WSJ: New Bush Business Institute? No thanks, we're full (IG Farben & Standard Oil)
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Subject: WSJ: New Bush Business Institute? No thanks, we're full (IG
Farben & Standard Oil)
Date: Nov 7, 2009 8:01 AM
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2009/11/06/bush-to-unveil-vision-for-bush-institute/
Okay, we already seen da
Hitler-Bush business model, right
down to the Escape to Paraguay...
http://www.tarpley.net/bush3.htm
"In 1933, as what Hitler called his `` New Order '' appeared, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. appointed William S. Farish the chairman of Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made president and chief
executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Center, New York,
where he spent a good deal of time with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of
I.G. Farben; his company paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-
I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press.
"Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the
shipping business--like the Bush family. He hired Nazi German crews
for Standard Oil tankers. And he hired Emil Helfferich, chairman of
the Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the
Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, board
member of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top Farish-Standard executive
in Germany.@s1@s4
"This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish
together with Prescott Bush in a small, select group of men operating
from abroad through Hitler's `` revolution, '' and calculating that
they would never be punished."
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http://www.actionlyme.org/BRITISH_PSYCHIATRY.htm
and
http://www.tarpley.net/bush3.htm
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley &
Anton Chaitkin
Chapter -III- Race Hygiene: Three Bush Family Alliances
``The [government] must put the most modern medical means in the
service of this knowledge.... Those who are physically and mentally
unhealthy and unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body
of their children.... The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to
procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick,
over a period of only 600 years, would ... free humanity from an
immeasurable misfortune.''
``The per capita income gap between the developed and the
developing countries is increasing, in large part the result of higher
birth rates in the poorer countries.... Famine in India, unwanted
babies in the United States, poverty that seemed to form an
unbreakable chain for millions of people--how should we tackle these
problems?.... It is quite clear that one of the major challenges of
the 1970s ... will be to curb the world's fertility.''
These two quotations are alike in their mock show of concern for human
suffering, and in their cynical remedy for it: Big Brother must
prevent the `` unworthy '' or `` unwanted '' people from living.
Let us now further inquire into the family background of our
President, so as to help illustrate how the second quoted author,
George Bush@s1 came to share the outlook of the first, Adolf
Hitler.@s2
We shall examine here the alliance of the Bush family with three other
families: Farish, Draper and Gray.
The private associations among these families have led to the
President's relationship to his closest, most confidential advisers.
These alliances were forged in the earlier Hitler project and its
immediate aftermath. Understanding them will help us to explain George
Bush's obsession with the supposed overpopulation of the world's non-
Anglo-Saxons, and the dangerous means he has adopted to deal with this
`` problem. ''
Bush and Farish
When George Bush was elected Vice President in 1980, Texas mystery man
William (`` Will '') Stamps Farish III took over management of all of
George Bush's personal wealth in a `` blind trust. '' Known as one of
the richest men in Texas, Will Farish keeps his business affairs under
the most intense secrecy. Only the source of his immense wealth is
known, not its employment.@s3
Will Farish has long been Bush's closest friend and confidante. He is
also the unique private host to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II: Farish
owns and boards the studs which mate with the Queen's mares. That is
her public rationale when she comes to America and stays in Farish's
house. It is a vital link in the mind of our Anglophile President.
President Bush can count on Will Farish not to betray the violent
secrets surrounding the Bush family money. For Farish's own family
fortune was made in the same Hitler project, in a nightmarish
partnership with George Bush's father.
On March 25, 1942, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold
announced that William Stamps Farish (grandfather of the President's
money manager) had pled `` no contest '' to charges of criminal
conspiracy with the Nazis. Farish was the principal manager of a
worldwide cartel between Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and the I.G.
Farben concern. The merged enterprise had opened the Auschwitz slave
labor camp on June 14, 1940, to produce artificial rubber and gasoline
from coal. The Hitler government supplied political opponents and Jews
as the slaves, who were worked to near death and then murdered.
Arnold disclosed that Standard Oil of N.J. (later known as Exxon), of
which Farish was president and chief executive, had agreed to stop
hiding from the United States patents for artificial rubber which the
company had provided to the Nazis.@s4
A Senate investigating committee under Senator (later U.S. President)
Harry Truman of Missouri had called Arnold to testify at hearings on
U.S. corporations' collaboration with the Nazis. The Senators
expressed outrage at the cynical way Farish was continuing an alliance
with the Hitler regime that had begun back in 1933, when Farish became
chief of Jersey Standard. Didn't he know there was a war on?
The Justice Department laid before the committee a letter, written to
Standard president Farish by his vice president, shortly after the
beginning of World War II (Sept. 1, 1939) in Europe. The letter
concerned a renewal of their earlier agreements with the Nazis:
Report on European Trip
Oct. 12, 1939
Mr. W.S. Farish
30 Rockefeller Plaza
Dear Mr. Farish: ... I stayed in France until Sept. 17th.... In
England I met by appointment the Royal Dutch [Shell Oil Co.] gentlemen
from Holland, and ... a general agreement was reached on the necessary
changes in our relations with the I.G. [Farben], in view of the state
of war.... [T]he Royal Dutch Shell group is essentially British.... I
also had several meetings with ... the [British] Air Ministry....
I required help to obtain the necessary permission to go to
Holland.... After discussions with the [American] Ambassador [Joseph
Kennedy] ... the situation was cleared completely.... The gentlemen in
the Air Ministry ... very kindly offered to assist me [later] in
reentering England....
Pursuant to these arrangements, I was able to keep my
appointments in Holland [having flown there on a British Royal Air
Force bomber], where I had three days of discussion with the
representatives of I.G. They delivered to me assignments of some 2,000
foreign patents and we did our best to work out complete plans for a
modus vivendi which could operate through the term of the war, whether
or not the U.S. came in.... [emphasis added]
Very truly yours, F[rank] A. Howard@s5
Here are some cold realities behind the tragedy of World War II, which
help explain the Bush-Farish family alliance--and their peculiar
closeness to the Queen of England:
# Shell Oil is principally owned by the British royal family. Shell's
chairman, Sir Henri Deterding, helped sponsor Hitler's rise to
power,@s6 by arrangement with the royal family's Bank of England
Governor, Montagu Norman. Their ally Standard Oil would take part in
the Hitler project right up to the bloody, gruesome end.
# When grandfather Farish signed the Justice Department's consent
decree in March 1942, the government had already started picking its
way through the tangled web of world-monopoly oil and chemical
agreements between Standard Oil and the Nazis. Many patents and other
Nazi-owned aspects of the partnership had been seized by the U.S.
Alien Property Custodian.
Uncle Sam would not seize Prescott Bush's Union Banking Corporation
for another seven months.
The Bush-Farish axis had begun back in 1929. In that year the Harriman
bank bought Dresser Industries, supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to
Standard and other companies. Prescott Bush became a director and
financial czar of Dresser, installing his Yale classmate Neil Mahlon
as chairman.@s7 George Bush would later name one of his sons after the
Dresser executive.
William S. Farish was the main organizer of the Humble Oil Co. of
Texas, which Farish merged into the Standard Oil Company of New
Jersey. Farish built up the Humble-Standard empire of pipelines and
refineries in Texas.@s8
The stock market crashed just after the Bush family got into the oil
business. The world financial crisis led to the merger of the Walker-
Harriman bank with Brown Brothers in 1931. Former Brown partner
Montagu Norman and his prote@aage@aa Hjalmar Schacht paid frantic
visits to New York that year and the next, preparing the new Hitler
regime for Germany.
The most important American political event in those preparations for
Hitler was the infamous `` Third International Congress on Eugenics,
'' held at New York's American Museum of Natural History August 21-23,
1932, supervised by the International Federation of Eugenics
Societies.@s9 This meeting took up the stubborn persistence of African-
Americans and other allegedly `` inferior '' and `` socially
inadequate '' groups in reproducing, expanding their numbers, and
amalgamating with others. It was recommended that these `` dangers ''
to the `` better '' ethnic groups and to the `` well-born, '' could be
dealt with by sterilization or `` cutting off the bad stock '' of the
`` unfit. ''
Italy's fascist government sent an official representative. Averell
Harriman's sister Mary, director of `` Entertainment '' for the
Congress, lived down in Virginia fox-hunting country; her state
supplied the speaker on `` racial purity, '' W.A. Plecker, Virginia
commissioner of vital statistics. Plecker reportedly held the
delegates spellbound with his account of the struggle to stop race-
mixing and inter-racial sex in Virginia.
The Congress proceedings were dedicated to Averell Harriman's mother;
she had paid for the founding of the race-science movement in America
back in 1910, building the Eugenics Record Office as a branch of the
Galton National Laboratory in London. She and other Harrimans were
usually escorted to the horse races by old George Herbert Walker--they
shared with the Bushes and the Farishes a fascination with `` breeding
thoroughbreds '' among horses and humans.@s1@s0
Averell Harriman personally arranged with the Walker/Bush Hamburg-
Amerika Line to transport Nazi ideologues from Germany to New York for
this meeting.@s1@s1 The most famous among those transported was Dr.
Ernst Ru@audin, psychiatrist at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for
Genealogy and Demography in Berlin, where the Rockefeller family paid
for Dr. Ru@audin to occupy an entire floor with his eugenics ``
research. '' Dr. Ru@audin had addressed the International Federation's
1928 Munich meeting, speaking on `` Mental Aberration and Race
Hygiene, '' while others (Germans and Americans) spoke on race-mixing
and sterilization of the unfit. Ru@audin had also led the German
delegation to the 1930 Mental Hygiene Congress in Washington, D.C.
At the Harrimans' 1932 New York Eugenics Congress, Ernst Ru@audin was
unanimously elected president of the International Federation of
Eugenics Societies. This was recognition of Ru@audin as founder of the
German Society for Race Hygiene, with his co-founder, Eugenics
Federation vice president Alfred Plo@autz.
As depression-maddened financiers schemed in Berlin and New York,
Ru@audin was now official leader of the world eugenics movement.
Components of his movement included groups with overlapping
leadership, dedicated to:
# sterilization of mental patients (`` mental hygiene societies '');
# execution of the insane, criminals and the terminally ill (``
euthanasia societies ''); and
# eugenical race-purification by prevention of births to parents from
`` inferior '' blood stocks (`` birth control societies '').
Before the Auschwitz death camp became a household word, these British-
American-European groups called openly for the elimination of the ``
unfit '' by means including force and violence.@s1@s2
Ten months later, in June 1933, Hitler's interior minister Wilhelm
Frick spoke to a eugenics meeting in the new Third Reich. Frick called
the Germans a `` degenerate '' race, denouncing one-fifth of Germany's
parents for producing `` feeble-minded '' and `` defective ''
children. The following month, on a commission by Frick, Dr. Ernst
Ru@audin wrote the `` Law for the Prevention of Hereditary Diseases in
Posterity, '' the sterilization law modeled on previous U.S. statutes
in Virginia and other states.
Special courts were soon established for the sterilization of German
mental patients, the blind, the deaf and alcoholics. A quarter million
people in these categories were sterilized. Ru@audin, Plo@autz and
their colleagues trained a whole generation of physicians and
psychiatrists--as sterilizers and as killers.
When the war started, the eugenicists, doctors and psychiatrists
staffed the new `` T4 '' agency, which planned and supervised the mass
killings: first at `` euthanasia centers, '' where the same categories
which had first been subject to sterilization were now to be murdered,
their brains sent in lots of 200 to experimental psychiatrists; then
at slave camps such as Auschwitz; and finally, for Jews and other race
victims, at straight extermination camps in Poland, such as Treblinka
and Belsen.@s1@s3
In 1933, as what Hitler called his `` New Order '' appeared, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. appointed William S. Farish the chairman of Standard
Oil Co. of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made president and chief
executive). Farish moved his offices to Rockefeller Center, New York,
where he spent a good deal of time with Hermann Schmitz, chairman of
I.G. Farben; his company paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write pro-
I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda and get it into the U.S. press.
Now that he was outside of Texas, Farish found himself in the shipping
business--like the Bush family. He hired Nazi German crews for
Standard Oil tankers. And he hired Emil Helfferich, chairman of the
Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika Line, as chairman also of the
Standard Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl Lindemann, board
member of Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top Farish-Standard executive
in Germany.@s1@s4
This interlock between their Nazi German operations put Farish
together with Prescott Bush in a small, select group of men operating
from abroad through Hitler's `` revolution, '' and calculating that
they would never be punished.
In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha married Averell Harriman's nephew,
Edward Harriman Gerry, and Farish in-laws became Prescott Bush's
partners at 59 Broadway.@s1@s5
Both Emil Helfferich and Karl Lindemann were authorized to write
checks to Heinrich Himmler, chief of the Nazi S.S., on a special
Standard Oil account. This account was managed by the German-British-
American banker, Kurt von Schroeder. According to U.S. intelligence
documents reviewed by author Anthony Sutton, Emil Helfferich continued
his payments to the S.S. into 1944, when the S.S. was supervising the
mass murder at the Standard-I.G. Farben Auschwitz and other death
camps. Helfferich told Allied interrogators after the war that these
were not his personal contributions--they were corporate Standard Oil
funds.@s1@s6
After pleading `` no contest '' to charges of criminal conspiracy with
the Nazis, William Stamps Farish was fined $5,000. (Similar fines were
levied against Standard Oil--$5,000 each for the parent company and
for several subsidiaries.) This of course did not interfere with the
millions of dollars that Farish had acquired in conjunction with
Hitler's New Order, as a large stockholder, chairman and president of
Standard Oil. All the government sought was the use of patents which
his company had given to the Nazis--the Auschwitz patents--but had
withheld from the U.S. military and industry.
But a war was on, and if young men were to be asked to die fighting
Hitler ... something more was needed. Farish was hauled before the
Senate committee investigating the national defense program. The
committee chairman, Senator Harry Truman, told newsmen before Farish
testified: `` I think this approaches treason. ''@s1@s7
Farish began breaking apart at these hearings. He shouted his ``
indignation '' at the Senators, and claimed he was not `` disloyal. ''
After the March-April hearings ended, more dirt came gushing out of
the Justice Department and the Congress on Farish and Standard Oil.
Farish had deceived the U.S. Navy to prevent the Navy from acquiring
certain patents, while supplying them to the Nazi war machine;
meanwhile, he was supplying gasoline and tetraethyl lead to Germany's
submarines and air force. Communications between Standard and I.G.
Farben from the outbreak of World War II were released to the Senate,
showing that Farish's organization had arranged to deceive the U.S.
government into passing over Nazi-owned assets: They would nominally
buy I.G.'s share in certain patents because `` in the event of war
between ourselves and Germany ... it would certainly be very
undesirable to have this 20 percent Standard-I.G. pass to an alien
property custodian of the U.S. who might sell it to an unfriendly
interest. ''@s1@s8
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (father of David, Nelson and John D.
Rockefeller III), controlling owner of Standard Oil, told the
Roosevelt administration that he knew nothing of the day-to-day
affairs of his company, that all these matters were handled by Farish
and other executives.@s1@s9
In August, Farish was brought back for more testimony. He was now
frequently accused of lying. Farish was crushed under the intense,
public grilling; he became morose, ashen. While Prescott Bush escaped
publicity when the government seized his Nazi banking organization in
October, Farish had been nailed. He collapsed and died of a heart
attack on Nov. 29, 1942.
The Farish family was devastated by the exposure. Son William Stamps
Farish, Jr., a lieutenant in the Army Air Force, was humiliated by the
public knowledge that his father was fueling the enemy's aircraft; he
died in a training accident in Texas six months later.@s2@s0
With this double death, the fortune comprising much of Standard Oil's
profits from Texas and Nazi Germany was now to be settled upon the
little four-year-old grandson, William (`` Will '') Stamps Farish III.
Will Farish grew up a recluse, the most secretive multi-millionaire in
Texas, with investments of `` that money '' in a multitude of foreign
countries, and a host of exotic contacts overlapping the intelligence
and financial worlds--particularly in Britain.
The Bush-Farish axis started George Bush's career. After his 1948
graduation from Yale (and Skull and Bones), George Bush flew down to
Texas on a corporate airplane and was employed by his father's Dresser
Industries. In a couple of years he got help from his uncle, George
Walker, Jr., and Farish's British banker friends, to set him up in the
oil property speculation business. Soon thereafter, George Bush
founded the Zapata Oil Company, which put oil drilling rigs into
certain locations of great strategic interest to the Anglo-American
intelligence community.
Will Farish at 25 years old was a personal aide to Zapata chairman
George Bush in Bush's unsuccessful 1964 campaign for Senate. Will
Farish used `` that Auschwitz money '' to back George Bush
financially, investing in Zapata. When Bush was elected to Congress in
1966, Farish joined the Zapata board.@s2@s1
When George Bush became U.S. Vice President in 1980, the Farish and
Bush family fortunes were again completely, secretly commingled. As we
shall see, the old projects were now being revived on a breathtaking
scale.
Bush and Draper
Twenty years before he was U.S. President, George Bush brought two ``
race-science '' professors in front of the Republican Task Force on
Earth Resources and Population. As chairman of the Task Force, then-
Congressman Bush invited Professors William Shockley and Arthur Jensen
to explain to the committee how allegedly runaway birth-rates for
African-Americans were `` down-breeding '' the American population.
Afterwards Bush personally summed up for the Congress the testimony
his black-inferiority advocates had given to the Task Force.@s2@s2
George Bush held his hearings on the threat posed by black babies on
August 5, 1969, while much of the world was in a better frame of mind--
celebrating mankind's progress from the first moon landing 16 days
earlier. Bush's obsessive thinking on this subject was guided by his
family's friend, Gen. William H. Draper, Jr., the founder and chairman
of the Population Crisis Committee, and vice chairman of the Planned
Parenthood Federation. Draper had long been steering U.S. public
discussion about the so-called `` population bomb '' in the non-white
areas of the world.
If Congressman Bush had explained to his colleagues how his family had
come to know General Draper, they would perhaps have felt some alarm,
or even panic, and paid more healthy attention to Bush's presentation.
Unfortunately, the Draper-Bush population doctrine is now official
U.S. foreign policy.
William H. Draper, Jr. had joined the Bush team in 1927, when he was
hired by Dillon Read & Co., New York investment bankers. Draper was
put into a new job slot at the firm: handling the Thyssen account.
We recall that in 1924, Fritz Thyssen set up his Union Banking
Corporation in George Herbert Walker's bank at 39 Broadway, Manhattan.
Dillon Read & Co.'s boss, Clarence Dillon, had begun working with
Fritz Thyssen sometime after Averell Harriman first met with Thyssen--
at about the time Thyssen began financing Adolf Hitler's political
career.
In January 1926, Dillon Read created the German Credit and Investment
Corporation in Newark, New Jersey and Berlin, Germany, as Thyssen's
short-term banker. That same year Dillon Read created the Vereinigte
Stahlwerke (German Steel Trust), incorporating the Thyssen family
interests under the direction of New York and London finance.@s2@s3
William H. Draper, Jr. was made director, vice president and assistant
treasurer of the German Credit and Investment Corp. His business was
short-term loans and financial management tricks for Thyssen and the
German Steel Trust. Draper's clients sponsored Hitler's terroristic
takeover; his clients led the buildup of the Nazi war industry; his
clients made war against the United States. The Nazis were Draper's
direct partners in Berlin and New Jersey: Alexander Kreuter, residing
in Berlin, was president; Frederic Brandi, whose father was a top coal
executive in the German Steel Trust, moved to the U.S. in 1926 and
served as Draper's co-director in Newark.
Draper's role was crucial for Dillon Read & Co., for whom Draper was a
partner and eventually vice president. The German Credit and
Investment Corp. (GCI) was a `` front '' for Dillon Read: It had the
same New Jersey address as U.S. & International Securities Corp.
(USIS), and the same man served as treasurer of both firms.@s2@s4
Clarence Dillon and his son C. Douglas Dillon were directors of USIS,
which was spotlighted when Clarence Dillon was hauled before the
Senate Banking Committee's famous `` Pecora '' hearings in 1933. USIS
was shown to be one of the great speculative pyramid schemes which had
swindled stockholders of hundreds of millions of dollars. These
investment policies had rotted the U.S. economy to the core, and led
to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
But William H. Draper, Jr.'s GCI `` front '' was not apparently
affiliated with the USIS `` front '' or with Dillon, and the GCI
escaped the Congressmen's limited scrutiny. This oversight was to
prove most unfortunate, particularly to the 50 million people who
subsequently died in World War II.
Dillon Read hired public relations man Ivy Lee to prepare their
executives for their testimony and to confuse and further baffle the
Congressmen.@s2@s5 Lee apparently took enough time out from his duties
as image-maker for William S. Farish and the Nazi I.G. Farben Co.; he
managed the congressional thinking so that the Congressmen did not
disturb the Draper operation in Germany--and did not meddle with
Thyssen, or interfere with Hitler's U.S. moneymen.
Thus in 1932, William H. Draper, Jr. was free to finance the
International Eugenics Congress as a `` Supporting Member ''.@s2@s6
Was he using his own income as a Thyssen trust banker? Or did the
funds come from Dillon Read corporate accounts, perhaps to be written
off income tax as `` expenses for German project: race purification
''? Draper helped select Ernst Ru@audin as chief of the world eugenics
movement, who used his office to promote what he called Adolf Hitler's
`` holy, national and international racial hygienic mission. ''@s2@s7
W.S. Farish, as we have seen, was publicly exposed in 1942, humiliated
and destroyed. Just before Farish died, Prescott Bush's Nazi banking
office was quietly seized and shut down. But Prescott's close friend
and partner in the Thyssen-Hitler business, William H. Draper, Jr.,
neither died nor moved out of German affairs. Draper listed himself as
a director of the German Credit and Investment Corp. through 1942, and
the firm was not liquidated until November 1943.@s2@s8 But a war was
on; Draper, a colonel from previous military service, went off to the
Pacific theater and became a general.
General Draper apparently had a hobby: magic--illusions, sleight of
hand, etc.--and he was a member of the Society of American Magicians.
This is not irrelevant to his subsequent career.
The Nazi regime surrendered in May 1945. In July 1945, General Draper
was called to Europe by the American military government authorities
in Germany. Draper was appointed head of the Economics Division of the
U.S. Control Commission. He was assigned to take apart the Nazi
corporate cartels. There is an astonishing but perfectly logical
rationale to this--Draper knew a lot about the subject! General
Draper, who had spent about 15 years financing and managing the
dirtiest of the Nazi enterprises, was now authorized to decide who was
exposed, who lost and who kept his business, and in practical effect,
who was prosecuted for war crimes.@s2@s9
(Draper was not unique within the postwar occupation government.
Consider the case of John J. McCloy, U.S. Military Governor and High
Commissioner of Germany, 1949-1952. Under instructions from his Wall
Street law firm, McCloy had lived for a year in Italy, serving as an
advisor to the fascist government of Benito Mussolini. An intimate
collaborator of the Harriman/Bush bank, McCloy had sat in Adolf
Hitler's box at the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin, at the invitation of
Nazi chieftains Rudolf Hess and Hermann Go@auring.)@s3@s0
William H. Draper, Jr., as a `` conservative, '' was paired with the
`` liberal '' U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau in a vicious
game. Morgenthau demanded that Germany be utterly destroyed as a
nation, that its industry be dismantled and it be reduced to a purely
rural country. As the economic boss in 1945 and 1946, Draper ``
protected '' Germany from the Morgenthau Plan ... but at a price.
Draper and his colleagues demanded that Germany and the world accept
the collective guilt of the German people as the explanation for the
rise of Hitler's New Order, and the Nazi war crimes. This, of course,
was rather convenient for General Draper himself, as it was for the
Bush family. It is still convenient decades later, allowing Prescott's
son, President Bush, to lecture Germany on the danger of Hitlerism.
Germans are too slow, it seems, to accept his New World Order.
After several years of government service (often working directly for
Averell Harriman in the North Atlantic Alliance), General Draper was
appointed in 1958 chairman of a committee which was to advise
President Dwight Eisenhower on the proper course for U.S. military aid
to other countries. At that time, Prescott Bush was a U.S. Senator
from Connecticut, a confidential friend and golf partner with National
Security Director Gordon Gray, and an important golf partner with
Dwight Eisenhower as well. Prescott's old lawyer from the Nazi days,
John Foster Dulles, was Secretary of State, and his brother Allen
Dulles, formerly of the Schroder bank, was head of the CIA.
This friendly environment emboldened General Draper to pull off a
stunt with his military aid advisory committee. He changed the subject
under study. The following year the Draper committee recommended that
the U.S. government react to the supposed threat of the `` population
explosion '' by formulating plans to depopulate the poorer countries.
The growth of the world's non-white population, he proposed, should be
regarded as dangerous to the national security of the United States!
@s3@s1
President Eisenhower rejected the recommendation. But in the next
decade, General Draper founded the `` Population Crisis Committee ''
and the `` Draper Fund, '' joining with the Rockefeller and Du Pont
families to promote eugenics as `` population control. '' The
administration of President Lyndon Johnson, advised by General Draper
on the subject, began financing birth control in the tropical
countries through the U.S. Agency for International Development
(USAID).
General Draper was George Bush's guru on the population
question.@s3@s2 But there was also Draper's money--from that uniquely
horrible source--and Draper's connections on Wall Street and abroad.
Draper's son and heir, William H. Draper III, was co-chairman for
finance (chief of fundraising) of the Bush-for-President national
campaign organization in 1980. With George Bush in the White House,
the younger Draper heads up the depopulation activities of the United
Nations throughout the world.
General Draper was vice president of Dillon Read until 1953. During
the 1950s and 1960s, the chief executive there was Frederic Brandi,
the German who was Draper's co-director for the Nazi investments and
his personal contact man with the Nazi German Steel Trust. Nicholas
Brady was Brandi's partner from 1954, and replaced him as the firm's
chief executive in 1971. Nicholas Brady, who knows where all the
bodies are buried, was chairman of his friend George Bush's 1980
election campaign in New Jersey, and has been United States Treasury
Secretary throughout Bush's presidency.@s3@s3
Bush and Gray
The U.S. Agency for International Development says that surgical
sterilization is the Bush administration's `` first choice '' method
of population reduction in the Third World.@s3@s4
The United Nations Population Fund claims that 37 percent of
contraception users in Ibero-America and the Caribbean have already
been surgically sterilized. In a 1991 report, William H. Draper III's
agency asserts that 254 million couples will be surgically sterilized
over the course of the 1990s; and that if present trends continue, 80
percent of the women in Puerto Rico and Panama will be surgically
sterilized.@s3@s5
The U.S. government pays directly for these sterilizations.
Mexico is first among targeted nations, on a list which was drawn up
in July 1991, at a USAID strategy session. India and Brazil are second
and third priorities, respectively.
On contract with the Bush administration, U.S. personnel are working
from bases in Mexico to perform surgery on millions of Mexican men and
women. The acknowledged strategy in this program is to sterilize those
young adults who have not already completed their families.
George Bush has a rather deep-seated personal feeling about this
project, in particular as it pits him against Pope John Paul II in
Catholic countries such as Mexico. (See Chapter 4 below, on the origin
of a Bush family grudge in this regard.)
The spending for birth control in the non-white countries is one of
the few items that is headed upwards in the Bush administration
budget. As its 1992 budget was being set, USAID said its Population
Account would receive $300 million, a 20 percent increase over the
previous year. Within this project, a significant sum is spent on
political and psychological manipulations of target nations, and
rather blatant subversion of their religions and governments.@s3@s6
These activities might be expected to cause serious objections from
the victimized nationalities, or from U.S. taxpayers, especially if
the program is somehow given widespread publicity.
Quite aside from moral considerations, legal questions would naturally
arise, which could be summed up: How does George Bush think he can get
away with this?
In this matter the President has expert advice. Mr. (Clayland) Boyden
Gray has been counsel to George Bush since the 1980 election. As chief
legal officer in the White House, Boyden Gray can walk the President
through the dangers and complexities of waging such unusual warfare
against Third World populations. Gray knows how these things are done.
When Boyden Gray was four and five years old, his father organized the
pilot project for the present worldwide sterilization program, from
the Gray family household in North Carolina.
It started in 1946. The eugenics movement was looking for a way to
begin again in America.
Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz had just then seared the conscience
of the world. The Sterilization League of America, which had changed
its name during the war to `` Birthright, Inc., '' wanted to start up
again. First they had to overcome public nervousness about crackpots
proposing to eliminate `` inferior '' and `` defective '' people. The
League tried to surface in Iowa, but had to back off because of
negative publicity: A little boy had recently been sterilized there
and had died from the operation.
They decided on North Carolina, where the Gray family could play the
perfect host. Through British imperial contacts, Boyden Gray's
grandfather, Bowman Gray, had become principal owner of the R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Co. Boyden's father, Gordon Gray, had recently
founded the Bowman Gray (memorial) Medical School in Winston-Salem,
using his inherited cigarette stock shares. The medical school was
already a eugenics center.
As the experiment began, Gordon Gray's great aunt, Alice Shelton Gray,
who had raised him from childhood, was living in his household. Aunt
Alice had founded the `` Human Betterment League, '' the North
Carolina branch of the national eugenical sterilization movement.
Aunt Alice was the official supervisor of the 1946-47 experiment.
Working under Miss Gray was Dr. Claude Nash Herndon, whom Gordon Gray
had made assistant professor of `` medical genetics '' at Bowman Gray
Medical School.
Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the Proctor and Gamble soap fortune, was
the sterilizers' national field operations chief.
The experiment worked as follows. All children enrolled in the school
district of Winston-Salem, N.C., were given a special `` intelligence
test. '' Those children who scored below a certain arbitrary low mark
were then cut open and surgically sterilized.
We quote now from the official story of the project@s3@s7:
In Winston-Salem and in [nearby] Orange County, North Carolina,
the [Sterilization League's] field committee had participated in
testing projects to identify school age children who should be
considered for sterilization. The project in Orange County was
conducted by the University of North Carolina and was financed by a
`Mr. Hanes,' a friend of Clarence Gamble and supporter of the field
work project in North Carolina. The Winston-Salem project was also
financed by Hanes. '' [`` Hanes '' was underwear mogul James Gordon
Hanes, a trustee of Bowman Gray Medical School and treasurer of Alice
Gray's group]....
The medical school had a long history of interest in eugenics
and had compiled extensive histories of families carrying inheritable
disease. In 1946, Dr. C. Nash Herndon ... made a statement to the
press on the use of sterilization to prevent the spread of inheritable
diseases....
The first step after giving the mental tests to grade school
children was to interpret and make public the results. In Orange
County the results indicated that three percent of the school age
children were either insane or feebleminded.... [Then] the field
committee hired a social worker to review each case ... and to present
any cases in which sterilization was indicated to the State Eugenics
Board, which under North Carolina law had the authority to order
sterilization....
Race science experimenter Dr. Claude Nash Herndon provided more
details in an interview in 1990.@s3@s8
Alice Gray was the general supervisor of the project. She and
Hanes sent out letters promoting the program to the commissioners of
all 100 counties in North Carolina.... What did I do? Nothing besides
riding herd on the whole thing! The social workers operated out of my
office. I was at the time also director of outpatient services at
North Carolina Baptist Hospital. We would see the [targeted] parents
and children there.... I.Q. tests were run on all the children in the
Winston-Salem public school system. Only the ones who scored really
low [were targeted for sterilization], the real bottom of the barrel,
like below 70.
Did we do sterilizations on young children? Yes. This was a
relatively minor operation.... It was usually not until the child was
eight or ten years old. For the boys, you just make an incision and
tie the tube.... We more often performed the operation on girls than
with boys. Of course, you have to cut open the abdomen, but again, it
is relatively minor.
Dr. Herndon remarked coolly that `` we had a very good relationship
with the press '' for the project. This is not surprising, since
Gordon Gray owned the Winston-Salem Journal, the Twin City Sentinel
and radio station WSJS.
In 1950 and 1951, John Foster Dulles, then chairman of the Rockefeller
Foundation, led John D. Rockefeller III on a series of world tours,
focusing on the need to stop the expansion of the non-white
populations. In November 1952, Dulles and Rockefeller set up the
Population Council, with tens of millions of dollars from the
Rockefeller family.
At that point, the American Eugenics Society, still cautious from the
recent bad publicity vis-a-vis Hitler, left its old headquarters at
Yale University. The Society moved its headquarters into the office of
the Population Council, and the two groups melded together. The long-
time secretary of the American Eugenics Society, Frederick Osborne,
became the first president of the Population Council. The Gray
family's child-sterilizer, Dr. Claude Nash Herndon, became president
of the American Eugenics Society in 1953, as its work expanded under
Rockefeller patronage.
Meanwhile, the International Planned Parenthood Federation was founded
in London, in the offices of the British Eugenics Society.
The undead enemy from World War II, renamed `` Population Control, ''
had now been revived.
George Bush was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1972, when
with prodding from Bush and his friends, the U.S. Agency for
International Development first made an official contract with the old
Sterilization League of America. The League had changed its name twice
again, and was now called the `` Association for Voluntary Surgical
Contraception. '' The U.S. government began paying the old fascist
group to sterilize non-whites in foreign countries.
The Gray family experiment had succeeded.
In 1988, the U.S. Agency for International Development signed its
latest contract with the old Sterilization League (a.k.a. Association
for Voluntary Surgical Contraception), committing the U.S. government
to spend $80 million over five years.
Having gotten away with sterilizing several hundred North Carolina
school children, `` not usually less than eight to ten years old, ''
the identical group is now authorized by President Bush to do it to 58
countries in Asia, Africa and Ibero-America. The group modestly claims
it has directly sterilized `` only '' two million people, with 87
percent of the bill paid by U.S. taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Dr. Clarence Gamble, Boyden Gray's favorite soap
manufacturer, formed his own `` Pathfinder Fund '' as a split-off from
the Sterilization League. Gamble's Pathfinder Fund, with additional
millions from USAID, concentrates on penetration of local social
groups in the non-white countries, to break down psychological
resistance to the surgical sterilization teams.
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NOTES:
1. Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, World Population Crisis: The United States
Response (New York: Praeger Publishers, 1973), `` Forward '' by George
H.W. Bush, pp. vii-viii.
2.Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971),
p. 404.
3.`` The Ten Richest People in Houston, '' in Houston Post Magazine,
March 11, 1984. `` $150 million to $250 million from ... inheritance,
plus subsequent investments ... chief heir to a family fortune in oil
stock.... As to his financial interests, he is ... coy. He once
described one of his businesses as a company that `invests in and
oversees a lot of smaller companies ... in a lot of foreign
countries.'''
4. The announcements were made in testimony before a Special Committee
of the U.S. Senate Investigating the National Defense Program. The
hearings on Standard Oil were held March 5, 24, 26, 27, 31, and April
1, 2, 3 and 7, 1942. Available on microfiche, law section, Library of
Congress. See also New York Times, March 26 and March 27, 1942, and
Washington Evening Star, March 26 and March 27, 1942.
5. Ibid., Exhibit No. 368, printed on pp. 4584-87 of the hearing
record. See also Charles Higham, Trading With The Enemy (New York:
Delacorte Press, 1983), p. 36.
6. Confidential memorandum from U.S. embassy, Berlin, op. cit.,
chapter 2. Sir Henri Deterding was among the most notorious pro-Nazis
of the early war period.
7. See sections on Prescott Bush in Darwin Payne, Initiative in
Energy: Dresser Industries, Inc. (New York: Distributed by Simon and
Schuster, 1979) (published by the Dresser Company).
8. William Stamps Farish obituary, New York Times, Nov. 30, 1942.
9. A Decade of Progress in Eugenics: Scientific Papers of the Third
International Congress of Eugenics held at American Museum of Natural
History New York, Aug. 21-23, 1932. (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins
Company, Sept., 1934).
The term `` eugenics '' is taken from the Greek to signify `` good
birth '' or `` well-born, '' as in aristocrat. Its basic assumption is
that those who are not `` well-born '' should not exist.
10. See among other such letters, George Herbert Walker, 39 Broadway,
N.Y., to W. A. Harriman, London, Feb. 21, 1925, in WAH papers.
11. Averell Harriman to Dr. Charles B. Davenport, President, The
International Congress of Eugenics, Cold Spring Harbor, L.I., N.Y.
January 21, 1932
Dear Dr. Davenport:
I will be only too glad to put you in touch with the Hamburg-
American Line ... they may be able to co-operate in making suggestions
which will keep the expenses to a minimum. I have referred your letter
to Mr. Emil Lederer [of the Hamburg-Amerika executive board in New
York] with the request that he communicate with you.
Davenport to Mr. W.A. Harriman,
59 Wall Street, New York, N.Y.
January 23, 1932
Dear Mr. Harriman:
Thank you very much for your kind letter of January 21st and the
action you took which has resulted at once in a letter from Mr. Emil
Lederer. This letter will serve as a starting point for
correspondence, which I hope will enable more of our German colleagues
to come to America on the occasion of the congresses of eugenics and
genetics, than otherwise.
Congressional hearings in 1934 established that Hamburg-Amerika
routinely provided free transatlantic passage for those carrying out
Nazi propaganda chores. See Investigation of Nazi Propaganda
Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities,
op. cit., chapter 2.
12. Alexis Carrel, Man the Unknown (New York: Halcyon House, published
by arrangement with Harper & Brothers, 1935), pp. 318-19.
The battle cry of the New Order was sounded in 1935 with the
publication of Man the Unknown, by Dr. Alexis Carrel of the
Rockefeller Institute in New York. This Nobel Prize-winner said ``
enormous sums are now required to maintain prisons and insane
asylums.... Why do we preserve these useless and harmful beings? This
fact must be squarely faced. Why should society not dispose of the
criminals and the insane in a more economical manner? ... The
community must be protected against troublesome and dangerous
elements.... Perhaps prisons should be abolished.... The conditioning
of the petty criminal with the whip, or some more scientific
procedure, followed by a short stay in hospital, would probably
suffice to insure order. [Criminals including those] who have ...
misled the public on important matters, should be humanely and
economically disposed of in small euthanasic institutions supplied
with proper gases. A similar treatment could be advantageously applied
to the insane, guilty of criminal acts. ''
Carrel claimed to have transplanted the head of a dog to another dog
and kept it alive for quite some time.
13. Bernhard Schreiber, The Men Behind Hitler: A German Warning to the
World, France: La Hay-Mureaux, ca. 1975), English language edition
supplied by H & P. Tadeusz, 369 Edgewere Road, London W2. A copy of
this book is now held by Union College Library, Syracuse, N.Y.
14. Higham, op. cit., p. 35.
15. Engagement announced Feb. 10, 1939, New York Times, p. 20. See
also Directory of Directors for New York City, 1930s and 1940s.
16. Higham, op. cit., pp. 20, 22 and other references to Schroeder and
Lindemann.
Anthony Sutton, Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler (Seal Beach: '76
Press, 1976). Sutton is also a good source on the Harrimans.
17. Washington Evening Star, March 27, 1942, p. 1.
18. Higham, op. cit. p. 50.
19. Ibid., p. 48.
20. Washington Post, April 29, 1990, p. F4. Higham, op. cit., pp.
52-53.
21. Zapata annual reports, 1950s-60s, Library of Congress microforms.
22. See Congressional Record for Bush speech in the House of
Representatives, Sept. 4, 1969. Bush inserted in the record the
testimony given before his Task Force on Aug. 5, 1969.
23. Sobel, op. cit., pp. 92-111. See also Boyle, op. cit., chapter 1,
concerning the Morgan-led Dawes Committee of Germany's foreign
creditors.
Like Harriman, Dillon used the Schroeder and Warburg banks to strike
his German bargains. All Dillon Read & Co. affairs in Germany were
supervised by J.P. Morgan & Co. partner Thomas Lamont, and were
authorized by Bank of England Governor Montagu Norman.
24. See Poor's Register of Directors and Executives, (New York: Poor's
Publishing Company, late 1920s, '30s and '40s). See also Standard
Corporation Records (New York: Standard & Poor), 1935 edition pp.
2571-25, and 1938 edition pp. 7436-38, for description and history of
the German Credit and Investment Corporation. For Frederic Brandi, See
also Sobel, op. cit., pp. 213-14.
25. Sobel, op. cit., pp. 180, 186. Ivy Lee had been hired to improve
the Rockefeller family image, particularly difficult after their 1914
massacre of striking miners and pregnant women in Ludlow, Colorado.
Lee got old John D. Rockefeller to pass out dimes to poor people lined
up at his porch.
26. Third International Eugenics Congress papers op. cit., footnote 7,
p. 512, `` Supporting Members. ''
27. Schreiber, op. cit., p. 160. The Third Int. Eugenics Congress
papers, p. 526, lists the officers of the International Federation as
of publication date in September, 1934. Ru@audin is listed as
president--a year after he has written the sterilization law for
Hitler.
28. Directory of Directors for New York City, 1942. Interview with
Nancy Bowles, librarian of Dillon Read & Co.
29. Higham, op. cit., p. 129, 212-15, 219-23.
30. Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas, The Wise Men: Six Friends and the
World They Made--Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), pp. 122, 305.
31. Piotrow, op. cit., pp. 36-42.
32. Ibid., p. viii. `` As chairman of the special Republican Task
Force on Population and Earth Resources, I was impressed by the
arguments of William H. Draper, Jr.... Gen. Draper continues to lead
through his tireless work for the U.N. Population Fund. ''
33. Sobel, op. cit., pp. 298, 354.
34. Interview July 16, 1991, with Joanne Grossi, an official with the
USAID's Population Office.
35. Dr. Nafis Sadik, `` The State of World Population, '' 1991, New
York, United Nations Population Fund.
36. See User's Guide to the Office of Population, 1991, Office of
Population, Bureau for Science and Technology, United States Agency
for International Development. Available from S&T/POP, Room 811 SA-18,
USAID, Washington D.C. 20523-1819.
37. `` History of the Association for Voluntary Sterilization
[formerly Sterilization League of America], 1935-64, '' thesis
submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of the University of
Minnesota by William Ray Van Essendelft, March, 1978, available on
microfilm, Library of Congress. This is the official history, written
with full cooperation of the Sterilization League.
38. Interview with Dr. C. Nash Herndon, June 20, 1990.
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