The Untaught Syllabus. 4.
Quotes To Inform And Enlighten:
Britain In Hock To The US Since 1945. (And Look Who Gave It To Them!


The quotes contained in this article are taken from two of my books: "1917 And
All That: The Untaught Syllabus - In their Own Words: A Political History Of The
Cold War 1917-1983." which has also been serialised in British and foreign
journals; and "A Radical Book Of Enlightenment For The Common Man." which is a
compilation of over 1,700 radical political quotes in subject categories.

Why place such a heavy emphasis on quotes?

Quotes have a veracity of their own, either somebody said something or they
didn't. And if enough people, with similar interests and motives and enough
power concentrated in their hands, say much the same thing, then it is more
likely that their interests will prevail.

I have found through tutoring, speaking engagements, publishing, debating and
general argument that it is more effective and revealing, especially to the
incredulous, that quotes, speaking for themselves without polemical intervention
from me, other than selection, editing and assembly, have an immediate impact
and influence on the credulity of the reader. And yes, it is extremely biased.
But when did idealistic academic or journalistic notions of being 'balanced' or
'unbiased' ever equate with veracity or reality?

I challenge those who preach a so-called 'balanced' view to come up with a
negation of what is being said.

I am happy for any of the compilation to be copied in whole or in part provided
that the full authorship of each quote is stated, and that authorship of the
compilation and any script is acknowledged; and that the work is used for the
purpose for which it is obviously intended - to inform and educate those
interested in the modern history of wars, peace, anti-racism, poverty,
imperialism, global trade and exploitation and the world debt crisis.



WHO OWNS BRITAIN? (AND WHO GAVE IT TO THEM?) "THE SCEPTRE PASSES."



"The question of leadership need hardly arise. If any permanently closer
association of the two nations is achieved, an island people of fifty millions
cannot expect to be the senior partner. The centre of gravity and the ultimate
decision must increasingly lie with America. We cannot resent this historical
development."

(The Economist Oct 19 1940.)



"Whatever the outcome of the war, America has embarked on a career of
imperialism in world affairs and in every other aspect of her life... Even
though by our aid England should emerge from this struggle without defeat, she
will be so impoverished economically and crippled in prestige that it is
improbable that she will be able to resume or maintain the dominant position in
world affairs that she has occupied for so long.

At best, England will become a junior partner in a new Anglo-Saxon imperialism
in which the economic resources and the military and naval strength of the
United States will be the centre of gravity. The sceptre passes to the United
States."

(President of the US National Industrial Conference Board Virgil Jordan, to the
Annual Convention of the Investment Bankers' Association of America, Hollywood,
Dec 10 1940.)



"Whether we like it or not, we must all recognise that the victory which we have
won has placed upon the American people the continuing burden of responsibility
for world leadership. The future peace of the world will depend in large part
upon whether or not the United States shows that it is really determined to
continue its role as a leader among nations."

(US President Truman's message to Congress, Dec 19 1945.)



"My dear Americans, we may be short of dollars, but we are not short of will...
We won't let you down. Standards of life may go back. We may have to say to our
miners and to our steel workers: "We can't give you all we hoped for. We can't
give you the houses we want you to live in. We can't give you the amenities we
desire to give you." But we won't fail."

(British Labour Foreign Secretary Bevin to the American Legion, Savoy Hotel,
London, Sept 10 1947.)



"Today Americans know that they are the dominant Power in the world; they take
pride in the position, they accept the responsibility of it, and they expect the
rest of us to respect their leadership."

(Tory Lord Woolton, Sunday Times, July 16 1950.)



"The Western Powers have got to be strong... They have got to be perfectly clear
as to the kind of world they want and stand for it until they get it."

(British Labour Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, House of Parliament, Oct 17
1950.)



"Mr. Bevin went to New York, determined to prevent the precipitate rearmament of
Germany... He failed... Faced with an American ultimatum... he toed the line."

(New Statesman and Nation, Dec 2 1950.)



"We British must recognise that American policy must prevail, if there is an
honest difference of opinion between us as to what to do next in the world
struggle. He who pays the piper calls the tune."

(Labour MP Commander King-Hall, National Newsletter, June 28 1951.)



"Do we need Britain? The British Empire, for all its reduced power, has a
valuable string of naval bases around the world - Gibralter, Hong Kong, Malta,
Suez, Aden, Singapore, to mention the most important... The colonies take one
into the economic sphere - tin, rubber, uranium and other raw materials... We
need Britain."

(New York Times, Jan 9 1952.)



NOT ABOUT OIL? THEY MUST BE JOKING!



"Behind the conflict in the Near East is OIL. Britain owns rich wells in Iraq .
Socialists . [must] . condemn the Oil Imperialism of Britain and America and
demand the pooling of all the oil resources of the world according to the needs
of the peoples."

(Lord Fenner Brockway, 1947.)



"By the use of economic aid we succeeded in getting access to Iranian oil and we
are now well established in the economy of that country. The strengthening of
our economic position in Iran has enabled us to acquire control over her foreign
policy and in particular to make her join the Bagdad Pact. At the present time
the Shah would not dare even to make any changes in his cabinet without
consulting our Ambassador."

(Letter from US Council on Foreign Relations member millionaire Nelson
Rockefeller to President Eisenhower, January 1956.)



"Our aim is not simply to appropriate oil in one way or another (say in easily
accessible Nigeria or Venezuela) but to crush OPEC. Therefore we have to use
direct force in order to get hold of large and concentrated oil deposits which
can be opened up rapidly so as to put an end to the artificial oil shortage and
thus to lower the price... Since this is the ultimate and there is only one
target possible: Saudi Arabia... Fortunately, these are not only rich oilfields
but they are also concentrated in a very small area, a fraction of the Saudi
Arabian territory... While Vietnam was full of trees and brave people and our
national interest was almost invisible, what we have here is no trees, very few
people and a clear objective."

(Advisor to the US Defence Department Professor Miles Ignotas, March 1975.)



"The economic health and well-being of the United States, Western Europe, Japan
depend upon continued access to the oil from the Persian area."

(President Carter, Department of State Bulletin, April 1978.)



"Western industrialised societies are largely dependent on the oil resources of
the Middle East region and a threat to access to that oil would constitute a
grave threat to the vital national interests. This must be dealt with; and that
does not exclude the use of force if necessary."

(US Secretary of State Alexander Haig, March 11 1981.)



"They know we own their country [Iraq]. We own their airspace. We dictate the
way they live and talk. And that's what's great about America right now. It's a
good thing, especially when there's a lot of oil out there we need."

(US Brigadier General William Looney, Washington Post, August 30 1999.)



"In the future, we are more likely to be involved in Iraq-type things,
Panama-type things, Grenada-type things. Our position should be the protection
of the oilfields. Now whether Kuwait gets put back, that's subsidiary stuff."

(Chairman of US Armed Services Committee Les Aspin, 1990.)



".turkey shoot. almost like you flipped on the light in the kitchen at night and
the cockroaches start scurrying, and we're killing them."

(US Fighter pilot Colonel Richard White, Iraq, February 1991.)



"It would be tragic if the nations of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf were
now to embark on a new arms race."

(US President Bush, March 23 1991.)



"The US has emerged from the war as the Gulf's premier arms seller. The White
House has told Congress in a classified report it wanted five Middle East allies
to buy an $18 billion package of top drawer weapons."

(New York Times March 26 1991.)



"We think the price is worth it."

(US Ambassador to UN Madeleine Albright, when asked on TV whether half a million
children dying as a result of US sanctions against Iraq, May 12 1996. Albright
was then appointed US Secretary of State.)



"Regret what? That secret operation [supporting Mujaheddin against the Afghan
Government BM] was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians
into the Afghan trap and you want me to forget it? The day that the Soviets
officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the
opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam War. Indeed, for almost 10 years,
Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that
brought about the demoralisation and finally the break-up of the Soviet empire."

(US National Security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, interviewed in Le Nouvel
Observateur, France, January 15 1998.)



CARRYING THE SCEPTRE - THE NEW WORLD POLICEMAN.



"We must be prepared for waging a conventional war that may extend to many parts
of the globe. Many of the resources that we need for energy and many essential
strategic minerals are found thousands of miles from our shores... If we are to
safeguard our access, and the access of the free world, to these resources, we
must increase our military and naval strength."

(US Defence Secretary Caspar Weinberger, April 28 1981.)



"As the largest producer, the largest source of capital, and the biggest
contributor to the global mechanism, we must set the pace and assume the
responsibility of the majority stockholder in this corporation known as the
world... Nor is this for a given term of office. This is a permanent
obligation."

(Leo D. Welch, Secretary-Treasurer of US Standard Oil Company, 1946.)



"It will become increasingly difficult in the near future to protect US overseas
interests with conventional weapons... I have in mind situations far from our
shores,... where we would have difficulty, from a logistics point of view, at
least, in reaching the areas in which we have considerable US interests.

.we have an added motivation... the need for the United States to look more and
more overseas for the resources to provide economic strength... we will be
looking increasingly towards Africa and the Middle East, as well as South
America, for the materials required by our industrial economy... We will require
free access and intercourse with many far distant nations of the world in order
to remain a leading export - import nation.

We may have confrontations with nuclear or non-nuclear nations whose
geographical location is such that we have no adequate means of protecting our
interests with conventional weapons... The use of nuclear weapons with varying
capabilities might be the only effective method of accomplishing our objectives,
protecting our interests, and minimising the overall death and destruction that
might accrue."

(US Vice Admiral Gerald E Miller, Congressional Testimony, March 18 1976.)



"The United States, as an island nation heavily dependent on overseas raw
materials, must continue its forward deployment of forces in Asia and the
Pacific region. There is no cheaper way to American security."

(US Defence Secretary Frank Carlucci.)



"Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and can be
ours. And we shall get it, as our Mother England has told us how... We will
cover the ocean with our merchant marine. We will build a navy to the measure of
our greatness... Our institutes will follow our trade. American law, American
order, American civilisation, and the American flag will plant themselves on
shores hitherto bloody and benighted, by those agencies of God henceforth made
beautiful and bright."

(US Senator Albert Beveridge, 1898.)



"You know, there was a time when our national security was based on a standing
army here within our own borders and shore batteries of artillery along our
coasts... The world has changed. Today, our national security can be threatened
in far away places. It is up to all of us to be aware of the strategic
importance of such places and to be able to identify them... ...all are vital to
us and if it went to world powers hostile to the free world, there would be a
direct threat to the United States and to our allies."

(Ronald Reagan, in a Television Address, Oct 27 1983.)



"In Asia our efforts were far less successful... the conception of force was too
nakedly shown, too much stress was laid on the military side, while we largely
ignored the importance of preliminary economic preparations for the alliances we
wished to make. But the same military measures will often be found
unobjectionable if the way to them is paved with economic aid...

The most significant example in practice of what I mean was the Iranian
experiment with which, as you will remember, I was directly concerned. By the
use of economic aid we succeeded in getting access to Iranian oil and we are now
well established in the economy of that country. The strengthening of our
economic position in Iran has enabled us to acquire control over her foreign
policy and in particular to make her join the Bagdad Pact. At the present time
the Shah would not dare even to make any changes in his cabinet without
consulting our Ambassador...

For us to have in Asia, Africa and other under-developed areas a political and
military influence as great or greater than we obtained through the Marshall
Plan in Europe. It is necessary for us to act carefully and patiently, and in
the early stages confine ourselves to securing very modest political concessions
in exchange for our economic aid (in some exceptional cases even without any
concessions in return). The way will then be open to us, but at a later stage,
to step up both our political price and our military demands...

In this case governmental subsidies and credits may take the form of military
appropriations. The hooked fish needs no bait. At the same time economic support
for those strata of the local business community which are ready to co-operate
with the US should be increased and the necessary conditions would be created
for businessmen of this type to be put in key economic positions and accordingly
for their political influence to be increased.

...the main emphasis in economic assistance as regards government subsidies and
credits should be on creating conditions in which eventually the economic
relations established by us would work for and make it natural for these
countries to join military pacts and alliances inspired by us. The essence of
this policy should be that the development of our economic relations with these
countries would ultimately allow us to take over key positions in the native
economy... By this means we can hope to divert the foreign policy of these
countries in a more desirable direction...

...support should be given in particular... to native businessmen who are
struggling against their colonial status.

...if we do not support them we lose all hope of exercising a restraining
influence on them until it is too late. If this happens the desire for
independence may result in a nationalism so strong as to escape not only from
the control of the old colonial powers but also from our own control.

Extensive economic aid... should always be presented as an expression of a
sincere and disinterested desire on the part of the US to help and co-operate
with them."

(Letter from US Council on Foreign Relations member millionaire Nelson
Rockefeller to President Eisenhower, January 1956.)



"International military information .influence the emotions, motives, objective
reasoning and ultimately the behaviour of foreign governments, organisations,
groups and individuals."

(US government International Public Information charter, Washington Post, July
28 1999.)



"Now the Pacific has become an Anglo-Saxon lake, and our line of defence runs
through the chain of islands fringing the coast of Asia."

(US General MacArthur, Daily Mail March 2 1949.)



"For defensive purposes the sovereignty of the United States extends to the
whole continent."

(US Secretary of State Richard Olney, 1895.)



British school and college history, economics, sociology and business studies
syllabus teaching and books do not contain any of this information.



All the material and information I have presented here is readily available to
historians, writers, journalists, teachers, educators and syllabus publishers.
Although I have spent many hundreds of hours gathering it all together, I did
not have to look very far to find any of it.



When as a trainee history lecturer, it was suggested I take the class on a trip
to the Tower of London and then set them an essay on what life was like for a
soldier in King Charles' Army centuries ago. Very useful knowledge that! A
sociology of the past perhaps? But certainly not history in its most important
sense; unless history is to mean anything old or 'interesting' that you can do
in evening classes, like antiques, flower arranging or basket weaving. When
instead I taught real history, learning from the past in order to change the
future, the collective life-experience of humanity, I was got rid of. The head
of the history department complained that the students had remarked that I made
them think; which the head of history had probably never done in a lifetime of
teaching. I ended up washing and cleaning and emptying human surgical waste in a
hospital.



Unless teachers learn to be brave and intellectually honest (difficult when they
have a mortgage and bills to pay), future historical, social and economic
education and popular 'knowledge' will also not refer to the US or British
history and continuing complicity in global plunder, exploitation, domination
and control, wars of aggrandisement and acquisition, causing the deaths and
devastation of the homes and lands of millions of people - the thousands of
children under the age of two who will die tonight through simple lack of clean
water, medicine and education - the untold millions of unnecessary deaths among
the overwhelming majority of humanity on this incredibly rich and abundant and
ultimately sustainable earth.



Quotes from Brian Mitchell. Evolution.

Britain In Hock To The US Since 1945. (And Look Who Gave It To Them!



"The most remarkable thing about the world is that you can understand it."
(Einstein.)


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