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Subject: Unauthorized Biography of George Bush: Part 3
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Chapter 3 RACE HYGIENE: Three Bush
Family Alliances
``The [government] must put the most
modern medical means in the service of
this knowledge.... Those who are
physically and mentally unhealthy and
unworthy must not perpetuate their
suffering in the body of their
children.... The prevention of the
faculty and opportunity to procreate on
the part of the physically degenerate
and mentally sick, over a period of
only 600 years, would ... free humanity
from an immeasurable misfortune.''@s1
``The per capita income gap between
the developed and the developing
countries is increasing, in large part
the result of higher birth rates in the
poorer countries.... Famine in India,
unwanted babies in the United States,
poverty that seemed to form an
unbreakable chain for millions of
people--how should we tackle these
problems?.... It is quite clear that
one of the major challenges of the
1970s ... will be to curb the world's
fertility.''
These two quotations are alike in
their mock show of concern for human
suffering, and in their cynical remedy
for it: Big Brother must prevent the
``unworthy'' or ``unwanted'' people
from living.
Let us now further inquire into
the family background of our President,
so as to help illustrate how the second
quoted author, {George Bush}@s1
came to share the outlook of the first,
{Adolf Hitler}.@s2
We shall examine here the alliance
of the Bush family with three other
families: {Farish, Draper} and
{Gray.}
The private associations among
these families have led to the
President's relationship to his
closest, most confidential advisers.
These alliances were forged in the
earlier Hitler project and its
immediate aftermath. Understanding them
will help us to explain George Bush's
obsession with the supposed
overpopulation of the world's
non-Anglo-Saxons, and the dangerous
means he has adopted to deal with this
``problem.''
Bush and Farish
When George Bush was elected vice
president in 1980, Texas mystery man
William Stamps Farish III took over
management of all of George Bush's
personal wealth in a ``blind trust.''
Known as one of the richest men in
Texas, Will Farish keeps his business
affairs under the most intense secrecy.
Only the source of his immense wealth
is known, not its employment.@s3
Will Farish has long been Bush's
closest friend and confidante. He is
also the unique private host to
Britain's Queen Elizabeth: Farish owns
and boards the studs which mate with
the Queen's mares. That is her public
rationale when she comes to America and
stays in Farish's house. It is a vital
link in the mind of our Anglophile
President.
President Bush can count on Farish
not to betray the violent secrets
surrounding the Bush family money. For
Farish's own family fortune was made in
the same Hitler project, in a
nightmarish partnership with George
Bush's father.
On March 25, 1942, U.S.
Assistant Attorney General Thurman
Arnold announced that William Stamps
Farish (grandfather of the President's
money manager) had pleaded ``no contest''
to charges of criminal conspiracy with
the Nazis. Farish was the principal
manager of a worldwide cartel between
Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey and the
I.G. Farben concern. The merged
enterprise had opened the Auschwitz
slave labor camp on June 14, 1940, to
produce artificial rubber and gasoline
from coal. The Hitler government
supplied political opponents and Jews
as the slaves, who were worked to near
death and then murdered.
Arnold disclosed that Standard Oil
of New Jersey (later known as Exxon), of
which Farish was president and chief
executive, had agreed to stop hiding
from the United States patents for
artificial rubber which the company had
provided to the Nazis.@s4
A Senate investigating committee
under Senator (later U.S. President)
Harry Truman of Missouri had called
Arnold to testify at hearings on
corporations' collaboration with the
Nazis. The Senators expressed outrage
at the cynical way Farish was
continuing an alliance with the Hitler
regime that had begun back in 1933,
when Farish became chief of Jersey
Standard. Didn't he know there was a
war on?
The Justice Department laid before
the committee a letter, written to
Standard president Farish by his vice
president, shortly after the beginning
of World War II (September 1, 1939) in
Europe. The letter concerned a renewal
of their earlier agreements with the
Nazis:
Report on European Trip
Oct. 12, 1939
Mr. W.S. Farish
30 Rockefeller Plaza
Dear Mr. Farish:
... I stayed in France until
Sept. 17th.... In England I met by
appointment the Royal Dutch [Shell Oil
Co.] gentlemen from Holland, and ... a
general agreement was reached on the
necessary changes in our relations with
the I.G. [Farben], in view of the state
of war.... [T]he Royal Dutch Shell
group is essentially British.... I also
had several meetings with ... the
[British] Air Ministry....
I required help to obtain the
necessary permission to go to
Holland.... After discussions with the
[American] Ambassador [Joseph Kennedy]
. the situation was cleared
completely.... The gentlemen in the Air
Ministry ... very kindly offered to
assist me [later] in reentering
England....
Pursuant to these arrangements, I
was able to keep my appointments in
Holland [having flown there on a
British Royal Air Force bomber], where
I had three days of discussion with the
representatives of I.G. They delivered
to me assignments of some 2,000 foreign
patents and {we did our best to work
out complete plans for a modus vivendi
which could operate through the term of
the war, whether or not the U.S. came
in....} [emphasis added]
Very truly yours, F[rank] A.
Howard@s5
Here are some cold realities
behind the tragedy of World War II,
which help explain the Bush-Farish
family alliance--and their peculiar
closeness to the Queen of England:
@sb|Shell Oil is principally owned
by the British Royal family. Shell's
chairman, Sir Henri Deterding, helped
sponsor Hitler's rise to power,@s6 by
arrangement with the Royal Family's
Bank of England Governor, Montagu
Norman. Their ally, Standard Oil, would
take part in the Hitler project right
up to the bloody, gruesome end.
@sb|When grandfather Farish signed
the Justice Department's consent decree
in March 1942, the government had
already started picking its way through
the tangled web of world-monopoly oil
and chemical agreements between
Standard Oil and the Nazis. Many
patents and other Nazi-owned aspects of
the partnership had been seized by the
U.S. Alien Property Custodian.
Uncle Sam would not seize Prescott
Bush's Union Banking Corporation for
another seven months.
The Bush-Farish axis had begun
back in 1929. In that year, the Harriman
bank bought Dresser Industries,
supplier of oil-pipeline couplers to
Standard and other companies. Prescott
Bush became a director and financial
czar of Dresser, installing his Yale
classmate Neil Mallon as chairman.@s7
George Bush would later name one of his
sons after the Dresser executive.
William S. Farish was the main
organizer of the Humble Oil Co. of
Texas, which Farish merged into the
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.
Farish built up the Humble-Standard
empire of pipelines and refineries in
Texas.@s8
The stock market crashed just
after the Bush family got into the oil
business. The world financial crisis
led to the merger of the
Walker-Harriman bank with Brown
Brothers in 1931. Former Brown partner
Montagu Norman and his protege
Hjalmar Schacht, who was to become
Hitler's economics minister, paid frantic
visits to New York that year and the
next, preparing the new Hitler regime
for Germany.
The Congress on Eugenics
The most important American
political event in those preparations
for Hitler was the infamous Third
International Congress on Eugenics,
held at New York's American Museum of
Natural History August 21-23, 1932,
supervised by the International
Federation of Eugenics Societies.@s9
This meeting took up the stubborn
persistence of African-Americans and
other allegedly ``inferior'' and
``socially inadequate'' groups in
reproducing, expanding their numbers,
and ``amalgamating'' with others. It was
recommended that these ``dangers'' to
the ``better'' ethnic groups and to the
``well-born,'' could be dealt with by
sterilization or ``cutting off the bad
stock'' of the ``unfit.''
Italy's fascist government sent an
official representative. Averell
Harriman's sister Mary, director of
``entertainment'' for the Congress,
lived down in Virginia fox-hunting
country; her state supplied the speaker
on ``racial purity,'' W.A. Plecker,
Virginia commissioner of vital
statistics. Plecker reportedly held the
delegates spellbound with his account
of the struggle to stop race-mixing and
interracial sex in Virginia.
The Congress proceedings were
dedicated to Averell Harriman's mother;
she had paid for the founding of the
race-science movement in America back
in 1910, building the Eugenics Record
Office as a branch of the Galton
National Laboratory in London. She and
other Harrimans were usually
escorted to the horse races by old
George Herbert Walker--they shared with
the Bushes and the Farishes a
fascination with ``breeding
thoroughbreds'' among horses and
humans.@s1@s0
Averell Harriman personally
arranged with the Walker/Bush
Hamburg-Amerika Line to transport Nazi
ideologues from Germany to New York for
this meeting.@s1@s1 The most famous
among those transported was Dr. Ernst
Rudin, psychiatrist at the Kaiser
Wilhelm Institute for Genealogy and
Demography in Berlin, where the
Rockefeller family paid for Dr.
Rudin to occupy an entire floor with
his eugenics ``research.'' Dr. Rudin
had addressed the International
Federation's 1928 Munich meeting,
speaking on ``Mental Aberration and
Race Hygiene,'' while others (Germans
and Americans) spoke on race-mixing and
sterilization of the unfit. Rudin
had led the German delegation to the
1930 Mental Hygiene Congress in
Washington, D.C.
At the Harrimans' 1932 New York
Eugenics Congress, Ernst Rudin was
unanimously elected President of the
International Federation of Eugenics
Societies. This was recognition of
Rudin as founder of the German
Society for Race Hygiene, with his
co-founder, Eugenics Federation vice
president Alfred Ploetz.
As depression-maddened financiers
schemed in Berlin and New York, Rudin
was now official leader of the world
eugenics movement. Components of his
movement included groups with
overlapping leadership, dedicated to:
@sb|sterilization of mental
patients (``mental hygiene societies'');
@sb|execution of the insane,
criminals and the terminally ill
(``euthanasia societies''); and
@sb|eugenical race-purification by
prevention of births to parents from
inferior blood stocks (``birth control
societies'').
Before the Auschwitz death camp
became a household word, these
British-American-European groups called
openly for the elimination of the
``unfit'' by means including force and
violence.@s1@s2
Ten months later, in June 1933,
Hitler's interior minister Wilhelm
Frick spoke to a eugenics meeting in
the new Third Reich. Frick called the
Germans a ``degenerate'' race,
denouncing one-fifth of Germany's
parents for producing ``feeble-minded''
and ``defective'' children. The
following month, on a commission by
Frick, Dr. Ernst Rudin wrote the
``Law for the Prevention of Hereditary
Diseases in Posterity,'' the
sterilization law modeled on previous
U.S. statutes in Virginia and other
states.
Special courts were soon
established for the sterilization of
German mental patients, the blind, the
deaf, and alcoholics. A quarter million
people in these categories were
sterilized. Rudin, Ploetz, and their
colleagues trained a whole generation
of physicians and psychiatrists--as
sterilizers and as killers.
When the war started, the
eugenicists, doctors, and psychiatrists
staffed the new ``T4'' agency, which
planned and supervised the mass
killings: first at ``euthanasia
centers,'' where the same categories
which had first been subject to
sterilization were now to be murdered,
their brains sent in lots of 200 to
experimental psychiatrists; then at
slave camps such as Auschwitz; and
finally, for Jews and other race
victims, at straight extermination
camps in Poland, such as Treblinka and
Belsen.@s1@s3
In 1933, as what Hitler called his
``New Order'' appeared, John D.
Rockefeller, Jr. appointed William S.
Farish the chairman of Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey (in 1937 he was made
president and chief executive). Farish
moved his offices to Rockefeller
Center, New York, where he spent a good
deal of time with Hermann Schmitz,
chairman of I.G. Farben; his company
paid a publicity man, Ivy Lee, to write
pro-I.G. Farben and pro-Nazi propaganda
and get it into the U.S. press.
Now that he was outside of Texas,
Farish found himself in the shipping
business--like the Bush family. He
hired Nazi German crews for Standard
Oil tankers. And he hired {Emil
Helfferich,} chairman of the
Walker/Bush/Harriman Hamburg-Amerika
Line, as chairman also of the Standard
Oil Company subsidiary in Germany. Karl
Lindemann, board member of
Hamburg-Amerika, also became a top
Farish-Standard executive in
Germany.@s1@s4
This interlock between their Nazi
German operations put Farish together
with Prescott Bush in a small, select
group of men operating from abroad
through Hitler's ``revolution,'' and
calculating that they would never be
punished.
In 1939, Farish's daughter Martha
married Averell Harriman's nephew,
Edward Harriman Gerry, and Farish
in-laws became Prescott Bush's partners
at 59 Broadway.@s1@s5
Both Emil Helfferich and Karl
Lindemann were authorized to write
checks to Heinrich Himmler, chief of
the Nazi SS, on a special Standard
Oil account. This account was managed
by the German-British-American banker,
Kurt von Schroeder. According to U.S.
intelligence documents reviewed by
author Anthony Sutton, Helfferich
continued his payments to the SS into
1944, when the SS was supervising the
mass murder at the Standard-I.G. Farben
Auschwitz and other death camps.
Helfferich told Allied interrogators
after the war that these were not his
personal contributions--they were
corporate Standard Oil funds.@s1@s6
After pleading ``no contest'' to
charges of criminal conspiracy with the
Nazis, William Stamps Farish was fined
$5,000. (Similar fines were levied
against Standard Oil--$5,000 each for
the parent company and for several
subsidiaries.) This of course did not
interfere with the millions of dollars
that Farish had acquired in conjunction
with Hitler's New Order, as a large
stockholder, chairman, and president of
Standard Oil. All the government sought
was the use of patents which his
company had given to the Nazis--the
Auschwitz patents--but had withheld
from the U.S. military and industry.
But a war was on, and if young men
were to be asked to die fighting Hitler
. something more was needed. Farish
was hauled before the Senate committee
investigating the national defense
program. The committee chairman,
Senator Harry Truman, told newsmen
before Farish testified: ``I think this
approaches treason.''@s1@s7
Farish began breaking apart at
these hearings. He shouted his
``indignation'' at the senators, and
claimed he was not ``disloyal.''
After the March-April hearings
ended, more dirt came gushing out of
the Justice Department and the Congress
on Farish and Standard Oil. Farish had
deceived the U.S. Navy to prevent the
Navy from acquiring certain patents,
while supplying them to the Nazi war
machine; meanwhile, he was supplying
gasoline and tetraethyl lead to
Germany's submarines and air force.
Communications between Standard and
I.G. Farben from the outbreak of World
War II were released to the Senate,
showing that Farish's organization had
arranged to deceive the U.S. government
into passing over Nazi-owned assets:
They would nominally buy I.G.'s share
in certain patents because ``in the
event of war between ourselves and
Germany ... it would certainly be very
undesireable to have this 20 percent
Standard-I.G. pass to an alien property
custodian of the U.S. who might sell it
to an unfriendly interest.''@s1@s8
John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (father
of David, Nelson, and John D.
Rockefeller III), the controlling owner of
Standard Oil, told the Roosevelt
administration that he knew nothing of
the day-to-day affairs of his company,
that all these matters were handled by
Farish and other executives.@s1@s9
In August, Farish was brought back
for more testimony. He was now
frequently accused of lying. Farish was
crushed under the intense, public
grilling; he became morose, ashen.
While Prescott Bush escaped publicity
when the government seized his Nazi
banking organization in October, Farish
had been nailed. He collapsed and died
of a heart attack on November 29, 1942.
The Farish family was devastated
by the exposure. Son William Stamps
Farish, Jr., a lieutenant in the Army
Air Force, was humiliated by the public
knowledge that his father was fueling
the enemy's aircraft; he died in a
training accident in Texas six months
later.@s2@s0
With this double death, the
fortune comprising much of Standard
Oil's profits from Texas and Nazi
Germany was now to be settled upon the
little four-year-old grandson, William
(``Will'') Stamps Farish III. Will
Farish grew up a recluse, the most
secretive multimillionaire in Texas,
with investments of ``that money'' in a
multitude of foreign countries, and a
host of exotic contacts overlapping the
intelligence and financial
worlds--particularly in Britain.
The Bush-Farish axis started
George Bush's career. After his 1948
graduation from Yale (and the Skull and
Bones secret society), George Bush flew
down to Texas on a corporate jet and
was employed by his father's Dresser
Industries. In a couple of years he got
help from his uncle, George Walker,
Jr., and Farish's British banker
friends, to set him up in the oil
property speculation business. Soon
thereafter, George Bush founded the
Zapata Oil Company, which put oil
drilling rigs into certain locations of
great strategic interest to the
Anglo-American intelligence community.
Twenty-five-year-old Will Farish
was personal aide to Zapata chairman
George Bush in Bush's unsuccessful 1964
campaign for Senate. Farish used ``that
Auschwitz money'' to back George Bush
financially, investing in Zapata. When
Bush was elected to Congress in 1966,
Farish joined the Zapata board.@s2@s1
When George Bush became U.S. vice
president in 1980, the Farish and Bush
family fortunes were again completely,
secretly commingled. As we shall see,
the old projects were now being revived
on a breathtaking scale.
Bush and Draper
Twenty years before he was U.S.
President, George Bush brought two
``race-science'' professors in front of
the Republican Task Force on Earth
Resources and Population. As chairman
of the Task Force, then-Congressman
Bush invited Professors William
Shockley and Arthur Jensen to explain
to the committee how allegedly runaway
birth-rates for African-Americans were
``down-breeding'' the American
population.
Afterwards, Bush personally summed
up for the Congress the testimony his
black-inferiority advocates had given
to the Task Force.@s2@s2 George Bush
held his hearings on the threat posed
by black babies on August 5, 1969,
while much of the world was in a better
frame of mind--celebrating mankind's
progress from the first moon landing 16
days earlier. Bush's obsessive thinking
on this subject was guided by his
family's friend, Gen. William H.
Draper, Jr., the founder and chairman
of the Population Crisis Committee, and
vice chairman of the Planned Parenthood
Federation. Draper had long been
steering U.S. public discussion about
the so-called ``population bomb'' in
the non-white areas of the world.
If Congressman Bush had explained
to his colleagues {how his family had
come to know General Draper,} they would
perhaps have felt some alarm, or even
panic, and paid more healthy attention
to Bush's presentation. Unfortunately,
the Draper-Bush population doctrine is
now official U.S. foreign policy.
William H. Draper, Jr. had joined
the Bush team in 1927, when he was
hired by Dillon Read & Co., New York
investment bankers. Draper was put into
a new job slot at the firm: handling
the Thyssen account.
We recall that in 1924, Fritz
Thyssen set up his Union Banking
Corporation in George Herbert Walker's
bank at 39 Broadway, Manhattan. Dillon
Read & Co.'s boss, Clarence Dillon, had
begun working with Fritz Thyssen
some time after Averell Harriman first
met with Thyssen--at about the time
Thyssen began financing Adolf Hitler's
political career.
In January 1926, Dillon Read
created the {German Credit and
Investment Corporation} in Newark, New
Jersey and Berlin, Germany, as
Thyssen's short-term banker. That same
year, Dillon Read created the
{Vereinigte Stahlwerke} (German Steel
Trust), incorporating the Thyssen
family interests under the direction of
New York and London finance.@s2@s3
William H. Draper, Jr. was made
director, vice president, and assistant
treasurer of the German Credit and
Investment Corp. His business was
short-term loans and financial
management tricks for Thyssen and the
German Steel Trust. Draper's clients
sponsored Hitler's terroristic
takeover; his clients led the buildup
of the Nazi war industry; his clients
made war against the United States. The
Nazis were Draper's direct partners in
Berlin and New Jersey: Alexander
Kreuter, residing in Berlin, was
president; Frederic Brandi, whose
father was a top coal executive in the
German Steel Trust, moved to the United
States in 1926 and served as Draper's
co-director in Newark.
Draper's role was crucial for
Dillon Read & Co., for whom Draper was
a partner and eventually vice
president. The German Credit and
Investment Corp. (GCI) was a ``front''
for Dillon Read: It had the same New
Jersey address as U.S. & International
Securities Corp. (USIS), and the same
man served as treasurer of both
firms.@s2@s4
Clarence Dillon and his son C.
Douglas Dillon were directors of USIS,
which was spotlighted when Clarence
Dillon was hauled before the Senate
Banking Committee's famous ``Pecora''
hearings in 1933. USIS was shown to be
one of the great speculative pyramid
schemes which had swindled stockholders
of hundreds of millions of dollars.
These investment policies had rotted
the U.S. economy to the core, and led
to the Great Depression of the 1930s.
But William H. Draper, Jr.'s GCI
``front'' was not {apparently}
affiliated with the USIS ``front'' or
with Dillon, and the GCI escaped the
congressmen's limited scrutiny. This
oversight was to prove most
unfortunate, particularly to the 50
million people who subsequently died in
World War II.
Dillon Read hired public relations
man Ivy Lee to prepare their executives
for their testimony and to confuse and
further baffle the congressmen.@s2@s5
Lee apparently took enough time out
from his duties as image-maker for
William S. Farish and the Nazi I.G.
Farben Co.; he managed the
congressional thinking so that the
congressmen did not disturb the Draper
operation in Germany--and did not
meddle with Thyssen, or interfere with
Hitler's U.S. moneymen.
Thus, in 1932, Willam H. Draper,
Jr. was free to finance the
International Eugenics Congress as a
``Supporting Member.''@s2@s6 Was he
using his own income as a Thyssen trust
banker? Or did the funds come from
Dillon Read corporate accounts, perhaps
to be written off income tax as
``expenses for German project: race
purification''? Draper helped select
Ernst Rudin as chief of the world
eugenics movement, who used his office
to promote what he called Adolf
Hitler's ``holy, national and
international racial hygienic
mission.''@s2@s7
W.S. Farish was publicly exposed
in 1942, humiliated and destroyed. Just
before Farish died, Prescott Bush's
Nazi banking office was quietly seized
and shut down. But Prescott's close
friend and partner in the
Thyssen-Hitler business, William H.
Draper, Jr., {neither died nor moved
out of German affairs.} Draper listed
himself as a director of the German
Credit and Investment Corp. through
1942, and the firm was not liquidated
until November 1943.@s2@s8 But a war
was on. Draper, a colonel from previous
military service, went off to the
Pacific theater and became a general.
General Draper apparently had a
hobby: magic--illusions, sleight of
hand, etc.--and he was a member of the
Society of American Magicians. This is
not irrelevant to his subsequent
career.
The Nazi regime surrendered in May
1945. In July 1945, General Draper was
called to Europe by the American
military government authorities in
Germany. Draper was appointed head of
the Economics Division of the U.S.
Control Commission. He was assigned to
take apart the Nazi corporate cartels.
There is an astonishing but perfectly
logical rationale to this--Draper knew
a lot about the subject! General Draper,
who had spent about 15 years financing
and managing the dirtiest of the Nazi
enterprises, was now authorized to
decide {who was exposed, who lost and
who kept his business, and in practical
effect, who was prosecuted for war
crimes.}@s2@s9
(Draper was not unique within the
postwar occupation government. Consider
the case of John J. McCloy, U.S.
Military Governor and High Commissioner
of Germany, 1949-1952. Under
instructions from his Wall Street law
firm, McCloy had lived for a year in
Italy, serving as an adviser to the
fascist government of Benito Mussolini.
An intimate collaborator of the
Harriman/Bush bank, McCloy had sat in
Adolf Hitler's box at the 1936 Olympic
games in Berlin, at the invitation of
Nazi chieftains Rudolf Hess and Hermann
Goering.)@s3@s0
William H. Draper, Jr., as a
``conservative,'' was paired with the
``liberal'' U.S. Treasury Secretary
Henry Morgenthau in a vicious game.
Morgenthau demanded that Germany be
utterly destroyed as a nation, that its
industry be dismantled and it be
reduced to a purely rural country. As
the economic boss in 1945 and 1946,
Draper ``protected'' Germany from the
Morgenthau Plan ... but at a price.
Draper and his colleagues demanded
that Germany and the world accept the
{collective guilt of the German
people} as {the
}explanation for the rise of
Hitler's New Order, and the Nazi war
crimes. This, of course, was rather
convenient for General Draper himself,
as it was for the Bush family. It is
still convenient decades later,
allowing Prescott's son, President
Bush, to lecture Germany on the danger
of Hitlerism. Germans are too slow, it
seems, to accept his New World Order.
After several years of government
service (often working directly for
Averell Harriman in the North Atlantic
Alliance), Draper was appointed in
1958 chairman of a committee which was
to advise President Dwight Eisenhower
on the proper course for U.S. military
aid to other countries. At that time,
Prescott Bush was a U.S. senator from
Connecticut, a confidential friend and
golf partner with National Security
Director Gordon Gray, and an important
golf partner with Dwight Eisenhower as
well. Prescott's old lawyer from the
Nazi days, John Foster Dulles, was
Secretary of State, and his brother
Allen Dulles, formerly of the Schroder
bank, was head of the CIA.
This friendly environment
emboldened our General Draper to pull off
a stunt with his military aid advisery
committee. He changed the subject under
study. The following year, the Draper
committee recommended that the U.S.
government react to the supposed threat
of the ``population explosion'' by
formulating plans to depopulate the
poorer countries. The growth of the
world's non-white population, he
proposed, should be regarded as
dangerous to the national security of
the United States!@s3@s1
President Eisenhower rejected the
recommendation. But in the next decade,
General Draper founded the ``Population
Crisis Committee'' and the ``Draper
Fund,'' joining with the Rockefeller
and DuPont families to promote eugenics
as ``population control.'' The
administration of President Lyndon
Johnson, advised by Draper on the
subject, began financing birth control
in the tropical countries through the
Agency for International Development.
General William Draper was George Bush's guru
on the population question.@s3@s2 But
there was also Draper's money--from
that uniquely horrible source--and
Draper's connections on Wall Street and
abroad. Draper's son and heir, William
H. Draper III, was co-chairman for
finance (chief of fundraising) of the
Bush-for-President national campaign
organization in 1980. With George Bush
in the White House, the younger Draper
heads up the depopulation activities of
the United Nations throughout the
world.
Draper was vice president of
Dillon Read until 1953. During the
1950s and 1960s, the chief executive
there was Frederic Brandi, the German
who was Draper's co-director for the
Nazi investments and his personal
contact man with the Nazi Steel Trust.
Nicholas Brady was Brandi's partner
from 1954, and replaced him as the
firm's chief executive in 1971.
Nicholas Brady, who knows where all the
bodies are buried, was chairman of his
friend George Bush's 1980 election
campaign in New Jersey, and has been
United States Treasury Secretary
throughout Bush's presidency.@s3@s3
Bush and Grey
The U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID) says
that surgical sterilization is the Bush
administration's ``first choice''
method of population reduction in the
Third World.@s3@s4
The United Nations Population Fund
claims that 37 percent of contraception
users in Ibero-America and the
Caribbean have already been surgically
sterilized. In a 1991 report, William
H. Draper III's U.N. agency asserts
that 254 million couples will be
surgically sterilized over the course
of the 1990s; and that if present
trends continue, 80 percent of the
women in Puerto Rico and Panama will be
surgically sterilized.@s3@s5
The U.S. government pays directly
for these sterilizations.
Mexico is first among targeted
nations, on a list which was drawn up
in July 1991, at a USAID strategy
session. India and Brazil are second
and third priorities, respectively.
On contract with the Bush
administration, U.S. personnel are
working from bases in Mexico to perform
surgery on millions of Mexican men and
women. The acknowledged strategy in
this program is to sterilize those
young adults who have not already
completed their families.
George Bush has a rather
deep-seated personal feeling about this
project, in particular as it pits him
against Pope John Paul II in Catholic
countries such as Mexico. (See Chapter
4 below, on the origin of a Bush-family
grudge in this regard.)
The spending for birth control in
the non-white countries is one of the
few items that is headed upwards in the
Bush administration budget. As its 1992
budget was being set, USAID said its
Population Account would receive $300
million, a 20 percent increase over the
previous year. Within this project, a
significant sum is spent on political
and psychological manipulations of
target nations, and rather blatant
subversion of their religions and
governments.@s3@s6
These activities might be expected
to cause serious objections from the
victimized nationalities, or from U.S.
taxpayers, especially if the program is
somehow given widespread publicity.
Quite aside from moral
considerations, {legal} questions would
naturally arise, which could be summed
up: {How does George Bush think he
can get away with this?}
In this matter the President has
expert advice. Mr. (Clayland) Boyden
Gray has been counsel to George Bush
since the 1980 election. As chief legal
officer in the White House, Boyden Gray
can walk the President through the
dangers and complexities of waging such
unusual warfare against Third World
populations. Gray knows how these
things are done.
When Boyden Gray was four and five
years old, his father organized the
pilot project for the present worldwide
sterilization program, from the Gray
family household in North Carolina.
It started in 1946. The eugenics
movement was looking for a way to begin
again in America.
Nazi death camps such as Auschwitz
had just then seared the conscience of
the world. The Sterilization League of
America, which had changed its name
during the war to ``Birthright, Inc.,''
wanted to start up again. First they
had to overcome public nervousness
about crackpots proposing to eliminate
``inferior'' and ``defective'' people.
The League tried to surface in Iowa,
but had to back off because of negative
publicity: a little boy had recently
been sterilized there and had died from
the operation.
They decided on North Carolina,
where the Gray family could play the
perfect host.@s3@s7 Through British
imperial contacts, Boyden Gray's
grandfather Bowman Gray had become
principal owner of the R.J. Reynolds
Tobacco Co. Boyden's father, Gordon
Gray, had recently founded the Bowman
Gray (memorial) Medical School in
Winston-Salem, using his inherited
cigarette stock shares. The medical
school was already a eugenics center.
As the experiment began, Gordon
Gray's great aunt, Alice Shelton Gray,
who had raised him from childhood, was
living in his household. Aunt Alice had
founded the ``Human Betterment
League,'' the North Carolina branch of
the national eugenical sterilization
movement.
Aunt Alice was the official
supervisor of the 1946-47 experiment.
Working under Miss Gray was Dr. Claude
Nash Herndon, whom Gordon Gray had made
assistant professor of ``medical
genetics'' at Bowman Gray medical
school.
Dr. Clarence Gamble, heir to the
Proctor and Gamble soap fortune, was
the sterilizers' national field
operations chief.
The experiment worked as follows.
{All children enrolled in the school
district of Winston-Salem, N.C., were
given a special ``intelligence test.''
Those children who scored below a
certain arbitrary low mark were then
cut open and surgically sterilized.}
We quote now from the official
story of the project: ``In
Winston-Salem and in [nearby] Orange
County, North Carolina, the
[Sterilization League's] field
committee had participated in testing
projects to identify school age
children who should be considered for
sterilization. The project in Orange
County was conducted by the University
of North Carolina and was financed by a
`Mr. Hanes,' a friend of Clarence
Gamble and supporter of the field work
project in North Carolina. The
Winston-Salem project was also financed
by Hanes. [``Hanes'' was underwear
mogul James Gordon Hanes, a trustee of
Bowman Gray Medical School and
treasurer of Alice Gray's group]....
``The medical school had a long
history of interest in eugenics and had
compiled extensive histories of
families carrying inheritable disease.
In 1946, Dr. C. Nash Herndon ... made a
statement to the press on the use of
sterilization to prevent the spread of
inheritable diseases....
``The first step after giving the
mental tests to grade school children
was to interpret and make public the
results. In Orange County the results
indicated that three percent of the
school age children were either insane
or feebleminded.... [Then] the field
committee hired a social worker to
review each case ... and to present any
cases in which sterilization was
indicated to the State Eugenics Board,
which under North Carolina law had the
authority to order sterilization....''
Race science experimenter Dr.
Claude Nash Herndon provided more
details in an interview in 1990:@s3@s8
``Alice Gray was the general
supervisor of the project. She and
Hanes sent out letters promoting the
program to the commissioners of all 100
counties in North Carolina.... What did
I do? Nothing besides riding herd on
the whole thing! The social workers
operated out of my office. I was at the
time also director of outpatient
services at North Carolina Baptist
Hospital. We would see the [targeted]
parents and children there.... I.Q.
tests were run on all the children in
the Winston-Salem public school system.
Only the ones who scored really low
[were targeted for sterilization], the
real bottom of the barrel, like below
70.
``Did we do sterilizations on young
children? Yes. This was a relatively
minor operation.... It was usually not
until the child was eight or ten years
old. For the boys, you just make an
incision and tie the tube.... We more
often performed the operation on girls
than with boys. Of course, you have to
cut open the abdomen, but again, it is
relatively minor.''
Dr. Herndon remarked coolly that
``we had a very good relationship with
the press'' for the project. This is
not surprising, since Gordon Gray owned
the {Winston-Salem Journal,}
the {Twin City Sentinel,} and
radio station WSJS.
In 1950 and 1951, John Foster
Dulles, then chairman of the
Rockefeller Foundation, led John D.
Rockefeller III on a series of world
tours, focusing on the need to stop the
expansion of the non-white populations.
In November 1952, Dulles and
Rockefeller set up the Population
Council, with tens of millions of
dollars from the Rockefeller family.
At that point, the American
Eugenics Society, still cautious from
the recent bad publicity vis-a-vis
Hitler, left its old headquarters at
Yale University. The Society moved its
headquarters into the office of the
Population Council, and the two groups
melded together. The long-time
secretary of the Eugenics Society,
Frederick Osborne, became the first
president of the Population Council.
The Gray family's child-sterilizer, Dr.
C. Nash Herndon, became president of
the American Eugenics Society in 1953,
as its work expanded under Rockefeller
patronage.
Meanwhile, the International
Planned Parenthood Federation was
founded in London, in the offices of
the British Eugenics Society.
The undead enemy from World War
II, renamed ``Population Control,'' had
now been revived.
George Bush was U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations in 1972, when with
prodding from Bush and his friends, the
United States Agency for International
Development first made an official
contract with the old Sterilization
League of America. The league had
changed its name twice again, and was
now called the ``Association for
Voluntary Surgical Contraception.'' The
U.S. government began paying the old
fascist group to sterilize non-whites
in foreign countries.
The Gray family experiment had
succeeded.
In 1988, the U.S. Agency for
International Development signed its
latest contract with the old
Sterilization League (a.k.a.
``Association for Voluntary
Sterilization''), committing the U.S.
government to spend $80 million over
five years.
Having gotten away with
sterilizing several hundred North
Carolina school children, ``not usually
less than eight to ten years old,'' the
identical group is now authorized by
President Bush to do it to 58 countries
in Asia, Africa, and Ibero-America. The
group modestly claims it has directly
sterilized only 2 million people,
with 87 percent of the bill paid by
U.S. taxpayers.
Meanwhile, Dr. Clarence Gamble,
Boyden Gray's favorite soap
manufacturer, formed his own
``Pathfinder Fund'' as a split-off from
the Sterlization League. Gamble's
Pathfinder Fund, with additional
millions from USAID, concentrates on
penetration of local social groups in
the non-white countries, to break down
psychological resistance to the
surgical sterilization teams.
Notes
1.
Phyllis Tilson Piotrow, {World
Population Crisis: The United States
Response} (New York: Praeger
Publishers, 1973), ``Forward'' by
George H.W. Bush, pp. vii-viii.
2.
Adolf Hitler, {Mein Kampf} (Boston,
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971), p.
404.
3.
``The Ten Richest People in
Houston,'' in {Houston Post Magazine,}
March 11, 1984. ``$150 milion to $250
million from ... inheritance, plus
subsequent investments ... chief heir
to a family fortune in oil stock.... As
to his financial interests, he is ...
coy. He once described one of his
businesses as a company that `invests
in and oversees a lot of smaller
companies ... in a lot of foreign
countries.'|''
4.
The announcements were made in
testimony before a Special Committee of
the U.S. Senate Investigating the
National Defense Program. The hearings
on Standard Oil were held March 5, 24,
26, 27, 31, and April 1, 2, 3 and 7,
1942. Available on microfiche, law
section, Library of Congress. See also
{New York Times,} March 26 and March
27, 1942, and {Washington Evening
Star,} March 26 and March 27, 1942.
5.
{Ibid.,} Exhibit No. 368, printed on
pp. 4584-87 of the hearing record. See
also Charles Higham, {Trading With The
Enemy} (New York: Delacorte Press,
1983), p. 36.
6.
Confidential memorandum from U.S.
Embassy, Berlin, {op. cit.,} chapter 2.
Sir Henri Deterding was among the most
notorious pro-Nazis of the early war
period.
7.
See sections on Prescott Bush in
Darwin Payne, {Initiative in Energy:
Dresser Industries, Inc.} (New York:
Distributed by Simon and Schuster,
1979) (published by the Dresser
Company).
8.
William Stamps Farish obituary, {New
York Times,} Nov. 30, 1942.
9.
{A Decade of Progress in Eugenics:
Scientific Papers of the Third
International Congress of Eugenics held
at American Museum of Natural History
New York, August 21-23, 1932.}
(Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company,
September, 1934).
The term ``eugenics'' is taken
from the Greek to signify ``good
birth'' or ``well-born,'' as in
aristocrat. Its basic assumption is
that those who are not ``well-born''
should not exist.
10.
See among other such letters,
George Herbert Walker, 39 Broadway,
N.Y., to W. A. Harriman, London,
February 21, 1925, in W.A. Harriman papers.
11.
Averell Harriman to Dr. Charles B.
Davenport, President, The International
Congress of Eugenics, Cold Spring
Harbor, L.I., N.Y.:
January 21, 1932
Dear Dr. Davenport:
I will be only too glad to put you
in touch with the Hamburg-American Line
. they may be able to co-operate in
making suggestions which will keep the
expenses to a minimum. I have referred
your letter to Mr. Emil Lederer [of the
Hamburg-Amerika executive board in New
York] with the request that he
communicate with you.
Davenport to Mr. W.A.
Harriman, 59 Wall Street, New York,
N.Y.
January 23, 1932
Dear Mr. Harriman:
Thank you very much for your kind
letter of January 21st and the action
you took which has resulted at once in
a letter from Mr. Emil Lederer. This
letter will serve as a starting point
for correspondence, which I hope will
enable more of our German colleagues to
come to America on the occasion of the
congresses of eugenics and genetics,
than otherwise.
Congressional hearings in 1934
established that Hamburg-Amerika
routinely provided free transatlantic
passage for those carrying out Nazi
propaganda chores. See {Investigation
of Nazi Propaganda Activities and
Investigation of Certain Other
Propaganda Activities,} {op. cit.,}
chapter 2.
12.
Alexis Carrel, {Man the Unknown}
(New York: Halcyon House, published by
arrangement with Harper & Brothers,
1935), pp. 318-19.
The battle cry of the New Order
was sounded in 1935 with the
publication of {Man the Unknown,} by
Dr. Alexis Carrel of the Rockefeller
Institute in New York. This Nobel
Prize-winner said ``enormous sums are
now required to maintain prisons and
insane asylums.... Why do we preserve
these useless and harmful beings? This
fact must be squarely faced. Why should
society not dispose of the criminals
and the insane in a more economical
manner? ... The community must be
protected against troublesome and
dangerous elements.... Perhaps prisons
should be abolished.... The
conditioning of the petty criminal with
the whip, or some more scientific
procedure, followed by a short stay in
hospital, would probably suffice to
insure order. [Criminals, including
those] who have ... misled the public
on important matters, should be
humanely and economically disposed of
in small euthanasic institutions
supplied with proper gases. A similar
treatment could be advantageously
applied to the insane, guilty of
criminal acts.''
Carrel claimed to have
transplanted the head of a dog to
another dog and kept it alive for quite
some time.
13.
Bernhard Schreiber, {The Men Behind
Hitler: A German Warning to the World,}
France: La Hay-Mureaux, ca. 1975),
English language edition supplied by H.
& P. Tadeusz, 369 Edgewere Road, London
W2. A copy of this book is now held by
Union College Library, Syracuse, N.Y.
14.
Higham, {op. cit.,} p. 35.
15.
Engagement announced Feb. 10, 1939,
{New York Times,} p. 20. See also
{Directory of Directors} for New York
City, 1930s and 1940s.
16.
Higham, {op. cit.,} pp. 20, 22 and
other references to Schroeder and
Lindemann.
Anthony Sutton, {Wall Street and
the Rise of Hitler} (Seal Beach: '76
Press, 1976). Sutton is also a good
source on the Harrimans.
17.
{Washington Evening Star,} March
27, 1942, p. 1.
18.
Higham, {op. cit.} p. 50.
19.
{Ibid.,} p. 48.
20.
{Washington Post,} April 29, 1990,
p. F4. Higham, {op. cit.,} pp. 52-53.
21.
Zapata annual reports, 1950s-1960s,
Library of Congress microforms.
22.
See {Congressional Record} for Bush
speech in the House of Representatives,
Sept. 4, 1969. Bush inserted in the
record the testimony given before his
Task Force on August 5, 1969.
23.
Sobel, {op. cit.,} pp. 92-111. See
also Boyle, {op. cit.,} chapter 1,
concerning the Morgan-led Dawes
Committee of Germany's foreign
creditors.
Like Harriman, Dillon used the
Schroeder and Warburg banks to strike
his German bargains. All Dillon Read &
Co. affairs in Germany were supervised
by J.P. Morgan & Co. partner Thomas
Lamont, and were authorized by Bank of
England Governor Montagu Norman.
24.
See {Poor's Register of Directors and
Executives,} (New York: Poor's
Publishing Company, late 1920s, '30s
and '40s). See also {Standard
Corporation Records} (New York:
Standard & Poor), 1935 edition pp.
2571-25, and 1938 edition pp. 7436-38,
for description and history of the
German Credit and Investment
Corporation. For Frederic Brandi, See
also Sobel, {op. cit.,} p. 213-214.
25.
Sobel, {op. cit.,} pp. 180, 186.
Ivy Lee had been hired to improve the
Rockefeller family image, particularly
difficult after their 1914 massacre of
striking miners and pregnant women in
Ludlow, Colorado. Lee got old John D.
Rockefeller to pass out dimes to poor
people lined up at his porch.
26.
Third International Eugenics
Congress papers {op. cit.,} footnote 7,
p. 512, ``Supporting Members.''
27.
Schreiber, {op. cit.,} p. 160. The
Third Int. Eugenics Congress papers, p.
526, lists the officers of the
International Federation as of
publication date in September, 1934.
Rudin is listed as president--a year
after he has written the sterilization
law for Hitler.
28.
{Directory of Directors for New
York City,} 1942. Interview with Nancy
Bowles, librarian of Dillon Read & Co.
29.
Higham, {op. cit.,} p. 129, 212-15,
219-23.
30.
Walter Isaacson and Evan Thomas,
{The Wise Men: Six Friends and the
World They Made--Acheson, Bohlen,
Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy} (New
York: Simon and Schuster, 1986), pp.
122, 305.
31.
Piotrow, {op. cit.,} pp. 36-42.
32.
{Ibid.,} p. viii. ``As chairman of
the special Republican Task Force on
Population and Earth Resources, I was
impressed by the arguments of William
H. Draper, Jr.... General Draper
continues to lead through his tireless
work for the U.N. Population Fund.''
33.
Sobel, {op. cit.,} pp. 298, 354.
34.
Interview July 16, 1991, with
Joanne Grossi, an official with the
USAID's Population Office.
35.
Dr. Nafis Sadik, ``The State of
World Population,'' 1991, New York,
United Nations Population Fund.
36.
See {User's Guide to the Office of
Population,} 1991, Office of
Population, Bureau for Science and
Technology, United States Agency for
International Development. Available
from S&T/POP, Room 811 SA-18, USAID,
Washington D.C. 20523-1819.
37.
``History of the Association for
Voluntary Sterilization [formerly
Sterilization League of America],
1935-64,'' thesis submitted to the
faculty of the graduate school of the
University of Minnesota by William Ray
Van Essendelft, March, 1978, available
on microfilm, Library of Congress. This
is the official history, written with
full cooperation of the Sterilization
League.
38.
Interview with Dr. C. Nash Herndon,
June 20, 1990.
---- John Covici
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