London: The Odyssey Begins
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"Well do all right here," he said. "It will take time, but
we'll come back as strong as we were before."
MR. RAMSAY AND MR. RANKIN
HAMM, to be sure, was a rabble-rouser, no more. But among
those whom I wanted to visit was an Englishman who worked
on much higher levels. He was a Captain Robert GordonCanning, formerly of the Royal Hussars, who had been interned during the war for the same reason as Hamm. I had
first seen his name in a New York Times dispatch from London reporting his purchase at auction of a huge granite bust of
Adolf Hitler, part of the former property of the German Embassy, for £500. This was then equivalent to more than two
thousand dollars.
I had immediately written to Canning expressing my gratitude for his "act of personal integrity" in saving the priceless
bust from desecration. Presently I received a reply. After a few
choice words against the Jews, Canning wrote: "I bought the
bust of Adolf Hitler with a purpose! To challenge the Jews.
To prevent purchase by them. To return [it] to Germany at a
suitable time." Thus began a beautiful friendship, which bore
fruit when Canning put me in touch with the only member of
Parliament to be interned during the war for security reasons,
Archibald Henry Maule Ramsay. In due time I heard from
Ramsay, who prefaced his letter with the statement: "Communism is Jewish in origin, design and purpose." Charles L.
Morey promptly replied in appropriate terms. In another letter
Ramsay recommended the best addresses for patriotic literature. They were the fanatically anti-Catholic Alexander Ratcliffe, connected with the British Protestant League, and Arnold Leese, veteran Jew-baiter and publisher of Jewish Ritual
Murder, which, like the Protocols, had served the Nazis as a
prime propaganda weapon.