European Outlook # 73 April 2022

Communication

Blogging is a way of communicating ideas that was not available years ago. We had leaflets and newsletters of course but they were expensive to produce and hard to distribute. We had to trudge from door to door putting leaflets through letterboxes, or stand on street corners, sometimes in the rain, trying to sell papers. Today it's so much easier, 'Nation Revisited' and 'European Outlook' reach readers all over the world, with very little physical effort.

I salute those dedicated souls who still publish hard copy magazines. Printing and postage is so costly that even commercial titles like 'The Independent' are now online. It must be a constant struggle to produce magazines like; 'Heritage and Destiny', 'Candour', and 'The League Sentinel'. You might wonder why an old Remainer like me reads Brexit-supporting periodicals? The answer is that they are broad-minded enough to print my letters and articles.

When I started 'Nation Revisited' in 2005 I used to print and post 20 or so hard copies for people who were not computer savvy. Unfortunately, they have all passed away.

With the coming of the Internet there is no danger of being soaked to the skin or punched on the nose, but I have to tread the tightrope of censorship. I have upset the 'Community Standards' of most of the social media platforms, but time spent on the naughty step is a small price to pay for getting my message across. And it's a pleasure to receive e-mails and comments from readers. I realise that I can't compete with the mainstream media, but as long as I am able to use a computer keyboard I will continue to campaign against our rotten government of crooks and liars.

'Nation Revisited' is posted on the first of every month, 'European Outlook' is posted less often; whenever I have got enough copy.

Bernard Franklin

I learned of the death of Bernard Franklin from 'Heritage and Destiny'. He was a former deputy chairman of the National Front and the editor of the online magazine 'The Flame'.

I used to meet him at Friends of Mosley socials. I dont know his age but he sent me an e-mail in 2019 in which he described himself as an old age pensioner. He was a fearless opponent of the Money Power. May he rest in peace.

"Since the early 1950s every aspect of our once great country has been destroyed. Only old age pensioners in their seventies, like myself, are aware of the changes that have been made. When we are gone there will be no one left to explain what we have lost to the younger generations. I feel that we need to urge OAPs to become vocal, but that is hard work. Still I am going to urge more of my generation to explain the situation to their children and grandchildren. My daughter and her husband both work but are unable to keep up with the bills. In the 1950s wives didn't work, the families were able to survive and pay all the bills on their husband's wage. In the 1950s and 60s virtually everyone could afford a mortgage so long as you were a regular saver. In 1958 a terraced house in the suburbs of London would have sold for £10,000 , today it would be £500,000. Not that the house would be worth any more, that is how our fraudulent governments have reduced the value of money by just creating it out of thin air. Parliament is run by our enemies and has been throughout my life. The time is long overdue to find our own BRITISH candidates who have the knowledge and skills to run the country. You need no qualifications or knowledge to become a prime or cabinet minister. You only have to be subservient to the political mafia that really rules our country... nay the world. Bernard Franklin

Interview with Piers Mellor for the Archeofuturist Front

Q1. Greetings Bill! How would you like to introduce yourself to our readers?

A1. I was born in 1945, the last year of the War. I have lived through the demise of the British Empire, the coloured invasion, and the transformation of Britain from an imperial power to a European country. These changes have been traumatic and it's not surprising that some people take refuge in the past.

I issue two blogs,

European Outlook - https://europeanoutlook.blogspot.com

Nation Revisited - https://nationrevisited.blogspot.com 

We have left the EU but any changes will be superficial. Most countries do the majority of their external trade with their near neighbours and we are no exception. There has been much talk about trade deals with China and India but Belgium and Ireland are more important to us as trade partners.

However, European unity is more than trade. We are Europeans by race, culture, history and geography. We should stick together and never repeat the madness of two world wars.

Q2. You have been involved in politics of a "radical right-wing" nature since before most of our members and supporters were born. What advice would you give to young readers at an equivalent juncture to you at the time of your involvement with Union Movement (UM) and League of Empire Loyalists (LEL)?

A2. When I first got involved with politics a small party could either engage in stunts like the League of Empire Loyalists or hold marches and meetings like Union Movement. Today we have the Internet which gives us much greater scope.

Q3. How did popular attitudes in the 1950s and 60s differ from today - were the masses more receptive to "radical-right" ideas before the advent of political correctness, or did hostility to anything redolent of "fascism" after WW11 overide this?

A3. The 50s were a time of austerity and hardship in which radical parties of left and right attracted an audience. By the mid-60s conditions started to improve and people were more interested in buying cars and taking holidays than storming the barricades. Antifascist propaganda and political correctness played their part but I believe that radical movements can only succeed in times of desperation.

Q4. What do you think of the state of "radical" and "dissident" politics in Britain today? Are there any organizations you consider close to your own views, or that you see as worth supporting tactically?

A4. The National Front and the BNP clung to pre-war policies like Imperial Preference, but WW11 changed the world completely. They also promoted a crude form of racism that offended the general public. Most people were against coloured immigration but they didn't like overt discrimination. The existing far-right movements are far too nationalistic. I recognise their patriotism but I cannot support any of them. But then I am not familiar with the Archeofuturist Front.

Q5. You are a critic of the Brexit process. Archeofuturist Front opposes petty-nationalism but also opposes the present EU setup, which we see as an instrument of globalization. Do you think that the concept of a pan-European autarkic power bloc as promoted after WW11 by such figures as Mosley, Francis Parker Yockey, and Jean Thiriart is still achievable If so, how do you see it being realized in the present climate?

A5. The great thinkers of European Unity could not have predicted the speed of globalism under the Pax Americana. But far from being an instrument of globalism the EU is a force for geopolitical unity. Our spat with the EU is a temporary setback but European Unity is inevitable. In the words of Oswald Mosley: "Tribes struggled up to nations, and nations became mighty empires."

Q6. For the past 18 months, Britain and Europe, and most of the rest of the world has effectively been under medical martial law. What are your thoughts on Covid-19 and the international response to it - a genuine global health emergency, or a grossly disproportionate reaction to a not especially lethal flu-type virus? Or something more sinister, like the "Great Reset" theories were hearing from various quarters?

A6. The Covid pandemic is a real medical emergency requiring international action. Most conspiracy theories are false; the obvious answer is usually the right one.

Q7. What do you think about the recent withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan - does it herald a genuinely less interventionist role for USA on the world stage in years to come, or simply a recalibration? Do you think tensions between USA, China and Russia could boil over into a shooting war? And where does Britain stand in all this?

A7. The Afghans have resisted every invasion from the time of Alexander the Great. They defeated the British, the Soviets, and now the Americans. They practice a distorted version of Islam which bans music, confines women to bondage, and glorifies death and destruction. Perhaps the Chinese will have more luck with them.

I don't think that the Afghanistan situation will lead to war between the great powers. But whatever happens Britain should mind her own business.

Q8. Finally, are there any other thoughts you would like to share with our readers?

A8. Beware of Dogma. When things change our opinions must change too. I started out as an Empire Loyalist but after spending five years in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand I realised that the old white dominions have developed their own nationalism and that our future lies with Europe. Unfortunately, half of the British electorate have yet to learn this lesson.

Coloured immigration has changed our national demographic but we are still 90% white; still the same people who did such great things in the past. Be proud to be British and European and never let the inverted racists distort history.

Economic Warfare

The hate campaign against Germany started as soon as Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, long before he marched into the Rhineland, annexed Austria, and invaded Czechoslovakia and Poland. It started as a boycott of German goods and ended in the bloodbath of WW11.

At the same time the United States imposed economic sanctions on Japan in support of their Chinese allies. In July 1941 the US froze Japanese assets which crippled their overseas trade and led directly to the attack on Pearl Harbor five months later. Cut off from supplies of oil and rubber the Japanese had no choice; they had to secure their resources.

In recent times we have seen the European regimes in Rhodesia and South Africa brought down by sanctions. It was not African guerilla armies that defeated Ian Smith and PW Botha but governments in London and Washington. It's natural for decent people to side with their own kith and kin, but that doesnt apply to our degenerate politicians.

American-led sanctions against Iran forced them to abandon their nuclear ambitions. They did as they were told but they are still being pesecuted. Iranian hospitals are short of vital drugs and their children are going hungry. This inhuman economic war is being waged against Iran because their former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad once called for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

Venezuela once had a thriving economy based on oil exports but a combination of populist policies brought in by President Hugo Chavez, unstable oil prices, and brutal sanctions enforced by the United States, have reduced the country to starvation. In 2007 the Chavez government nationalised the American oil giants Exxon Mobile and Conoco Phillips, the US reacted by enforcing sanctions that effectively destroyed the Venezuelan economy.

Sanctions give the lie to the concept of 'free trade'. The US has always used economic warfare to impose their foreign policy. This was clearly demonstrated when they used economic threats to order Britain and France out of Egypt in 1956.

Sanctions sound harmless enough but they are really a form of economic warfare. The sanctions imposed on Russia are being led by an ungrateful Boris Johnson who has forgotten the Russian donations that swayed the Brexit referendum and put him in power. These sanctions are extensive and damaging, not just to Russia but to all countries taking part. We are more likely to influence President Putin by developing mutual trade than by trying to destroy his economy. The future of Europe must be decided by rational discussion; not by confrontation. We can only hope that the current hate campaign doesn't end in a nuclear war.

Robert Lyons

Hello Bill. thank you very much for the latest editions of Nation Revisited and European Outlook, I greatly enjoyed reading both. I especially enjoyed reading what you wrote about John Bean. I spent many hours with John Bean, Colin Jordan, and John Tyndall back in '61, of the three I would have picked John Bean as being the most NS at the time, how wrong I was. I remember Rockwell asked me the same question and I answered the same way not knowing that he planned to visit the next year, as far as I know he never met Bean. Both Tyndall and Jordan held their true feelings and plans close to the vest in '61. In the end you could have knocked me over with a feather the way everything played out.

Thanks again, Bob

European Outlook: As a young Empire Loyalist, I met Robert Lyons in 1961 when he came over from America to represent the National States Rights Party at the old BNP camp in Narford. This event attracted comrades from many movements and nations; Gerhard Raisin from Germany, Max Morf from Switzerland, Giuseppe Torrracca from Italy, and an unofficial delegation from Union Movement. I stayed in contact with them, but with the passing of time most of them have passed away, in fact, there are very few of us left.

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