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There's more at the link.Beck-promoted book pins creation of Fed on conspiracy of Jewish bankers
September 23, 2010 8:12 pm ET by Matt Gertz
Yesterday on his Fox News show, while attacking Edward House, an adviser to President Wilson, for his work in establishing the Federal Reserve, Glenn Beck promoted the book Secrets of the Federal Reserve. As we pointed out, the book was written by Eustace Mullins, a reported 9-11 truther who was called "an anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist" by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
At the beginning of his discussion of House, Beck urged his audience, "I ask you to do your own homework on this, don't take anything I say as truth just because I say it. Do your own homework. Find out if it's true. Read original sources." And so we did.
The ADL calls Secrets of the Federal Reserve "a re-hash of [Mullins'] anti-Semitic theories about the origins of the Federal Reserve." Based on our review, that description seems accurate.
Secrets was commissioned by and dedicated to an American Hitler sympathizer who attacked the Allied governments in World War II-era broadcasts for Italy's Fascist government. The book tells the tale of how a sinister conspiracy of international financiers, led by a family of Jewish bankers to whom "the most powerful men in the United States were themselves answerable," established the Federal Reserve as part of their centuries-old plot to control the country.
Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, the American Modernist poet, provides the introduction to Secrets; the book is also dedicated to him. And for good reason -- a forward Mullins wrote for the 1991 edition of the book explains that Pound was intimately involved in the book's creation. Mullins writes:
In 1949, while I was visiting Ezra Pound who was a political prisoner at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D.C. (a Federal institution for the insane), Dr. Pound asked me if I had ever heard of the Federal Reserve System. I replied that I had not, as of the age of 25. He then showed me a ten dollar bill marked "Federal Reserve Note" and asked me if I would do some research at the Library of Congress on the Federal Reserve System which had issued this bill. Pound was unable to go to the Library himself, as he was being held without trial as a political prisoner by the United States government. After he was denied broadcasting time in the U.S., Dr. Pound broadcast from Italy in an effort to persuade people of the United States not to enter World War II.
Mullins further wrote that Pound funded his research and made editorial suggestions and that the book was eventually published by "two of Pound's disciples."
Why does it matter that Pound basically came up with the idea for Mullins' book? Isn't he just a poet?
Did you catch the bit there about how Pound was a "political prisoner" because he tried to "persuade people of the United States not to enter World War II"? Here's how that looks from a less biased source:
From 1941 to 1943, in broadcasts for the Italian government, [Pound] sang the praises of Mussolini and Hitler, while denigrating the Allied powers.
His main theme was invariably anti-Semitic: "That Jew in the White House... the kike and the unmitigated evil... the United States has been invaded by vermin."
[...]
Nevertheless, interned in a camp for army criminals, Pound managed to write his award-winning Pisan Canto, regarded by many critics as one of his finest achievements.
Back in the United States, though, Pound was declared unfit to stand trial.
He was confined for nearly 13 years in Washington's chief psychiatric institution, St Elizabeth's Hospital, where he entertained Stephen Spender and other visitors, acquiring two more mistresses among them.
[...]
Ezra Pound himself, who greeted his release from custody with a Fascist salute and blamed his bad press on papers such as the "Jew Pork Times", reflected toward the end of his life: "I have tried to write paradise. Let those whom I love forgive what I have written."
That's who proposed the book Beck promoted yesterday.
Graeme Wood had the misfortune of interviewing Eustace Mullins:
Poor Glenn Beck... Like Dr. Strangelove, he just can't help himself!Into the Psyche of Eustace Mullins
Sep 23 2010, 6:00 PM ET
The most incriminating book in my personal library is the only authorized biography of the poet Ezra Pound, inscribed to "my friend Graeme Wood" by its author, Eustace Mullins, whose work Glenn Beck cited yesterday on his show. Mullins was an open purveyor of blood libel: he claimed that Jews kidnap Christian children, ritually puncture their veins, and drink their blood as a restorative for their own degenerate bodies. During Pound's involuntary commitment in St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington in the Fifties, Mullins visited him frequently, and under his direction, Mullins authored foundational texts in Federal Reserve conspiracy theory. Those theories have proved impressively durable. In addition to Glenn Beck's citation yesterday, Pat Robertson's books peddled variations on them in the 1980s, and elements of the Tea Party echo them now. (Short version: the Federal Reserve controls the world, and the UN is taking over the US via the New World Order.)
Mullins died in February at 86, and when I visited him in Staunton, Virginia, six years ago on assignment for The Jewish Daily Forward, he was already slowed by age, living in a creepy, dark rat-trap filled with religious icons, votive candles, and old newspapers. The wallpaper curled down off the wall in two-foot sections, and the chairs coughed up decades' worth of dust when we sat down. He surprised me by snatching the Pound biography from my hands and inscribing it. The moment reminded me of the scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Doctor Jones accidentally gets Hitler's autograph in his notebook.
I had read almost everything Pound ever wrote, and much of Mullins's own writing. By visiting him I hoped to discover exactly how crazy Pound was during his time in the mental hospital. Pound had broadcast propaganda for Mussolini during the war, and some said he was feigning madness to avoid execution for treason. During his supposed madness he wrote some of the poetry for which he is best known. By meeting Mullins, I also wanted to learn something about how anti-Semites thought, and what allowed them (unlike people with most other mental pathologies) to be so unhinged about Jews while also being clever and insightful about other things, like modernist poetry.
On the first question, Mullins assured me that Pound was sane, and that he was a political prisoner who knew too much. I asked him to give an example of how Pound demonstrated his sanity. Mullins said that during one of his visits to Pound, an orderly came to Pound to say a man had showed up and wanted to meet him. Pound asked what the man's name was. The orderly said "Abrahamsen," a Norwegian patronymic. Pound told the orderly to tell the man to go away, Mullins said, and then snickered to Mullins that no Jew was getting near him today. That Mullins took this weird exchange as evidence of Pound's sanity demonstrates pretty vividly that both men were completely bananas
I'll see your Nazi arm salute and raise you one!
