
1d 'ntified with the Institute of Pacific Relations which a
sell Marxists to the public as innocent and idealistic reformers
S 'nate Internal Security Sub-Committee described as follows:
even as they depict conservctives and anti-Communists as
"The IPR has been considered by the American Communist
diabolical conspirators ... It is no wonder that Vice-President
Party and by Soviet officials as an instrument of Communist
Agnew's attack on the media was received with enthusiasm
policy, propaganda and military intelligence ... The IPR was
by so many Americans. He dared to tell the truth - that the
a vehicle used by the Communists to orientate American
country is being psychologically sabotaged from within. What
Far Eastern policy towards Communist objectives".
seems_ to have caused the most frenzy among the media,
however, is the fact that the Vice-President indicated the The result, as we all know, was a Communist take-over
slanting of the news is conspiratorial in nature. He spoke of in China.
the 'tiny, enclosed fraternity of privileged men in New York The CBS is the world's biggest producer of gramophone
and Washington whose power is absolute', and who decide records, and b)_'. its advertising of culturally subversive pop
what 40- to SO-million Americans will learn of the day's music is the main supporter of America's "underground
events in the nation and in the world"-. press". CBS is also the world's largest exporter of films,
The Establishment places the vast resources of modern especially those used for television. Also a financial backer
radio and television at the service of those whose frankly of CBS is the Harriman banking empire; the older Harriman
declared aim it is to "destroy the Establishment". worked closely with Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb and Com
pany, one of the main financiers of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The people of America are left with this question:
Is it not possible that the Establishment and the Revolution The rest of the CBS story reads like a report of evidence
are _·one and the same thing, or two different aspects of the before the Un-American Activities Committee.
same set of moneyed forces? No. 2 in order of importance is the National Broad
If there is any reliable answer to that question, it must casting Corporation (NBC), which is a subsidiary of the
be sought in an investigation of the ownership of the major giant Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a huge pro
radio and television networks in the United States and an ducer of films, gramophone records and other forms of
exploration of the relationship of that ownership and the package "entertainment", better described, perhaps, as
great concentrations of financial power which constitute the "cultural subversion". The big boss of NBC is David Sarnoff,
Establishment. promoted in one jump from civvy street to the rank of
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Brigadier-General in the American Anny by Mr. F. D.
Roosevelt during World War II.
Sarn<;rff's biography was written by Eugene Lyons,
former editor of Soviet Russia Pictorial and a director of the
THE SOCIALIST TRAP
Soviet Tass agency. Sarnoff, we learn, was born in Uzlian
Minsk, Russia, the son of Lena Pivin. Directors of RCA;
the parent company, have included Andre Meyer of Lazard Tseu-Lou asked: If the Prince of Mei
Freres, Stephen M. du Brul of Lehman Brothers, and Lewis appointed you head of the government, what would
L. Strauss, a partner of Kuhn, Loeb and Comps.:ny. he your first task?
For more than ten years the vice-president of NBC was Kung Fu Tse replied: Make sure that things
Alfred R. Stern, son of Marion Rosenwald Stern daughter are called by their proper names, make sure that
of Julius Rosenwald of the Sears Roebuck fortune. The terminology is exact.
National Encyclopaedia of American Biography says that -The Analects, ch.xv.
Alfred's grandfather, Julius Rosenwald, gave $6m. to Stalin
for "re-colonisation within the Soviet Union"; other donors I
N the realm of mind or intellect, as distinct from soul or
to the same cause were financiers Felix Warburg, Louis
1c rsonality, there can be no doubt that one of the most
Marshall, Herbert Lehman and John D. Rockefeller.
1 otcnt weapons being used against the West is socialist
"Like many of the financiers of the revolution in
ldc logy or idealism.
America today", writes Gary Allen, "Stern's grandfather set
In its frankly revolutionary form, this ideology is known
up a tax-free foundation to finance his pet Communist
causes". His donatfons to Communism in America c>,re tH Marxism-Leninism, or, simply as Communism.
reckoned in millions of dollars. In its evolutionary form, in which systematic penetration
ttnd undermining of existing institutions is preferred to
. The new power in RCA is David Sarnoff's son Robert,
hastier, more violent methods, it is better known as Fabian
ma~ried in 1950 to Felicia Schiff Warburg, daughter of Paul
Socialism, or simply Socialism.
Felix Warburg of Kuhn, Loeb and Company; Felicia is the
great-granddaughter of Trotsky's financial angel Jacob Schiff. The tactics dictated by circumstances may be different,
but the end result is the same - the socialist state, according
The last of the big three networks, much smaller than
to a declared Communist like Karl Marx or a Fabian like
the other two, is American Broadcast::ng Corporation (ABC)
Professor Harold Laski. The real motives are the same and
which has 153 primary television affiliates, a chain of 399
the forces behind the motives are the same.
cinemas, and is one of the world's biggest producers of
gramophone records, likewise lavishly advertised in under The battle against those who use this socialist ideology
ground revolutionary pap~rs through its ads promoting as a weapon must therefore begin in the human mind. We
''acid rock music". can never win by merely raising defences against this
weapon; we must learn how to disarm it, render it no-longer
'.1:his will help to explain our own frequently repeated
effective as a weapon of psychological warfare.
defim_t10n of Communism_ as "an imperialism of money of
the highest order of magmtude and concentration of control Why is it that this socialist ideology works like a drug
using as one of its instruments the revolutionary dregs of on millions of well-meaning, serious-minded people in the
human society". Western world?
This was a question put to the present writer by
General Hendrik van den Bergh, South Africa's Chief of the
Security Police, a few years ago, shortly after he and · his
men had swooped on a luxurious residence in semi-rural
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'l'I ere i , of course, far more to it than that. As we
Rivonia, near 1o hannesburg, delivering a smashing blow at 1111111 I d u t in another article, our young people need to be
the Communist underground. 1d1h to distinguish between a genuine political idealism and
"The police alone cannot win this battle", he said. 11 puriou one.
"We must also win on the battleground of the mind. We /\ lmittedly, this is not easy. The counterfeit coin or
must understand what it is that makes Communist propa I 111 p ·d banknote is deliberately made to look as like the
ganda so effective, especially among our young people in •1111tin article as possible. Some forged banknotes are so
the universities". w 11 I'll de that only an expert can tell the difference.
Our reply to General Van den Bergh's question may It is the same with political "idealism". The spurious
need a lot of explaining, but it can be compressed into a 11m· i~· made to correspond as closely as possible with the
few words: There is a colossal misunderstanding, involving ,, •1111i11c one, so much so that exceptional powers of pene-
the meaning of words. 11 " ( i >n are called for if the difference is to be detected.
Marxism-Leninism and other forms of international ne of the secrets of the tremendous appeal of Fabian
Communism exploit a fact of overpowering importance: 111d Marxist socialism is that it appeals directly to something
Most people, and Western Europeans most of all, are 11 the nature of Western man which could be called
"socialists" at heart, but they are "ethical socialists"; they " o ·ialist" - if that word itself had not been disvalued by
are revolted by the unbridled competitiveness of modern hn~c a sociations. Let us rather, then, call it a "Social Ethic".
industrial-commercial society, the principal motivation of , 'omc writers have gone so far as to call it "Ethical Socialism"
which is personal wealth and personal power. to di 'tinguish it from the socialism preached by the enemies
Especially when young and unspoiled, they experience 111' lhe West.
an irrepressible yearning for a form of society in which the There can be no doubt that capitalism as being
individual finds in the service of his community the maximum • pcri_enced all over the Western world today is thoroughly
fulfilment of his own being. ,·oltcn - and it is the very forces which helped to make it
Many of our young people cannot distinguish the ethical 1·olten which, pretending to want to sweep it away with
socialism for which they yearn and the leftist state-ownership I' •volution, conspire to bring it to the end state of a
socialism which they are offered. It is a smart fish which can totalitarian finance capitalism - which is what we find
distinguish a fine piece of food which it wants and needs behind the Iron Curtafo.
from another, similar in taste and appearance, which A genuine social ethic (for ethical socialism), while
conceals an angler's hook! recognising that the individual finds his highest fulfilment
Behind the spurious idealism, behind the pie-in-the-sky in serving the group, also recognises that private ownership
-the actuality! The socialism of leftist propaganda is an and private enterprise, implying an element of competition
economic totalitarianism in which the human individual is among individuals, are the keys which unlock energy and
degraded to the status of a unit of labour. As experienced imagination.
by the individual, it is simply a bureaucratic tyranny. In case some of our readers still find it hard to believe
As there is one "socialism" which stands for the that socialism is the instrument rather than the enemy of
maximum liberation and fulfilment of human vitality and international finance capitalism, we quote a paragraph from
another which stands for the total enslavement of the Time magazine:
individual, so there are also two "capitalisms"-or, rather, Four decades of Social Democrats have governed
two things which are totally different but sharing one name. Sweden, but four generations of Wallenbergs have
There is private enterprise capitalism_w hich is insepar controlled much of it. In a country where socialism is as
able from genuine ethical socialism, and international finance familiar as smorgasbord the 202-year-old dynasty retains
capitalism which is inseparable from the Communist a remarkable grip: complete or partial control of 30
conspiracy.
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major Swedish firms, including nine of the country's iii or Lh Tron Curtain and the reduction of 95% of the
15 largest. For all the Wallenberg's influence, the family I'' 'I II ii I I ion to a highly sophisticated form of serfdom.
bank, Stockholm's Enskilda is relatively small. Is that what our rebellious youth want, when they call
I 111 I h replacement of "monopoly capitalism" with "the ideal
Reporting plans for the merger of the Wallenbergs'
, ii o ·iul ism"?
Stockholm Enskilda Bank with Sweden's second largest
(' 'rtainly not! They have something quite different in
bank Skandinavska Banken, the magazine explains that the
Wallenbergs are now likely to become more powerful than 111 11d, 13y socialism they mean what the lying propagandists
111 I It • super-rich say but do not mean: A shared ownership
ever since the other partner in the new bank has interests
111 I It' means of production and distribution; "from each
in 28 major firms, one of the largest of these (which hitherto
escaped Wallenberg control) being Volvo, the car manu 1111·1wdi11g to his ability, to each according to his need".
There are signs today, however, that many young
facturers.
Why, it will be asked, do we recommend this report to I I1 1t il~ are at last becoming disenchanted. When that
the attentio'J. of modern youth? Our answer: Because it Ii I pp ·ns they realise that it is the conservatives alone who
contains a message which modP,rn educated youth needs. It 1 • been fighting the real battle against those responsible
I 111 n status quo which is fast becoming unbearable.
We refer in particular to all those who march behind leftist
nxamples to parallel that of Sweden can be found from
banners.
111 parts of the world.
The target of their political ?,nimosity in all the Western
nly a couple of years ago the Zambian government
countries, so they tell us, is "monopoly capitalism". And
iil'l'ld d to nationalise that country's rich copper industry,
what is the alternative? What is it the left promotes with so
11w11C:r hip and control of which were always shared by
much enthusiasm? They tell us themselves: it is socialism,
even communism. , 1011 th Africa's Anglo American Corporation and Roan
, 'l•I •ction Trust - two giants of monopoly capitalism if
All our leftist intellectuals, young and old, continue to
1• 'r there were any.
regard socialism in one form or another as the alternative
Anglo American, like the Wa11enbergs, has an almost
to capitalism.
lntul stranglehold on the economy of South Africa, including
The story from Sweden, like hundreds of similar stories
,,,ultl and diamond mining. RST is only a branch of the still
which could be told, brings to their attention - if only they
l>i ger American Metal Climax, an industrial and financial
will open their minds for a moment - the important
·mpire with worldwide ramifications.
message that there is no real antagonism between socialism
Did AA and RST raise loud cries of protest at the
and what they call capitalism.
•nforced expropriation in Zambia? Was there any objection
What this means is that modern rebellious youth (and l'rom the mass media of the "capitalist" world when the
many older people, including ministers of religion and Zambian government simply helped itself to 51 % of the
university professors) have been duped by the very forces shares in the copper mining companies? We believe the
I I against which they imagine they are rebelling. ·ompanies suggested the deal. The shares did not even have
By offering them socialism, even communism, as an to be -paid for! As a Zambian government statement ex
alternative and remedy for a sick capitalism, even com plained: "They will be paid for out of future profits".
munism, the Establishment has largely succeeded in taking Anglo American has continued ever since the "take
over the very rebellion of the mind and spirit which might over" of the copper mines to expand its holdings in Zambia,
have threatened their existence. nor will AA mind in the least if these, too, are socialised
Sweden offers a glaring example of what has been in turn.
happening in many parts of the world in the last half-century. And why doesn't Anglo-American mind? For the simple
In Sweden we see clearly what socialism really means - reason that Anglo American kno_ws what socialism really
monopoly capitalism unequalled in any other country this means. Why should AA and RST mind the "take-over" of
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their copper mines by a puppet government in Zambia which
they and their international financial associates themselves I /ir• .I'll/le strives as a matter of deliberate policy to
own and control? /11, ,,A t/1111111 i11dividuality and liquidate the family.
The only difference is that the control in the hands of 11 h 11-1 HCt up a Directorate of Socia:-1 Affairs, ruled and
AA and RST is now more secure than ever. 11111 liy o ·ialist intellectuals, which has untrammelled power
This explains the leftist politics of Harry Oppenheimer, 11 1 1 I 11 • ·uslocly of children. It can remove any child from
multi-millionaire head of the Anglo American Corporation. 11 111 It ·1· h me by administrative order against which there
Oppenheimer is all on the side of rebellious youth 1111 It· 110 appeal to the courts or anywhere else. Parents go
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because he is confident that with his money he can control 11 1•1111Hlnnl fear of having their children taken away from
their rebellion and harness it to his own purposes. The 1111 111 II' lhcir methods of upbringing do not conform abso-
wonder is that our young rebels can be so foolish that they 11111 I lo Lhc required ideas - that is, socialist ideas.
could even applaud this pillar of monopoly capitalism when l'u breed docile citizens, Socialist Sweden uses the
he spoke as he did in 1968 at the University of Natal: I1 11111 . Private schools are being eliminated. The State
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It must be intolerable to students that governments, , 11111p1· hcnsives are a matrix for manufacturing egalitarian
irrespective of party, should accept "this sorry state of 1111 l\11'1nily - de-Christianised, amoral, where children learn
things entire" and should limit themselves to social 1l1111 •opulation is a therapeutic activity, like eating and
tinkering, when they ought, as they see it, "to shatter I I I 1111 exercise.
it to bits and then remould it nearer to the · heart's Tc keep its adults docile, Sweden uses housing policy.
desire". Isn't it right that these opinions should be
II li111s at a population of tenants in State flats, mixed
strongly felt? Isn't it right that they should be expressed
1111 l'I her so as to destroy class differences. "People must
forcefully and fearlessly?
v up the right to choose their neighbours", says the
A perfect example of international finance capitalism 111 •II •ctual who heads the National Planning Directorate.
speaking the language of the leftist, revolutionary anti
" weden is a spiritual desert", says Huntford. It has
capitalists !
1 111 ·ide rate of 22 per 100,000 (third highest in the world);
I mass-produces drunkards; its crime rate rose 250%
IT'S 1984 IN SWEDEN NOW! lwtwcen 1950 and 1966; it is plagued with juvenile
1k-linquents and a "catastrophic increase" in gonorrhoea
There is a whole world of difference between a socialist 1111011g its emancipated schoolchildren.
idealism "in glorious Technicolor" as promised by the
Stephen Croall, Stockholm correspondent of the liberal
propagandists and the socialist system as finally delivered.
( ,'11ardian says that a mental health investigation carried out
This is something the Swedes have found out for
by Dr. Hans Lohman, considered one of Sweden's top
themselves to their lasting grief. They do not have to wait
I •xperts in psychiatry and socio-medicine, "paints a gloomy
I for George Orwell's 1984 - they have it already, a bureau
picture of a merciless, unfriendly society".
cratic tyranny ten times more heartless and oppressive than
The latest figures show that the number of in-patients
any one-man dictatorship.
admitted to mental institutions rose from 73,000 in 1969
The whole sad story is told by Roland Huntford,
L 83,000 in 1970. A still greater number of out-patients
Stockholm correspondent of The Observer (London), a man
were given "light psychiatric care", while the "enormous
who can hardly be accused of any rightwing bias, in his
number" who took to alcohol or drugs as a "way out" are
latest book The New Totalitarians.
not included in the statistics.
Here are only a few points taken from a review of
Dr. Lohman describes "a hard and regulated society
Huntford's book by Charles Curran, M.P., in the Sunday
in which the citizens must maintain production and per
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formance or be rejected as someone no longer useable".
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