The debate which is currently raging here in Canada and in England concerning Britain's entry into the European Common Market, may seem somewhat remote to the average citizen who is worrying whether or not the hydrogen bomb will be dropped and how he is going to make ends meet from day to day. However, the following article by Cecil Keene, which appeared in Credit Notes of September, 1961, points out the real significance of this move to get Britain into a European economic union. The title above is the article's heading.
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Social Crediters have always opposed the constant moves to amalgamate small and manageable bodies into larger organisations, where the individual has less and less say in the shaping of his own destiny, and where hidden power and remote control flourish.
For this reason alone they would oppose the idea of a European Common Market, because if Britain joined, the control of her affairs would pass from the hands of Parliament - which would be reduced to county council status - and vested nominally in an international body located somewhere in Europe.
As during the last war, the 'pound and dollar' the 'Keynes' and the 'Morganthau' monetary plans, led to the signing of the Bretton Woods Agreement in 1945 by the Attlee government, so, since then, the 'Schuman' plan, which was really the 'Lilienthal plan' and the 'European Coal and Steel Community', have given place to the European Common Market, inaugurated in the Treaty of Rome signed on March 25, 1957 by Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, and West Germany. The inspiration, however, seems to be more American than European. The treaty itself is a very involved document of 248 articles. It has been said of some legal agreements that a horse and cart could be driven through their clauses. The Treaty of Rome is so vague, and so full of possible meanings, that a whole army tank would not be too large to drive between its subtle uncertainties. No wonder one member of parliament has asked for a kindergarten version and a European Court of Justice has been set up to interpret the Treaty.
Social Crediters always look behind all the great world organizations to see where the power lies, they seek the banking arrangements at the back of the colorful facades presented to an admiring but greatly astonished public. Behind the League of Nations was the Bank of International Settlements, this latter body had produced offspring by the time the (so-called) United Nations appeared on the scene, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund came into being, and as might be expected, a prominent feature of the Common Market is a European Investment Bank.
No wonder President Kennedy is in such an unseemly and unmannerly hurry to meddle in Britain's affairs. By ordering Macmillan to rush into the Common Market, the World Financial Power, marshalled behind the buried gold at Fort Knox in the U.S. will be given complete control of European affairs. When Mr. J. M. Ryan addressed members of the Social Credit Society in Leeds, on February 25th 1945, he said that World finance intended to set up a single world tyranny, but this could not eventuate until the British Empire, which was the great stumbling block to such a plan, had been eliminated. At that time, this seemed to be a dream of the distant future. But the facts are written plainly today for all to see; the Empire has been greatly weakened by subtlety rather than conquest; Britain is in grave danger of being trapped in a European federation. And should this penultimate move be successful, the way will be open for the final step to World government to complete the Power Lusters' evil plan.
It is the duty of everybody who knows the facts to enlighten their neighbours of the threatened peril, and the plans for their elimination as a free people. The enemy is attempting to bring about the regimentation with all speed, before the people of the Commonwealth have been fully informed of the truth. Every person converted to oppose the Common Market idea is a blow against this alien plan; those who oppose should, therefore, both in and out of season, voice their opposition and rally supporters to resistance. The press and members of Parliament should be deluged with letters of protest. There is no time to spare, the campaign can be stepped up with further action when the initial moves have been started.
"Wealth is the thing; money is the symboł of the thing, whether it be product or service." A Primer of Social Credit, page 9
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"... Full employment is a strategy which has the result of subjecting individuals to a system of government."
An Introduction to Social Credit, p. 66