Tragedy and Hope 101 - Chapter 07

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Tragedy and Hope 101: the illusion of justice, freedom and democracy by Josef Plummer

Chapter 07

"Sink the League—Raise the Fascists

“The New World Order cannot happen without U.S. participation, as we are the most significant single component… there will be a New World Order, and it will force the United States to change its perceptions.” -Henry Kissinger

Around the time it became clear the United States wouldn’t join the League of Nations, the Network began the process of undermining the organization. Quigley seems perplexed by this, especially regarding its erosion of provisions within the League that, although harsh, were meant to restrain dangerous groups that still held power in post-WWI Germany. On page 232 of The Anglo-American Establishment, he writes:

Philip Kerr was…at the very center of the Milner Group. His violent Germanophobia…and his evident familiarity with the character of the Germans…should have made the Treaty of Versailles very acceptable to
him and his companions, or, if not, unacceptable on grounds of excessive leniency. Instead, Kerr…and the whole inner core of the Milner Group began a campaign to undermine the treaty, the League of Nations, and the whole peace settlement…The Milner Group…began their program of appeasement and revision of the settlement as early as 1919. Why did they do this?

Quigley answers his own question via a process that he admits involves “a certain amount of conjecture.” First, he argues that the well-meaning men of the Network had simply mistaken the true nature (and actual identity) of those who continued to rule Germany after its defeat in 1918. If only they had known these facts, they wouldn’t have pursued the flawed policy of appeasement, and “there need never have been a Second World War.” In Quigley’s defense, he does mention that:

The Milner Group did not see…because they did not want to see. The Milner Group knew that [the true powers in Germany] were cooperating with the reactionaries to suppress all democratic and enlightened elements in Germany and to help the forces of despotism.

Quigley then goes on to describe a series of deceptive actions taken by the Group (where they pretended to support positions that they actually opposed, and pretended to oppose positions that they actually supported), and the reader is left wondering how anyone could possibly decipher what the Group was truly thinking or trying to accomplish. For instance, he states that the “economic expert” within the Milner Group decided that the best way to help Germany become an upstanding member of Western civilization would be to have the United States begin loaning Germany money. 3 But if the Group knew the “forces of despotism” were being empowered, and assuming they did not want to strengthen those forces, why would they begin extending “concessions to the Germans without any attempt to purge Germany of its vicious elements and without any guarantee that those concessions would not be used against everything the Group held dear”?"

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