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III. the Pro-Hitler, Fascist Origins of the Liberal Party The New Citizen April 2004 Page 29 Defeat the Synarchists—Fight for a National Bank III. The Pro-Hitler, Fascist Origins of the Liberal Party THE 1930’s SYNARCHIST ASSAULT In this section The 1930s Synarchist Assault on Australia Jack Lang and Frank Anstey on the Synarchy ON AUSTRALIA The “Red Menace” and the Fascist “Citizens “And therefore, the essential conflict is between the national interest and the Leagues” The Stormtroopers—I: The League for National financiers. Hitler was not a creation of a bunch of dummies in brown uniforms. Hitler Security was the creation of bankers… The Collins House Group “The bankers of this type, the private bankers, created Hitler, because there was a Herbert Brookes and the Secret Armies financial crisis, and under conditions of financial crisis, if the government is The Stormtroopers—II: The Old Guard and the accountable to the people, it is the bankers that will pay, not the people. And therefore, New Guard the bankers say, “It’s the people, it’s the government, that has to go.” –Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr., December 16, 2003 The Liberal Party: The New Face of Synarchism The Synarchy’s Political Parties The Lying Mass Media nglo-Dutch parliamentary Robert Gordon Menzies: Would-be Petain of Asystems are a puppet show, in Britain which the strings are held by cen- The “New Liberalism”: The Old Fascism tral banks, which in turn are con- Friedrich von Hayek, Founding Father of the Liberal trolled by a cabal of private finan- Party ciers. In times of crisis, these pri- “The Association”: Old Guard and LNS Regroup vate financiers destabilise the par- liamentary systems, and replace Postwar Fascism: The Mont Pelerin Society them either with parliaments that Mont Pelerin’s Puppets: Liberal and Labor will bow to their interests, or even, The Macquarie Bank as happened in much of Europe The MPS Think Tanks during the 1930s, with outright Liberal Party Funding fascist regimes. It is not acknowledged in stand- Populism: The Enemy Within ard history texts, but fascist mili- Hanson, Costello: One Coward, One Liar tary coups were prepared for Aus- The Politics of Fear tralia, too, in the early 1930s—at both the state and federal levels. The would-be perpetrators were Synarchists in the mould of Mus- solini and Hitler, and their back- and many other banks, insurance The most notorious spokesman ers, as in Europe, were to be found March 19, 1932. Fascist New Guardsman Col. Francis de Groot preempts companies, corporations, chambers for the Crown and the City of Lon- in the upper echelons of the finan- NSW Premier Jack Lang to cut the ribbon at the new Sydney Harbour Bridge. of commerce and pastoral houses. don, within the Anglo-Australian This section of our report presents comprador elite, was the rabid An- cial oligarchy. Their efforts peak- ia, developed a two-pronged at- ed in 1930-1932, during the in- members often did double duty, as that evidence. glophile Robert Menzies. Owned tack. They would keep the parlia- both league activists, and members In New South Wales, the fascist lock, stock and barrel by the fin- tense confrontation between the mentary façade if possible, by driv- “old Labor” forces of Jack Lang, of the armed detachments. Both the armies were days or hours from anciers, Menzies insisted that the ing Scullin and Lang from power armed brigades and their “citizen” marching on Sydney, an eventual- interest-gouging prerogatives of Frank Anstey and John Curtin, on through “political” means. But in the one side, and the “Money Pow- fronts were created, staffed and run ity avoided only when King the financiers—which he termed case those maneuvers failed, they at the highest levels, by the lead- George V directed his Governor “justice” and “fair play”—must er”—centred in London, but with simultaneously created mass fas- powerful, aggressive allies inside ing financial organisations in General, Sir Philip Game, to sack come first, even if it meant that cist armies of storm troopers, capa- Australia. Premier Lang. An overt fascist take- people starved. At the height of the Australia—on the other. The spec- ble of seizing power. tre of a fascist coup was instrumen- Some of the relevant government over was forestalled, but at the sac- crisis, he pronounced, “If Austral- The stormtrooper organisations files of the period have been care- rifice of Australia’s best leaders and ia were going to get through her tal in the toppling of the Labor were the Melbourne-based League government of James Scullin and fully culled, while others are mys- policies for that time of economic troubles by abating or abandon- of National Security, and the Old teriously missing. But enough ev- crisis. ing traditional British standards of the ouster of Lang as New South Guard and the New Guard, based Wales PM in 1932, dealing a grave idence has survived, to demon- The issue in Depression- honesty, of justice, of fair play, of in Sydney. Combined, these three strate that the fascist citizens wracked Australia was, whose resolute endeavour, it would be far setback to Australia’s potential groups comprised over 100,000 national development during the leagues and their armed counter- rights take precedence: those of better for Australia that every citi- well-armed and highly organized parts were supported by top bank- the people, or those of the finan- zen within her boundaries should depression, and throwing much of militants. The best known of the the population deeper into misery. ing and corporate institutions, ciers? This was the question ex- die of starvation during the next three, though actually the least among them: plicitly posed by Jack Lang, by six months. To look for the easiest Was “Australian fascism” just a important, was the New Guard, led flash in the pan? Why return to the • the Bank of New South Federal Labor MP Frank Anstey, way out was about as traitorous a by Mussolini- and Hitler-worship- Wales, Australia’s largest and by Anstey’s protégé, John Cur- thing as any Australian could en- history of such an unfortunate pe- per Eric Campbell. The New Guard riod, when a pro-Nazi movement and oldest bank; tin. Would the City of London be gage in at the present time.” achieved notoriety on March 19, • Colonial Sugar Refining Co. paid its pound of flesh in debt serv- As contemporaries recorded, flourished in Sydney, Melbourne 1932, when New Guardsman Col. and the bush, with backing in high (CSR), the largest corporation ice, at the cost of the suffering and Menzies was an ardent pro-fascist, Francis DeGroot jumped ahead of in Australia; even the lives of Australians? The full of admiration for Hitler and places? Premier Jack Lang to pre-empt him, The history of the Synarchist • J.B. Were and Sons, Austral- crisis of 1930-1932 came to a head Mussolini. Less well known, is the with a sword, at the ribbon-cutting ia’s largest brokerage, and over the question of currency is- fact that he was also the front man assault on Australia in the 1930s for the Sydney Harbour Bridge. cannot be ignored as a curiosity handler of government loans; sues for the purpose of job crea- for a Synarchist coup plot against These armed fascist brigades • G. J. Coles and Myers, the two tion, as advocated by these Labor British Prime Minister Winston or relegated to a footnote, because were modeled explicitly on the the world, Australia included, is largest retail firms in the leaders and formally proposed by Churchill. The plotters, one of blackshirts and brownshirts of country; PM Scullin and his Treasury Sec- whom was the notorious pro-Nazi once again plunging into an eco- Mussolini and Hitler. Like them, nomic depression—a systemic • leading executives or direc- retary, Ted Theodore, as against the press baron Lord Beaverbrook, the paramilitaries invariably had tors of the BHP and Collins financiers’ insistence on fiscal aus- planned to weaken Churchill, or one, of the type in which the de- their front organisations: mass “cit- ployment of fascist mobs and po- House manufacturing and terity for “fighting inflation” and, even to oust him and replace him izens leagues,” which shared the minerals empires; above all, paying debts to the City with the appeaser Menzies. In fur- lice-state repression is the stock in same philosophies, and whose trade of a desperate financial oli- of London. therance of this plot, Menzies garchy. Moreover, not only is the 1930s assault on Australian socie- ty and our national identity in dan- ger of being repeated, but the di- rect heirs of the 1930s perpetra- tors are alive and active to carry it out. It is impossible to grasp Aus- tralian politics in the first decade of the 21st Century, without know- ing the never-repudiated roots of the Australian Liberal Party in the pro-fascist Synarchist movement of seven decades ago. Faced with the threat of the pro- sovereignty, pro-national banking tendencies in both the Federal La- bor Government of Scullin and Lang’s New South Wales Labor Government, the British Crown and the City of London, with their allies among the “Anglo-Austral- Fascist dictators Mussolini and Hitler (l.) were sponsored by the European and American oligarchy. Centre: The Duke of Windsor (formerly King Edward VIII) and ian” comprador elites of Austral- his wife visit their old pal, Adolf. Right: King George V. Hearing of de Groot’s action on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, the King proclaimed, “Well done, de Groot!” Page 30 The New Citizen April 2004 Defeat the Synarchists—Fight for a National Bank spent an astonishing four months IPA, with Menzies at the fore, that • the Sydney IPA, renamed the self-proclaimed fascist Eric Camp- nist activities, more fatal to the fu- outside of Australia during 1941, in 1944 created the Liberal Party.
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