1929 League Pandering to USA
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| Mystical fanaticism and racial collectivist outrage has caused the USA to blank out Supply & Demand with violent laws and wishful thinking. |
PM 7th Meeting: More reports from governments p45. Sato of Japan feigns ignorance of native Indian coca plantations or Nipponese exports thereto. Meanwhile, former financier Sir John Campbell of India also ignores native Indian coca plantations. He then asserted that native State opium could not possibly make it across British India to seaports, and from thence on to China. Nevermind India's land borders with China and Burma, complete with handy river routes leading east to Nanking & Shanghai. At this point Italian Senator Cavazzoni says AHA! then demands the record reflect that the Americans were right after all and that only by limiting production of leaves and flowers and manufactures therefrom at gunpoint on every acre on Earth--as demanded in every American memorandum since 1923--could the women and children of Christendom be saved from impending enslavement by greedy dope pushers. The excitable Senator then urged immediate discussion of the latest USA memorandum, which again demanded those very same things as predictably as a scratched record.
The other delegates ignored this outburst and resumed quibbling over how no coca nor prepared smoking opium could possibly be Indian because India denied making either product! Attention then turned to the Netherlands East Indies of Java and Sumatra. USA collaborationist & customs narc Lyall noted that syringes and needles had been legalized there, but omitted that this was a natural effect of prohibition driving up opiate prices as supplies dwindled. The Dutch explained that with opiate prices rising it was impossible to enforce a ban on syringes. With Java and Sumatra both awash in smokable crude cocaine paste made from coca twice as strong as that of Bolivia, there certainly was no reason to risk refining crude cocaine paste into injectable hydrochloride to achieve similar recreational effects--only without the telltale scars.
In point of economic fact, any glut of coca paste could be relieved by adding the coca paste to ingredients used to make "prepared" opium. The "recipe" for prepared smoking opium was from all these documents cleverly but thoroughly elided. No surprise then, that to Mr Lyall's eyes, Dutch Indies production of "prepared" opium had steadily increased by nearly 20% from 1924 to 1927. Lyall tied to wheedle the Dutch into handing over opium figures for 1911 through 1913. Dutch representative Van Wettum countered, pointing out that the Hague Convention only operated in the Dutch Indies as of 1914, but reported the decreasing number of chests of raw opium imported (as local production downsized) for 1914, 1915, 1920-21, where each chest contained 1600 taels of raw opium which boiled down to 1000 taels of prepared opium there one tael = 38.6 grams. Yet monopoly licensing drove up the price of opium so that consumption of the combined sum of government Régie and smuggled opium increased over time. The government monopoly was therefore abolished in large centres and smokers were registered instead. Mr Van Wettum did mention--in a passing reference to the way Dutch Indies coca leaf exports were dwindling per p22 of document O.C. 877—without the record reflecting how much coca leaf tonnage the world's largest producer harvested at twice the alkaloid content per leaf. That figure was contained in the American report, likewise elided from the minutes of this 6th meeting of the Opium Advisory Committee five weeks and four days before Republican Herbert Hoover--a China enthusiast and prohibitionist of all things except tobacco--would be sworn in as President and Chief Enforcement Officer. Just as handily ignored were current events in the USA, where drug and dry laws tried to repeal Supply & Demand and succeed in multiplying the number of bribed officials, dirty cops, corrupt judges, killers with badges, bankruptcies, prison populations and estimated numbers of actual opiate addicts.
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| Links were turned off, date wrong, but see printed page 4(link); also rival newspaper (link) |
21JAN1929: Reading Eagle p1: 3000 ARRESTS IN DRIVE ON CHICAGO CROOKS—CHIEF'S ANSWER TO WEEK OF CRIME WITH 4 KILLINGS AND 102 ROBBERIES--4000 OFFICERS ON DOUBLE DUTY—illegible, the beer…
LIQUOR HEARING POSTPONED--… of John W Jesberg, alleged bartender…
ANOTHER COOLIDGE BREAKFAST--… congressmen from both parties invited…
p2 HEAVY TRADING ON CURB--… Market Main Price Trend Upward… CALL MONEY stable… p3. POLICE LIQUOR SQUAD JOB BIG INCOME PAYER—PHILA COPS DREW DOWN $6500 TO $25000 A YEAR ON THE SIDE—Phila Jan21--… grand jury investigation of bootlegging and police corruption today. DA John Monaghan revealed … Unit #1 worth above sums. … Men hired as policemen for $5.50 a day cleaned up anywhere from $125 to $500 a week with the unit. PAID $1000 FOR JOBS… p3 216 MOTORISTS LOSE PERMITS; 3094 IN YEAR—LIQUOR FIGURES IN MANY CASES WHERE STATE HAS TAKEN ACTION—Harrisburg… table of increase from 2280 in 1924 to 3904 in 1928…
p4 GANG WARFARE 125 LIVES SINCE COMMENCEMENT OF PROHIBITION--… murders…
21JAN1929: The Montreal Gazette p1: ALLIED DEBTS
TO US BARRED FROM DEBATE—Position Taken That Reparations Is Purely European
Affair—OUTSIDE NEGOTIATIONS—Payments To Washington, However, Will Have Effect
On Annual Reich Disbursements—Paris Jan20… in the sessions of the experts
committee beginning February 9, allied debts to USA will not be discussed.
FORMER KAISER FINDS IT HARD TO DROP POSE—Old
Motto Of Myself And God Evident In His New Book… (link)
21JAN1929 Monday: Rochester Evening Journal and the Post Express p1: The Peace Of Europe In No Way Promoted By The Kellogg Pact… Mussolini said "The truth is that the whole world is again arming itself."—... (link)
21JAN1929: Berkeley Daily Gazette p1: KAISER REAFFIRMS POLICY OF "MIGHT"—Berlin Jan 21--… might
is right, his new book "My Ancestors" reveals the Kaiser still
believes in the divine right of kings. The book was written between May and
November 9, 1928, intended as a surprise for his wife. ... GERMAN PAPERS LAUD HOOVER'S ECONOMIC VIEWS…
--but dislike his party platform… EUROPEAN MARKET TRADERS CAUTIOUS… Unless
German exchange is to fall with large gold exports from Berlin, … Germany
should still be able to get large loans from USA.
HUGE LOSSES IN FAILURES ARE
REVEALED—out of $100,000,000 lost through failures of stock brokers in three
years, estimates are no more than $27,000,000 will be recovered. (link)
21JAN1929: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Monday p1: DRAGNET NABS 1000 IN CHICAGO-- One of City's Greatest Roundups of Criminals
Staged Over Weekend--CHICAGO, Jan20.--… The officers concentrated their
efforts on beer flats and gambling houses, the raids continuing until the late
morning hours today. ...
p2 HEARST
ANNOUNCES RULES OF $25,000 PRIZE OFFER-- Plans For Temperance
Substitute To Present Prohibition Sought By Publisher Must Be Submitted
In Concise Form Prior To April 30.--New York, January 20-- William Randolph
Hearst... 2. The practicable plan proposed as a substitute for prohibition must
be set forth in an article containing not more than 1000 words. 3. This contest
will close on April 30, 1929, and no plan which has not been mailed or
postmarked on or before that date will be considered. 4. The full prize of
$25,000 will be awarded to the contestants submitting the best plan as a
practicable temperance substitute for prohibition.... A second prize of $5000
and other prizes of $1000 each may be awarded.(link)
21JAN1929: THE COST: How much does
the U.S. Government spend on Prohibition?
From $13M to $15M yearly has been the usual
direct appropriation. Prohibition
Commissioner James Doran once estimated that $300M a year would be needed to
enforce Prohibition properly. (Time
1/21/29 66)
In Geneva, delegates changed the subject to a competing opium Régie
in nearby French Indochina (later to be known as Vietnam). With this, Messr. Bourgois, 55-year-old former
naval officer and French attaché to Japan--with considerable political experience and
mathematical ability--came out of the woodwork. Bourgois asserted a 20% decrease
in prepared smoking opium sold, which he called chandu, by its Asian name. The Frenchman disarmed every question by
bringing up embarrassing comparisons of the published specifics for parallel
British opiate situations. Portugal's
representative was in his turn skillfully evasive and reported that an opium famine was
imposed on smokers in Macao, limiting each to less than 2 grams a day. Any additional specifics he
would endeavor to supply at some unspecified future date. On the North Borneo report, senator Cavazzoni asked why
British authorities allowed a Japanese corporation to cultivate plots of coca
shrubs and was told that with no imports or exports involved, those were
legal. This notwithstanding a current
glut of coca leaves and Japan's possession of "a large number of cocaine
factories."
After a Bosnian Serb shot an Austro-Hungarian Archduke in 1914--conveniently making escalation of Balkan Wars into WW1 frameable as something other than another China-sparked opium war--Austria and Hungary developed separate identities while Serbia vanished into the "Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes". Its citizens included the chairman of this Committee meeting and an expert, Mr Militchewitch, who explained that switching from opium to tobacco, cotton or mulberries had proven a non-starter. The region's bumper crop of the world's strongest opium to went to Germany, Switzerland and the USA. Nobody cared to further grill this expert with his fellow countryman holding the gavel.
These 1929 League meetings got pretty heated before ending February 2, and they contain all you need to understand how the 1929 Stock Market Crash got under weigh as a global catastrophe. Adolf Hitler, his treasonous revolt prison sentence served, resumed making public speeches in November, shortly after Dry Hope Herbert Hoover won the popular vote. We'll be braiding together the way American Prohibition hysteria, League pharma cartel pushback and the expanding shock wave of collapsing production and trade combined to persuade German industrialists that the National Socialist party was their only hope for ending reparations payments and escaping American-drafted drug strangulation clauses in the Treaty of Versailles and Covenant of the League of Nations. All of this is documented history from published sources you never heard about in school, which I managed to track down mostly in India.
Good Reading for $1: Timothy Leary: The Playboy Interview (Singles Classic) (50 Years of the Playboy Interview) from the September, 1966 issue.(link) This was five years before the Libertarian Party formed, only to be crippled by Nixon's campaign subsidies favoring entrenched looter parties. Amazon is electronically reprinting a slew of these old interviews readable on a cellphone using a free Kindle app. As explained by Dr Leary, the empathy, sociability and sex-related effects of LSD are remarkably similar to the empathy, sociability and sex-related effects of "sharing water" in Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land published three years earlier.
On Amazon Kindle devices it is sometimes difficult to close a book you've finished reading and open the net one in your queue. I tried removing downloaded book, this left the book and its highlights undisturbed in the Amazon cloud and freed up my tablet to download and begin reading The Panic of 1792.
Cool stuff: Mellow Mood Imports has clothes 'n stuff you can dance in.(link) Charleston, North Carolina was where attorney Manly Sullivan was charged with violating the National Prohibition Act. He appealed and won on the argument that forcing him to declare and pay taxes on illegal income was a violation of the Fifth Amendment. The Charleston promptly became America's signature popular dance. Mellow Mood Imports is a family-owned and operated small business in the spirit of American free enterprise.
Get the big picture in Prohibition and The Crash on Amazon Kindle in two languages. After this you’ll be able to explain to economists exactly how fanaticism and loss of freedom wrecked the U.S. economy.
Prohibition and The Crash, on Amazon Kindle (link)
ASYLUM APPLICATION FORM i589 INSTRUCTIONS IN PORTUGUESE: INSTRUÇÕES PARA O FORMULÁRIO DE ASILO i589. What we did was make the Political Asylum instructions accessible to and understandable by people accustomed to thinking in Portuguese. This costs one dollar ($1) and you can read it on a cellphone with the Kindle app.(link)
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Brazilian Sci-fi from 1926 featuring the adventures of a Rio de Janeiro man-about-town and the beautiful daughter of an elderly scientist–touting alcohol prohibition, eugenics and racial collectivism. Go to Amazon.com and look inside America’s Black President 2228 by Monteiro Lobato, cover art by Rene Bueno, translated by J Henry Phillips (link)
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