Douglas Reed
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Douglas Reed was a British
journalist
, playwright
, novelist and author
of a number of book
s of political analysis. His book Insanity Fair (1938) was influential in publicizing the state of Europe and the megalomania of Adolf Hitler
before the Second World War. Beginning in the 1940s, and for the rest of his life, Reed became convinced that there existed a "hidden hand" governing World Affairs, and that this hidden hand was Jewish, though it involved some non-Jewish characters. Reed believed in a long-term Zionist conspiracy to impose a world government on an enslaved humanity. He was also staunchly anti-Communist
, believed that there existed a Communist-Zionist-Supercapitalist nexus, and argued that National Socialism was a "stooge or stalking horse" meant to further the aims of the Communist Empire and the Zionist ambition, reasoning that "for great successes, which they could not otherwise achieve, Soviet Communism and Political Zionism needed an apparent antithesis, as a heavyweight champion needs a sparring partner." Thus, when he died, The Times
described him in an obituary as a "virulent anti-Semite", though Reed himself claimed that he drew a distinction between opposition to Zionism
and anti-Semitism, and was not against the Jewish Race, but rather, was against the Jewish Religion, which he believed was a master race ideology. Reed is best known today for his text The Controversy of Zion, a posthumously published polemic in the tradition of Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
, in which he argued that there existed a destructive master conspiracy, represented in his time by Communism
and Zionism
, that aimed for world control. He said in The Controversy of Zion:
In The Controversy of Zion, he attacked Judaism as a declaration of war against humanity, arguing that it was an imposition of a malicious Levitical priesthood in reaction to the Universalist tendencies present in Israel and in other cultures. He argued that this hostile Levitical cult which became Judaism believed that if its adherents didn't obey God, they would be persecuted, and if they did, they would destroy the Gentiles and rule the Earth. Reed argued that the Levites then became the Pharisees, and these characters were the Moloch-worshippers denounced by Biblical prophets like Jeremiah. To Reed, Christianity was a direct challenge to Judaism, Jesus was "the opposite and adversary of all that which would make a literal Jew today or would have made a literal Pharisee then", and he argued that Jews responded to it by heightening their chauvinism with the Talmud and Kabbalah. Reed held that the Talmud was a racist, abominable work of manipulative men, who sought only power and the destruction of others. To Reed, persecution, revenge, and destruction were an integral part of the Jewish identity. He then cited the text The History and Destiny of the Jews by the "zealous" Zionist macro-historian Dr. Joseph Kastein
to the effect that Jews, by subverting nations, led to the destruction of the Babylonians, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, each time by "stretching out open arms" to a conqueror. Pervading this analysis was an idea he developed in Disgrace Abounding that "anti-Gentilism" was the real obstacle to Jewish assimilation, and that anti-Semites were akin to victims in war who decided to retaliate. In the rest of the book, he argued that while the Jews of the House of Joseph (which he associated with Sephardic Jews) were content to assimilate, the descendants of the Levites, centered in Russia (Khazarians from the "Talmudic Ghettos"), were not. In the chapters of his book entitled "The World Revolution" and "The Design", he argued that Cromwell's Glorious Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution were part of a larger movement of World Revolution that was revealed by the exposure of Weishaupt's 18th Century Illuminati, that it probably traced back to predecessors, and that this organization went underground and became the mainspring for subsequent revolutions. After this, in a chapter entitled "The Warnings of Disraeli", Reed argued that while evidence was inconclusive to show that Jews were the hidden hand behind the French Revolution and the 18th century Illuminati, statements made by British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli proved that these Jews from the Russian "Talmudic ghettos" gained control of Weishaupt's Illuminist world revolution conspiracy networks. To Reed, the most important statement from Disraeli was:
Reed also ascribed significance to Disraeli's assertion that:
In this chapter, Reed also devoted considerable attention to Mikhail Bakunin
, the prominent anarcho-syndicalist and rival of Karl Marx who assailed Jewish control of the World Revolution in his Polemique Contre les Juifs.
Subsequently he argued that these characters put a stop to the Jewish emancipation that threatened their authority, founded Bolshevism, and hijacked world Jewry into their Zionist ideology and garrison state, aiming for total world power. He spent considerable space in his text examining the origins of Zionism, and gave a great deal of attention to Chaim Weizmann
's autobiography Trial and Error (1949), which he claimed was one of the best sources showing the common origins of Communism and Zionism. Reed also, in a chapter of his book entitled "The Heresy of Dr. Herzl", discussed how Zionists threatened European leaders with revolutionary turmoil if they did not acquiesce to their demands, and postulated a "Jewish International" consisting of various European and American Jewish financiers affiliated with Kuhn, Loeb, & Co. as subsidizing Zionist and Communist political ambitions.
He argued that the common argument that the Protocols of Zion was a forgery was misdirection, and, echoing the position of Nesta Webster
, he stated that the program within that text bore much more resemblance to the 18th Century Illuminati's program of World Revolution than it did to Maurice Joly's text Dialogues aux Enfers entre Machiavelli et Montesquieu. He also believed that the political program contained within the Protocols was shown to be real by the statements of Disraeli and Bakunin concerning Jewish leadership of the World Revolution, and that this program was apparent in the Bolshevik Revolution. He stated, in a chapter entitled The "Protocols":
Reed argued that 20th Century political events showed that politicians ceased to reflect the popular will, and instead were puppets of their "advisors", who he argued served not their countries, but Communism, Zionism, and the World Government ambition. Reed argued that Woodrow Wilson was the puppet of Col. Edward Mandell House, and spent some time reviewing House's text Philip Dru: Administrator
, which contained the blueprint of the Wilson (and FDR) political program. He then argued that Harry Hopkins
filled this role during the Roosevelt administration, and that underlying much of the Roosevelt political program was a devotion to the worldwide triumph of Communism, no matter what the costs. Particular focus was given, in a chapter entitled The Revolution Extends, to a controversial text entitled From Major Jordan's Diaries, which claimed that Hopkins forced U.S. soldiers to transfer American nuclear capabilities to the Soviets during World War II. He believed that throughout this, Bernard Baruch
was even more powerful, that he was the de-facto dictator of the United States. He then argued that Harry Truman was completely controlled by Zionist interests, and that Baruch was the puppeteer behind President Eisenhower. Reed argued that Chaim Weizmann
carried out this role in Great Britain, noting, in a chapter of his text entitled "The Decisive Battle" that Weizmann lobbied Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and Army Chief Sir William Robertson to divert soldiers from the Western Front to conquer Palestine, and that when the British leaders demurred, Weizmann used money and control of the press to install Lloyd George and Sir Henry Wilson
in their place. He used this as a basis for his argument that Zionists achieved control of the British political scene during World War I.
In the chapters of The Controversy of Zion entitled "The World Revolution Again" and "The Talmudic Vengeance", he put forth the argument that the Bolshevik Revolution was an international Jewish conspiracy, but that this fact had been intentionally obfuscated. He stated:
To substantiate this argument, Reed cited various statements from Winston Churchill which presented Bolshevism as an international Jewish conspiracy, the unabridged British White Paper on Bolshevism, Russia No. 1, which presented it as a movement despised by Russians and carried out by Jews, stating "Bolshevism is organized and worked by Jews, who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things", the Jewish Chronicle, which stated in 1933 that one-third of the Jews in Russia had become officials, and other sources; but mostly he focused on the reportage of Robert Wilton
and the Sokolov investigation. Reed noted that Wilton, in the French edition of The Last Days of the Romanovs, reprinted the official Bolshevik lists, which presented the proportion of Jews to gentiles in the Bolshevik leadership as much higher than was later claimed, namely, that out of the 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik State there were in 1918-1919: 17 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Lets, 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian, 10 Georgians, 2 Poles, 2 Finns, 1 Karaim, and 457 Jews. He then devoted considerable time to summarizing Wilton's account of the murder of the Romanovs, noting that the murderers left behind an adaptation of the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine's lines on the fate of Belshazzar, King of the Chaldeans who, according to the Old Testament Book of Daniel, was murdered as God's punishment for an affront offered to Judah. Reed cited the Official History of the Times to the effect that Wilton was deemed an extremely reliable reporter, but that he began to be shunned as soon as Zionist circles developed a distaste for his dispatches from Russia. He then argued that the situation in Russia was intentionally falsified by the Zionist controlled press, who Reed believed was not only minimizing the Jewish influence in Bolshevism, but also whitewashing Bolshevik atrocities. He compared this account of Wilton's experiences to his own experiences after he began presenting Zionism as a subversive movement.
Summarizing the situation, Reed stated:
Reed believed that the Zionist ambition was best defined by Deuteronomy 7:1-3 - "When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee ... seven nations greater and mightier than thou; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them." He spent much of his book discussing the influence of Zionism in Britain and the United States, but, also devoted some time to the Dier Yassin massacre and Zionist terrorism, suggested that Zionism would eventually overtake the middle east, and took note of Communist-Zionist collaboration up to 1956.
Reed believed that World Wars I and II followed the line put forth in the Protocols, that "wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains", and that the only victors in these wars were Zionism, Communism, and the World Government ambition. He took note of the Zionist leader Max Nordeau's exact prediction of the outcome of World War I in 1903:
and then, throughout his text, argued that Zionism was the hidden hand behind World Wars I and II, each time moving the world closer to World Government (in a chapter of The Controversy of Zion entitled "The World Instrument", he discussed Bernard Baruch's postwar proposal for a World Government with atomic powers, as a premonition of what to expect after another World War). He believed that Zionism will eventually lead to World War III, after which a World Government will be imposed.
.
He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps
, gaining a single kill in aerial combat and severely burning his face in a flying accident. (Insanity Fair, 1938) Around 1921 he began working as a telephonist and clerk for The Times. At the age of 30, he became a sub-editor
. In 1927 he became assistant correspondent in Berlin
, later transferring to Vienna
as chief central Europe
an correspondent. He went on to report from various European centres including Warsaw
, Moscow
, Prague
, Athens
, Sofia
, Bucharest
and Budapest
.
Reed resigned his job in protest against the appeasement of Hitler after the Munich Agreement
of 1938. In Somewhere South of Suez: A Further Survey of the Grand Design of the Twentieth Century (1949), Reed wrote that his resignation came in response to press censorship which prevented him from fully reporting "the facts about Hitler and National Socialism." He believed that by becoming a "journalist without a newspaper," he would be free to write as he chose. Reed spent the duration of the Second World War in England; in 1948, he moved to Durban
, South Africa
.
Reed was vociferously anti-Nazi. His text The Burning of the Reichstag (1934), stemming from his experiences as witness to the fire and The Times
special correspondent at the trial, was one of the first to suggest that Hitler was behind the Reichstag fire, and used it as a false flag operation to consolidate power. In Britain, he was one of the greatest opponents of appeasement, believing that the Hitler program was one of destructive expansion. His book Insanity Fair was the first to predict the Anchluss, and won him instant world fame. For Reed, Hitler was an 'epileptic mongrel', a 'professional perjuror', 'the greatest traitor and renegade that Germany ever had' and a 'liar who believes in nothing'. Reed initially feared Nazism because he believed that Hitler's actions meant war, and that the Nazis would unleash a destructive fury over Europe, but as he explored the "Jewish Question" in world affairs, he began to believe that it was ultimately controlled by the Communist-Zionist "hidden hand". In opposition to Hitler, he promoted Otto Strasser
, writing two biographies of him based on interviews - Nemisis? The Story of Otto Strasser (1940), and The Prisoner of Ottowa (1953). For Reed, Strasser was a "Conservative Revolutionary", a Christian National Socialist who opposed Hitler's belief in Nordic racial superiority by arguing that European people were a mixture of four or five races, and they should develop into a federation of equal nations and not one subject to German domination. Reed believed that Strasser represented a legitimate movement of National revival, as opposed to Hitler, who he believed to be a destructive maniac and (beginning with his post-war texts) a front for conspiratorial Jewish interests. His unique interpretation of Hitler's ulterior motives is apparent in his 1953 text The Prisoner of Ottowa, in which he devoted particular attention to Hitler's stint as the go between from the soldiers in the barracks and the mostly Jewish Communist leaders who took over Munich in 1919. In addition to his two biographies of Strasser, Reed also translated and introduced Otto Strasser's book History in My Time (1940).
Although very much a conservative, Reed eventually came to respect another socialist thinker, the anarcho-syndicalist Mikhail Bakunin
. He stated in a chapter of The Controversy of Zion entitled "The Warnings of Disraeli":
He furthermore stated:
After the publication of Insanity Fair and coinciding with his texts on the Strasser brothers, Reed developed increasing antipathy to the Jewish people, viewing them to be racial supremacists, and in his subsequent anti-Nazi writings argued that Jews were mirror images of Nazis in their social organization. In his 1939 book, Disgrace Abounding, Reed declared, in a chapter entitled "How Odd of God", that anti-gentilism (not anti-Semitism) prevents assimiliation of Jews, that "this keeps them welded together as alien communities in foreign lands, communities ultimately hostile to the Gentile.". In his 1941 book, A Prophet At Home, he argued that "The anti-Jewish teaching of National Socialism was but the direct inversion of the anti-Gentile teaching of the Hebrew religion, and this statement of the case cannot be refuted; it never is refuted, but is always ignored." The last book exploring these themes while still focusing on National Socialism was Lest We Regret (1943), which suggested that Jewish politics had a subversive effect on Great Britain, suggested that the Jewish community was inflating the effect to which Hitler's policies endangered them for propaganda purposes, and stated that the statements of Zionists concerning their political ambitions were "indistinguishable from Hitlerist speeches, save in the substitution of 'Jewish' for 'German'", and suggested that Zionists would eventually take over the entire Middle East. He also discussed an incident he first reported in A Prophet At Home, where the Rabbi of Prague proclaimed in 1939 that "Hitler is the Jewish Messiah, because he will cause all those countries of the world to be opened to the Jews, which are closed to them now."
After WWII, Reed settled in South Africa, and became increasingly alienated from mainstream political discourse. His work then went beyond National Socialism to what he perceived to be the greater problem of Communism, and the influence of the Zionist movement. He started to believe that World War II only benefited the forces of Communism and Zionism, and he began to see Zionism as a subversive movement. Reed flirted with conspiratorial anti-Zionism in From Smoke to Smother (1948), and the nucleus of the ideas that permeated The Controversy of Zion presented themselves in his 1949 text, Somewhere South of Suez, which, in addition to it's conspiratorial arguments, explored the thesis of the Khazarian origins of Ashkenazi Jewry, and included the observation that:
The text that completely alienated Reed from mainstream discourse was Far and Wide (1951). The first part of the text, "The American Scene", was an autobiographical account of his travels in the United States, combining observations on American culture and history in light of his experiences in Europe. Included in this section is the speculation that the World Revolutionary conspiracy that he chronicled in his later works was involved in the assassination of Lincoln, in order to prevent reconciliation, and a comparison between the conditions imposed on the South after the Civil War to the conditions imposed on the Eastern European countries by the Soviet Union after World War II. The second part of his text, "Behind the Scene", was the one which brought him the most trouble. In that section, he declared that America was held hostage by servitude to Communism and Zionism. In a chapter of that section entitled "Zionism Paramount", he explored Zionism's role in the world wars. He then began to question much of the Holocaust, arguing that the number of Jews killed had been inflated for propaganda purposes, citing various encyclopedias and almanacs, and stating "no proof can be given that six million Jews 'perished'; proof can be adduced that so many could not have perished." Reed believed that as long as Zionism remained in power, we would never have a clear picture of these events. He then argued that Zionists held immense propaganda power in the United States, and portrayed the Anti-Defamation League
as a sort of secret police, claiming that it kept black lists and worked to destroy it's political opponents.
In a chapter entitled "Communism Penetrant", Reed first discussed at length the case of Whittaker Chambers
vs. Alger Hiss
, and the associated controversy concerning Communist infiltration in the United States. He then argued that Franklin Delano Roosevelt consciously worked to subvert Constitutional safeguards, helped further the aims of World Communism, and ultimately served higher circles. He asked, "What real purpose did Mr. Roosevelt promote through the way he used his imperial powers?", and then noted:
He subsequently cited Admiral William D. Leahy
's text I was There (1950) to argue that "Mr. Roosevelt's grand design was for a large apportionment of the globe between the Communist Empire and the United States, at the expense of the British Commonwealth and French Empire. Support of Communism in China, too, was primarily intended to prevent a British revival there and in the planning of the Pacific campaign everything was done to exclude the British and make China and Japan into a Soviet-American sphere of influence."
He then argued that Roosevelt was a puppet of Harry Hopkins
and higher circles, and that Hopkins consciously subverted Western interests in favor of Communism.
After writing Far and Wide, Douglas Reed spent three years in the New York Central Library researching the material for his text The Controversy of Zion. He finished the text in 1956, but it was considered to be too controversial for publication. The small right-wing South African publisher Dolphin Press Ltd., published the book in 1978, after Reed's death. Reed stated in the last chapter of that text, "The Climacteric":
Richard Thurlow attacked Reed as an "anti-Nazi anti-Semite" in an eponymous article in the Jewish journal Patterns of Prejudice
. He noted that Reed believed that Nazism was a Communist and Zionist front, but ignored his arguments, merely stating that "for Reed the actions of organized Jewry were about as repugnant as those of Hitler. Therefore he refused to believe that Hitler could be a real antisemite, because two such evil forces could not be opposed to each other." Thurlow chastised Reed for ascribing legitimacy to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and arguing that the political program contained within that text was being implemented. Thurlow also attacked Reed's belief that Zionists exaggerated the suffering of Jews under Hitler for propaganda purposes as bordering on Holocaust denial. Thurlow believed that the conspiratorial view of history that Reed put forth in The Controversy of Zion, which presented Jews as destructive, supremacist subversives, had genocidal implications, stating that it "was only [Reed's] Christianity, and his strong ethical sense, which prevented him from seeing the ultimate logic of his beliefs."
Reed himself believed that the Jewish people as a whole are essentially held captive by their own leaders who influence them to act as a destructive force in the world. He thought that by shining a light on the destructive nature of Communism and Zionism, he would prevent further misery. In the epilogue to The Controversy of Zion, he stated:
Reed was an extremely close friend of Ivor Benson
, a conspiratorial anti-Communist who was the information advisor for Ian Smith
's Rhodesian Front
. Like Benson, he believed that Rhodesia was preserving old European civilization against the forces of Communism. He argued this position in his texts The Battle for Rhodesia (1966), The Siege of South Africa (1975), and The Grand Design of the 20th Century (1976).
Novels:
Author of Downfall (three-act play), J. Cape, 1942, Appleton, 1943.
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journalist
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, playwright
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, novelist and author
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of a number of book
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s of political analysis. His book Insanity Fair (1938) was influential in publicizing the state of Europe and the megalomania of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
before the Second World War. Beginning in the 1940s, and for the rest of his life, Reed became convinced that there existed a "hidden hand" governing World Affairs, and that this hidden hand was Jewish, though it involved some non-Jewish characters. Reed believed in a long-term Zionist conspiracy to impose a world government on an enslaved humanity. He was also staunchly anti-Communist
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
, believed that there existed a Communist-Zionist-Supercapitalist nexus, and argued that National Socialism was a "stooge or stalking horse" meant to further the aims of the Communist Empire and the Zionist ambition, reasoning that "for great successes, which they could not otherwise achieve, Soviet Communism and Political Zionism needed an apparent antithesis, as a heavyweight champion needs a sparring partner." Thus, when he died, The Times
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described him in an obituary as a "virulent anti-Semite", though Reed himself claimed that he drew a distinction between opposition to Zionism
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...
and anti-Semitism, and was not against the Jewish Race, but rather, was against the Jewish Religion, which he believed was a master race ideology. Reed is best known today for his text The Controversy of Zion, a posthumously published polemic in the tradition of Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism
Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism is a book by the French Jesuit, the Abbé Augustin Barruel....
, in which he argued that there existed a destructive master conspiracy, represented in his time by Communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
and Zionism
Zionism
Zionism is a Jewish political movement that, in its broadest sense, has supported the self-determination of the Jewish people in a sovereign Jewish national homeland. Since the establishment of the State of Israel, the Zionist movement continues primarily to advocate on behalf of the Jewish state...
, that aimed for world control. He said in The Controversy of Zion:
In The Controversy of Zion, he attacked Judaism as a declaration of war against humanity, arguing that it was an imposition of a malicious Levitical priesthood in reaction to the Universalist tendencies present in Israel and in other cultures. He argued that this hostile Levitical cult which became Judaism believed that if its adherents didn't obey God, they would be persecuted, and if they did, they would destroy the Gentiles and rule the Earth. Reed argued that the Levites then became the Pharisees, and these characters were the Moloch-worshippers denounced by Biblical prophets like Jeremiah. To Reed, Christianity was a direct challenge to Judaism, Jesus was "the opposite and adversary of all that which would make a literal Jew today or would have made a literal Pharisee then", and he argued that Jews responded to it by heightening their chauvinism with the Talmud and Kabbalah. Reed held that the Talmud was a racist, abominable work of manipulative men, who sought only power and the destruction of others. To Reed, persecution, revenge, and destruction were an integral part of the Jewish identity. He then cited the text The History and Destiny of the Jews by the "zealous" Zionist macro-historian Dr. Joseph Kastein
Joseph Kastein
Josef Kastein, really Julius Katzenstein , was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berlin in 1931 .According to Douglas Reed Josef Kastein was a "A most zealous Zionist historian.....
to the effect that Jews, by subverting nations, led to the destruction of the Babylonians, the Persians, the Egyptians, the Greeks and the Romans, each time by "stretching out open arms" to a conqueror. Pervading this analysis was an idea he developed in Disgrace Abounding that "anti-Gentilism" was the real obstacle to Jewish assimilation, and that anti-Semites were akin to victims in war who decided to retaliate. In the rest of the book, he argued that while the Jews of the House of Joseph (which he associated with Sephardic Jews) were content to assimilate, the descendants of the Levites, centered in Russia (Khazarians from the "Talmudic Ghettos"), were not. In the chapters of his book entitled "The World Revolution" and "The Design", he argued that Cromwell's Glorious Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Bolshevik Revolution were part of a larger movement of World Revolution that was revealed by the exposure of Weishaupt's 18th Century Illuminati, that it probably traced back to predecessors, and that this organization went underground and became the mainspring for subsequent revolutions. After this, in a chapter entitled "The Warnings of Disraeli", Reed argued that while evidence was inconclusive to show that Jews were the hidden hand behind the French Revolution and the 18th century Illuminati, statements made by British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli proved that these Jews from the Russian "Talmudic ghettos" gained control of Weishaupt's Illuminist world revolution conspiracy networks. To Reed, the most important statement from Disraeli was:
Reed also ascribed significance to Disraeli's assertion that:
In this chapter, Reed also devoted considerable attention to Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...
, the prominent anarcho-syndicalist and rival of Karl Marx who assailed Jewish control of the World Revolution in his Polemique Contre les Juifs.
Subsequently he argued that these characters put a stop to the Jewish emancipation that threatened their authority, founded Bolshevism, and hijacked world Jewry into their Zionist ideology and garrison state, aiming for total world power. He spent considerable space in his text examining the origins of Zionism, and gave a great deal of attention to Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
's autobiography Trial and Error (1949), which he claimed was one of the best sources showing the common origins of Communism and Zionism. Reed also, in a chapter of his book entitled "The Heresy of Dr. Herzl", discussed how Zionists threatened European leaders with revolutionary turmoil if they did not acquiesce to their demands, and postulated a "Jewish International" consisting of various European and American Jewish financiers affiliated with Kuhn, Loeb, & Co. as subsidizing Zionist and Communist political ambitions.
He argued that the common argument that the Protocols of Zion was a forgery was misdirection, and, echoing the position of Nesta Webster
Nesta Webster
Nesta Helen Webster , was a controversial historian, occultist, and author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. She argued that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, using the idea of a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits as a...
, he stated that the program within that text bore much more resemblance to the 18th Century Illuminati's program of World Revolution than it did to Maurice Joly's text Dialogues aux Enfers entre Machiavelli et Montesquieu. He also believed that the political program contained within the Protocols was shown to be real by the statements of Disraeli and Bakunin concerning Jewish leadership of the World Revolution, and that this program was apparent in the Bolshevik Revolution. He stated, in a chapter entitled The "Protocols":
Reed argued that 20th Century political events showed that politicians ceased to reflect the popular will, and instead were puppets of their "advisors", who he argued served not their countries, but Communism, Zionism, and the World Government ambition. Reed argued that Woodrow Wilson was the puppet of Col. Edward Mandell House, and spent some time reviewing House's text Philip Dru: Administrator
Philip Dru: Administrator
Philip Dru: Administrator: a Story of Tomorrow, 1920-1935 is a futuristic political novel published anonymously in 1912 by Edward Mandell House, an American diplomat, politician and presidential foreign policy advisor. His book's hero leads the democratic western U.S. in a civil war against the...
, which contained the blueprint of the Wilson (and FDR) political program. He then argued that Harry Hopkins
Harry Hopkins
Harry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration , which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country...
filled this role during the Roosevelt administration, and that underlying much of the Roosevelt political program was a devotion to the worldwide triumph of Communism, no matter what the costs. Particular focus was given, in a chapter entitled The Revolution Extends, to a controversial text entitled From Major Jordan's Diaries, which claimed that Hopkins forced U.S. soldiers to transfer American nuclear capabilities to the Soviets during World War II. He believed that throughout this, Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch
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was even more powerful, that he was the de-facto dictator of the United States. He then argued that Harry Truman was completely controlled by Zionist interests, and that Baruch was the puppeteer behind President Eisenhower. Reed argued that Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
carried out this role in Great Britain, noting, in a chapter of his text entitled "The Decisive Battle" that Weizmann lobbied Prime Minister Herbert Asquith and Army Chief Sir William Robertson to divert soldiers from the Western Front to conquer Palestine, and that when the British leaders demurred, Weizmann used money and control of the press to install Lloyd George and Sir Henry Wilson
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Henry Wilson was the 18th Vice President of the United States and a Senator from Massachusetts...
in their place. He used this as a basis for his argument that Zionists achieved control of the British political scene during World War I.
In the chapters of The Controversy of Zion entitled "The World Revolution Again" and "The Talmudic Vengeance", he put forth the argument that the Bolshevik Revolution was an international Jewish conspiracy, but that this fact had been intentionally obfuscated. He stated:
To substantiate this argument, Reed cited various statements from Winston Churchill which presented Bolshevism as an international Jewish conspiracy, the unabridged British White Paper on Bolshevism, Russia No. 1, which presented it as a movement despised by Russians and carried out by Jews, stating "Bolshevism is organized and worked by Jews, who have no nationality and whose one object is to destroy for their own ends the existing order of things", the Jewish Chronicle, which stated in 1933 that one-third of the Jews in Russia had become officials, and other sources; but mostly he focused on the reportage of Robert Wilton
Robert Wilton
Robert Archibald Wilton was a British journalist.Wilton, who was born in Cringleford, Norfolk, was the son of a British mining engineer employed in Russia. In 1889 he joined the European staff of the New York Herald, remaining with that newspaper for fourteen years, and corresponding on both...
and the Sokolov investigation. Reed noted that Wilton, in the French edition of The Last Days of the Romanovs, reprinted the official Bolshevik lists, which presented the proportion of Jews to gentiles in the Bolshevik leadership as much higher than was later claimed, namely, that out of the 556 important functionaries of the Bolshevik State there were in 1918-1919: 17 Russians, 2 Ukrainians, 11 Armenians, 35 Lets, 15 Germans, 1 Hungarian, 10 Georgians, 2 Poles, 2 Finns, 1 Karaim, and 457 Jews. He then devoted considerable time to summarizing Wilton's account of the murder of the Romanovs, noting that the murderers left behind an adaptation of the Jewish poet Heinrich Heine's lines on the fate of Belshazzar, King of the Chaldeans who, according to the Old Testament Book of Daniel, was murdered as God's punishment for an affront offered to Judah. Reed cited the Official History of the Times to the effect that Wilton was deemed an extremely reliable reporter, but that he began to be shunned as soon as Zionist circles developed a distaste for his dispatches from Russia. He then argued that the situation in Russia was intentionally falsified by the Zionist controlled press, who Reed believed was not only minimizing the Jewish influence in Bolshevism, but also whitewashing Bolshevik atrocities. He compared this account of Wilton's experiences to his own experiences after he began presenting Zionism as a subversive movement.
Summarizing the situation, Reed stated:
Reed believed that the Zionist ambition was best defined by Deuteronomy 7:1-3 - "When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations before thee ... seven nations greater and mightier than thou; and when the Lord thy God shall deliver them up before thee, and thou shalt smite them; then thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor show mercy unto them." He spent much of his book discussing the influence of Zionism in Britain and the United States, but, also devoted some time to the Dier Yassin massacre and Zionist terrorism, suggested that Zionism would eventually overtake the middle east, and took note of Communist-Zionist collaboration up to 1956.
Reed believed that World Wars I and II followed the line put forth in the Protocols, that "wars, so far as possible, should not result in territorial gains", and that the only victors in these wars were Zionism, Communism, and the World Government ambition. He took note of the Zionist leader Max Nordeau's exact prediction of the outcome of World War I in 1903:
and then, throughout his text, argued that Zionism was the hidden hand behind World Wars I and II, each time moving the world closer to World Government (in a chapter of The Controversy of Zion entitled "The World Instrument", he discussed Bernard Baruch's postwar proposal for a World Government with atomic powers, as a premonition of what to expect after another World War). He believed that Zionism will eventually lead to World War III, after which a World Government will be imposed.
Biography
At the age of 13, Reed began working as an office boy, and at 19 a bank clerk. At the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted in the British ArmyBritish Army
The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...
.
He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps
Royal Flying Corps
The Royal Flying Corps was the over-land air arm of the British military during most of the First World War. During the early part of the war, the RFC's responsibilities were centred on support of the British Army, via artillery co-operation and photographic reconnaissance...
, gaining a single kill in aerial combat and severely burning his face in a flying accident. (Insanity Fair, 1938) Around 1921 he began working as a telephonist and clerk for The Times. At the age of 30, he became a sub-editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
. In 1927 he became assistant correspondent in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
, later transferring to Vienna
Vienna
Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...
as chief central Europe
Central Europe
Central Europe or alternatively Middle Europe is a region of the European continent lying between the variously defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe...
an correspondent. He went on to report from various European centres including Warsaw
Warsaw
Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
, Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
, Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
, Sofia
Sofia
Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city in the European Union with a population of 1.27 million people. It is located in western Bulgaria, at the foot of Mount Vitosha and approximately at the centre of the Balkan Peninsula.Prehistoric settlements were excavated...
, Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....
and Budapest
Budapest
Budapest is the capital of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary, it is the country's principal political, cultural, commercial, industrial, and transportation centre. In 2011, Budapest had 1,733,685 inhabitants, down from its 1989 peak of 2,113,645 due to suburbanization. The Budapest Commuter...
.
Reed resigned his job in protest against the appeasement of Hitler after the Munich Agreement
Munich Agreement
The Munich Pact was an agreement permitting the Nazi German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The Sudetenland were areas along Czech borders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. The agreement was negotiated at a conference held in Munich, Germany, among the major powers of Europe without...
of 1938. In Somewhere South of Suez: A Further Survey of the Grand Design of the Twentieth Century (1949), Reed wrote that his resignation came in response to press censorship which prevented him from fully reporting "the facts about Hitler and National Socialism." He believed that by becoming a "journalist without a newspaper," he would be free to write as he chose. Reed spent the duration of the Second World War in England; in 1948, he moved to Durban
Durban
Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...
, South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
.
Reed was vociferously anti-Nazi. His text The Burning of the Reichstag (1934), stemming from his experiences as witness to the fire and The Times
The Times
The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
special correspondent at the trial, was one of the first to suggest that Hitler was behind the Reichstag fire, and used it as a false flag operation to consolidate power. In Britain, he was one of the greatest opponents of appeasement, believing that the Hitler program was one of destructive expansion. His book Insanity Fair was the first to predict the Anchluss, and won him instant world fame. For Reed, Hitler was an 'epileptic mongrel', a 'professional perjuror', 'the greatest traitor and renegade that Germany ever had' and a 'liar who believes in nothing'. Reed initially feared Nazism because he believed that Hitler's actions meant war, and that the Nazis would unleash a destructive fury over Europe, but as he explored the "Jewish Question" in world affairs, he began to believe that it was ultimately controlled by the Communist-Zionist "hidden hand". In opposition to Hitler, he promoted Otto Strasser
Otto Strasser
Otto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and 'left-wing' member of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Strasser was part of the ‘left-wing’ faction of the party, along with his brother Gregor Strasser, and broke from the party due to disputes with the ‘Hitlerite’ faction...
, writing two biographies of him based on interviews - Nemisis? The Story of Otto Strasser (1940), and The Prisoner of Ottowa (1953). For Reed, Strasser was a "Conservative Revolutionary", a Christian National Socialist who opposed Hitler's belief in Nordic racial superiority by arguing that European people were a mixture of four or five races, and they should develop into a federation of equal nations and not one subject to German domination. Reed believed that Strasser represented a legitimate movement of National revival, as opposed to Hitler, who he believed to be a destructive maniac and (beginning with his post-war texts) a front for conspiratorial Jewish interests. His unique interpretation of Hitler's ulterior motives is apparent in his 1953 text The Prisoner of Ottowa, in which he devoted particular attention to Hitler's stint as the go between from the soldiers in the barracks and the mostly Jewish Communist leaders who took over Munich in 1919. In addition to his two biographies of Strasser, Reed also translated and introduced Otto Strasser's book History in My Time (1940).
Although very much a conservative, Reed eventually came to respect another socialist thinker, the anarcho-syndicalist Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin
Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...
. He stated in a chapter of The Controversy of Zion entitled "The Warnings of Disraeli":
Everything about Bakunin is genuine: his struggle, sufferings and death. Everything about Marx is bogus: his thirty years of incitement from the British Museum reading-room, his comfortable life on Friedrich Engels' bounty, his obviously calculated marriage to a “von,” his genteel funeral with graveside orations; all are typical of the petty bourgeois who so loudly declaimed against the bourgeoisie. The most bogus thing of all was his Communist Manifesto, which diagnosed an ailment (“The proletarian is without property”) and prescribed suicide as the remedy (“The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property”).
He furthermore stated:
The ruling passion (and original motive) of all Bakunin's work was a horror of despotism; Marx planned to destroy a ruling class in order to establish such a despotism as the world had never known. This was the profound difference between the two men, and it throws up a question never to be answered: what would the effect on the world have been if Bakunin's Anarchism, instead of Marx's Communism, had assumed leadership of the world-revolution? For Anarchism was opposed to every kind of forcible government, and to the State as the embodiment of the force employed in the government of the community; Communism was the deification of force wielded by the State.
After the publication of Insanity Fair and coinciding with his texts on the Strasser brothers, Reed developed increasing antipathy to the Jewish people, viewing them to be racial supremacists, and in his subsequent anti-Nazi writings argued that Jews were mirror images of Nazis in their social organization. In his 1939 book, Disgrace Abounding, Reed declared, in a chapter entitled "How Odd of God", that anti-gentilism (not anti-Semitism) prevents assimiliation of Jews, that "this keeps them welded together as alien communities in foreign lands, communities ultimately hostile to the Gentile.". In his 1941 book, A Prophet At Home, he argued that "The anti-Jewish teaching of National Socialism was but the direct inversion of the anti-Gentile teaching of the Hebrew religion, and this statement of the case cannot be refuted; it never is refuted, but is always ignored." The last book exploring these themes while still focusing on National Socialism was Lest We Regret (1943), which suggested that Jewish politics had a subversive effect on Great Britain, suggested that the Jewish community was inflating the effect to which Hitler's policies endangered them for propaganda purposes, and stated that the statements of Zionists concerning their political ambitions were "indistinguishable from Hitlerist speeches, save in the substitution of 'Jewish' for 'German'", and suggested that Zionists would eventually take over the entire Middle East. He also discussed an incident he first reported in A Prophet At Home, where the Rabbi of Prague proclaimed in 1939 that "Hitler is the Jewish Messiah, because he will cause all those countries of the world to be opened to the Jews, which are closed to them now."
After WWII, Reed settled in South Africa, and became increasingly alienated from mainstream political discourse. His work then went beyond National Socialism to what he perceived to be the greater problem of Communism, and the influence of the Zionist movement. He started to believe that World War II only benefited the forces of Communism and Zionism, and he began to see Zionism as a subversive movement. Reed flirted with conspiratorial anti-Zionism in From Smoke to Smother (1948), and the nucleus of the ideas that permeated The Controversy of Zion presented themselves in his 1949 text, Somewhere South of Suez, which, in addition to it's conspiratorial arguments, explored the thesis of the Khazarian origins of Ashkenazi Jewry, and included the observation that:
During all that period and to the present time, it was not possible freely to report or discuss a third vital matter: Zionist Nationalism. In this case the freedom of the press has become a fallacy during the past two decades ... When I came to America I found that this ban, for such it is in practice, prevailed even more rigidly than in my own country.... In daily usage, no American or British newspaper, apparently, now dares to print a line of news or comment unfavorable to the Zionist ambition ... The inference to me is plain: the Zionist Nationalists are powerful enough to govern governments in the great countries of the remaining West!
The text that completely alienated Reed from mainstream discourse was Far and Wide (1951). The first part of the text, "The American Scene", was an autobiographical account of his travels in the United States, combining observations on American culture and history in light of his experiences in Europe. Included in this section is the speculation that the World Revolutionary conspiracy that he chronicled in his later works was involved in the assassination of Lincoln, in order to prevent reconciliation, and a comparison between the conditions imposed on the South after the Civil War to the conditions imposed on the Eastern European countries by the Soviet Union after World War II. The second part of his text, "Behind the Scene", was the one which brought him the most trouble. In that section, he declared that America was held hostage by servitude to Communism and Zionism. In a chapter of that section entitled "Zionism Paramount", he explored Zionism's role in the world wars. He then began to question much of the Holocaust, arguing that the number of Jews killed had been inflated for propaganda purposes, citing various encyclopedias and almanacs, and stating "no proof can be given that six million Jews 'perished'; proof can be adduced that so many could not have perished." Reed believed that as long as Zionism remained in power, we would never have a clear picture of these events. He then argued that Zionists held immense propaganda power in the United States, and portrayed the Anti-Defamation League
Anti-Defamation League
The Anti-Defamation League is an international non-governmental organization based in the United States. Describing itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency", the ADL states that it "fights anti-Semitism and all forms of bigotry, defends democratic ideals and protects...
as a sort of secret police, claiming that it kept black lists and worked to destroy it's political opponents.
In a chapter entitled "Communism Penetrant", Reed first discussed at length the case of Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers
Whittaker Chambers was born Jay Vivian Chambers and also known as David Whittaker Chambers , was an American writer and editor. After being a Communist Party USA member and Soviet spy, he later renounced communism and became an outspoken opponent later testifying in the perjury and espionage trial...
vs. Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss
Alger Hiss was an American lawyer, government official, author, and lecturer. He was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department and U.N. official...
, and the associated controversy concerning Communist infiltration in the United States. He then argued that Franklin Delano Roosevelt consciously worked to subvert Constitutional safeguards, helped further the aims of World Communism, and ultimately served higher circles. He asked, "What real purpose did Mr. Roosevelt promote through the way he used his imperial powers?", and then noted:
He subsequently cited Admiral William D. Leahy
William D. Leahy
Fleet Admiral William Daniel Leahy was an American naval officer, building his reputation through administration and staff work. As Chief of Naval Operations he was the senior officer in Navy, overseeing the preparations for war. After retiring from the Navy he was appointed by his close friend...
's text I was There (1950) to argue that "Mr. Roosevelt's grand design was for a large apportionment of the globe between the Communist Empire and the United States, at the expense of the British Commonwealth and French Empire. Support of Communism in China, too, was primarily intended to prevent a British revival there and in the planning of the Pacific campaign everything was done to exclude the British and make China and Japan into a Soviet-American sphere of influence."
He then argued that Roosevelt was a puppet of Harry Hopkins
Harry Hopkins
Harry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration , which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country...
and higher circles, and that Hopkins consciously subverted Western interests in favor of Communism.
After writing Far and Wide, Douglas Reed spent three years in the New York Central Library researching the material for his text The Controversy of Zion. He finished the text in 1956, but it was considered to be too controversial for publication. The small right-wing South African publisher Dolphin Press Ltd., published the book in 1978, after Reed's death. Reed stated in the last chapter of that text, "The Climacteric":
Richard Thurlow attacked Reed as an "anti-Nazi anti-Semite" in an eponymous article in the Jewish journal Patterns of Prejudice
Patterns of Prejudice
Patterns of Prejudice is a journal published by Routledge.Its aims and scope, in part as given by Taylor & Francis, are as follows:...
. He noted that Reed believed that Nazism was a Communist and Zionist front, but ignored his arguments, merely stating that "for Reed the actions of organized Jewry were about as repugnant as those of Hitler. Therefore he refused to believe that Hitler could be a real antisemite, because two such evil forces could not be opposed to each other." Thurlow chastised Reed for ascribing legitimacy to the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion, and arguing that the political program contained within that text was being implemented. Thurlow also attacked Reed's belief that Zionists exaggerated the suffering of Jews under Hitler for propaganda purposes as bordering on Holocaust denial. Thurlow believed that the conspiratorial view of history that Reed put forth in The Controversy of Zion, which presented Jews as destructive, supremacist subversives, had genocidal implications, stating that it "was only [Reed's] Christianity, and his strong ethical sense, which prevented him from seeing the ultimate logic of his beliefs."
Reed himself believed that the Jewish people as a whole are essentially held captive by their own leaders who influence them to act as a destructive force in the world. He thought that by shining a light on the destructive nature of Communism and Zionism, he would prevent further misery. In the epilogue to The Controversy of Zion, he stated:
Reed was an extremely close friend of Ivor Benson
Ivor Benson
Ivor Benson was a South African journalist who began his career onFleet Street, London. In South Africa he became chief assistant editor of The Rand Daily Mail, and became particularly well known in 1963 as a news commentator for Radio South Africa....
, a conspiratorial anti-Communist who was the information advisor for Ian Smith
Ian Smith
Ian Douglas Smith GCLM ID was a politician active in the government of Southern Rhodesia, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Rhodesia, Zimbabwe Rhodesia and Zimbabwe from 1948 to 1987, most notably serving as Prime Minister of Rhodesia from 13 April 1964 to 1 June 1979...
's Rhodesian Front
Rhodesian Front
The Rhodesian Front was a political party in Southern Rhodesia when the country was under white minority rule. Led first by Winston Field, and, from 1964, by Ian Smith, the Rhodesian Front was the successor to the Dominion Party, which was the main opposition party in Southern Rhodesia during the...
. Like Benson, he believed that Rhodesia was preserving old European civilization against the forces of Communism. He argued this position in his texts The Battle for Rhodesia (1966), The Siege of South Africa (1975), and The Grand Design of the 20th Century (1976).
Works
- The Burning of the Reichstag, Gollancz, 1934.
- Insanity Fair: A European Cavalcade (autobiography), Random House, 1938 (published in England as Insanity Fair, J. CapeJonathan CapeJonathan Cape was a London-based publisher founded in 1919 as "Page & Co" by Herbert Jonathan Cape , formerly a manager at Duckworth who had worked his way up from a position of bookshop errand boy. Cape brought with him the rights to cheap editions of the popular author Elinor Glyn and sales of...
, 1938). - Disgrace Abounding, J. Cape, 1939.
- Fire and Bomb: A comparison between the burning of the Reichstag and the bomb explosion at MunichMunichMunich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
, J. Cape, 1940. - Nemesis? The Story of Otto Strasser, Houghton, 1940 (published in England as The Story of Otto Strasser and the Black Front, J. Cape, 1940).
- A Prophet at Home, J. Cape, 1941.
- History in My Time by Otto Strasser (translated from the German by Douglas Reed), J. Cape, 1941.
- All Our Tomorrows, J. Cape, 1942.
- Lest We Regret, J. Cape, 1943.
- From Smoke to Smother (1938-1948): A Sequel to Insanity Fair, J. Cape, 1948.
- Somewhere South of Suez: A further survey of the grand design of the twentieth century, Devin-Adair, 1951.
- Far and Wide, J. Cape, 1951.
- The Prisoner of Ottawa: Otto Strasser, J. Cape, 1953.
- The Battle for Rhodesia, Haum, 1966, Devin-Adair, 1967, reprinted as Insanity Fair '67, Gibbs, 1967.
- The Siege of Southern Africa, Macmillan South Africa, 1974.
- Behind the Scene (Part 2 of Far and Wide), Dolphin Press, 1975; Noontide PressNoontide PressNoontide Press is an American publishing entity which describes itself as a publisher of "hard-to-find books and recordings from a dissident, 'politically incorrect' perspective." It publishes numerous antisemitic titles, including The Protocols of the Elders of Zion and The International Jew...
, 1976. - The Grand Design of the 20th Century, Dolphin Press, 1977.
- The Controversy of Zion, Veritas, 1985.
Novels:
- The Next Horizon: Or, Yeomans' Progress, J. Cape, 1945, published in the United States as Yeoman's Progress, Bobbs-merrill, 1946.
- Galanty Show, J. Cape, 1947.
- Reasons of Health, J. Cape, 1949.
- Rule of Three, J. Cape, 1950.
Author of Downfall (three-act play), J. Cape, 1942, Appleton, 1943.
External links
- Douglas Reed.co.uk Comprehensive compilation of his works
See also
- The TimesThe TimesThe Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...
- Ivor BensonIvor BensonIvor Benson was a South African journalist who began his career onFleet Street, London. In South Africa he became chief assistant editor of The Rand Daily Mail, and became particularly well known in 1963 as a news commentator for Radio South Africa....
- Augustin BarruelAugustin BarruelAbbé Augustin Barruel was a French Jesuit priest. He is now mostly known for setting forth the conspiracy theory involving the Bavarian Illuminati and the Jacobins in his book Memoirs Illustrating the History of Jacobinism published in 1797...
- Nesta WebsterNesta WebsterNesta Helen Webster , was a controversial historian, occultist, and author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati. She argued that the secret society's members were occultists, plotting communist world domination, using the idea of a Jewish cabal, the Masons and Jesuits as a...
- Robert WiltonRobert WiltonRobert Archibald Wilton was a British journalist.Wilton, who was born in Cringleford, Norfolk, was the son of a British mining engineer employed in Russia. In 1889 he joined the European staff of the New York Herald, remaining with that newspaper for fourteen years, and corresponding on both...
- Otto StrasserOtto StrasserOtto Johann Maximilian Strasser was a German politician and 'left-wing' member of the National Socialist German Workers Party. Strasser was part of the ‘left-wing’ faction of the party, along with his brother Gregor Strasser, and broke from the party due to disputes with the ‘Hitlerite’ faction...
- Benjamin Disraeli
- Mikhail BakuninMikhail BakuninMikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin was a well-known Russian revolutionary and theorist of collectivist anarchism. He has also often been called the father of anarchist theory in general. Bakunin grew up near Moscow, where he moved to study philosophy and began to read the French Encyclopedists,...
- Joseph KasteinJoseph KasteinJosef Kastein, really Julius Katzenstein , was a German-born writer and jurist. He wrote Eine Geschichte der Juden published by Rowohlt in Berlin in 1931 .According to Douglas Reed Josef Kastein was a "A most zealous Zionist historian.....
- Chaim WeizmannChaim WeizmannChaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
- Edward M. HouseEdward M. HouseEdward Mandell House was an American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the title of Colonel House, although he had no military experience, he had enormous personal influence with U.S...
- Harry HopkinsHarry HopkinsHarry Lloyd Hopkins was one of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's closest advisers. He was one of the architects of the New Deal, especially the relief programs of the Works Progress Administration , which he directed and built into the largest employer in the country...
- Bernard BaruchBernard BaruchBernard Mannes Baruch was an American financier, stock-market speculator, statesman, and political consultant. After his success in business, he devoted his time toward advising U.S. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Franklin D. Roosevelt on economic matters and became a philanthropist.-Early life...