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COMMENT: One of the concepts central to the analysis presented by Mr. Emory on his programs and on this website over the decades is the preeminence of cartels in international power politics–the manifestations of fascism in particular. In recent posts and programs, we have noted:
- The ability of Mitsubishi and other Japanese zaibatsu to bend international power politics, jurisprudence and the historical record itself to the interests of those powerful corporations.
- The circumventing of American and international regulations by the powerful Wallenberg interests in Sweden–actions including the treasonous shipments of ball bearings to Germany during World War II, offsetting the bloody sacrifices of American fliers incurred during the raids on Schweinfurt.
- The candor of Sullivan & Cromwell’s John Foster Dulles in explicitly expressing the political will and operational ethic of cartels.
Our discussion and analysis of the remarkable and deadly Bormann organization must be understood in the context of the cartels, which we feel are dominated by Germany at this point.
Foster Dulles–Secretary of State under Eisenhower at the same time as his brother and fellow Sullivan & Cromwell attorney Allen Dulles was the head of the CIA–delineated his world view and those of his fellow “cartel enablers” in a letter to a contemporary: “The word ‘cartel’ has here assumed the stigma of a bogeyman which the politicians are constantly attacking. The fact of the matter is that most of these politicians are highly insular and nationalistic and because the political organization of the world has under such influence been so backward, business people who have had to cope with international problems have had to find ways for getting through and around stupid political barriers.”
1. “Harvard Professor Claims WWII Sex Slaves Volunteered” by Lindsay Wang; ASAMNews; 2/22/2021.
A paper from a Harvard professor received widespread criticism for concluding that those recruited as comfort women did so voluntarily rather than being forced into sexual slavery, The Harvard Crimson reports.
Many Korean media outlets have pointed out the paper’s author, J. Mark Ramseyer, received the Order of the Rising Sun from the Japanese government in 2018, speculating that there was undue influence on his paper. Ramseyer has denied such allegations.
Sankei Shimbun, a conservative, nationalist Japanese newspaper, featured the paper prior to its publication in the International Review of Law and Economics academic journal. . . .
Various legal scholars and historians from both South Korea and the United States have spoken up about the historical and logical inaccuracies in Ramseyer’s paper. . . .
2. “John_Mark_Ramseyer”; Wikipedia.com
John Mark Ramseyer (born c. 1954) is Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard Law School . . . .
. . . . Also in 2021, Ramseyer emerged at the center of controversy over a forthcoming chapter in The Cambridge Handbook of Privatization, from Cambridge University Press. Writing on the Kantō Massacre in which thousands of resident Koreans in Japan were murdered, Ramseyer depicted the Koreans as “gangs” that “torched buildings, planted bombs, [and] poisoned water supplies. . . .
The real issue is conflict of interest. During the Clinton Administration, U.S. Ambassador to Japan Thomas Foley was adamant in rejecting compensation for POW’s and other slave laborers, insisting that ‘The peace treaty put aside all claims against Japan.’ His Deputy Chief of Mission, Christopher J. LaFleur, echoed this dogma at every opportunity.
It was a matter of some interest to victims that Foley’s wife was a well-paid consultant to Sumitomo, one of Japan’s biggest zaibatsu conglomerates, heavily involved in wartime slave labor and a target of the lawsuits. The moment Foley ended his tenure as ambassador and returned to America, he signed on as a paid advisor and lobbyist to another huge conglomerate-Mitsubishi-one of the biggest wartime users of slave labor.
Of greater significance, perhaps, is that Lafleur is married to the daughter of former prime minister and finance minister Miyazawa, one of the three Japanese who secretly negotiated the 1951 treaty with John Foster Dulles. (Miyazawa also is considered by professor Lausier and others to be the financial overseer of the M‑Fund.) Conflict of interest does not seem to be an obstacle in diplomatic appointments to Tokyo.)
. . . . After retiring as ambassador and returning to Washington, Foley openly became a paid lobbyist for Mitsubishi Corporation as a member of its advisory panel on strategy. Mitsubishi was among the biggest employers of American slave labor during the war. . . .
. . . . Mitsubishi’s market position at the war’s end in 1945 was described by a Western economist as being equivalent to the merger of U.S. Steel, General Motors, Standard Oil, Alcoa, Douglas Aircraft, Dupont, Westinghouse, AT & T National City Bank, Woolworth Stores and Hilton Hotels. . . .
6. All Honorable Men by James Stewart Martin; Little Brown [HC]; Copyright 1950 by James Stewart Martin; pp. 249–254.
. . . . In November 1940, a voting trust agreement was set up in the United States under which George Murnane was designated by the Wallenbergs’ Enskilda Bank as the sole voting trustee with complete power to vote the American Bosch stock at stockholders’ meetings in the United States. The voting trust arrangement provided that if George Murnane should die, his successor should be named by John Foster Dulles, senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, the law firm which represents the Wallenbergs and the Enskilda Bank in the United States. . . .
. . . . It happened that two thirds of Germany’s entire bearing industry was concentrated in a single group of four factories at Schweinfurt. Three of them, accounting for 36 per cent of Germany’s productive capacity, were owned by VKF; and one, accounting for 30 per cent of German capacity, was owned by the only remaining large independent, Fischer A.G.
When American air forces bombed Schweinfurt during the war, in an effort to knock out this strategic point in German industrial production, Schweinfurt was discovered to be one of the most heavily defended spots in Germany. German defenses inflicted a loss of fifty American heavy bombers in one raid alone. When these raids temporarily knocked out Schweinfurt, the effect was largely nullified by shipments of bearings from SKF in Sweden. . . .
7. The Wallenbergs played a major role in the Swedish component of the Bormann organization.
. . . . An interesting sidelight to this struggle between the Allies and Germany for influence on Sweden is the peculiar role played by Marcus and Jacob Wallenberg, members of Sweden’s most important banking family. Marcus headed a government commission which negotiated with Britain and the United States throughout the war. At the same time, his brother Jacob was the chief negotiator for the Swedish government with Nazi Germany. Thus were both sides covered for Swedish business, including the family’s very own substantial economic interests. Following World War II, this family empire was to achieve its most spectacular prosperity, as German investments under the Bormann program matured in their Swedish safe-havens.
In this way, impressive wealth accrued to the Wallenbergs, as well as to the other Swedish and German investment groups controlling large holdings in the many Swedish companies under German dominance in 1944. . . .
8. The American Deep State: Wall Street, Big Oil and the Attack on American Democracy by Peter Dale Scott; Rowman & Littlefield [HC]; Copyright 2015 by Pete Dale Scott; ISBN 978–1‑4422–1424‑8; p.18.
. . . . The international lawyers of Wall Street did not hide from each other their shared belief that they understood better than Washington the requirements for running the world. As John Foster Dulles wrote in the 1930’s to a British colleague: “The word ‘cartel’ has here assumed the stigma of a bogeyman which the politicians are constantly attacking. The fact of the matter is that most of these politicians are highly insular and nationalistic and because the political organization of the world has under such influence been so backward, business people who have had to cope with international problems have had to find ways for getting through and around stupid political barriers.”
This same mentality also explains why Allen Dulles as an Office of Strategic Services (OSS) officer simply evaded orders from Washington forbidding him to negotiate with SS General Karl Wolff about a conditional surrender of German forces in Italy—an important breach of Roosevelt’s agreement with Stalin at Yalta, a breach that is regarded by many as helping lead to the Cold War. And it explains why Allen Dulles, as CIA director in 1957, dealt summarily with Eisenhower’s reluctance to authorize more than occasional U‑2 overflights of the USSR, by secretly approving a plan with Britain’s MI6 whereby U‑2 flights could be authorized instead by the U.K. Prime Minister Macmillan. . . .
Uncle Sam and Il Duce
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