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 Documented Evidence of a Secret Business and Political Alliance
Between the U.S. "Establishment" and the Nazis - Before, During and
After World War II - up to the Present.
 
From the Leading Edge International Research Group site:
 
                        The Elkhorn Document
 
                                  Page 1
 
                                  Preface
 
PREFACE
 
Before the Gatewood Galbraith for Governor Campaign in 1991, few
Kentuckians knew that the plant that the federal government had
demonized for over 50 years as "Marijuana - Assassin of Youth," was,
in fact, Cannabis Hemp, the most traded commodity in the world until
the mid-1800s, and our state's number one crop, industry, and most
important source of revenue, for over 150 years.
 
Today, thanks to the efforts of pioneer hemp researchers and public
advocates such as Galbraith, Jack Fraizer, Jack Herer, Chris Conrad,
Ed Rosenthal, Don Wirtshafter and others, the federal government's
unjustifiable suppression of our state's right to develop our most
valuable and versatile natural resource, is facing increasing
opposition from an informed public. Hemp is now recognized as the
number one agriculturally renewable raw material in the world, and
perhaps the only crop / industry which can guarantee us industrial and
economic independence from the trans-national corporations.
 
"Shadow of the Swastika" is a follow-up to my earlier work,
"Cannabis Hemp: the Invisible Prohibition Revealed," which I
wrote and published in support of the Galbraith Campaign.
Since publication of that booklet, there has been growing public
acceptance of the evidence that Marijuana Prohibition was
created in 1937, not to protect society from the "evils of the
drug Marijuana," as the Federal government claimed, but as an
act of deliberate economic and industrial sabotage against the
re-emerging Industrial Hemp Industry.
 
Previous investigations by hemp researchers have been limited to the
suppression of free-market competition from the hemp industry, and
focused on the activities of three prominent members of America's
corporate, industrial and banking establishment during the mid- to
late-1930s:
 
WILLIAM RANDOLPH HEARST, the newspaper and magazine tycoon.
 
    The expected rebirth of cannabis hemp as a less expensive source
    of pulp for paper meant his millions of acres of prime timberland,
    and investment in wood pulp papermaking equipment, would soon be
    worth much less. In the 1920s, about the same time as the
    equipment was developed to economically mass-produce raw hemp into
    pulp and fiber for paper, he began the "Reefer Madness" hoax in
    his newspaper and magazine publications.
 
ANDREW MELLON, founder of the Gulf Oil Corporation.
 
    He knew that cannabis hemp was an alternative industrial raw
    material for the production of thousands of products, including
    fuel and plastics, which, if allowed to compete in the
    free-market, would threaten the future profits of the oil
    companies. As Secretary of the Treasury he created the Federal
    Bureau of Narcotics, and appointed his own future nephew-in-law,
    Harry Anslinger, as director. Anslinger would later use the
    sensational, and totally fabricated, articles published by Hearst,
    to push the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 through Congress, which
    successfully destroyed the rebirth of the cannabis hemp industry.
 
    A prominent member of one Congressional subcommittee who voted in
    favor of this bill was Joseph Guffey of Pennsylvania, an oil
    tycoon and former business partner of Andrew Mellon in the
    Spindletop oil fields in Texas.
 
THE DU PONT CHEMICAL CORPORATION,
 
    which owned the patents on synthetic petrochemicals and industrial
    processes that promised billions of dollars in future profits from
    the sale of wood pulp paper, lead additives for gasoline,
    synthetic fibers and plastics, if hemp could be suppressed. At the
    time, du Pont family influence in both government and the private
    sector was unmatched, according to historians and journalists.
 
This publication, however, reveals documented historical evidence that
the suppression of the hemp industry was only one key part of a much
larger conspiracy in the 1930s, not only by the three corporate
interests named above, but by many others, as well.
 
Congressional records, FBI reports and investigations by the Justice
Department, during the 1930s and 1940s, have already documented
evidence of this wider plot. A list of the corporations named include
Du Pont, Standard Oil, and General Motors, all of which were proven to
be conspiring with Nazi industrial cartels to eliminate competition
world-wide and divide among themselves the Earth's industrial
resources and commercial markets, for profitable exploitation.
 
This conspiracy succeeded. It is now obvious that this lack of serious
competition in the industrial raw materials market caused our present
- and totally contrived - addiction to petrochemicals. Its success is
directly responsible for the most troubling problems we now face in
the 1990s; serious damage to our environment, concentration of
economic and political power into fewer and fewer hands, and the
weakening of the rights of individuals and states to determine their
own futures.
 
It is more and more evident that, given the historical record, the
structure of the New World Order is being built upon the Foundation of
Marijuana Prohibition, and only the relegalization of free-market hemp
competition can save us.
 
    R. William Davis
    July 4, 1996
    Louisville, Kentucky
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