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Hecht-Hollis general correspondence

Start Date
01 January 1958
End Date
31 December 1958
Physical Context
MS 4936-Papers of Sir Robert Menzies/Class. Original Consignment/Series 2/File 368
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JACOB HOCKT  

HECHT, Jacob  

Basle, April 21, 1958.  

Benkenstr. 50 6/KA,  

The chiefs of governments of the free countries (one could say:  

and most of their colleagues are deluding their peoples and are  

gravediggers of democraey In my opinion this is the tenor of the,  

for the first time, utterly sincere and open analysis on the present  

political situation of the world as published hy the wéllknown  

private hankers Messrs Julius Bär Co, of Zurich in their weekly  

bulletin Hr, 14 of April 11, 1958,:  

SPINELESS POLITICIANS ",  

Por years this bank had used more open laguage in its bulletins,  

which are considered excellent, than any newspaper of·name, not to  

speak of the confusion created especially by the American  

and the present British Governments especially by the big  

papers and the publishers in a'l free countries through in-  

capacity, weakness, through cowardice and also by the  

philosophers and the scientists in the whole West. consider today's  

welcome frankness comes out of the deep feeling of responsibility  

of the Bär-Bank and of the despair about the indifference of peoples  

believing themselves to be democrats. Washington is mostly playing  

this comedy, whereas Adenauer is fighting like goliath against the  

frency about the world's ruin, emanating from the Socialists, the  

Trade-Unions and the P.D.P. (Dr. Reinhold Maier), Should this cam-  

paign of Labourites in England, and the Socialists/Trade-Unions and  

E.D.P, in Germany, succeed, democracy would soon be at an end in all  

free peoples, but soon also in US and in Central- and South America,  

and Krustchew might then from Moscow designate the leading person-  

alities and the policy. Considering that Krustchwe dictates the whole  

free world, and especially the US for some time, and as the West is  

acting no longer, not to speak of taking the initiative, it must be  

assumed that the West is no longer able to take action in any form.  

The cause is Moscow's propaganda, admitted for decades by all  

responsible "politicians", provoking the softening, as well as the  

West's high standard of living, i.e, the steady increase of income.  

The chief editor of foreign affairs of big Swiss newspaper,  

questioned about my circular-letter of April A, replied: "I am not  

concerned about your examining more and more critically and terrified  

the world situation. Por years Í agree with your thoughts and your  

warnings, Only, must not write so clearly, otherwise am  

provoking catastrophe] He probably meant the loss of large  

number of subscribers, Most readers desire to live quietly and do  

not wish to hear disturbing truths ). The better he is situated and  

the more secure he is in regard to his income the more convinced the  

citizen becomes that everything will be going smoothly, without he  

being called upon to lend hand. Especially the banker is thinking  

that way]]- Unfortunately only small percentage of the population  

is concerned about foreign policy. The present disputes about atomic  

weapons in Germany and England are an exception, the leaders of the  

Trade Unions are misusing their party-membersJ —  

Year after year the members of the governments are in contact with  

each other, and thus are lying consciously, what is worse, they lie to  

their peoples, certainly not Krustchew This chronic world-comedy  

of untruths was naturally known also in Berne and was tolerated  

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