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From The Hague to Wilson to Hitler, 1912

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  Yes there was a Crash and Depression in 1921 just as in 1914 when the Harrison Act, Income Tax and WW1 obtruded upon the nation's notice, and in 1907 when prohibition mania went viral. President Woodrow Wilson , himself a temperance man, vetoed the Volstead Act instituting fines, imprisonments, asset-forfeiture confiscations, padlocking and gunplay with live ammo in the War against Beer and the Demon Rum. Congress, by then a nest of Republican National Socialist and Progressive politicians, overrode the veto. The Senate proceeded to step on Wilson's beloved Treaty of Versailles and Charter of the League of Nations--both of which delegated substance prohibition powers to the League in their Articles 23. Senator Lodge wisely wrote: ( link ) 4. The United States reserves to itself exclusively the right to decide what questions are within its domestic jurisdiction and declares that all domestic and political questions relating wholly or in part to its internal affairs, including ...
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Hitler On Front Page, 1931

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  Less than a week after Germany signed the Drug Limitation Convention, financial collapse was everywhere and Hitler got front page billing in a New York daily paper . ( link ).  Nor was this a one-off fluke . Germany's anti-Versailles Treaty Führer made p2 of a Connecticut daily that same day.( link ) NOT shown were the real culprits: President Herbert Hoover, Narcotics Commissioner Harry Anslinger, Rep. Hamilton Fish Jr. and the League of Nations Opium Advisory Committee . Also blameworthy were ordinary citizens, duped into believing that hemp and coca leaves can produce addiction, that banning production and trade causes economic stability, and that even though poppy opiates can cause addiction, pointing loaded guns at plant-using people is reasonable, non-violent and conducive to peace, prosperity and safety.  None of these individuals caused the German collapse of July 1931. The cause of Hitler's sudden success  was clearly spelled out in black and white in thre...
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13JULY1931, Prohibition Crushes Germany

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  German stocks dropped MAY1927 when dope profits became liable to income tax; NOV1928 when Hoover was elected & Rothstein killed, SEP1929 when the League of Nations endorsed global dope limitation, DEC1929 when German drug law called stimulants narcotics, 13JULY1931 when Germany signed the Narcotics Limitation Convention. U.S. Newspapers omitted mention of the wool-packed narcotics intercepted from Hamburg in April and made no mention of the  Dope Limitation Convention signed the day the bottom fell out of Germany's Bourse and banking system . Yet officers of New York's Bank of United States were at that moment still being tried for bank fraud with nary a word about the half-ton of morphine the feds noticed arriving aboard the Alesia  09DEC1930, two days before  that bank suffered fatal runs. No government is in a hurry to admit banks are failing because of government prohibition laws, and newspapers prefer to let readers connect the dots: 13JUL1931 Monday, La...
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