Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Wannsee, Madagascar, Lenin, Hitler, and the Jews


Wannsee, Madagascar, Lenin, Hitler, and the Jews

The luxurious mansion known as Wannssee Villa, located at 56-59 Am Grossen Wannsee, today serves as a memorial and museum. It was the site of the briefing, sixty five years ago, which had the purpose to coordinate German ministries to implement the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Wannsse Villa served many very different uses. First it belonged to then richest man in Berlin, Dr. Alekxander Helphand, also known as “Parvus,” a leftist Jewish tycoon, who made money as an arms dealer during WWI and handled German subsidies for the Bolshevik Revolution. “Parvus” was one of the lovers of Polish born German communist leader, Rosa Luxemburg (Rozalia Luksenburg, a Jewess who was staunchly opposed to the independence of Poland).

Helphand was the author of the basic plan for Berlin’s strategy, for elimination of the Eastern Front, by crucial German support of the revolution in Russia. Helphand proposed to recruit Vladimir Lenin, a refugee in Switzerland, and obtained virtually unlimited German money, to convert a clique of conspirators, into Russian revolutionary power. Helphand’s plan was first dated on March 9, 1915 and later the date was changed to March 9, 1917, as it is registered in the Journal of the German Foreign Ministry as document A86-WK-11c, secret volume 5. (Z. A. B. Zeman and W. B. Scharlau: “The Merchant of Revolution – The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus),” London, Oxford University Press, 1965)

It is estimated that the German treasury spent equivalent of ten tons of gold, to finance the demoralization and collapse of the eastern front, and make Russia a vassal state of a great German colonial empire. In fact Lenin, whose mother was Jewish, and who surrounded himself, with Jewish revolutionaries, delivered the terms of Russian surrender to Germany in the treaty of Brest Litovsk, signed on March 3, 1918. Lenin was considered a traitor by Russian socialists and for this reason he used mainly Jewish cadres.

Earlier on July 18. 1917 Lenin was accused by the Russian Ministry of Justice under Prime Minster A. F. Kerensky (1881-1970) and was declared guilty of high treason. Evidence was produced in court, that Bolsheviks received huge amounts of money from the German Government. Helphand was exposed as a German agent, in a treasonable cooperation between Bolsheviks and the German Government. The total expenditure of the German treasury, as mentioned above, is estimated at equivalent to ten tons of gold. Lenin, while crossing German territory, had with him on board of his train six million dollars, thanks to German banker Max Warburg.
Leon Trotsky with an American passport and large amount of money in his hand, departed New York on board of the ship SS. Kristianiafiord, on March 27, 1917 together with 275 Jewish revolutionaries. They were detained in Halifax, Nova Scottia, by the Canadians, who logically thought, that Trotsky may help to stage a revolution in Russia, which would allow a diversion of large number of German soldiers to the Western Front and cause more Canadian soldiers to be killed there.

However, after five days of detention, Trotsky and company were released upon intervention of Sir William Wiseman, partner of Kuhn and Loeb financial firm, and they continued their voyage to St. Petersburg, where they met Lenin in April 1917 in the Russian capital, then in a state of complete anarchy.
The Bolsheviks were not a strong political force when Tsar Nicolas II abdicated on the 15th of March, 1917. Despite this fact, a year later, Lenin was in position, to issue personally, the criminal order to execute the entire family of the tsar in Yekatyrenburgu by a Jewish death squad.

According to a well documented book by Gary Allen entitled “None Dare Call it Conspiracy” Lenin and Trotsky were able to use the money, they brought with them from the U.S. and from Germany, to bribe corrupt Russian officials and hire criminal gangs to grab control of the Russian state, in the middle of an unprecedented anarchy. Lenin and Trotsky proclaimed that “all powers were in the hands of the soviets.” In reality over 95% of the population was against the Bolshevik coup, and had to be coerced by brutal and deadly terror.

It took years for the Soviet power to be consolidated in all of Russia. When about a quarter of a million prisoners, serving time since revolution of 1905, were set free, they contributed to the creation of anarchy in Russia and fall of the Kerenski government, a government which was in process of trying Lenin and Trotsky for high treason. One should remember that Lenin and Trotsky did not arrive in Russia because the masses wanted them there. They did arrive to autocratic Russia because of politics of Berlin and of Washington.

It should be noticed that the brother of Max Warburg, who resided in Germany, Paul Warburg, was the main architect of the Federal Reserve System in U.S., an institution which played key role in financing American war effort during World War One, while Paul Warburg was its director. Federal Reserve serves as the central bank in control of the monetary policy of U.S. and it has been from the beginning controlled by Jews, and operated legally, free of any veto by the president of the United States.

Allen writes that the Federal Reserve System is a tool used by Jewish conspiracy, thanks to which, international bankers are able to increase, without any limits, state debts and derive from these debts colossal profits, using compounded interest and there by have control over governments unable to pay their debts. During the Wilson administration U.S. debt increased by 800% and it is increasing fast during Bush’s “war on terror,” especially because now the government of the United States, free of the gold standard, has monopoly to legally print dollar notes in any amount necessary to prevent bankruptcy and maintain dollars as the reserve currency in central banks and in trade on the world market of such commodities as crude oil, for example. The dollar printing monopoly makes dollars the safest currency in the world despite the huge deficits in foreign trade, for which deficit U.S. pays mainly with treasury bonds with guaranteed face value.

Two month before the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the conspiring bankers created the instrument for payment of the astronomical state debts, in form of the federal income tax proportional to personal income, just as Karl Marks had demanded earlier, in his Communist Manifesto.

The bankers had reserved for themselves tax exemptions to minimize their tax burden and freely invest in revolutionary movements and war strategies, which serve the purpose of centralization of power in the name of homeland security etc. which today favors Jewish neo-conservatives and gives them a chance to control the government by means of military-industrial-Zionist complex and to collect their profits and compound interests.
Allen believes that during World War One, Bernard Baruch had full control over the US economy, as the head of the “War Industries Board.” This board had been planned twenty years earlier by banker-conspirators. Baruch then obtained for himself over $200 million, in today’s dollars worth billions.

Paul Warburg had to resign from the Federal Reserve System, when it became known in America that his brother Max Warburg, was in charge of German state finances. The third of Warburg brothers, Felix, was a son-in-law of Jacob Schiff, who was the main partner of the New York firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in which firm the three Warburg brothers were also partners. Max Warburg was also in charge of Rothschild bank in Frankfurt, Germany.
Jacob Schiff successfully financed Leon Trotsky, with some $20 million and according to the book by a Russian general Arsene de Goulevich, “Tsardom and the Revolution,” received from Lenin’s government $100 million in gold during 1918-1922, paid directly to the firm Kuhn, Loeb & Co. in New York.

Bolshevik Revolution was financed also by Max Warburg and Olaf Aschberg using money from “Nye Banken” in Stockholm, Sweden. Schiff spent millions for the overthrow of the tsarist government first, then of the Kerensky government and at the same time he spent ten million dollars for help for Jewish population in Russia.

Gary Allen writes that the same bankers dominated the terms of the Treaty of Versailles and prepared the next world war by financing Hitler’s regime, as a “reaction” to Bolshevism and as a trigger mechanism for the Second World War. It is known that at Versailles, in 1918, the French marshal Ferdinand Foche pointed to the free city of Gdańsk and correctly predicted that Gdańsk would be the pretext to start the WWII.
The career of Aleksander Helphand, the famous owner of the Wannsee palacial residence in Berlin, is described in the book by Z. A. B. Zeman and W. B. Scharlau: “The Merchant of Revolution – The Life of Alexander Israel Helphand (Parvus),” London, Oxford University Press, 1965.

Israel Elephand was born in Berezino, 90 miles east of Wilno, in Minsk province, where poor, mostly illiterate Jews accounted for about half of the population. His first language was Yiddish, which he learned to read and write with Hebrew characters. As a child he spoke very little Polish or Russian. He lived in self-contained Jewish community, for which trade and sex outside marriage, were the only links with the gentiles.
Elephand-Helphand learned Russian and discarded rigid ritual, after his parents moved south to Odessa in 1870. By 1882 he started developing revolutionary believes and read Russian translation of Marks’s “Das Kapital.” He traveled first time outside Russia at the age of nineteen in 1886. Helphand accepted Marks’s revolutionary doctrine and studied history and political economy at the University of Basel, Switzerland in 1888-1891.
His major subject was “Contemporary Economic and Political Problems of Capitalism and Socialism.” He has graduated as doctor of philosophy on July 8, 1891. At that time he considered Germany as the key to Western Europe. For years he lived in poverty and started using pen-name “Parvus” (“barefoot” in the Bavarian dialect).

Helphand was deported from Berlin and in 1893 and a year later worked in Leipzig for “Volkeszeitung.” He soon became editor of the “Arbeiterzeitung.” By 1900 Hephand’s works had such titles as: “Proletariat to use social revolution to destroy capitalism,” “Revolution as the main aim,” and “Only power mattered – everything was permissible.”
In 1903 Helphand tutored Leon Trotsky on strategy of mass strikes and Marks’s original “revolution in permanence,” which later became Trotsky’s “permanent war for communism.” A century later, with the decline of communism, Jewish followers of Trotsky in New York, converted to radical Zionism and created the ideology of neo-conservatism, this time based on a “permanent war for democracy,” for building of a global empire and for benefit of the future hegemony of the state of Israel “from Niles in Egypt to Eufrates in Iraq.”

In 1906, using false papers as Karl Wawerk he traveled in Russia, was caught by the tsarist police and was sent to Siberia without trial, by an administrative decision. Helphand-Wawerk manged to escape. Upon return to Germany Helphand wrote on “Unity of world market and need for free trade as good for revolution.”

In November 1906 he returned to Germany and received mail as “Peter Klein” and became lover of Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Jewish communist active in Germany. Born to a Jewish family in Zamość in Congress Poland as Rosalia Luksenburg, on March 5, 1870, she had a growth defect and was physically handicapped all her life, which ended tragically, when on January 15, 1919, she was knocked out with a riffle butt and afterwards shot in the head by a member of German nationalist militia known as Freikorps. Her body was thrown into a nearby river. During the years of her political activities she called for a “dictatorship of the proletariat” and always strongly opposed the independence of Poland.

Luxemburg was on January 1, 1919 one of the creators of the Communist Party of Germany (KDP), which took part in German national assembly. KDP participated in the founding of the Weimar Republic, politically dominated by Jews, who established military and industrial cooperation with the Soviet Union. Before the death of the president Hindenburg, the German Army changed the course of history, and nominated Adolph Hitler as the Chancellor of Germany in 1933.

Twenty three years earlier in 1910 Dr. Alexander Helphand arrived in Turkey and became a successful arms merchant, trader and a political consultant to the Turkish government. After June 28, 1914 the killings in Sarayevo became known in Turkey, he also learned about the ultimatum issued by Berlin to Russia “to demobilize in twelve hours or be in the state of war with Germany,” Helphand preached that “German victory is best for the Turks.” He became propagandist of German victory and wrote the plan registered on March 9, 1915, for subversion of Russia, as mentioned above.

Helphand became leading advisor of the German government and obtained formal withdrawal of the deportation order of 1893, as well as, a permit to travel freely in Germany. As stated above, Helphand obtained unlimited German money to convert a clique of conspirators into Russian revolutionary power. He very strongly opposed independence of Poland, as did all Jewish international organizations including conservatives, Zionists and leftists. Alexander Helphand died of heart attack on December 12, 1924 as the richest man in Berlin in his palatial residence located in Wannsee. In the same building in January, 1942 was held the ill-famous event called “Wannsee Conference,” which in reality was a briefing for Nazi bureaucracy how to proceed with the new program for “the final solution of the Jewish question,” which replaced the revious Nazi program of evacuation of European Jews to the island of Madagascar.
The huge fortune of Aleksander Helphand, the owner of the Wannsee palace, was made by taking advantage of the fact, that the German government financed the Bolshevik revolution in order to liquidate the eastern front, so that masses of German soldiers could be sent from the east to fight on the western front. The situation of Berlin government deteriorated after the Zionists helped to bring the United States into the war against Germany.
The logic of the risky German strategy is understandable because of the dire situation of Germany, which found itself in a two front war. However, it is harder to understand why the richest and the strongest bankers in the world, mainly Jews, or people closely related to them, financed the Bolshevik revolution, which was promising the confiscation of their wealth.

Among these bankers were such names as Rothschild, Rockefeller, Schiff, Warburg, Morgan, Harriman and Milner. Now it is clear that they were not afraid of the Bolshevik revolution, because they controlled it. This clique helped the Soviets financially, and what is more important by the transfer of western technology. Anthony Sutton described this process in the three volumes of the book on the “Western Technology and the Economic Development of the Soviets,” Stanford University, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace.

Jewish intervention for helping to bring the U.S. into the war was rewarded by the British government with the proclamation of “Jewish Homeland” in Palestine in a memorandum addressed to Sir Walter Rothschild, the chief Zionist in England. Known as Balfour Declaration it was signed by Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Minister and dated on November 2, 1917.

The Balfour Declaration was given to the Zionists for their help to bring the U.S. into a war that was strongly resisted by powerful political anti-war forces, which included the first wife of President Wilson. However his second wife was pro-Zionist and she was for the U.S. participation in the war, as it is was described by J. Comelius in “The Hidden History of the Balfour Declaration.” Actually the British were under Jewish pressure earlier, and already in 1903, they proposed “Jewish Homeland in Uganda.” Later, as the Uganda offer did not work, Balfour said to Zionist leader Chaim Wiesman in 1915: “When the shooting is over, you will get Jerusalem.”
When in August 1914, Germany attached Russia, according to the plans of general Schliffen, France was to be defeated quickly, and Russia was to be conquered over a few year period in order to became a colony of the German Empire. However the trench war from Switzerland all the way to the sea shores became stabilized, in a no win situation, already by the end of 1914. The British offensive of 60,000 soldiers in the middle of 1916 was unsuccessful and loses on both sides were about one million killed.

Despite the strength of the pacifist movement in the U.S. the relations with Germany worsened after the Germans attacked on May 7, 1915 the ship “Lusitania” and caused the drowning of some 1200 passengers. Then they attacked the ship “Arabic” on August 19, 1915 and followed with the attack on the ship “Sussex.” Meanwhile, secret new understanding between the British and the Zionists, started in October of 1916, and resulted in major changes in the governments in London and in Berlin.

In 1912 the Germans helped to build a Jewish technical institute in Haifa and in August 1914 the Zionists proposed creation by Germany of a Jewish state on Polish territory, with the capital in Lublin, as a German protectorate, on the future eastern postwar borders of Germany and Austria. The Zionist leader in Berlin, Frantz Oppenheimer assured the government in Berlin that he was German to “the last drop of blood.” (Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, “Jews in Poland: A Documentary History: The Rise of The Jews as a Nation from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel,” New York 1993, Hippocrene Books Inc. page 297,)
Lloyd George became British Prime Minister of a “war cabinet” and Balfour became the Minister of Foreign Affairs on December 6, 1916. Berlin’s peace offer of December 18 was rejected by Lloyd George, who promised to fight to final victory. This in turn caused intensification of the attacks by German submarines and led to the break of the diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Germany, while the British government was near financial ruin and, in reality, could be bailed out only by the United States.

Zionist agent in German Foreign Ministry, Herr von Kemnitz, betrayed his boss Minister Zimmermann and passed to the British, German secret codes #7500. On January 1917 Tsar Nicolas abdicated and social-democratic government of Aleksander Kerensky was formed, with approval of the U.S. government and of the Zionists leadership.
U.S. declared war on Germany on April 6, 1917 and the British gave credit for this fact to the Zionists and gave them in return the declaration on the “Jewish Homeland” in Palestine in November, 1917. Bolshevik coup gave power to Lenin, also in November 1917. On Lenin’s order, as mentioned above, a Jewish death squad, murdered the entire family of the last Tsar of Russia.
Despite the hostility of all international Jewish organizations, the Poles declared the independence of Poland, on November 11, 1918, as the ceasefire ended the hostilities of World War One. The war ended after a protracted period of blocking of German credits by Jewish bankers worldwide. Also Jewish leaders in German labor unions were able to conduct crippling strikes in German armament industry.
Thus, the Balfour Declaration constituted a payment in return for Jewish role in the defeat of Germany in World War One, while the role of the Jews in the overthrowing of the Russian government, by means of the Bolshevik coup, also was of a fundamental importance for the eventual creation of the state of Israel in Palestine.

During Soviet invasion of Poland in 1920, Lenin attempted to overrun Poland and form a Moscow-Berlin axis, in order to start a world wide communist revolution. General Mikhail Tukhachevsky gave the order to the Red Army on July 4, 1920: “To the west, over the corpse of ‘White Poland,’ on the road to the worldwide conflagration.” (Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian. “Poland an Illustrated History,” New York: Hippocrene Books Inc., 2000. Page 17.)
There were some six million communists in Germany in 1920, led by people such as mentioned above, Roza Luxemburg (Rozalia Luksenburg), midst bitterness caused by the defeat in 1918. At the time many Germans were ready to accept a communist government, in return for the acquisition of western Poland and the Gdańsk Pomerania region, lands of the former Prussian Partition of Poland, once those lands were occupied by the Red Army.
In 1933 the United States extended a formal recognition of the USSR under the pressure of financiers, mostly Jews. Thus, U.S. saved the Soviets from an economic collapse. At the same time Jewish dominated financiers gave huge loans to the government of Adolph Hitler in order to bring about the WWII, as the next step on the road to a global empire described in the New York Times bestseller “Confessions of an Economic Hit Man” by John Perkins (published by Plume, Penguin Group in 2006). Socialism including the national socialist variety was then useful tool to shape the world for the ultimate goal of one world government.

The Polish victory destroyed Lenin’s hope for the world revolution in the battles of Warsaw and on the Memel River during the Polish-Soviet war of 1920. Polish victory resulted in years of Soviet retaliation against Polish minority in the USSR. Twenty years later the Soviets would avenge this defeat. This happened in 1939, when Poles defended their independence and ruined Hitler’s “best case scenario” for the conquest of the “Lebensraum” for the next 1000 years.

The chronology of Hitler’s efforts to form the Anti-Komintern Pact, and to start a two-front war against the Soviet Union was described in detail by Ambassador Jozef Lipski documented in his book "Diplomat in Berlin 1933-39" Hitler's declarations since Aug. 5, 1935, stating that good Polish-German relations were of primary importance to him. He proposed an alliance against Russia, military cooperation, an air pact, etc. However, the government of Poland knew that the essence of the policies of the Nazi government, at all times, was the implementation of the doctrine of Lebensraum which meant eventual annexation by Germany of Poland and other Slavonic countries between the Baltic and the Black Sea.
Stalin fearful of a two front war by Germany and Japan against the USSR decided to stop the Japanese Kwantung Army in Manchuko by a Soviet offensive in August 1939. According to The Oxford Companion to World War II (Oxford University Press, 1995) Soviet general Grigory Zhukov was the first in history to use the blitz-krieg tactics. These tactics were developed jointly by the Germans and the Soviets on Soviet polygons after the Treaty of Rapallo of April 16, 1922. From May 28, 1939 on the largest air battles in history up to that time were fought in Asia and involved 140 to 200 Soviet and Japanese aircraft (A. Stella, Khalkhin-Gol, "The Forgotten War", Journal of Contemporary History, 18, 1983).

Stalin, concerned that the Japanese aimed to cut the Trans-Siberian railway, send Zhukov to organize a counteroffensive using 35 infantry battalions, 20 cavalry squadrons, 500 aircraft and 500 of the new and powerful tanks. This force locally outnumbered the forces of the advancing Kwantung Army. On August 20, Zhukov launched a surprise offensive and in ten days inflicted massive casualties on the Japanese. "Zhukov's essential achievement lay in combining tanks, artillery, aircraft and men in an integrated offensive for the first time in modern war. By 31 August, the Russians have completed what they described as “the most impeccable encirclement of the enemy army” since Hannibal beat the Romans at Cannae. The 23rd Division of the Kwantung Army was virtually wiped out, and at least 18,000 Japanese were killed."(P. Snow "Nomonhan -the Unknown Victory", History Today, July 1990).
Hitler thought that he would have on his side some 600 divisions, including 220 Japanese divisions, this shown on pages 214 and 215, in the above mentioned Pogonowski’s “Poland An Illustrated History History.” Maps of Hitler’s “best case scenario” are compared there with the actual events. Hitler called the coming conflict "the war of the engines" ("Motorenkrieg"). Ironically the German army used 600,000 horses in addition to the 200,000 trucks, which were less dependable than the horses according to Stephen Badsey, "World War II Battle Plans" 2000, p. 96.
Actually, the Polish Army destroyed in combat one third of German tanks and one fourth of the airplanes used against it. German records indicate that in order to defeat the French and British armies in 1940, the Germans used less than half as much ammunition, artillery shells, and bombs than was used against the Poles in September 1939. Polish forces stayed engaged against Germany after the bloody battles of September 1939. However, the crucial role of Poland was the derailment of Hitler's strategy already in January 1939.

In 1941 the Jewish dominated international bankers mobilized help for the Soviets. In 1943 at the Teheran Conference these bankers were represented by Arvill Harriman, who had a Jewish wife and was in charge of the aid from the U.S. to the Soviets in form of entire factories and huge war supplies. At Teheran, Harriman personally contributed to the betrayal of Poland and the decision of Roosevelt and Churchill to extend the Soviet postwar sphere of interest to include Poland with the rest of East Central Europe as the next stage on the road towards the global empire, described by Gary Allen 35 years ago and more recently by John Perkins in their books mentioned above.
Hitler’s government tried to forcibly relocate the entire Jewish population of Europe to the French island colony of Madagascar, off the coast of Africa. It happened a little more than a year before, the event known as the “Wannsee Conference” on January 20, 1942, the briefing that proclaimed and organized the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” by Nazi civilian government and SS officials.

In May 1940 H. Himmler stated in his “Reflections on the treatment of People of Alien Races in the East” in his words: “I hope that the concept of Jews will be completely extinguished through the possibility of a large migration of all Jews to Africa…” Hitler’s victory in France seemed by then certain and therefore French colonies would be under German control. Hitler hoped to conclude a favorable peace treaty with England, which was to experience German aerial bombardment and was expected to capitulate as quickly as did the French. The Nazis hoped that the French and the British navy would be at their disposal, for use in the evacuation of all Jews from Europe.
Evacuation plan was set in motion by the Jewish Department of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 3, 1940. However Jewish intelligentsia was to be held by the Nazis as hostage against American Jews. On August 15th, 1940, Adolf Eichman released text “Reichssicherheitshauptamt: Madagascar Projekt” according to which one million Jews per year were to be shipped from Europe to Madagascar over the period of four years.
Hans Frank, the ruler of the General Government of occupied Poland supported the project of resettlement of four million Jews to Madagascar, rather than deportation of European Jews to Poland. Deportation of Jews to Poland was stopped on July 10, 1940 as well as the construction of the Warsaw ghetto was also stopped, according to “Wikipedia.org /Madagascar Plan.”

Nazis pretended to give autonomy to Jewish settlement on Madagascar and the Wafen SS was to control and oversee Jewish government on the island and convert it into a “super ghetto” organized as a police state. By June 18, Hitler and Ribbentrop discussed the Madagascar Plan with Mussolini. Goering’s office was to oversee the administration of Jewish economics within the Madagascar Plan, also called “Four Year Plan.”
In Summer of 1940 Hitler had a feeling of victory. France was ready to capitulate and Hitler hoped that Britain after heavy bombardment would do the same. Thus, the Nazis expected that the French would turn over the Madagascar colony to Germany in the peace treaty and French and British navies were to be used for transportation of Jews from Europe to Madagascar as stated above. Nazi failure in the Battle of Britain, in which Polish pilots played a significant role, spelled out the collapse of Hitler’s notion about the use of the British fleet for evacuation of the Jews from Europe. Thus, by early December or slightly over a year before the “Wannsee Conference” took place, the Madagascar Plan was abandoned entirely by the Nazis.

However, many of the Holocaust profiteers and other members of the Holocaust Industry, do not like to mention the Madagascar Plan or even to admit the significance of the “Wannsee Briefing,” because apparently they would like to claim that the decision to commit the crime of genocide of the Jewish population was decided upon much earlier in Germany or possibly in other areas of Christianity.
Now let us take a little closer look at the Wansee briefing called the “Wansee Conference.” To begin with, this meeting happened soon after the crushing defeat of Hitler’s army in the battle for Moscow. Thus, while the Madagascar deportation plan was conceived during expectation of Nazi victory on the western front, a little more than a year later, the plan for the “Final Solution” was conceived in the realization, that Nazi defeat was possible, especially since the Japanese did not attack the Soviet Siberian army.

Actually, Joahim von Ribbentrop tried on March 28, 1941, in Berlin to convince count Oshima, the Ambassador of Japan, to deliver a "crushing blow" against the USSR together with Germany. The Germans wanted the Japanese to cut the trans-Siberian railway in eastern Asia and to attack Vladivostok. However the Japanese remembered "Hitler's Nazi-Soviet Pact of 23 August 1939,’ which pact was seen by the Japanese government as a betrayal of the anti-Comintern Pact. This fact reinforced Japan's decision to use Hitler, but never to trust him. The Nazi-Soviet pact was announced during a Japanese military disaster. ... Hostilities ended officially on September 16, 1939..." and the Soviets were free to invade Poland the next day (Laurie Barber, "Checkmate at the Russian Border: Russian-Japanese Conflict before Pearl Harbour", 2000).

In 1941 when the Germans were advancing deep into Russia, Richard Sorge, the Soviet spy in Tokyo, had before November 1, 1941, informed Stalin that Japan will not resume attacks against USSR in Asia. However, the Japanese sunk several Soviet ships and increased their forces in Korea and Manchuria as if they were planning to attack the Soviets.

Next month, Hitler declared war on the United States four days after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Apparently Hitler made his decision hopping in vain for a Japanese attacks on the USSR, while he was getting reports about American Navy's armed intervention against German submarines in the Atlantic. After the naval battle on Sept 4, 1941 between the USS Grear and a German submarine, President Roosevelt publicly ordered US Navy to shoot on sight any German submarine. ("Oxford History of the American People", Oxford University Press, 1965).

The situation of the German Army on the eastern front suddenly worsened. "On 1 December, [1941] Army Group Centre made a last all-out attack to take Moscow, but the balance of forces favored the defender. ... At down of 3 December, Zhukov's Siberian divisions [100,000 men with 300 tanks and 2000 artillery pieces] crushed through the extended flanks of the [German] Army Group Centre." (Stephen Badsey, "World War II Battle Plans" 2000, p. 98).

The Nazis believed that with the defeat, millions of legendary “Ost Juden” or eastern Jews could migrate into Germany. The possibility of this Jewish migration was what the Nazis wanted to preempt because of their racism and fear of communist victory as well as a fear of Jewish domination, which Germans have already experienced during the Weimar Republic and remembered the horrors such as the Jewish led “Red Republic” of Bavaria.
Actually the legend of the “Ost Juden” or “Beteljuden” was very strongly cultivated by German Jews, who fought for the domination of the German society and did not want the migration of masses of poor Jews from the East. We have to look back to the “golden decade” of Jewish exploitation of Ukraine. The “golden decade” ended with the Chmielnicki’s uprising which erupted in 1648 and slaughtered about 100,000 people. At that time, Ukraine was a province of Poland. The word “Ukraina” is a Polish word meaning the “borderland.”
According to professor Israel Shahak, Jewish leadership in Poland concluded, after the mass killing in the Ukraine, that the Jews will be evicted from Poland in the same way as they have been repeatedly evicted from England, France, individual German states and from Spain.
Jewish financiers started moving their capital out of Poland to Berlin, where they helped to finance the creation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, which Kingdom in 1772 initiated partitions of Poland, at the time under Russian domination. The crime of partitions destroyed the Polish State after nearly a thousand year long history, rich in cultural and political developments. Poland at times was one of the leading powers in Europe during the period from 840 to 1795.
The crime of partition of Poland (1772-1795) violated the Treaty of Westfalia of 1648, at the same time, the size of the Kingdom of Prussia more than doubled, so that it could dominate the 350 independent states and principalities on German territory and eventually unite the whole of Germany, with the capital in Berlin, in 1871. Up till then majority of the population of Prussia was Polish speaking and was exposed to very cruel “boot camp” routines to become Prussian soldiers.

During the take over of Polish provinces, which began in 1772 and ended in 1795 the wealthy and influential Jews, who had ambitions to dominate the Government in Berlin, used the Prussian army to chase out of the new provinces of Prussia the masses of poor Jews, whom they called “Beteljuden,” because they were often seen carrying with them their bed covers. Rich Jews did not like to use poor Jewish girls as servants and they preferred Christian girls, whom they contemptuously called “shiksas.”
Hitler’s grandmother named Schickelgruber served as a maid in a Jewish household in Vienna and after becoming pregnant returned to her village. There her son Alois was called “Jewish bastard.” Eventually she married and her son Alois Schickelgruber was adopted by a man named Hitler. Had Alois’ kept his original name, the grandson the servant girl, named Adolph, would have had hard time after 1933, to make people under the Nazi rule greet each other with words “Heil Schickelgruber” instead of “Heil Hitler” or “Heil Sieg.”

The Jews who dominated the Weimar Republik were against mass migration of poor Jews from the East and they helped to keep alive the propaganda against the “Ost Juden,” which propaganda eventually turned deadly for all the Jews in Nazi occupied Europe during WWII. It should be noticed that in the U.S. during the war, rich Jews with German background, did not protest against the atrocities committed on the Jews by the Nazis.
Thus, by the end of January 1942 Jews became the number one target of Nazi killings. Up till then the Polish leadership community was mass murdered starting on September 1, 1939. However, the Polish leadership community continued to be exterminated by Nazis as well as by the Soviets. Unlike Poles the Jews were not victims of mass murder by the Soviets and often many of them served as communist commissars and executioners.
Jews in the NKVD were among Soviet mass killers of the Poles at Katyn and many other places of execution of Poles listed on the NKVD “Katyn List” of 27,000 people, mainly Polish officers, prisoners of war (POW) in 1939-1941. Communist terror was formed in the tradition of the 1000 years of terror of the Rabbis exercised over Jewish communities as described in the books of Israel Shahak and other Jewish writers. The Soviets and their terror apparatus returned to Poland with the retreat of Hitler’s army in 1944.

The death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, were conducting executions of Jews and Communists from the beginning of the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The head of the Nazi terror apparatus Reinhold Heydrich issued an order to the Nazi death squads, to take advantage of mass executions of some 30,000 Polish citizens by the NKVD in Soviet prisons during the Summer of 1941. The Nazi executioners were to eradicate evidence of their crimes and to pretend that the relatives, of the Polish victims of the NKVD, were taking vengeance on the Jewish collaborators of Soviet executioners, in such localities as Jedwabne, for example.
Later Jedwabne was exploited by the Holocaust Industry as a “recycling” of the Nazi propaganda scheme in movies and books about Catholic neighbors killing Jewish neighbors. Holocaust Industry spreads this propaganda in order to claim some $65 billion in damages from Poland, for the benefit of the Holocaust profiteers themselves. Poles in general are sick and tired of the constant barrage of slander by the Holocaust Industry that falsely describes Catholic Poles and the entire Catholic Church under pope Pius XII, as partners of the Nazis in the killing of Jews.

Unfortunately very few people in the West realize that Auschwitz was intended and was used to serve as the extermination site to kill Polish leadership. The continuing slanderous campaign in the media is conducted by the Holcaust profiteers and people who support them. This activity is well described by Norman Finkelstein in his book “Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering.”
Nazi genocidal intentions towards the Jews are documented most completely in the documentary record covering the Wannsee meeting, in which there is a Nazi estimate of eleven million Jews, including five million Jews in the Soviet Union, which was obviously inaccurate. The minutes of this meeting survived the war. Senior members of the key ministries and institutions were to conduct the deportation and extermination of the Jews at installations designated for this purpose.

During the Nuremberg Trials these minutes of the Wannsee meeting were used extensively and proved that the strategy for removing the Jews from Nazi Germany was changing from encouraging emigration to requiring deportation, forced labor and then systematic killing process, after Jews lost any value as hostages, once Hitler declared war against the United States.
High estimates include 1,200,000 Jews killed by Nazi death squads, the Einsatzgrupen, 3,000,000 in the death camps, 500,000 in main concentration camps and 500,000 in the ghettos including transportation, or in sum possibly over five million Jew, mostly poverty stricken people (Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski, “Jews in Poland: A Documentary History: The Rise of The Jews as a Nation from Congerssus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel,” New York 1993, Hippocrene Books Inc. page 326,)

A detailed estimate of mass killings during the twentieth century of a total of 216 million people was made by Milton Leitenberg, of the Center for International Security Studies. There are other estimates of the number of victims, however, all of them agree, that during the twentieth the largest number of people was killed, during the entire history of mankind.
Tragic losses of the Jews represent less than three percent of the total human loses during the twentieth century, which century therefore is often called by historians the “century of death.” Wars and communist governments were the main culprits. In both major causes of suffering, Jewish bankers and ideologues, as well as executioners, played a major role.
The Prime Minister of the Polish Government-in-Exile, General Władysław Sikorski issued the only wartime appeal to stop Nazi genocide in occupied Poland. The urgent appeal was primarily addressed to the governments of the United States and Great Britain. On December 10, 1942, it called for immediate bombing the access railways, gas chambers, and crematoria, among other measures of retaliation and punishment against Nazi Germany. Sikorski’s government published the text of the appeal in an official brochure of the Minister of Foreign Affairs: “The Mass Extermination of Jews in German Occupied Poland” (Huchinson & C0 LTD, London, New York, 1942).

Discussion of Jewish fate in Europe during WWII should not exclude the topic of the book “Hitler’s Jewish Soldiers,” by Bryan Mark Rigg, University Press of Kansas, 2002, in which the author refutes the idea that "All Jews Were Victims" of the Holocaust because: “Not every one who had Jewish ancestry was a victim of the death camps” (Rigg, p. 268).
According to Israel’s “Law of Return,” a Jew is defined as a person having a Jewish mother while remaining unconverted to another religion, especially Catholicism, or one who converted to Judaism. Thus, a large fraction of the Mischlinge (German-Jewish “mongrels”) consisted of Jews that would qualify for immigration to Israel. Rigg estimates that 60% of half-Jews and 30% of quarter-Jews in Nazi Germany were Jewish by that standard (p. 18, 283).
The number of Mischlinge spared from persecution by Hitler numbers in the thousands (p. 3). There were perhaps 16,000 Mischlinge officers were in the Wehrmacht in 1940, and more than 150,000 Mischlinge fought in Nazi forces during WWII. Top Nazi officials were actively involved in protection of German Jews, including Ribbentrop, Sauckel, Bormann, Canaris, Donitz, Heydrich, Himmler, von Schirach, Kaltenbrunner, and Goring (p. 182).
Moreover, Luftwaffe Field Marshall Erhart Milch, was either a half or full Jew (pp. 29-30). According to Rigg (p. 203), some 200 full-blooded Jews (the Schutzjuden, or protected Jews) were spared persecution in Berlin alone and at least 6,000 full-blooded Jews served in the Wehrmacht (p. 65). Rigg describes a number of Mischlinge directly involved in the German conquest of Poland in 1939.
Rigg writes about the involvement of German Jews in the Holocaust itself such as Eichmann, Killy, Eppinger, Goldschlag, Abrahamsohn, and Scherwitz (p. 258). Hitler himself suffered of an obsessive fear of his own Jewishness. Rigg also mentioned the probable Jewishness of Reinhard Heydrich (p. 176), one of the chief architects of the Holocaust. However, most documents that trace the ancestry of top Nazi officials have been destroyed. German Muslims were accepted as full Germans (p. 18). German Mischlinge were spared from extermination (p. 169).

Earlier, before WWII, German Jews and Mischlinge scorned the Ostjuden (the eastern European Jews), and advocated German discrimination against them (pp. 12-13), which I have discussed already. As for the struggle of the Holocaust Industry to impose on the world Jewish superiority, Rigg mentioned Jewish prayer in which Jews thank God that “He did not create them as gentiles” (p. 48).
Rigg?s did not mention that the blonde, blue-eyed Polish children were kidnapped and raised as Germans (as part of the Lebensborn program), while all other Poles were defined as untermenschen (subhumans). Rigg omits the fact that the same tripartite division used against Jews was also used against Slavs, namely those 1). Condemned to immediate death, 2) Kept alive only as long as deemed useful to the Reich, and 3) Provisionally accepted, to varying degrees, as “true” Germans. In the first group were several million murdered Poles, including half of the Polish intelligentsia.

The Soviets played a key role in the actual creation of the state of Israel for the purpose of creating conflict in the Middle East during the Cold War. In March 1947, Andrei Gromyko, Ambasador of the U.S.S.R at the United Nations made the first ever formal proposal in UN to create the state of Israel in Palestine. This happened at the end of series of some sixteen pogroms staged by the NKVD in the satellite countries and after the eviction of some 711,000 Jews, through the “Iron Curtain.” Of all of these refugees only 312,000 Jews actually arrived in Palestine.
On August 1946 the Soviets staged the last postwar pogrom in the satellite states. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia. Before that date there were four pogroms staged in Budapest, Hungary and three in Soviet occupied Poland . The NKVD conducted the remaining pogroms in the other satellite states. (Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian, “The Pogrom of Kielce,” Culture Wars,”Vol. 26, No 11, November, 2006).
Among Jewish refugees were veterans of the Red Army, who were given Czech weapons free of charge, by the Soviets, so that they could conquer land for the new state, which was recognized by the UN on May 14, 1948, within borders that lasted until 1967.

Earlier, in 1950, the Zionists organized pogroms in Arab states and caused arrival to Israel of some 547,000 Arab Jews.
About one million two hundred sixty thousand Jews were brutally chased out of their homes in Europe and in the Arab states for the purpose of creating of the state of Israel which was made possible by the immigration of some 760,000 Jewish refugees (Pogonowski, Iwo Cyprian. “Poland an Illustrated History,” New York: Hippocrene Books Inc., 2000. Page 224). From the beginning the state of Israel gave shelter to all Jews including wartime criminals as long as they were qualified to take advantage of the “law of return.”

The Holocaust Industry and such people as professor Yehuda Bauer of the University of Jerusalem may have political and financial reasons to treat Wannsee as a “silly story,” however for the state of Israel Wannsee is a very real warning to come to terms with their Arab neighbors and not to treat the Palestinians the way Nazis treated Jews. Actually, Yehuda Bauer is quoted in the January 30, 1992 issue of the Canadian Jewish News to the effect that Wannsee meeting “was hardly a conference” and that “the public still repeats time after time the silly story that at Wannsee the extermination of the Jews was arrived at.” This statement contradicts detailed description of the historic change of Hitler’s attitude from planning evacuation of Jews from Europe to Madagascar by using French and English navy, to planning extermination of European Jews after the disaster suffered by German Army at Moscow a year later.
Thus, the genocide of the Jews was not the cause of the war, but it resulted from Nazi defeats on the Soviet front. Jews played an important role in the history of both world wars and especially in Lenin’s Bolshevik Revolution. The Madagascar Plan, the Wannsee Briefing, are far from being “silly stories,” they are important turning points in the history of the Jews during Word War II.

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Iwo Cyprian Pogonowski

Born Sept. 3, 1921
Lwów, Poland

in Dec 1939 left Warsaw. Dec 30, 1939 arrested by Ukrainians serving the Gestapo in Dukla, then transferred to Barwinek, Krosno, Jaslo, Tarnów, Oswiecim, arrived in Oranienburg-Sachsenhausen on Aug. 10, 1940.

April 19, 1945 started on the Death March of Brandenburg from Sachsenhausen; escaped gunfire of SS-guards and arrived to Schwerin and freedom on May 2, 1945.

September 1945 arrived in Brussels, Belgium; obtained admission as a regular student at the Catholic University: Institute Superieur de Commerce, St. Ignace in Antwerp.

in 1954 graduated in Civil Engineering at the top of his class. Was invited to join honorary societies: Tau Beta Pi (general engineering honorary society), Phi Kappa Phi (academic honorary society equivalent to Phi Beta Kappa), Pi Mu (mechanical engineering honorary society), and Chi Epsilon (civil engineering honorary society). Taught descriptive geometry at the University of Tennessee;

in 1955 graduated with M.S. degree in Industrial Engineering.

in 1955 started working for Shell Oil Company in New Orleans. After one year of managerial training was assigned to design of marine structures for drilling and production of petroleum.

in 1960 started working for Texaco Research and Development in Houston, Texas as a Project Engineer. Authored total of 50 American and foreign patents on marine structures for the petroleum industry;
wrote an article: The Rise and Fall of the Polish Commonwealth - A Quest for a Representative Government in Central and Eastern Europe in the 14th to 18th Centuries. Started to work on a Tabular History of Poland.

in 1972 moved to Blacksburg, Virginia. During the following years worked as Consulting Engineer for Texaco, also taught in Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University as Adjunct Professor in the College of Civil Engineering teaching courses on marine structures of the petroleum industry. Designed and supervised the construction of a hill top home for his family, also bought 500 acre ranch (near Thomas Jefferson National Forest) where he restored 200 years old mill house on a mountain stream.

in 1978 prepared Polish-English, English-Polish Dictionary with complete phonetics, published by Hippocrene Books Inc. The dictionary included a Tabular History of Poland, Polish Language, People, and Culture as well as Pogonowski's phonetic symbols for phonetic transcriptions in English and Polish at each dictionary entry; the phonetic explanations were illustrated with cross-sections of speech (organs used to pronounce the sounds unfamiliar to the users). It was the first dictionary with phonetic transcription at each Polish entry for use by English speakers

in 1981 prepared Practical Polish-English Dictionary with complete phonetics, published by Hippocrene Books Inc.

in 1983 prepared Concise Polish-English Dictionary with complete phonetics, published by Hippocrene Books Inc. Wrote an analysis of Michael Ch ci ski's Poland, Communism, Nationalism, Anti-Semitism. Also selected crucial quotations from Norman Davies' God's Playground - A History of Poland on the subject of the Polish indigenous democratic process.

in 1985 prepared Polish-English Standard Dictionary with complete phonetics, published by Hippocrene Books Inc. Also prepared a revised and expanded edition of the Concise Polish-English Dictionary with complete phonetics, also published by Hippocrene Books Inc.

in 1987 prepared Poland: A Historical Atlas on Polish History and Prehistory including 200 maps and graphs as well as Chronology of Poland's Constitutional and Political Development, and the Evolution of Polish Identity - The Milestones. An introductory chapter was entitled Poland the Middle Ground. Aloysius A. Mazewski President of Polish-American Congress wrote an introduction. The Atlas was published by Hippocrene Books Inc. and later by Dorset Press of the Barnes and Noble Co. Inc. which sends some 30 million catalogues to American homes including color reproduction of book covers. Thus, many Americans were exposed to the cover of Pogonowski's Atlas showing the range of borders of Poland during the history - many found out for the firsttime that Poland was an important power in the past. Total of about 30,000 atlases were printed so far.

In 1988 the publication of Poland: A Historical Atlas resulted in a number of invitations extended by several Polonian organizations to Iwo Pogonowski to present Television Programs on Polish History. Pogonowski responded and produced over two year period 220 half-hour video programs in his studio at home (and at his own expense.) These programs formed a serial entitled: Poland, A History of One Thousand Years. Total of over 1000 broadcasts of these programs were transmitted by cable television in Chicago, Detroit-Hamtramck, Cleveland, and Blacksburg.

in 1990-1991 translated from the Russian the Catechism of a Revolutionary of 1869 in which crime has been treated as a normal part of the revolutionary program. Started preparation of the Killing the Best and the Brightest: A Chronology of the USSR-German Attempt to Behead the Polish Nation showing how the USSR became a prototype of modern totalitarian state, how this prototype was adapted in Germany by the Nazis.

in 1991 prepared Polish Phrasebook, Polish Conversations for Americans including picture code for gender and familiarity, published by Hippocrene Books Inc.

in 1991 prepared English Conversations for Poles with Concise Dictionary published by Hippocrene Books Inc. By then a total of over 100,000 Polish-English, English-Polish Dictionaries written by Pogonowski were sold in the United States and abroad.

in 1992 prepared a Dictionary of Polish, Latin, Hebrew, and Yiddish Terms used in Contacts between Poles and Jews. It was prepared for the history of Jews in Poland as well as 115 maps and graphs and 172 illustrations, paintings, drawings, and documents, etc. of Jewish life in Poland. This material was accompanied by proper annotations.

in 1993 prepared Jews in Poland, Rise of the Jews as a Nation from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel, published by Hippocrene Books Inc. in 3000 copies. Foreword was written by Richard Pipes, professor of history at Harvard University, and Pogonowski's school mate in the Keczmar school in Warsaw. Part I included: a Synopsis of 1000 Year History of Jews in Poland; the 1264 Statute of Jewish Liberties in Poland in Latin and English translation; Jewish Autonomy in Poland 1264-1795; German Annihilation of the Jews. In appendixes are documents and illustrations. An Atlas is in the Part III. It is divided as follows: Early Jewish Settlements 966-1264; The Crucial 500 Years, 1264-1795; Competition (between Poles and Jews) Under Foreign Rule, 1795-1918; The Last Blossoming of Jewish Culture in Poland, 1918-1939; German Genocide of the Jews, 1940-1944; Jewish Escape from Europe 1945-1947 - The End of European (Polish) Phase of Jewish History (when most of world's Jewry lived in Europe). Pogonowski began to write a new book starting with the Chronology of the Martyrdom of Polish Intelligentsia during World War II and the Stalinist Terror; the book in preparation was entitled Killing the Best and the Brightest.

in 1995 prepared Dictionary of Polish Business, Legal and Associated Terms for use with the new edition of the Practical Polish-English, English-Polish Dictionary and later to be published as a separate book.

in 1996 Pogonowski's Poland: A Historical Atlas; was translated into Polish; some 130 of the original 200 maps printed in color; the Chronology of Poland was also translated into Polish. The Atlas was published by Wydawnictwo Suszczy ski I Baran in Kraków in 3000 copies; additional publications are expected. Prepared Polish-English, Eglish-Polish Compact Dictionary with complete phonetics, published by Hippocrene Books Inc.

in 1997 finished preparation of the Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary with complete phonetics including over 200,000 entries, in three volumes on total of 4000 pages; it is published by Hippocrene Books Inc; the Polish title is: Uniwesalny S ownik Polsko-Angielski. Besides years of work Pogonowski spent over $50,000 on computers, computer services, typing, and proof reading in order to make the 4000 page dictionary camera ready; assisted in the preparation of second edition of Jews in Poland, Rise of the Jews from Congressus Judaicus in Poland to the Knesset in Israel published in fall of 1997. Prepared computer programs for English-Polish Dictionary to serve as a companion to the Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary printed by the end of May 1997.

in 1998 Pogonowski organized preparation of CD ROM for the Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary, Practical English-Polish Dictionary, Polish Phrasebook for Tourists and Travelers to Poland, all published earlier by Iwo C. Pogonowski. The Phrasebook includes 280 minutes of bilingual audio read by actors. Started preparation for a new edition of Poland: A Historical Atlas. New Appendices are being prepared on such subjects as: Polish contribution to Allied's wartime intelligence: the breaking of the Enigma Codes, Pune Munde rocket production; Poland's contribution to the international law since 1415; Poland's early development of rocket technology such as Polish Rocketry Handbook published in 1650 in which Poles introduced for the first time into the world's literature concepts of multiple warheads, multistage rockets, new controls in rocket flight, etc. Poland's Chronology is being enlarged to reflect the mechanisms of subjugation of Polish people by the Soviet terror apparatus. Continued preparation of the Killing the Best and the Brightest: A Chronology of the USSR-German Attempt to Behead the Polish Nation, including the 1992 revelations from Soviet archives as well as the current research in Poland. Continued preparation of two-volume English Polish Dictionary, a companion to the Unabridged Polish-English Dictionary published in 1997. Reviewed Upiorna Dekada by J. T. Gross.

in 1999 Pogonowski continued writing Poland - An Illustrated History and preparing for it 21 maps and diagrams and 89 illustrations.

in 2000 Pogonowski prepared, in a camera ready form, Poland - An Illustrated History; it was published by Hippocrene Books Inc. NY 2000 and recommended by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor under President Carter, as "An important contribution to the better understanding of Polish history, which demonstrates in a vivid fashion the historical vicissitudes of that major European nation."

Retreat of the Antiwar Democrats


Retreat of the Antiwar Democrats
by Patrick J. Buchanan


In November 2006, Republicans were voted out of power in the Congress and Democrats installed to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war in Iraq.

The war had been going on as long as America's war on Nazi Germany. No end was in sight. U.S. casualties and costs were rising. Bush's approval rating had sunk to record lows.

The day after the GOP rout, Bush cashiered his war minister, Donald Rumsfeld. In December, the Iraq Study Group, chaired by Bush I Secretary of State James Baker, released its report.
"The situation in Iraq is grave and deteriorating. ... A slide toward chaos could trigger the collapse of Iraq's government and a humanitarian disaster. ... The situation in Baghdad and several provinces is dire. ... Pessimism is pervasive. ... Violence is increasing in scope, complexity and lethality."

His policy collapsing, Bush made a last throw of the dice. Gen. David Petraeus was named to command U.S. forces, and his request for a "surge" of 21,500 additional U.S. troops accepted. Petraeus also demanded and got 10,000 more support troops.

Still, by April, as the "surge" brigades began to arrive, Harry Reid, Senate majority leader, was declaring, "This war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything." Democrats, the party base goading them on, tried to impose upon Bush, as a condition of further funding for the war, deadlines for the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

Bush vetoed the bill. He was sustained. Then, he rubbed the Democrats' noses in their defeat by demanding and getting $100 billion more to finance the surge and the war. There are today 30,000 more troops in Iraq than when the Democratic Congress was elected.

As Petraeus testifies, the antiwar movement appears broken. Reid has said his party will not try to de-fund the war or impose new deadlines. It will follow GOP Sen. John Warner, who has suggested it might be helpful if the president withdrew a brigade by Christmas, to signal the Iraqi government to get its house in order. Petraeus has agreed to that.

Next April is the date when the Iraq Study Group said all U.S. combat brigades should be out of Iraq. By then, Bush and Petraeus will have tens of thousands more troops in Iraq than when the Democrats were elected and the ISG reported. The lame duck is not all that lame.

What happened to the party of Speaker Pelosi and Reid, which was going to end U.S. involvement in the war and not permit Bush to pursue victory the way Richard Nixon pursued it in Vietnam for four years?

Answer: Terrified of the possible consequences of the policies they recommend, Democrats lack the courage to impose those policies.

When it comes to issues of war, Democrats are an intimidated lot. Sens. Clinton, Edwards, Biden, Dodd and Reid were all stampeded by Bush into voting him a blank check for war in October 2002. Why? Because they feared Bush would declare them weak or unpatriotic if they denied him the authority to go to war, at a time of his choosing, until he had made a more compelling case for war.

Now they regret what they did. But, in a showdown, they will do it again. For Democrats have been psychologically damaged by 60 years of GOP attacks on them as the party of retreat and surrender.

Their hero, FDR, was posthumously ripped apart for Yalta, the appeasement of "Uncle Joe," and the abandonment to communism of Poland and Eastern Europe. Truman fired Gen. MacArthur, fought a no-win war in Korea and was savaged, along with Gen. Marshall and Dean Acheson, by Joe McCarthy. By 1952, Truman was at 23 percent and finished. In January 1954, the Tailgunner was riding high at 50 percent.

Came then Vietnam and the credible charge that the Liberal Establishment, The Best and the Brightest, had marched us in, then cut and run, abandoning our Vietnamese and Cambodian allies to a holocaust, and bringing on the worst strategic defeat in U.S. history.
When Ronald Reagan, in the closing days of the 1980 campaign, declared Vietnam a "noble cause," the liberal media leapt on it as a gaffe. It wasn't. Reagan was wired in to Middle America.

John Kerry understood this. Thus, he ran in 2004 as a decorated Vietnam vet, not the onetime icon of the antiwar movement.

Bush is winning today because he has jettisoned the jabber about global democracy and argues that a U.S. withdrawal risks a strategic disaster, national humiliation, massacre of our friends and triumph for al-Qaida. Democrats, fearing he may be right, are in paralysis.
Scourged for 20 years over "Who Lost China?" they don't want to spend the next 20 years answering "Who Lost the Middle East?"

Thus the rout of the peace Democrats. But the movement will be back. For, Petraeus' good news notwithstanding, there is no light yet visible at the end of this tunnel.


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Sunday, September 9, 2007

Give NATO Allies Visa-Free U.S. Travel


Give NATO Allies Visa-Free U.S. Travel
Visitors from Poland and other Eastern European NATO members should be able to enter the U.S. without visas
by Timothy Spence


The White House should act quickly to rectify the unfair treatment Poles and other NATO allies get when they try to travel to the United States.

Among its other failings, George W. Bush's White House has chalked up a dismal record on how it treats America's diminished ranks of allies. Even the "special relationship" with Britain doesn't hold much water, as Tony Blair discovered countless times in his dealings with Washington.

Now Poland is finding out what it's like having friends in Washington.

Poland and Polish-Americans have lobbied for several years to exempt Polish business and leisure travelers from having to obtain visas to enter the United States. Americans going to Poland have enjoyed that privilege since 1991.

Poles must apply for a visa at the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw or consulate Krakow, in most cases undergo an interview, and then wait for a decision. Some 20 percent of those applications are rejected.

Poland is not the only ally that suffers this treatment. Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, and Slovakia have been excluded from the visa-waiver program. Like Poland, all these NATO allies have contributed to U.S. operations in Iraq.

The United States waives visas for 27 nations, including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, and Western European countries. Only Slovenia among the newer NATO members enjoys visa-free travel.

Poland has, as Bush said recently, "a very unique and strong relationship" with the United States. It goes back more than 200 years, when Polish patriots helped fight British colonial rule in America. Poles fought on the Union side in the Civil War and with the Allies against Nazi Germany. And today, the Polish government has fended off opponents across Europe in support of Bush's plan to base a missile defense system on Polish soil. Beyond those strategic ties, 10 million Americans trace their heritage to Poland, and the Polish language is still spoken in thousands of homes in states like Illinois, Michigan, and New York.

HOLLOW GESTURE

Bush this month signed into law a sweeping domestic security bill that includes a provision giving America's "allies in the war on terrorism" visa-free travel. But it's a hollow gesture, because the law eases rather than eliminates the benchmark for qualifying under the visa-waiver program, which means that for now, Poland and other allies will be left out.

The new law, the Improving America's Security Act of 2007, requires that countries seeking visa waivers have a visa-refusal rate of less than 10 percent. U.S. law states that people with links to terrorism or with criminal records, as well as those who falsify information, can be refused entry. Otherwise, it is up to consular officers to decide who goes and who doesn't, and Poles have had a reputation for bypassing the rules and overstaying their visas.

Polish leaders, pressure groups, and members of the U.S. Congress with strong Polish-American constituencies contend that as a valued NATO ally, Poland deserves fair treatment, and that as a European Union member, the number of Poles trying to beat the system to get work in the United States will diminish. Lech Kaczynski, the Polish president, reportedly raised the visa issue when he met Bush at the White House in July.

To his credit, Bush has expressed support for greater flexibility in the visa-waiver program. But in the drive to approve the domestic security bill, a catch-all measure that covers transportation security and the "advancement of democratic values," U.S. policymakers did no favors for some of their most valued democratic assets abroad. A spokesman for the Polish Embassy in Washington told Transitions Online that "the final result is a little disappointing, but it is a step in the right direction."

America has an obligation to defend itself from terrorists and criminals, and the right to regulate migration to protect its economy. That is a contentious issue, no less in Europe than in the United States. But citizens from newcomer NATO countries do not pose threats to either U.S. security or the economy, and the 70,000 Poles who live in the United States illegally represent a fraction in the 11 million undocumented migrants.

The "right direction" now is to amend the new law and treat citizens of these countries the same way they treat Americans. It is a chance for Bush to team up with influential Democrats – including Senator Barbara Mikulski of Maryland, who has called a visa waiver for Poland "long overdue" -- and give some of America's most committed allies the equal treatment they deserve.

Saturday, September 8, 2007

Will Neocon Fanaticism Destroy America?


Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk


Former CIA and State Department analyst Mel Goodman about how the Bush administration is using military force, not diplomacy, as America's main tool of foreign policy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are meeting with the 9/11 Commission today at the White House.
Their words will neither be recorded for history nor broadcast to the nation. The White House is insisting that no recording or transcript be made of their comments and only one member of the 10-person panel will be allowed to take notes. Bush and Cheney, who are not testifying under oath, will also be joined by White House counsel Alberto Gonzales and another lawyer from the counsel's office.


Melvin Goodman, former CIA and State Department analyst. He is a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and director of the Center's National Security Project. He is the author of the new book "Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives Are Putting the World at Risk" (Prometheus)

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AMY GOODMAN: We're joined in our Washington studio right now by Melvin Goodman. He is a former CIA and State Department analyst, now Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, and head of the center's National Security Project. He has just co-written a book called "Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neo-Conservatives are Putting the World at Risk." With these kinds of stipulations and restrictions on the White House testimony before the 9-11 Commission, I’m surprised the commissioners are allowed to listen, Mel Goodman?

MEL GOODMAN: Well, why did they agree to such an arrangement, that's what I can't understand. They had some leverage on the White House because of the support of the families of the people who were lost on 9-11. I think they should have used that leverage. I don't think they should have been rolled over so easily. Now that they have them, it is going to be difficult to compare the remarks of one to the other with both in the room at the same time. I hope what they do, however, is not dwell so much on 9-11. I think we know what happened at 9-11. We know what a terrible failure it was on the part of the CIA and FBI. And the White House was to a certain extent asleep at the switch as well, but if Bush is going to talk about the need for intelligence reform, I would like to know, does he have any ideas whatsoever about what can be done with the intelligence community. Here is where the center of gravity is for what went wrong on 9-11. Here is where the center of gravity will be for avoiding another terrorist attack and responding in a way that's more efficient so so many lives are not lost as they were on 9-11. That's what they have to hear from Bush and Cheney. I don't think they're going to be hearing those things.

AMY GOODMAN: Why did they roll over, and what is the role of Phillip Zelikow, the director of the 9-11 commission? We have reported in the past that he is the co-author of a book with Condoleezza Rice. So, they clearly are colleagues and are close.

MEL GOODMAN: Well, he has ties to the first George Bush administration from 1989 to 1992. He has a very close working relationship, professional relationship with Condi Rice. He headed a case study project at Harvard and took hundreds of thousands of dollars from the CIA. He used CIA documentation and produced case studies that exonerated the CIA from any charges of politicization of intelligence, particularly with regard to the Soviet Union. He has generally been an administration voice in all of the matters that he has dealt with, whether they are Democratic or Republican administrations. He didn't do a very good job in editing the Kennedy tapes, and archivists have been appalled by the work that Earnest Mae, who he named a staff member on the commission and Phillip Zelikow did. Having said that, however, the staff studies that we have seen so far, and there have been about a dozen of them, have not been bad. My problem there is, the print media has done a poor job. Only "The New York Times" has done one article on the staff studies that point to all of the failures. In fact, if you compare the questioners of the commission, which I have done, to the factual content of the staff studies, you have to wonder if the commissioners are even reading the staff studies. Because there's very good information in there about CIA failure and FBI failure and what went wrong at the Pentagon, and these questions are not being addressed. They spent far more time with Richard Clarke’s credibility, even though Clarke’s charges hold up extremely well on the reduced urgency on the Bush administration with regard to terrorism and the war on Iraq against the diversion against the so-called war against terrorism. So you have to wonder who is dotting i's and crossing t's on this commission.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Mel Goodman, in your book, you talk quite a bit about how the Bush administration has radically changed the US foreign policy in the world, actually since World War II. You talk about the policy that emerged from World War II, more emphasis on collective security and more emphasis on diplomacy, and that this has been essentially shattered. Could you talk a little bit about that?

MEL GOODMAN: Yes, Juan, I think there are two fundamental points here. One, what Bush has done is turned upside-down 50 years of bipartisan foreign policy on the part of Democratic and Republican administrations. He has walked away from the international organizations. He has walked away from the United Nations. He has abandoned arms control. He is deploying a national missile defense which is now funded at over $10 billion a year in the current defense budget, which makes it the most expensive weapon system that we have in the defense budget. He has abrogated the anti-ballistic missile treaty, which was the cornerstone to deterrence and arms control. He has walked away from multilateralism and walked away from deterrence and containment. When you look at the war against Iraq, it's really symptomatic of a larger way of looking at the world that's putting the United States at a tremendous risk. This was a so-called pre-emptive war. You cannot go to war preemptively unless you have intelligence that gives you the knowledge to go to war. We didn't have such intelligence. So the White House created it. The CIA tailored it. The other point that is important is Iraq is far worse than Vietnam. In the case of Vietnam, I think Johnson and Nixon realized they were in a mess. They didn't know how to get out of it, and it took a very long time, but they compartmented Vietnam, and they tried to protect other aspects of American foreign policy. They established an opening to China, and improved relations with the Soviet Union, and they entered into arms control agreements with the Soviet Union, both SALT and ABM. They engaged in incremental and step by step arrangements in the Middle East, even with Syria and Israel, there was one, two with Egypt and Israel. This administration is not doing any of that. They're not only not compartmenting Iraq, but they're worsening our relations everywhere around the world, particularly if you look at the press conference between Sharon and Bush that took place in this town two weeks ago.

AMY GOODMAN: Mel Goodman, on that issue of the press conference and Sharon and Bush, what about the issue of assassination? In “Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk,” you address the issue of Bush lifting the ban on assassination.

MEL GOODMAN: Yeah. This is very dangerous. One thing that took place about a year half ago that we gave very little attention to, was when the CIA was controlling a Predator with a Hellfire missile and blew up a car in the desert in Yemen that supposedly had a driver who was from al-Qaeda. But there was also an American citizen in that car. Four people died in that explosion. You talk about depriving people of due process. This was an American citizen in the car, murdered by the CIA. There was never an investigation. There was never any attempt on the part of the congress to look on this. I think we know now from the Church Commission reports in the mid 1970's how dangerous it is to turn the CIA loose on this kind of political assassination. What I fear with the combination of preemptive war and attack, military dominance a return to low-yield nuclear weapons, which this administration has endorsed even though the uniformed members of the military want low yield nuclear weapons. They’re dangerous, and you can't fight on a battlefield where you have low yield weapons and unleashing the CIA. This policy is totally out of control.

AMY GOODMAN: John Negroponte. He looks like he's about to be confirmed, now US ambassador to the United Nations, more importantly, before that, ambassador to Honduras. We have done a lot on this with people have appealed to him 20 year ago, as Honduras was the staging ground for the illegal Contra War, to deal with the victims in Honduras of a CIA-trained battalion 316. What do you know about this?

MEL GOODMAN: The very simple thing about John Negroponte, that has to be known, is that he was part of the cover-up of the human rights disasters and murders and civil rights abuses that took praise in Honduras during the time that he was ambassador. Part of this was part of the Contra War, but the cover-up is something that never should have been tolerated. So, if you look around the administration and you say Elliot Abrams in the White House who is supposed to be in control of Middle East policy, even though he has no knowledge whatsoever of the Middle East, and if he had not been pardoned, he would have been in jail. Negroponte was involved in a cover-up. John Poindexter, who is no longer in the administration, also had to be pardoned, or he would have been in jail. The abuses of this administration and the politicization of every department and agency of this government is on another scale. That's why I strongly believe that no president has reduced America’s international stature the way this president has.

JUAN GONZALEZ: Mel Goodman, to return to Iraq for a second. We're hearing reports now that Paul Bremer and the Coalition Provisional Authority leaders have begun to meet with a lot of the former Ba'ath party leaders in an effort to find some group within the country that can achieve stability before the June 30 deadline. Any thoughts about that as now even former generals in the Iraqi army and other major leaders are being talked to about coming back into some sort of power.

MEL GOODMAN: The problem with that is it's probably too late. We're scrambling once again. It was Bremer who came in to replace General Gardner, who made the decision to let the Iraqi military go, and let the iraqi police go, to let Iraqi law enforcement people go. Don't deal with the Ba'athists. These were all the people who were responsible for a certain amount of order in the country, in the country of Iraq. To try to patch this together now as Bremer is leaving and Negroponte is coming in to man this huge American embassy that will have more than 1,000 American officials in it, but still not real authority, because the military is still running the country of Iraq, the American military. So, it's not going to be sovereignty or limited sovereignty for the Iraqis. There's not going to be real control on the part of the ambassador.

AMY GOODMAN: We'll take on that issue of a little bit of sovereignty with Phyllis Bennis next, who will join us in our Washington studio. Mel Goodman, I want to thank you for being with us. Long-time CIA analyst and now co-author of the book, "Bush League Diplomacy: How the Neoconservatives are Putting the World at Risk."

Friday, September 7, 2007

Ambasador RP skrytykował USA w "Washington Post''


Ambasador RP skrytykował USA w "Washington Post''
strem, IAR2007-08-29, ostatnia aktualizacja 2007-08-29 10:36
Ambasador Rzeczpospolitej w Waszyngtonie Janusz Reiter skrytykował amerykański Kongres za to, że nie włączył naszego kraju do Programu Ruchu Bezwizowego. Komentarz polskiego dyplomaty ukazał się w dzisiejszym wydaniu dziennika "Washington Post".

Fot. Wojciech Surdziel / AG
Janusz Reiter
ZOBACZ TAKŻE
Amerykanie biorą zakładnika (30-08-07, 00:00)
Sześć krajów UE i NATO apeluje do USA w sprawie zniesienia wiz m.in. dla Polaków (11-08-07, 01:00)
USA: Spada liczba imigrantów z Polski (09-08-07, 12:54)
Premier: Polacy nie wracają z USA w terminie i wszyscy za to płacimy (04-08-07, 15:38)
POSŁUCHAJ
Reiter o wizach (IAR, 00:55 0,43MB) (29-08-07, 08:52)
Janusz Reiter napisał, że obywatele Polski i innych krajów naszego regionu uważają przepisy wizowe USA za anachroniczne, niesprawiedliwe i upokarzające. Ambasador podkreślił, że przekonanie, iż każdy Polak tylko marzy o osiedleniu się w Chicago, dawno straciło swą aktualność. Reiter wyjaśnił Amerykanom, że ci którzy szukają pracy za granicą mogą ją bez problemu znaleźć w krajach Unii Europejskiej, które są dla nas otwarte.

Ambasador RP uznał też za nieuzasadnione obawy, że ułatwienia wizowe dla obywateli państw Europy Środkowej osłabią bezpieczeństwo USA. Przypomniał, że nasz region należy do najstabilniejszych na świecie, a Polska jest jednym z najbliższych sojuszników Ameryki w wojnie z terroryzmem.

Janusz Reiter zaapelował do władz USA by zmieniły przepisy, którymi kierują się amerykańskie konsulaty i doprowadziły do zmniejszenia wskaźnika odmów wizowych. Dzięki temu Polska i inne kraje mogłyby wejść do Programu Ruchu Bezwizowego.

Polski dyplomata przestrzegł, że jeśli USA będą traktować Europę Środkową jako partnera wyłącznie w dziedzinie bezpieczeństwa, to proamerykański kierunek polityki zagranicznej państw naszego regionu straci społeczne poparcie.

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Poland takes tough stand on American anti-missile shield

Klania sie Lech Bajan z Washington DC


Bardzo dobrze. Polacy maja prawo do negocjacji.

Poland takes tough stand on American anti-missile shield

Created: Wednesday, September 5. 2007

The Polish government is presenting itself as a tough negotiator in talks with Washington on the anti-missile shield in central Europe, of which the 10 interceptor rockets will be placed in Slupsk, northern Poland.

Warsaw says it is imposing tough conditions on the United States and the Americans are becoming more willing to accommodate Poland’s conditions.

Above all, the government says it is fighting for a considerable increase in military aid.

This change in negotiating tactics has been confirmed by Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman Robert Szaniawski: “This change has occurred, indeed. The Americans agree with Polish ideas of broader co-operation,” he said

Poland’s three most important conditions are: firstly, the base is to be Poland’s property and it is to be subject to Polish law. Secondly, Polish taxpayers are not to left with any costs. And thirdly, Poland is expecting profit and not donations.

Polish negotiators have repeatedly said that they want Patriot missiles or some other similar air defense to protect the country from eventual attacks in return for positioning the missile defense shield on Polish soil.

The most important part of the negotiations is to take place on Thursday.

Military analyst Bartlomiej Weglarczyk told Polish Radio that he thinks that that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party will want to reach a reach a compromise with the US before parliamentary elections this autumn.

”We obviously know that the present government is very much in favor of the missile defense and of course we also know that the people who run the parliamentary campaign for PIS have decided a long time ago that the missile defense will be part of that campaign. So, I think they would be ready to sign a deal before the elections, just to use it in the campaign.’

Opinion polls, however, have shown a clear majority are against the system being placed on Polish soil.

The United States are striving for the deployment of US launchers of interceptor rockets in Poland as well as a radar station in the Czech Republic.

Sunday, September 2, 2007

As a designer of the Polish-American Champions’ Project, the Modjeskis’

CZAJKOWSKI WIESLAW
POLAND & USA RELATIONS WRONG
Fri Aug 12, 2005 13:06
67.150.27.94


MODJESKIS’ SOCIETY
DEDICATED TO PRESERVATION OF CULTURES
P.O.Box 193, San Diego, CA 92038

July 4, 1994


President of the U.S.
and the U.S. Congress via a courtesy
of Mr. President B. Clinton:

As a designer of the Polish-American Champions’ Project, the Modjeskis’ Society /1/ believes that the short comparative story of three historical sites on the U.S., Canada and Poland soils, will be helpful in rendering a judgement and a decision, particularly regarding the one, on the U.S.’ soil.

The Project of Champions was presented to Mr. President on Jan. 21,’93 and the presentation published by WHITE EAGLE of Massachusetts on Apr. 18, ‘93, and it is herewith enclosed. In that presentation has been put on display the U.S. National Park Service for with the Orange County Government it prevented establishment of the Project on the “Modjeska Estate” - Modjeska Canyon.

The presentation of Jan. 21,’93, in this letter marked “A”, may be called the MOST RELEVANT CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE (1986-1993). It is now supplemented with the MOST RELEVANT COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE U.S. FOREST SERVICES (1986-1994), marked “B”, and with the MOST RELEVANT PROPOSITIONS TO THE ORANGE COUNTY GOVERNMENT (1985-1994), marked “C”. The “B” and the “C” also are enclosed.

For the sake of clarity, not enclosed are MOST RELEVANT correspondences, communications, propositions, argumentations etc. with institutions “D”, “E”, “F”, “G” etc. with exception of letters to the U.S. House of Representatives and to an U.S. Senator, have been mentioned in the NOTE 2(a) and 2(b), infra.

In the second letter to Mr. President of Oct. 16, ‘93, requesting an investigation WHY THE PROJECT OF CHAMPIONS MET SO UNPRECEDENTED OPPOSITION, bordering with falsification of history of the U.S. and Poland (see the “A”) Mr. President was also requested for appointment of a Commission to administer the “Modjeska Estate/Project”. The October’s letter is enclosed, too.

By this, third letter to Mr. President of instant, and to the U.S. Congress via Mr. President’s courtesy, the Society does express a belief, that the investigative process will be finished and a decision made soon. /2/


For the sake of simplicity, in the first comparative story, names of one person, and that person’s some relatives, are introduced by feminine singular “Modjeska”, and by its derivatives “Modjeski” masculine singular, and “Modjeskis”, both masculine and feminine plural, /3/ which as a pseudonym of that person in English means a NULL - although it was attached to that one person to a satisfaction of a man, who might not hire and not to introduce that one person to the U.S.’ theatrical circles. /4/

Prior to that act of pseudonym change from “Modrzejewska” to “Modjeska”, that one person, Madame Helena was an ardent enthusiast of Shakespeare’s dramas, transcribed into Polish, of course. Fed up with discriminatory policies towards her by Russian government, in early 1876 she sent a scout to California in search of a proper site for a Polish colony/camp. This scout was a distinguished journalist Henryk Sienkiewicz, who in 1906 became Nobel Prize Winner in Literature. /5/ Among may of his works, for this short comparative story is of special interest the book entitled “LISTY Z AMERYKI” (“Letters from America”, in 1995 translated into English “PORTRAIT OF AMERICA”), wherein he reports about the search./6/ And indeed, he succeeded by finding an excellent site for the camp, the Santiago Canyon in the middle of Southern California desert, later renamed by Madame Helena into the “Forest of Arden”, or shortly “Arden” after Shakespeare’s play “As You Like It”. In that Shakespeare’s most delightful drama, a retinue of banished Duke enjoyed life, about which a critic wrote in this way: “A day spent in all the careless freedom of unsophisticated nature seems worth an eternity of common place existence!”/7/

The H. Sienkiewicz’s/Helen Modjeska’s Arden was an oasis to the Polish patriots resembling TATRA MOUNTAINS in their native country. In order to possess that oasis the Modjeskis filed a pre-emptive rights application and after one year of occupying it they went on an artistic spree to the other parts of America./8/

In 1882 the Modjeskis came back, and one year later as U.S. citizens settled on 160 acres of land in compliance with the Homestead Law /9/ buying another 120 from their friend who decided to leave the oasis. So, their dream of setting a Polish camp on the American soil did materialize.

Through the next 22 years the Modjeskis enlarged the Arden up to 2,000 acres of land, /10/ brimming with agricultural activities,/11/ and when Madame Helena was present there during her three months vacation annually, it was filled with joy and entertainment.

One year later the Modjeskis set sail to occupied Poland and installed in the suburb of the City of Kings - Cracow, an American camp called “Modrzejowka”, which in Polish means “a site belonging to somebody”, i.e. to Madame Modjeska, with patriotic overtones respective to the pseudonym “Modrzejewska”./12/ Her stylish house at the camp was equipped with a stage for various performances, municipal, for example./13/

Two years later the Modjeskis commenced a conversion of their friend’s small cottage in Arden, accomplishing that task in 1888, but did not equip it with a stage for the summer house surrounded by wilderness was twenty miles away from the nearest village.


In 1906, when retiring from theatrical profession, the Modjeskis sold 640 acres of the Arden (June 4, 1906) which pretty soon (1909) was embraced by the Cleveland National Forest, where settlements not related to agriculture were not permitted./14/ Out of those 640 acres, between 1909 and 1926 hundred twenty acres of former friend’s land were subdivided and sold to over 200 of no-agricultural settlers, although an Act of Congress of June 1, 1906 prohibited this. The President’s Proclamation of December 15, 1910 also restricted settlements there subject to general provision of the homestead laws.

On March 3, 1911 an Act of Congress provided validation of homesteaded entries in the Cleveland National Forest, which, of course, included the Arden relinquished solely because of erroneous allowance of such entries after the withdrawal of lands for national forest purposes./15/ Thus such lands could be reinstated and allowed to remain intact if an applicant filed a motion for reinstatement before July 1, 1912./16/

After the sale of 640 acres of the Arden’s land, the rest 1360 acres were taken by the Cleveland National Forest Services. But unfortunately, Citizen Madame Helena in July 1909 was interred in Cracow’s cemetery, nearby her “Modrzejowka”, and her husband Karol decided to work on the edition of his wife’s “Memoirs and Impressions”,/17/ and then to spend the rest of his life under Prussian occupation in the District of Posen, where he died in 1914. Being overseas he overlooked the opportunity to become a homesteader on his abandoned “Forest of Arden” once again. (see NOTE 16)

Probably the same happened to Karol’s adopted son, Ralph Modjeski, who thru the past 22 years contributed enormously to the Arden, but on July 9, 1906 by President’s Executive Order 476 was appointed to the post of consulting engineer during Rock Island bridge construction, having already built three bridges - two in Illinois (Thebes and Peoria Bridges), and one in N. Dakota (Bismarck Bridge). For his outstanding achievements since 1940 the Ralph’s ashes have been lying quietly in the Inglewood Park Cemetery, not far away from his Arden, and on occasions of bridges’ opening celebrations his name is never called upon (Oakland, 1987 - with over 50,000 spectators, for instance).

And such could be the end of the Sienkiewicz’s/Modjeskis’ Arden if not in the meantime another story has had been unfolded. It was of the Architect of the NEW DEAL (1931) and the “Chief Inspector” of Ralph’s bridges, until 1937 numbering 39 - one in Canada./18/ That “Chief Inspector” was Franklin D. Roosevelt, since 1932 President of the U.S.

Born in 1882 on his parents summer house and 4 acres large garden on Canada’s Campobello Island, he never attend any public school (if not taking into account 6 weeks in Germany), but in 1903 finished Harvard University, majoring in history. In 1904 he entered the Law School at Columbia University and married his classmate from Harvard, a distant cousin Eleonore Roosevelt. Then received his parent’s retreat as a wedding gift. In 1907 he left the Law School before getting a degree. Next 3 years he worked as a clerk for a law firm in New York City. In 1913 was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and in 1920 unsuccessfully run for Presidency. One year later, on the Campobello’s retreat he was stricken by polio and never recovered. In 1928 was elected Governor of New York. During Presidency he visited the Campobello Island three times: 1933, 1935 and 1939. Died in Georgia, 1945.

By an Act of Congress,/19/ in 1964 was created the “Roosevelt Campobello International Park and Natural Area”, 2,000 acres large with known expenditures to the public of $15,000 for parking lots, and $217,500 for rehabilitation of the summer house./20/

Although the Campobello Island does not look like the Santa Ana Mountains, nor the Roosevelt’s retreat as the Modjeskis’ retreat, what distinguished one from the other was the TURMOIL accompanying the latter, then and now, ever since the Modjeskis’ Society commenced an action of regaining and of converting it into a profitable enterprise combining the historical past with the modern world. And this most recent TURMOIL has it, that unlike the costs of regaining the Campobello’s camp were minuscule, costs of regaining only a remnant of the Arden, 14 acres large, will reach tremendous dimensions. For that remnant have been already spent 7 million dollars, 4.5 million over than planned. For purchase of it 1.0 million, and for rehabilitation 1.5 million of tax scarce money. If not the enigma of 4.5 million, one acre of the remnant would cost $70,000 or $180,000, although 300 acres of a part of the Arden now on sale were appraised $7,000 per acre. And there are lot of acres for sale thanks to California laws, which after 1962 prohibit subdivision of homesteads having more than 160 acres of land./21/

Because the Act of Congress of June 11,1906 in 1962 was repealed,/22/ on that ground the Orange County Government in 1977 issued a RESOLUTION accepting subdivision of the Arden into parcels one acre large./23/ And that trend continues although a Court order of 1993, and general vote this year in San Diego County prohibits subdivision of private lands within boundary of the Cleveland National Forest smaller than 40 acres, forcing the Forest Services to exchange lands with larger acreage for money. At the same time the Services in Orange County are doing what they can to prohibit subdivision of said 300 acres of the former “Forest of Arden” by using a trick of blocking a right of way to them. To have more fun with the games, the same Services one year before expiration of a contract with a private Trailer Park withing boundary of the Forest in San Diego County, are evicting that Park for Services’ own failures./24/

Considering falsification of history of the U.S. and Poland, (see the “A”) aimed at HIDING the very existence of the “Forest of Arden”, which was explicitly expressed in 1990 by dedication of the Modjeskis’ summer house with its 14 acre large “gardens” as a NATIONAL HISTORICAL LANDMARK, which should read as suggested in 1989: “MODRZEJEWSKA’S/MODJESKA’S HOME, FOREST OF ARDEN, FAMOUS AS THE NATIVE HOMELAND OF MADAME MODJESKA, SOLD SOON AFTER HER RETIREMENT, IT REMAINS A MONUMENT TO THE WOMAN WHO CONTRIBUTED IMMEASURABLY TO THE CULTURAL LIFE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”, and which should be located at the entrance to the Modjeska Canyon - “Forest of Arden”, the INTERNATIONAL LANDMARK, instead of the wording: “ARDEN - HELENA MODJESKA HISTORIC HOUSE AND GARDENS’.

It took four years for previous dedication (California’s of 1935, and National of 1974) to be changed,/25/ and since 1990 another four years have elapsed without any compromise to the historical Arden,/26/ and none to the people who occupy it,/26/ and none to the Orange County Government which should be EVICTED from the Cleveland National Forest domain with compensation to the people for all the harm done to them, to the family of Modjeskis, to the Arden, and to the Modjeskis at large. (see NOTES 3 and 16)

THEREFORE, and BECAUSE:

The Institutions have been mentioned in the “B” and “C” are not willing to solve the problem of the “Forest of Arden” as an International Historical District vel Polish-American Champions Project VOLUNTARILY, and as it has been proven by doing so they pay disrespect to the laws of this land, the requests of the Modjeskis’ Society to President of the U.S. and to the U.S. Congress of Jan.21,’93, of Oct.6,’93 and of instant, should be considered and the treatment of the Arden EQUALIZED with the “Roosevelt Campobello International Park” for betterment of relations between the U.S., Poland and their very people.
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To the same end, as above, would serve promised to Helena Modjeska a “MODJESKA CITY”, which could be erected on the Tustin - Marine Corps Air Station, 10 miles away from the “Forest of Arden”, and 20 miles from the DISNEYLAND in Anaheim where H. Sienkiewicz first set his foot, leaving behind the California Historical Landmark 201. This issue is herewith presented by some NEWS ARTICLES /27/ together with others related to the three shortly presented historical sites in the U.S., Canada and Poland, and to the bridges builder R. Modjeski, which since 1986 have been published over 150 times by the Modjeskis’ Society and other authors supporting the Project of Champions (for the U.S.’ site are enclosed between 1986 and 1987, plus the “OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENT W. JARUZELSKI” of 1989, and two of THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER of 1992 and 1994 with a response to the latter).

Respectfully submitted,
W. Czajkowski
cc:
1. U.S. Senator D. Feinstein;
2. Other Interested Entities
in the U.S. and Poland.

NOTES:
/1/ See enc. PROPOSAL of June 14,’86 with supplement of Oct.14,'86 and of Mar.30,’87 + a map of Modjeskis performances + California Historical Landmarks 201 and 205 + Nov.3,’86 to the Chief Historian of the National Park Services + “MODJESKA HISTORICAL PARK STATUS REPORT” of Apr.9,’87;
/2/ The Modjeskis’ Society did take a liberty to produce a COMPLAINT to:
(a) Honorable U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein, and proof of this consists of enclosed communications of May 18 and 26, 1994, and June 13, 1994;
(b) Committee On Standards Of Official Conduct, dated February 13, 1994 in response to Committee’s letter of February 2, 1994 (one communication with the Committee of February 19, 1994 also is enclosed);

/3/ This masculine and feminine plural does not apply to the “Modjeskis’ Society”, for it bears a possessive noun of plural “Modrzejewskich”, i.e. “Patriots Gazing at Dawn for the Day of Liberation”. The hero of this first comparative story is Helena Opid born 1840 in Krakow (Cracow). She lost her maiden name to an artist teacher Gustaw Adolf Sinnmajer vel Zimajer. In 1860 Helena Opid became Helena Modrzejewska. In 1868 Helena Modrzejewska married a freedom fighter persecuted by Russians, a nobleman Karol Bozenta Chlapowski with nobility Coat-of-Arms “Bozenta”, and became Helena Chlapowska vel Modrzejewska. In accordance with Title XXX, Sec. 2165 of the NATURALIZATION ACT of December 12, 1873, Karol “Bozenta” did renounce his nob