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Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

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Dr. Ellis Powell told an audience at Queens Hall,<br />

London, March 4, 1917:<br />

"At <strong>the</strong> beginning <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> war many thousands <strong>of</strong> German reservists were<br />

allowed to return to Germany although our Fleet could have stopped <strong>the</strong>m.<br />

German individuals, firms and <strong>com</strong>panies went on trading merrily in British<br />

names, collecting <strong>the</strong>ir debts, and indirectly, no doubt, financing German<br />

militarism. At <strong>the</strong> very moment when Germans were destroying our property<br />

by Zeppelin bombs we were actually paying <strong>the</strong>m money instead <strong>of</strong> taking<br />

<strong>the</strong>ir holdings as part <strong>com</strong>pensation for damage done. In January 1915 came<br />

<strong>the</strong> vicious decision by Lord Reading (Rufus Isaacs) and <strong>the</strong> Appeal Court,<br />

according to which <strong>the</strong> Kaiser and Little William Co. was a good British<br />

<strong>com</strong>pany, capable <strong>of</strong> suing <strong>the</strong> King's own subjects in <strong>the</strong> King's own courts<br />

.... The uninterrupted activity in this country <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Frankfurt Metal Octopus is<br />

not an accident ... Let me analyze one lurid case, which has stirred public<br />

indignation and anger to its depths. I mean <strong>the</strong> impudent survival <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

German banks. We have now been at war nearly three years. Yet <strong>the</strong>ir doors<br />

are still open. They sent large quantities <strong>of</strong> bullion to Germany after <strong>the</strong> war<br />

started."<br />

There was a remarkable amount <strong>of</strong> goodwill and free<br />

trade continuing during World War I among <strong>the</strong> warring<br />

nations. Of course <strong>the</strong> Americans did not wish to be left<br />

out <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> great outpouring <strong>of</strong> 'goodwill' in which forty<br />

million people were killed. It was not enough that <strong>the</strong><br />

Americans were financing <strong>the</strong> war through <strong>the</strong>ir Federal<br />

Reserve System and <strong>the</strong> personal in<strong>com</strong>e tax, which, as<br />

Cordell Hull so aptly put it in his Memoirs, "had been<br />

passed in <strong>the</strong> nick <strong>of</strong> time" before <strong>the</strong> outbreak <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

war; nor was it enough that <strong>the</strong> Americans were feeding<br />

<strong>the</strong> "Belgians", actually <strong>the</strong> Germans, through <strong>the</strong><br />

Belgian Relief Commission, so that <strong>the</strong> war could be<br />

prolonged until <strong>the</strong> United States became a belligerent.<br />

Concerned Americans dedicated <strong>the</strong>mselves to <strong>the</strong><br />

proposition that American boys should be killed in <strong>the</strong>

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