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British Demand Dictatorship to Manage Financial Crisis Click here for Full Issue of EIR Volume 22, Number 23, June 2, 1995 �TIillInternational British demand dictatorship to manage financial c#sis ! by Mark Burdman I Among leading elements of the British oligarchy, it IS no up in 1947 with the sponsorshi� of Britain's Winston Chur­ secret that the global financial system that has existed over chill and his coterie, the society promotes the ideas of the the past decades, and on which British influence over interna­ late Friedrich von Hayek of AlJstria. It and its U.S. clones tional events is largely based, is collapsing. The past months (Heritage Foundation, Cato In$titute, etc.) provide the no­ have seen the crash of Barings Bank, the progressive down­ tions that later pop out of the mouths of such knaves as U.S. fall of Lloyd's insurance and Warburg merchant bank, and Speaker of the House Newt <1Jingrich (R-Ga.), Sen. Phil the discrediting of the Bank of England. Meanwhile, other Gramm (R-Tex.), and their "Cpnservative Revolution" co- storm-clouds are appearing. Amid the onrushing calamity, horts. i certain British spokesmen are now openly calling for the Especially since their la$t semi-annual meeting in imposition of dictatorships across the western world, in order Cannes, France last year, the iMont Pelerinites have been to crush resistance to the fascist austerity that they perceive discussing what they think to ibe the central "paradox" of as necessary, and to maintain their power amidst the process current times, what they euphemistically refer to as the "di­ of disintegration. lemma of democracy": that radi�al measures to "roll back the On May 21, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, senior commenta­ state" and destroy vital state-shpported infrastructure proj­ tor at the London Sunday Telegraph, called for a "form of ects and social services, will require authoritarian means to authoritarian politics" that would allow for "cruel belt-tight­ implement. In other words, these loudmouthed advocates ening [and] bitter medicines to be forced down the throats of of "freedom" are the world's �orst·fascists! Mont Pelerin body politics. " The location and author are both most appro­ sources acknowledge that this i�sue has become all the more priate. The weekly is the mouthpiece of the Toronto, Canada­ urgent, in view of the acceler*ing disintegration of the fi­ based Hollinger Corp., the media conglomerate owned by nancial and political systems th�t have been hegemonic over Canadian tycoon Conrad Black that has orchestrated the inter­ the past decades. national efforts of the past 18 months to bring down President Bill Clinton and to destabilize the u.S. Presidency. 'Authoritarian guts' nee�ed For Worsthorne, advocacy of dictatorship runs in the Worsthorne's May 21 colurPntook the stylistic form of a family. His stepfather, the late Sir Montagu Norman, was dialogue with his British co-thinker Lord William Rees­ the Bank of England chief who was instrumental in installing Mogg, the former editor of the llondonTimes who is a mouth­ Adolf Hitler in power in Germany. piece for the Club of the Isles kd one of the most important Worsthorne's support for dictatorship reflectsthe debates media orchestraters of the campaign to bringdown President going on in the upper echelons of the Club of the Isles, the Clinton. In a piece entitled "Th� Right-Wing Path to Oppres­ secretive oligarchical grouping headed by Britain's Prince sion, " Worsthorne favorably c�ted Rees-Mogg's recent arti­ Philip. The "necessity" for authoritarian regimes is also a cles advocating giant cuts in pUblic expenditure and radical theme being pushed by the Mont Pelerin Society, the concep­ moves to roll back the state, and praised Gingrich for pushing tual command-center for "liberal free market" fanatics. Set such policies in the United States. But Worsthome criticized 58 International EIR June 2, 1995 © 1995 EIR News Service Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. This 1777 cartoon depicts "poor old England endeavoring to reclaim wicked American children." The British oligarchy has never given up its desire to bring the upstart Americans to heel; today, Sir Peregrine Worsthorne, who has helped orchestrate the assault on President Clinton, calls for "authoritarian politics" to force through austerity in the United States and other nations. Rees-Mogg for not explicitly acknowledging that such mea­ defenseless-will be required . also true that today's sures would require an "authoritarian" regime. Worsthorne democratic body politics are to be able to swallow could not hide his sympathy for dictatorship, but attributed such bitter medicine without a struggle. Just how these ideas to Rees-Mogg, as a means of putting the matter desperate, nobody can be sure. But possibility cannot be of authoritarianism on the agenda, without seeming to be the ruled out that the bitter medicines have to beforced down author of the proposal. the throat of body politics" ( in original). Worsthorne is not mistaken in stating that Rees-Mogg's He went on: "Those who argue that the politics of the hidden agenda is to impose dictatorships throughout western next decades, truly 'modem' must not flinch from societies; that is exactly Rees-Mogg's intent. In a Jan. 5 taking an axe to the welfare state, also, if they are Times piece entitled "It's the Elite Who Matter," he called honest, go on to warn that these modem politics may for phasing out universal public education, as no longer re­ also have to take an axe to many our democratic free- quired for an emerging "information" society, in which 95% doms." In other words, this may I "having to fall back of the population would be ruled by an "elite class" of 5%, on a form of authoritarian politics. In the face of radical and in which Britain would reign supreme by its capabilities policies of "liberalization" and ' " a "frightened in "finances" and "tax havens." Indeed, such a neo-feudalist electoral majority" will emerge, that . not want these poli­ society would require dictatorial forms of rule, to crush the cies implemented in a "democratic": way that would ensure opposition that would inevitably erupt. the rights of minorities who would be thrown on the scrap Worsthorne began his May 21 article: "People who ar­ heap. Instead, it will demand a regimb with "the authoritarian gue-and some of the wisest in the land, like William Rees­ guts to ride roughshod over these miborities." Mogg, most convincingly do--that the only future for this For Britain, an authoritarian egime "tough-minded country, and for the Western world as a whole, is to take a enough to enforce the necessarily painful reforms through" veritable axe to the social services, not excluding those aimed would be "the lesser evil" comparJi to other alternatives, at ameliorating the material condition of the underclass, nev­ Worsthorne said. "Better, therefore1 to get the misery over er seem to spell out ...the political price, in terms of loss now, rather than postpone the evil day, by which time the of freedom, that might have to be paid for such economic country would have become insol ent, resulting in even realism. For while it is certainly true that rigorous and some­ hi�he� level� of unemp�oyment and +en more socia� demor­ times cruel belt-tightening-particularly for the relatively alIzatIon. Smce the pam has to be suffered some tIme . EIR June 2, 1995 International 59 why not get it over quickly? This is very much William Rees­ you are no libertarians, were gi�n freerein to administer the Mogg's argument, and I can see its strength." economy. And this was a dicta orship; that is the word that t. must be used." 'A superior class of guardians' This source insisted that the: will to impose authoritarian Worsthorne advised that right-wing politicians today be "solutions" would be abetted �b� the accelerating global fi­ "mindful of what happened in Germany in the 1930s," and nancial disintegration. He sta d: "What has to be figured praised his stepfather, Hitler-admiring Montagu Norman, as out, is how to roll back the stat by an authoritarian regime. "a towering figure of immense authority and charisma." I don't see any of our westerns ieties, in their current form, The central "defect" in Rees-Mogg's case, Worsthorne having the will to do this. Pro ably only a deep crisis will indicated, is that the situation is much worse than in the 1930s. make it possible. Without a cri�s, there is no will.. ..It is For one, "the degree of belt-tightening required of this country well-known amongst us, that th4 system we have lived under . is going to be incomparably greater than anything re­ in past decades is disintegratin . We are all living over our quired in the 1930s. William Rees-Mogg talks blithely of re­ means. We will go into crisis." ducing public expenditure to not more than 25% of national He foresaw financial catas ophes occurring in various income." This ties into the second, and related problem: The countries, for which there has b en no precedent since 1922- "political and managerial class" of today , unlike the "govern­ 23 in Weimar Germany, with indebtedness and currency ing class" of the 1930s, has been thoroughly discredited in turmoil "endangering" every s iety in Europe. "The future the eyes of the population. After the Barings and Lloyd's de­ looks threatening, and chaotic,'j he said. bacles, there is still "expertise," but not "authority." Given the weakness and la� of will in western govern­ To resolve this dilemma, Worsthornecalls for "a different ments as they are currently cqnstituted, the Mont Pelerin class of ruler to anything available today.
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