USA, Rockefeller, influenced League of Nations
After faking its own Geneva convention in 1925, the US began buying into the League of Nations the way trust companies buy controlling interest in stock corporations. US and UK created pressure to ban non-addictive leaf drugs liable to compete with tobacco--and rumored help brown people win boxing championships and resist imperialist invaders.
Sino-American collaboration at pressuring the whole world into at-gunpoint prohibitionism had unexpected consequences--China's collapse into communist anarchy, Balkan Wars and WW1. Australians and Canadians were bound by the narcotics-exporting UK to fight Austro-Hungary-Germany and their Ottoman Allies, including Turkey. The US sent Herbert Hoover "over there" as Food Czar & spectator of WW1. Soon U.S. bank loans were endangered when Russians killed their prohibitionist Czar. Even then the USA never went to war against Germany's poppy-farming Ottoman Allies. Australia and Canada did, suffered terrible losses and were not amused. The US was an "Associate" power, not one of "The Allies," and never warred against opium-exporting Turkey. U.S. rejection of the Versailles Treaty and League of Nations Charter--both containing the prohibitionist Article 23 inserted at UK and America's insistence--brought those Dominions no cheer. Then again, Americans already HAD their own prohibitionist Article 23 packaged into separate Armistice agreements.Much propaganda effort went into ramping up prohibition of basically everything except American tobacco. Women and children victimized in the Balkan opium wars were retasked as poster-child models to shift postwar blame and shame to the Moslems. The League of Nations--like the Hague before it--became the Republican Party's enforcer of ever-expanding Christian prohibitionist missions. To cast poppy and non-tobacco products in the worst possible light, League publications were induced to journalistically associate white slavery and "drugs" that were legal commodities in vast Ottoman and Muslim regions by mentioning them side-by-side. This somewhat insulated the USA and China from blame for delivering war to those regions. The above audit sheet is but the tip of a large financial iceberg. These documents are available to the public at Geneva and from other League member states. Yet when was the last time you heard ANY of these taboo subjects mentioned?
Thousands of pages of League documendacities were assembled to cloak the US in white-sheet benevolence and stir up fear and hatred of overrated flowers and leaves--some of them not very different from coffee or tea. This onslaught, kept up for 14 years, finally led Europe into another war. Yet throughout, League records in English and French smoothly elide mention of daily prohibition-related gunfights, Klan violence, bank failures, murders, executions, Tong wars, sea-battles, judicial appeals and extrajudicial killings that made postwar Prohibitionist America seem a madhouse compared to war-ravaged Europe. Europeans struggled and failed to collect war reparations from Germany--all the while struggling to evade repaying their war loans taken to finance what was, at bottom, the Chinese and Evangelistic American joint war-engendering Crusade we now explore.
Good and bad books: Fateful Hours--The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ulrich. This is the second book I've read by this author, and the translator did an exceptional job. The author, not so much. If you want a book that pretends Hitler was not a Christian Socialist, and where practically all information comes from whispered conversations among people who are NOT bankers, industrialists or financiers--a book that completely ignores League of Nations and Versailles treaty Article 23, and evades all possibility that prohibitionist America was manipulating the League to export Methodist White Terror hysteria--this book's for you. Concurrently I reread the main portions of Shirer's The Rise and Fall of The Third Reich, and Taylor's The Origins of the Second World War. All three books suffer from similar defects. It is as though some taboo has induced the publishers to jump through hoops to elide awkward facts, much like the circus dogs described by Orwell--trained to turn somersaults without so much as a cracked whip. It would be remiss of me to not recommend U.S. economist Peter Temin's analyses of Crash and Depression situations.
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