================= The Chinese Swaztika Newsletter =============== "Your Source of Secret Aryan and Chinese Knowledge" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Vol. 1, No. 12 November 7, 2002 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gregory Delaney, Editor This newsletter is distributed by subscription only. If you wish to unsubscribe, you can find instructions at the end of this newsletter. Please feel free to pass this e-zine along to your friends. However, please keep it intact and forward it in its entirety. ----------------------------------------------------------------- IN THIS ISSUE ----------------------------------------------------------------- => The Fraud of Medical Marijuana => The Free Trade Swindle => Who Controls the Liquor Industry? => Next Week: Dr. Wu Describes Why Physicians Hate Iridology => Subscribe/Unsubscribe Information ================================================================= The Fraud of Medical Marijuana by Dr. Wu Tao-Wei Pot smokers usually agree that smoking pot is more fun than drinking alcohol. Pot smokers seem like a harmless lot. There are no pot smokers whom you can see laying in the gutter covered with their own excrement, urine and puke. They generally do not dig through garbage cans for something to eat or beg for money to feed their pot habit. Neither are these people found in the emergency wards after passing out and falling under a tram or an automobile or having their heads wrapped in bandages after blacking out and falling flat onto their faces. You do not usually find these pot smokers belligerently picking fights and suffering the cuts and contusions that result thereby. Neither do they suffer from liver and kidney malfunction, high cancer rates, arthritis and heart disease. They do not have a high incidence of auto accidents where they drive over innocent pedestrians. Also, arson, destruction of property, vandalism, assault and battery, murder, theft, etc., are not noticeably high among this group. However, you DO find such things and many other evils besides among those people who drink alcohol to excess. So, why is it that alcohol is condoned and encouraged while marijuana smoking is prohibited? Who writes the laws that allows this discrepancy to occur? As is usual in the West, the laws are written by those who benefit from them and not by those who must suffer under them. And so, once again, we must ask ourselves the question: Who Benefits? Obviously the first beneficiary is the booze industry. And the monopoly owners of the multi-billion dollar liquor industry are the Jews. Who else benefits from the drunkenness of the People? When drunks fall down, they need doctors and hospitals. And the monopoly owners of the multi-billion dollar doctoring professions are mainly Jews. Drunks get into legal trouble and need lawyers. Who are the lawyers of this multi-billion dollar profession but mostly Jews? Gambling and prostitution are Jewish monopolies which benefit from the drunkenness of their clients. In short, all of the services that benefit from drunks becoming inebriated and drunks destroying themselves and others, are services that are highly profitable to the Jews. So, of course, the Jews write laws that benefit themselves. They promote alcohol consumption and discourage the smoking of marijuana. And when marijuana is illegal, then its price is very high so this is beneficial to the Jews of Mexico and other pot growing locations who get high profits from their crops and for transportation and distribution. If marijuana growing was legal, then the price would be nearly zero because it can be grown anywhere. Pot smokers would grow their own intoxicants and drink less alcohol. Now, I am not condoning the smoking of pot but merely pointing out something odd about the medical marijuana debate. In this debate, society is being manipulated by the Jewish Media to be either for or against medical marijuana for sick people. Those with cancer and other debilitating diseases have all agreed that by smoking pot they are able to withstand the effects of chemotherapy and to eat their food without up-chucking. But the actual debate is being waged for the hearts and minds of the ordinary citizens who neither smoke pot nor have a disease. The debate is being waged for the votes of the average citizen. The citizens are being asked to decide medical drug laws for which they are neither qualified nor interested in deciding. Why is this? You see, the issue is really not at all about whether marijuana should be given to sick people. From a medical standpoint, if the drug relieves suffering without dangerous side-effiects, then it is a good therapy. So, the ordinary citizen should not be required to decide whether it should be allowed or not since it is a medical decision alone. The ten thousand other drugs that physicians use are not placed before a committee of laymen to decide whether they should be used or not, so what is so special about marijuana? Why is such an issue put on the ballot for the uninformed and uneducated people to vote on? Quite simply -- the people are being brainwashed. When the Jewish Media rages through both sides of the debate -- some Jews saying "Yes" and some Jews saying "No" -- without really attempting to clarify the situation, then you know that neither a "yes" nor a "no" is their goal. The main goal of the Jews in fomenting this debate is to brainwash the People with the idea that marijuana is a pharmacological drug that is prescribed by Jewish doctors to people who are sick and NOT a recreational substance on the same level as alcohol. They want the People to begin thinking of marijuana as something that a Jewish pharmacy dispenses for a fee and not as an agricultural product that anyone can grow. They want to keep marijuana banned as an illegal drug even though the marijuana plant produces more paper pulp per acre than do pulp forests. The marijuana plant has 10,000 useful products that can be made from it including a very nice. soft cloth, strong rope, eatable seeds, as well as oils, paints and plastics. It is an extremely valuable agricultural product that can benefit any country that grows it commercially. But because it causes the Jews in liquor, medicine and law to not make money, they want it banned. Or if not banned outright, they want it classified as a controlled substance in such a way that they can reap a profit by selling it through their already established commercial channels. The Medical Marijuana Debate is just another Jewish swindle. Its goal is not to determine the advisability of letting cancer patients take an illegal drug or not. After all, most of the drugs that cancer patients take are not only highly illegal without a prescription but extremely toxic as well. But there is no debate on whether to allow cancer patients to take morphine patches or swallow a hundred other drugs prescribed by their doctors. Why is this? The goal of the Medical Marijuana Debate is to convince people that marijuana should be a controlled substance that only the Jewish doctors and pharmacists should be allowed to dispense. As I wrote last week, the twigs from the marijuana plant make excellent toothbrushes that you can grow for free. But the Jews in the medical profession, in the legal profession and in the liquor industry are bribing the politicians. You will only be allowed to brush your teeth with a marijuana twig by paying a Jewish doctor to write you a prescription for it. You see, once the Jews can make money, then ANYTHING is okay to do. An example is the Las Vegas gambling arena controlled by the Jewish and Italian organized crime syndicates where EVERY vice is condoned. But if the Jews lose money, then it is made to be illegal no matter how beneficial it is to all of the rest of Mankind. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- The Free Trade Swindle by William Forrest Whenever you hear or read about "free trade", it really is a good idea to ask, "Free trade for whom?" You hear the term often in the West but after all, "free trade" is one of the planks in the Communist political platform. This is one of the ideas that Communism offers to the naïve and trusting People of the World as an inducement for us to join in their Workers' Paradise of unremitting toil, scarce food and slave-labor wages. Communism has already proven that that is the end results of their program, regardless of what they promise. And both the Communists and the Free Traders make lots and lots of promises. Promises are free and don't cost them anything yet can bring in lots of fools who believe them. Naturally, everybody likes things that are free. "Free" means that it won't cost you anything. "Free" means that if you accept it, you will be glad because "free" is usually something nice. Am I right? Therefore, according to the Communists, "free trade" is good to have because you can do import-export business for "free" which means no taxes or customs duties that cost a businessman money and lower his profit margin. And as the businessmen promise, when they don't have to pay taxes, then they can "pass the savings along to the customer". Yes, that's their promise. But whether prices actually go down for the consumer or not under "free trade", doesn't matter because at least the businessmen can PROMISE that prices will be lower. After all, it doesn't cost anything to make promises, so even false promises are a form of cheap advertizing for them. Indeed, in the beginning of "free trade" prices ARE lower, but only in the beginning. And so, according to the Commies, "free trade" is good for business while it breaks down national borders and establishes One World Government -- ruled by the Commies, of course! Now, since we know that Communism is a Jewish political scam that has killed over 100 million people world-wide, destroyed entire nations and plundered the treasuries of these countries; and since we know that Communism has not brought ANY of its promised benefits to anyone except the Jews, then shouldn't we look very, very carefully at everything that this diabolical political system promises as well as to look carefully at WHO does the promising? Here in the Peoples' Socialist Republic of California, we have a Democratic Party majority led by Grey "Pinko" Davis. It was elected into power by the brown and yellow masses of illegal aliens and legal immigrants from the Third World who vote Democratic Party because that is the party that gives them free stuff in the form of social services and lots of free promises. And "free trade" is one of the planks of the Democratic Party. In fact, EVERY plank in the Democratic Party is identical with the planks of the Communist Party, but you never hear about this in the Jewish Media Monopoly. And WHO are the prime supporters of the Democratic Party? Who else but the Jews? Not only do they vote overwhelmingly for this Party but they are its biggest cash contributors. And they all support "free trade". "Of course," you might say, "the Jews support free trade because the Jews are businessmen who like to make money. What's wrong with that?" Well, the main problem is that "free trade" makes the businessmen richer but it also makes the entire Nation poorer. When goods enter or leave a country without taxes or customs duties, the government of that country no longer benefits from tax revenues AND it can no longer control the economy and well being of the nation. Don't forget, this is a country by and for the People. It is the First Duty of Government to be in the business of protecting the well-being of the People. All other concerns are secondary. Yes, the businessmen make millions in profits but the People suffer the loss. Not only are the nation and the People made poorer but the Nation also loses control of its borders and is unable to protect its people from unfair foreign competition. You can see this many times throughout history. For example, England was once a prosperous manufacturing country that exported its goods world-wide. But as Jewish finance began to strangle the economy and to push for "free trade", the manufacturers moved their operations and machinery overseas to such places as India. Soon, England began to decline as it began to import cheaper goods than it could manufacture, itself. First, the Jews (always playing the Middle Man position) made money EXPORTING English goods to the world. Then, from their profits they set up overseas manufacturing centers in competition with their English hosts. Then, they IMPORTED these cheaper goods into England and made a profit from the cheaper imports. Because English factories could not compete with the cheaper import goods, they were forced into bankruptcy. The Jews bought these closed factories for pennies on the dollar. And what they didn't keep for themselves, they sold to non-English immigrants who brought in their relatives and fellow countrymen as workers to displace the English People. The machinery of the closed factories was shipped overseas to the Third World where it was put into operation manufacturing even cheaper goods to be imported into a declining England at an even greater profit to the Jews. And as the United Kingdom could no longer benefit from tax revenues on import-exports, to keep the country operating, the government had to borrow money at interest from the Jewish-owned Bank of England. Yes, the English politicians knew of this treason but like their American counterparts, they were bribed and blackmailed by the lobbyists and Jewish businessmen who had plenty of money with which to corrupt those who should have been guardians of the nation. So, you see, "free trade" only benefited the Jews and brought England into decline. That was in the 1900s and 1920s. Does this bit of history sound familiar to you? Now, in the United States we have huge trade deficits with many foreign countries. Japan is a big problem but China is even worse. Because of "free trade", the Communist slave labor system of China can produce manufactured goods more cheaply than can we. The Jewish importers (always playing the Middle Man position) can make a lot of money by selling cheap Chinese goods in America. But the Chinese don't buy as much from us as we do from them. So, our money goes to them but very little of their money goes to us. Therefore, they become richer and we become poorer. Furthermore, with all of the billions of dollars that they make from us, they can afford to buy tanks and warplanes and bombs and nuclear missiles and to maintain the largest army in the world. And they are avowed enemies of the United States whom they are determined to destroy as soon as they have the chance, according to their own political and military policy statements. But not to worry! The Jews make huge profits with this type of "free trade", so it is all a part of good business practices. Right? In fact, most of the advanced weapons systems that the Chinese have, were bought from Israel. And the Israelis get their weapons systems for FREE from the United States because, according to the Jews, they are our "best ally". So, this is really, really good business -- to get something worth billions of dollars for free and then sell it to the enemies of your best friend! This kind of "free trade" is a Jewish businessman's dream come true! And so, with "free trade" the Jews can do business without paying taxes. They can make money for themselves by selling our goods to the Chinese. These goods are of very high quality such as machine equipment for making precision parts. The Jews make even more money by selling Chinese goods to us, which are cheap trinkets and low quality tools and machinery -- machinery that cannot produce high quality, precision parts. (Do you see the built-in national decline in this kind of trade?) The Jews can impoverish the entire nation by forcing the Government to borrow from the Jewish-owned Federal Reserve Bank. The Jews can increase the wealth and power of Communist China. They can sell to our enemies weapons which cost them nothing for a profit of billions of dollars and which the Chinese have vowed to use against us. They can claim that the problems this country has are caused by cheap foreign labor; and so, to reduce the cost of labor, the Jews of the Clinton administration allowed to enter millions of illegal Mexicans and other aliens to work cheap and to lower the going wages for the American citizens. And illegal aliens are continuing to enter the open borders without the government doing anything about it. The Jews can put the workers of our country out of jobs as factories close and move overseas. As Americans lose their jobs and are unable to make their house payments to the Jewish bankers, the bankers either loan them more money on their equity to put them farther into debt or foreclose and sell the house to the newly arrived immigrants. And then, when unemployment is high, cities are over-crowded with desperate people out of work, and food is scarce, Jewish-inspired riots will be fomented among the suffering lower classes. And, then the Jews and their Monopoly Media can shout from the rooftops, and from every TV and Newspaper, "Workers of the World! Unite behind your Jewish leaders because we have the solution for your problems. We promise you a Workers' Paradise. And part of our strategy for doing this is with Free Trade". ----------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= [EDITOR'S NOTE: I hope the Reader will not take it as a part of the Conspiracy to which Mr. Forrest alludes, if we of the Bamboo Delight Company offer you some free items in the future. Christmas is coming soon, and we were planning to offer you some holiday gifts available only to the subscribers of this newsletter. So, I am a bit uncomfortable that Mr. Forrest has chosen the theme that he has at this time. But gifts are nice to give. And "free" is a nice word even if sometimes it is used incorrectly. Please don't let Mr. Forrest's article prejudice you against our free gifts to you for Christmas. Free gifts, anyone? No strings attached! Really! And with the Holiday Season coming up, perhaps the following article will solve your questions.] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ----------------------------------------------------------------- Who Controls the Whiskey Trust? by John Benedict [first published in "The American Mercury," December, 1959] As our Lord's birthday, Christmas, fast approaches, full page advertisements extolling the virtues of famous brand names in whiskey and other alcoholic beverages increasingly befoul the pages of the great whiskey house organs -- the New York Times, Life, Time, Look, and Esquire. Every store counter prominently displays these potent wares in their colorful, eye-appealing wrappings and intriguingly shaped containers. From every conceivable direction the Christmas celebrant's senses are beguiled by the lure of intoxicating beverages. Anyone who refuses to believe that alcohol is a poison; who believes that a "brand" name necessarily connotes "quality;" who thinks that whiskey is just another product on the market, subject to normal controls and honest regulations, may learn, after perusing these pages, that he has been shockingly mislead and misinformed on this subject. In "The Conquering Jew," published by Funk and Wagnalls Company in 1916, John Foster Fraser states: "The Jews are masters of the whiskey trade in the United States. Eighty percent of the members of the National Liquor Dealers' Association are Jews. It has been shown that 60 percent of the business of distilling and wholesale trade in whiskey is in the hands of the Jews. As middlemen they control the wine product of California." The foregoing quotation and the following historical material are directly quoted from three articles published in Henry Ford's publication, "The Dearborn Independent," (12-17-21, 12-24-21, 12-31-21) and all credit is due the authors of those suppressed exposes. Rabbinical groups secured exemption from the Prohibition laws; their "religious" ceremonies required "practicing" Jews to drink an amount which the law set at ten gallons a year. And so the Prohibition law of the United States -- a part of the Constitution -- was made legally ineffective to the extent of ten gallons per year per Jew. The amount, of course, was very much more; it was always easy to get 100 gallons through a 10-gallon loophole. What authority is there for this statement? Rabbi Leo M. Franklin, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis is one. He stated in April, 1921, that: "... I have received requests from three different men within the past month for authorization to purchase and distribute wine... during this last year I received requests from not less than 150 men in all parts of the country.... They were men ... who, for the purpose of getting into the wholesale liquor business, if you will, organized congregations ... our conference is being used as a medium ... to carry on a bootlegging business in the name of religion ..." Investigating the early Prohihition movement in the South, for "Collier's" in 1909, Will Irwin found that "The Modern Voice," a Jewish religious weekly, printed a halftone picture of Jesus Christ endorsing the liquor traffic. "Rabbinical wine" became a euphemism for whiskey, gin, scotch, champagne, vermouth, absinthe, or any other kind of hard liquor. Yiddish newspapers carried large "wine" company advertisements week after week. In the United States for the 25 years prior to Prohibition, in Russia, Poland, Rumania and elsewhere, one identifiable group controlled the liquor traffic. Read carefully the article on Russia, especially pages 527 and 559, in the Jewish Encyclopedia. Note this statement: "The establishment of the government liquor monopoly [in Russia in 1896] deprived thousands of Jewish families of a livelihood." These families controlled the vodka business which helped undermine Russia. The govermnent made the liquor business a national monopoly in order to abolish it. In 1904, Dr. Harvey Wiley, chief of the United States Bureau of Chemistry, described the difference between the Jewish and non-Jewish method of distillation of whiskey. Aging takes time, so the Jewish distiller, in order to avoid this expensive process, would take the pure article of spirits, add water to dilute to the strength of whiskey, color it with burnt sugar or caramel, and then add flavors. Time: two hours! There was a concealment of the meaning of "rectified spirits," a deceptive use of the word "blend," and fraudulent misrepresentation concerning aging. The "whiskey" which resulted was synthetic. Eighty percent of the whiskey put up in the United States in 1900 was this whiskey. Who controlled most of the 27 top brands of whiskey at that time? The names were Straus, Pritz, Max Hirsch, J. and Sol H. and A. Freiburg, Angelo Meyer, Nathan Hoffheimer, Morris Greenbaum, Joseph Wolf, Lee Levy, Dreufuss and Weill, Bluthenthal and Blickert. There still remained, however, a few American brands that topped the list, so these men, working in concert, decided to form a gigantic whiskey trust which would absorb all the companies. The Lousiville "Courier-Journal," February, 1899, reported the details of the first operations of this group. Levy Mayer and Alfred Austrian (attorney for Rothstein, the gambler, in the baseball scandal) were the guiding spirits in the formation of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company. Levy stated: "... all the separate companies will be merged into one central company, which will have an aggregate capital close to $200 million. A whiskey combination of that size will certainly hold foremost place among the world's liquor trusts." And now let us leave the "Dearborn Independent's" account and come to more modern times. Many bootleggers and gangsters of the twenties are in the whiskey trade of the fifties, handing out lucrative advertising to the "quality" newspapers and magazines. The Whiskey Monarch of America, Samuel Bronfman, is not even an American citizen. He represented the Canadian Jewish Congress in San Francisco during the organization of the United Nations. Columbia University announced a Samuel Bronfman Professorship in that university at a dinner in the Waldorf-Astoria in honor of Bronfman's sixtieth birthday. Ex-bootlegger Allan Bronfman has been made Chevalier to the Legion of Honor by the French Government, an honor he shares with Mr. Luce of "Life" and "Time," greatest of whiskey promoters. These two brothers were considered the greatest bootleggers of Prohibition days. At present they control Seagram. Frank Costello testified before the Kefauver committee: "Q. Whom do you know in the Bronfman family? A. Sam Bronfman. Q. When did you meet him and under what circumstances? A. During the Prohibition days. Q. And did you buy liquor from him? A. I might have bought some liquor from him. (Later, he testified "I bought it in New York ... either from Bronfman or independent people ...") James ("Niggy") Rutkin, an associate of the Bronfmans, was asked by Senator Kefauver, "Tell us about the Bronfmans." Rutkin: "Well, the Bronfmans are four brothers from Montreal. They own little hotels up there . . . the Canadian Mounted Police ... will tell you about the little hotels ... People sleep very fast; they rent them quite a few times during the night..., They have been accused of bribing Canadian officials... they had big headlines in 1935 for defrauding the Canadian government of ... five or ten million dolIars." They settled . . . for $1,500,000. James Rutkin and Joe Reinfeld, had bought a distillery. Rutkin testified that Reinfeld told him "that Sam Bronfman, Chairman of Seagram's, got him drunk and he turned over the distillery to [Bronfman] for nothing." The Minutes of the March 4, 1954, civil suit in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Rutkin vs. Reinfeld and the four Bronfmans, (summation by Edelbaum, Rutkin's lawyer), contains this statement: "... Seagrams is a very large organization. You must understand that in Canada Mr. Samuel Bronfman is trying to live down that he was a bootlegger.... [He] made millions of dollars in the bootlegging business.... And how did they [the Bronfmans] do it? ... They formed a company, the Atlas Shipping Company, and they set up a warehouse on a rock, on Miquelon Island, Port of St. Pierre ... They wanted to be sure ... it had no connection with the Seagram name. ... They first formed a family corporation -- the Brentcam Corporation ... so that they would be sure the Bronfmans themselves wouldn't be on the books of the Atlas Shipping Company.... This bootlegging operation continued ... they had in mind that they had to have some business after the repeal of the Prohibition Amendment. So they went to Eurrope [Mr. Seaman, Mr. Rutkin, Mr Reinfeld] ... and they got White Horse, they got Cointreau, they got Piper-Heidsieck, they got Remy Martin.... Mr. Kiendl [Bronfman's lawyer] ... never talked about Abner ['Longie'] Zwillman ... Joe Reinfeld and Abner Zwillman had been partners ... Longie Zwillman was a partner in Browne-Vintners . . . Joseph Stacher was a partner . . . Atlas Shipping Company ... owned stock in Browne-Vintners . .. [which] was sold to Seagrams." James Rutkin lost the case, was assessed court costs of $18,000 on March 7, 1956. Edwin A. Baldwin investigated Zwillman between 1925 and 1941 (U.S. vs. Rutkin, Tax Fraud Case). He testified: "I worked on the Waxie Gordon and Dutch Schultz cases, the biggest operators during Prohibition. They were pikers compared with Zwillman's mob." Baldwin stated, "We uncovered bank deposits of around $25 million ... they collected at least as much cash." The total was $60 million! Baldwin, in his testimony, said that the Bronfman brothers assembled liquor from England, Scotland, France and Germany at St. Pierre-Miquelon and ran it thence into the United States. This was estimated to have totaled 40 per cent of the illegal liquor consumed here. Baldwin said it was handled in the United States by Joe, Saul, and Sam Reinfeld, "Longie" Zwillman, Louie Holtz, Sam Lentz, Joe Acker, Morris Kannengeiser, James Rutkin, Willie Tiplitz, Joe Stacher and George Heber. "Collier's" listed Abe Lew, George Goldstein, and Meyer Ellenstein as Zwillman associates. The firm of Browne-Vintners became, in the late thirties, the largest liquor importing firm in the United States, with offices in Rockefeller Center. (Now with Seagram, at 375 Park Avenue.) Its stock was often held before 1940 by nominees. Kefauver reported that "One of the nominees commonly used by Zwillman is Arthur Garfield Hays of the New York bar, who is also Zwillman's attorney." This long-time Communist-fronter, now deceased, who was the attorney for Jewish New York night club owners, protested their being fingerprinted by the authorities. Hays had been on Yale's National Committee for Alcoholic Education, on the women's affiliate of which are Mrs. Albert Lasker, wife of the former advertising manager to Seagram's Distilling Corporation and Mrs. Julius Ochs Adler, part-owner of the "New York Times." "Collier's" named Zwillman as one of the Big Six among the mobsters, the others being Louis Buchalter, Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Jacob G. Shapiro and Luciano. Zwillman was protector of Waxey Gordon's brewery syndicates operating during Prohibition in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and New York. Zwillman remarked to Baldwin that "My family came from the other side, where we were persecuted." A Newark politician testified that Zwillman was a contributer to the National Conference of Christians and Jews. This seems to be a common practice. The "Christian Century" reported that "Illinois beverage dealers opened a drive to raise $50,000 for the NCCJ." The Wine and Spirits Division of the NCCJ's fund-raising committee recently has been headed by Vice-president Lester Jacobi of Schenley. Arthur Samish, a "heavy" stockholder in Schenley (which paid him $36,000 a year retainer), recommended its purchase of Cresta Blanca and was paid $18,000 a year by Schenley's California Vineyards Association. He was public relations man for the California Brewers' Institute and stated that he kept no books and destroyed all checks and check-stubs at the end of each month. He testified: "The big checks are for certain publications." Asked if political party made any difference in his fund distributions, he answered that it did not. Irvin Goldstein, Special Assistant, San Francisco Attorney General's office, recommended that a perjury charge against Samish, stemmmg from his Kefauver committee appearance, not be pressed, nor was it. Then, after resigning, Goldstein represented Samish on his tax fraud case before the Internal Revenue Bureau! "In matters that concern him," stated then Governor Earl Warren, "He [Samish] has more influence than I have." Of those tax dodges unearthed by Senator John Williams of Delaware, none has been more notable than William Lias (an abbreviation of Elias, Elijah). The Department of Justice called Lias "former king of the bootlegging business." Though in court repeatedly, he had been able to avoid punishment. Unpaid fines against him were carried on the Government's book for 20 years. Among Lias' associates have been Vusky, Barkles, Greiner, Vosvick, Samuels, Kupojak and others. His taxes due the Government totaled $2,230,744.82! Hyman H. Klein of Baltimore, a whiskey magnate, interrogated by the House Ways and Means Committee, made immense profits (according to his testimony, $5 million in 29 months) on whiskey imported to Central and South America. Unpaid tax claims against him amounted to $7 million. The Internal Revenue Investigation Report mentioned that "We had another large stockholder in Klein's companies, who also had a good deal to say, Mr. Samuel Bronfman... who owns approximately 140,000 shares." Williams also uncovered the case of K. Steinreich, brewer during prohibition, who owed $909,813 but paid only $25,000. The King Committee picked Louis I. Pokrass out of the darkness. Pokrass was born in Korsun, Russia and, during his American career, had associations with Costello. For 12 years he was a director of the Capitol Wine and Spirits Corporation, a stock-holder in Seagram, National Distillers and Browne-Vintners. Through his Hercules Liquor Products Company he was alleged to have been a distributing agent for Fleischmann, National Distillers and the Meadville Distilling Company (Louis Newman, President). After his license had been revoked, he set up Gotham Liquor Company with Sigmund Janas and Jacob Gerstein and received permits. He had made a $5,000.00 contribution to the Democratic Party. In the Chelf investigation of the Department of Justice, 1953, Part 2, three hundred pages are devoted to the cases of Isadore Alford (a Rumanian peddler, who become a millionaire) and the Eskind brothers, wholesale liquor dealers with 123 retail outlets. They were all indicted, but the Lamar Caudle-McGrath administration dismissed the cases. Total tax evasion of the Eskind Brothers was put at $183,945.27. "... the largest part of the whiskey handled by [the Eskinds] was being sold to bootleggers." The Alford attorney insisted that his client, "as member of a minority group was entitled to the same consideration others had." He got it -- and more. The Big Four in the United States -- Joseph E. Seagram and Sons Distillers Company, Ltd., Schenley Distillers Corporation, National Distillers and Chemical Corporation, and Hiram Walker-Gooderham and Wortz, Ltd., listed in the order of their importance -- since Repeal in Decembcr, 1933, have acquired distilleries, vineyards, cooperage (barrel making) plants, worth $213,624,089. One thirty-fifth of this total belongs to Hiram Walker, a predominately Gentile firm, which, however, has acquired a Mr. Raymond Revit as President of Hiram Walker Distributors and Vice-President of Hiram Walker, Inc. The industry is centralized in these four. Their sales in 1951 amounted to $2,032,000,000 as compared to a little less than a quarter of a billion for the rest of the industry. And among the large independent distillers are such firms as Publicker (Continental), Abelson, United Distillers (Armand Hammer), and Louis Mann (Sherwood Distilling Company), listed in the order of their importance. The Big Four control the most importent brands and, in a distiller-distributor tie-up, have been known to refuse these brands to distributors if they handle independent products without their permission. They have bought up 90 percent of the cooperage plants and most of the white oak forests. (Bonded whiskey must age in new white oak barrels for a minimum of four years, and the white oak must come from a tree which is at least 200 years old.) Consequently the little man can't get barrels. The Treasury Department ruled that the independents might re-use oak barrels but reversed itself within one week! The ruling was "opposed ... violently" by National Distillers and the other major companies. Joseph E. Seagram, a Canadian-controlled corporation (headed by Edgar Bronfman), incorporated in the United States in 1943, bought, from 1933 to 1952, a record 51 companies for $95 million including distillers (Frankfort alone cost nearly $42 million)and rectifiers, commercial alcohol and bulk whiskey plants, wholesalers, bottlers, cooperage companies, and timber mills. War is kind to Seagram. From 1939 to 1943 its sales jumped 228 percent, from $81 million to $265 rnillion, and then to $786 million by 1951, a net increase in sales of 700 percent. Seagram has 200 distributors, and uses three selling divisions. (Seagram Company sells Seagram V.O., 7 Crown, Gallagher and Burton, and Kessler. Calvert sells Lord Calvert, Calvert Reserve, and Carstairs. Frankfort sells Four Roses, Hunter, Paul Jones, and Wilson.) Sam Bronfman is Chairman of Distillers Corporation, parent of Seagram. Victor A. Fischel is president of Seagram Distillers, a subsidiary of Joseph E. Seagram and Sons. James E. Friel is vice-president of Seagram. Edgar Bronfman is president. Seagram declared, in "Spirits," Nomember, 1949, that its "Seven Crown advertisement in 'Life,' 'Time,' 'Look,' 'Colliers' and 'Esquire' would reach 13,300,000 pair of eyes, counting one pair per copy. The actual audience of these five big league publications is 65 million. Thirty-four million pair of eyes will also be drawn to the same advertisement in 352 metropolitan newspapers." Seagram was mentioned in the Kefauver Report as having business contacts with Joe Reinfeld, whose firm, Reinfeld Importers, Ltd., was the exclusive distributor in 38 states for Gordon's Gin and exclusive importer of Haig and Haig Scotch and of Piper Heidsieck champagne. Schenley purchased 42 companies from 1933 to 1952 for $90 million (including Blatz Beer, Cresta Blanca and Roma Wines). Schenley started in 1933 with $7,650,000, of which $2,990,000 was raised by Lehman Brothers. Lewis Rosenstiel, President and Chairman of Schenley Industries, Inc., gave $1,000 to Senator Lehman (as a long standing friend) for his Senatorial campaign. Schenley's received a $22,000,000 loan "on very favorable terms" (See Annual Report) on January 26, 1937, from Bankers' Trust, and again on April 1, 1944, a $65,000,000 loan by a consortium headed by Bankers' Trust. Seagram's Distilling Corporation also received a $28,000,000 loan from Bankers' Trust, its Transfer Agent. A most interesting and significant addition to Schenley Industries' board of directors on November 20, 1957, was Louis B. Nichols, ADL Bulletin writer and senior assistant to the Director of the FBI for the previous 23 years. On March 26, 1958 Park and Tilford Distillers Corporation was merged into Schenley Industries, which owned at the time 96.2 per cent of its outstanding stock. Schenley had paid $9,727,824 for the company's stock on December 31, 1954. The Department of Justice filed an anti-trust suit against Schenley's charging violation of the Clayton Act by this acquisition. On April 3, 1957, the Department of Justice's anti-trust action was terminated by entry of a consent judgment, without trial and without admission by any party in respect to any of the issues. Schenley's directors and officers presently include Lewis Rosenstiel, Chairman and President, E.R. Deutsche, Sidney Frank, Ralph Heymsfeld, Adolph Hirsch, Carl Kiefer, Milton Nauheim, Carl Levin, and Robert Marx, General Counsel. There is no doubt that Schenley does a very good job of promoting good will. Mr. Rosenstiel has had as guests at his estate, Conyers Farm, Greenwich, Connecticut, Senator Owen Brewster, Governors Chester Bowles and Henry Cabot Lodge, Alfred P. Sloan of General Motors, Laurence Rockefeller, and, of course, Henry Luce of "Time," "Life," and "Fortune." John L. Leban, President of Schenley Distillers, personally contributed some $7,000 to the Democratic Party and $1,000 for Taft's 1948 campaign. He raised over $7,500 more for the Republicans in 1948, which he delivered to Senator Kenneth Wherry. This was done to "please the chairman," Mr. Rosenstiel, who had given $5,000 to his good friend, Thomas Dewey. Leban also raised several thousand dollars for the Democrats in the same year and delivered the funds to Senator Howard McGrath, who later became Attorney General. In 1949 Leban raised $26,000 for the Democrats, "most [of which] was raised from [Schenley] distributors." In 1950 he raised another $16,000 to $18,000 for the Democrats and $8,000 to $10,000 for the Republicans in the same fashion. Total: $111,350 to the Democrats and $41,200 to the Republicans! Mr. Friel of Seagram, in 1949, at a time when the distillers were under culmination for suspected violation of the anti-trust laws, gave $30,000 in cash to McGrath for the Democratic campaign and $20,000 to Harold Talbot for the Republicans. Ernest L. Branham, the Big Four's deadliest enemy in the Department of Justice, testified before the Chelf Committee that "With reference to [the 1948] contributions, it was also brought to my attention that a high official in the Department of Justice had told the president of one of the companies that he had nothing to fear regarding the litigation against the liquor industry, but in the event any litigation was instituted, Branham would have nothing to do with it." He prepared a memorandum on this, took it to the Chief of the Anti-Trust Division, Assistant Attorney General Herbert Bergson, who "suggested that [he] destroy the memorandum." Bergson subsequemly left the Department of Justice and was immediately hired by Seagram to prepare a brief on the anti-trust case, Kiefer-Stewart Co., vs. Seagram, which Seagram lost. Alfons B. Landa, vice-chairman of the finance committee of the Democratic National Committee in 1948, attorney in the Washington law firm of (Joseph) Davies, (Donald) Richberg, (Millard) Tydings, Beebe, and Landa, and "the" attorney representing Seagram's interests, had asked a Seagram official for a $50,000 contribution to the Democratic National Committee's campaign fund. Campaign contributions from corporations are forbidden by Federal law and personal contributions are limited to $5,000, so Landa testified that this "was not a request upon the Seagram Company." Robert Mathis, of the same firm, also has represented Seagram. National Distillers made minor contributions to the two parties and Hiram Walker made none. Milton S. Kronheim, the "Tsar of the District of Columbia," the liquor magnate, also a member of the Democratic Finance Committee, raised $25,000 for Truman in 1948. "There were indications," the Chelf Committee reported, "that the contributions were regarded by the individuals who made them as necessary business expenses." National Distillers' Chairman is John E. Bierwirth. Howard Cullman is a director and current vice-presidents include Hermann, Ohlandt, and Hollander. This firm has alliances with Owens Illinois Glass, United States Commercial Alcohol, Canada Dry, and Standard Brands; acquired 32 distilleries and other companies from 1934 to 1951, worth $62 million. Seventy per cent of Milton Kronheim's output in Washington is from National. He also deals with Reinfeld Importers. Reverting to the subject of the great preference for blends by the Big Four, particularly Seagram, which sold only blends until recently, the Chelf Committee during its investigation of the Department of Justice's "whitewash" of the liquor industry made explosive headlines. William Levin, Chief, Financial Reports Division, Federal Trade Commission, testified as follows (Robert Collier was the committee's chief investigator): COLLIER. In 1951 there were 147,000,000 gallons of whiskey marketed ... of that, 108,000,000 were blends. Only 39,000,000 remained to go to the consumer in the form of straight ... or bonded whiskey.... Big Four is marketing in 1951, 84 percent of the blends. LEVIN ... whereas from 1936-51 the whiskey withdrawn tax-paid [Federal tax must be paid when whiskey leaves warehouse] remained at a relatively constant level, the increase in the spirits and alcohol added in rectification was substantial ... in 1936, 67 million proof gallons of whiskey [was] withdrawn tax-paid ... against 8 million proof gallons of spirits and alcohol added in rectification. In 1951 ... the spirits and alcohol added ... increased... to 71 million proof gallons." (The increase of whiskey withdrawn from 1936 to 1951 was only four million gallons -- from 67 to 71. This means that the public during this period paid billions of dollars more for 'neutral spirits,' not whiskey.) REPRESENTATIVE KENNETH KEATING. "What are neutral spirits?" LEVIN. I don't know why such a term was used since I cannot conceive of any spirits being neutral ... as I understand it, it is raw alcohol.... REPRESENTATIVE FRANK CHELF. I will guarantee you that there is not a moonshiner in Kentucky who cannot outblend or outmix these so-called neutral spirits. It is raw grain alcohol ... they have to add caramel or prune juice to give it the color ..." A word of clarification is needed at this point. Blend properly means a mixture of harmonious elements. Before 1908 blended whiskey meant the mixture of whiskies of different ages and different kinds -- it was an art. Today this is rarely seen, and must be labeled a "blend of straight whiskies." Unless the label clearly shows the contents of the bottle is "bottled-in-bond" (Under government supervision, always exactly 100 proof or 50 per cent alcohol) or "straight," the consumer, when he buys a "blend," is paying for a compound of raw green alcohol (neutral spirits), drawn off the still columns at 190 proof, which may comprise 80 per cent of the contents of the bottle, as against 20 percent straight whiskey. (And the 20 per cent may even be transhipped-through-Canada "corn" whiskey, without age, from used barrels.) "Straight" whiskey means without any other blending element, such as spirits or other whiskies, and is less than 100 proof (bottled-in-bond also is "straight"). A lower proof for "lighter-bodied" whiskies means merely that "more water" has been added as a diluting agent. Further, up to two and one-half percent of the contents of the bottle may be coloring and flavoring materials, including caramel, sherrys, glycerin, etc. Bourbon is 51 percent corn, 49 percent rye and barley. "Corn" is 80 percent corn. Bottled-in bond does not mean the government guarantees quality; the government is only interested in the tax. Rye is not synonymous with Canadian "whiskey" or "blends" -- it should be bought as straight rye (51 percent rye). Canadian whiskey by law can never be straight; it can be distilled at any proof; is always "blended" with raw alcohol; is subject to a minimum of regulations. The Bronfmans and others of his ilk are presumed to know more than the government does about distilling. Vodka is raw alcohol filtered through activated carbon to remove all taste. It has no age, mixes easily, is not more potent than any other liquor of similar proof; it is just more publicized. J. L. Huntington, an outstanding expert in matters concerning whiskey, Assistant Deputy Commissioner, Alcohol, Tobacco and Tax Division, Bureau of Internal Revenue, testified that: "... neutral spirits, being distilled at such high proof and containing virtually no grain-flavorng elements, do not change or improve in wood ... I don't think the public is too well informed on those points ... after the Food and Drug Act was passed in 1906 ... Dr. Harvey Wiley, who was in charge of that agency, took the position that nothing that was not all whiskey could he labeled as whiskey ... Some folks disagreed with him ... and then Mr. Taft, who was then President ... made a finding ... that this mixture of neutral spirits and whiskey was whiskey for the simple reason that ... it was a tradition in the industry." Dr. Wiley, a chemist, not a politician like Taft, pointed out before the Taft ruling that "in two or three hours the compounder can make a material which looks like, smells like, tastes like, and analyzes like genuine whiskey, but it has a different effect on the system. The people who drink this whiskey are much more liable to receive injury from it than those who drink the genuine article." When this statement is taken in conjunction with the famous Dr. Alexis Carrel's finding that "not a single tissue in the human body is immune to alcohol's poisonous action," it certainly constitutes good reason for the consumer to pause and wonder just what he has been drinking. When Congressman Chelf asked Lewis Rosenstiel, head of Schenley, what he thought of the public's lack of knowledge of the "so called neutral spirits in this stuff" which Chelf termed an "appendix cauterizer," Rosenstiel's answer was: "What is the difference what you put in your stomach if you enjoy it and it is not going to kill you?" While neutral spirits can be stored in anything -- tank cars, steel drums -- distilled whiskey, if stored in used barrels, cannot he called bourbon or rye. However, Erdman Hall of Kimball-Tyler Company, flatly swore that "the Big Four used old barrels to store corn whiskey in warehouses for four years, and, after the four years, they call it whiskey and blend with it ... if they put it out as straight whiskey, they would have to specify it as corn whiskey. But I object that they are fooling the public by leaving out the word, 'corn' . . . the public does not know what it is drinking." Louis Mann also swore that "We have had a lot of whiskey we have sold to Seagram. We call it spirits, in reused cooperage ... transferred in bond to Calvert ... and shipped it on into Canada ... it went on without tax payment ... it would come back here with an age on it." In Canada the neutral spirits content does not have to be named and only 20 per cent has to be whiskey, which, as we have seen, can be called aged up to any number of years even if it is only "corn" whiskey. In connection with the Big Four's banking connections, Branham asked that FBI agents interview the Big Four's bankers and search their files to ascertain if there was "any coordination or concert of effort on the part of any banks ... to divide or distribute control of the liquor business... whether or not said banks... brought any pressure to bear on any competitor ... ascertain the existence, location, and nature of any 'central intelligence' or informational 'clearing house' from or through which said banks ... are kept informed regarding all of the activities of the Government, particularly the Department of Justice, which may in any manner affect the liquor business." Shortly after this memorandum was prepared, Branham had his liquor files taken away from him and he was isolated from further liquor investigations. That similar situations are in existence in other countries is reflected by a statement in "La Sauvegarde" of Lausanne, Switzerland: "As the Rothschilds are in the liquor business, France can hardly look for relief measures in its present terrible alcohol peril." The peril referred to can best be illustrated by reference to the fact that among French male deaths between 35 and 50 in the years 1935-6, 70 percent were wine-caused. The closing of Jewish drinkshops in Eastern Europe has been referred to as anti-Semitic persecution by The New York Times: "over 500 Jewish-run public houses were recently closed in Bukhovina." Die Alkoholfrage states that of 103 distilleries in Rumania, 100 are run by Jews. The liquor magnates in the United States know who their friends are. The United Jewish Appeal's Liquor Subcommittee in 1949 included Lewis Rosenstiel of Schenley's as its chairman and Armand Hammer, President of United Distillers, along with many other major rectifiers, wholesalers, and importers. Publicker was born in Kiev, Russia, and his management includes Neumann, Blum, Gabriel, Kurz, Lehmann, Gunson and Marks. Distillers and Brewers' Corporation was organized and run by ex-bootleggers Abe, Jake and Sam Ungerleider. H. Perlstein is head of Pabst Beer, which barely escaped prosecution in 1951 (the Justice Department under McGrath called off the case) for processing a load of raw material for its beer containing rodent excreta, hair, and insect fragments. A previous examination of the Pabst plant by the Food and Drug Administration revealed the presence there of rodent and mouse pellets, a dead rat, beetles, insects, a moth, bugs, a poison, dead roaches, and oily rags. Later reports on Pabst indicated these conditions had been corrected. The sole agent of Benedictine Liqueurs is Julius Wile's Sons. H. Kunnett heads the Smirnoff Vodka Firm. The leading promoter of vodka is Milton Goodman of Gumbinner Advertising Agency who plans for vodka to "become one of the five basic liquors consumed in the country." In 1953, sales of vodka reached 2,700,000 gallons. Vodka is one hundred percent neutral spirits plus water! Irving Heim of International Distributors is exclusive agent for King's Ransom and House of Lords' Scotch. Jules Bache is a leading name in Cuba Distilling and in U. S. Industrial Alcohol. Liebmann is the great New York brewer. Fromm and Sichel handle the products of the (Catholic) Christian Brothers; Wile handles the liqueurs of the Fecamp monks. ("Spirits," March and August, 1952.) Park and Tilford's long-time president and vice-president were David and John Schulte. "Spirits," the Distillers' organ, has had on its staff Schwartz, Wyman, Hecht, Rubin and Skydell. Lehman Corporation has heavy investments in Canadian Breweries Ltd. Max Glaser is the big wholesaler for Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. Frederick Ehrman of Lehman Brothers was a director of Park and Tilford until Schenley acquired control. Lehman Brothers has been Schenley's banker. Sidney J. Weinberg of Goldman Sachs is a director of McKesson and Robbins. During Prohibition National Distillers, one of the major wholesalers, operated out of the Kuhn Loeb Building, 52 William Street, New York City. The American Medicinal Spirits Company, Inc., controlled by National, with directors Weiskopf, Rosenfield, Winer, Klein and Jacobi, was accused by the New York Liquor Wholesaler's attorney of controlling 90 percent of American liquor. This organization too was in the Kuhn Loeb building. Sulzberger's "New York Times" claimed to have published in 1948 more liquor advertising than any other paper in history -- 785,878 lines. (The information above was taken from "Spirits," "Moody's' Industrials," and other public sources.) Bootlegging and criminality have been an integral part of the liquor picture. Joseph A. Tatro, a top Internal Revenue Alcohol Unit investigator, tried to break up the greatest bootlegging organization that ever existed in this country (during and after Prohibition). He eventually resigned in disgust after fighting an invisible influence which opposed him at every turn. This case was described in a Special Report, which accused the bootleggers of defrauding the government of $100 million. In letters to Senators McKellar and Borah, the agent declared that the immensity of this case would make the Tea Pot Dome scandal appear insignificant. The religious leaders of Jewry were in the forefront of bootlegging. Six hundred rabbis in Greater New York were privileged to withdraw "sacramental" wine in quantities from 200 to 5000 gallons monthly, according to Major G. F. Mills ("Colliers," October 1, 1927). When Mills proposed to stop the abuse "rabbis jammed my room to wail over the violation of [their] religious rights." Mills was denounced as an anti-Semite and threatened with dismissal from office. Nor should we forget liquor interests favorites, Congressmen Dickstein, Sirovitch, Sabath and Celler (the last, son of a petty whiskey rectifier). In 1951, Celler introduced legislation to cut down whiskey taxation by two-fifths. (Celler's Communist-front record is an interesting sidelight.) Congressmen Heller, Golder, and Klein have been "pro" liquor. "Spirits" (March 1951) reports that the liquor industry organized a committee to assist the new Brandeis University, the committee to be headed by Resnik of Calvert. "Spirits" (January, 1951) also stated that "prominent members of the brewing distilling industry will play a leading role in the forthcoming $55 million bond issue to be floated in the United States by the government of Israel." The recent chairman of the liquor division of the Joint Defense Appeal was John S. Schulte, then vice-president of Park and Tilford. The money raised by the Appeal is for the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith. Communist-collaborating Rabbi Stephen S. Wise's "Opinion" (See issue of October 1, 1951) was largely financed by liquor advertisements. U.S. Industrial Alcohol, which operated during prohibition, was controlled by Andrew W. Mellon, Percy A. Rockefeller, with 6,500 shares, S. A. Pryor, director of the Rockefeller's Chase National Bank, Standard Oil's Oliver G. Jennings, F. T. Bedford, and H. H. Rogers, Jules Bache of Cuba Distilling, and Sid Klein of National Distillers. Publicker Industries in 1947 received $60 million from 18 banks for expansion. At least ten of the 13 Directors currently running the National Distillers and Chemical Corporation are bankers, and, among them, the New York Trust Company occupies the dominant position. President J. Bierwirth and Past President Malcolm P. Aldrich, of New York Trust, are National directors. New York Trust is the transfer agent for National's Common Stock as is Bankers Trust for its Perferred Stock (Howard Cullman is a Director of both National and Bankers Trust). Chase Manhattan Bank is the Registrar for National. (National's Director Robert Clarkson is a past President of the Board of Chase.) We have traced the control of liquor over a period of some sixty years in these United States, from the first magnates, through the period of consolidation of power into the hands of the Big Four, particularly Seagram and Schenley. We have spotlighted the nature of some of the banking connections involved; the "legal," though misleading, labeling of liquors (87 percent of all domestic whiskies sold in 1947 were "spirit" blends); the political contributions made by executives in Seagram and Schenley to both political parties; the intimate relationship between gangsters and other criminals to the liquor picture; the identity of the liquor tycoons. Now you decide -- Who Controls The Whiskey Trust? ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= Comments? Suggestions? Please Email them to: ================================================================= "The Chinese Swaztika Newsletter" is published every Thursday. Subscriptions to this e-zine are free. 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