The Economic War Against the Jews, by Walter Henry Nelson & Terence Prittie
Cosgrave, Patrick
BOOKS IN REVIEW - "The Economic War Against the Jews, by Walter Henry Nelson & Terence Prittie" White Russians were "six of one and half a-dozen of the other.... We are still forced to distinguish between right and wrong, loyalty and treachery, health and disease, progress and...
...This "elite" has always served as a convenient culprit for real and imagined ills, a role rendered superficially plausible by the ease with which the group can be identified and uncommon powers attributed to it...
...and individual citizens of third countries have suffered in unknown numbers...
...8.95 518 INSIDE THE KGB-Aleksei Myagkov...
...444 pages...
...Over 400 pages...
...large type...
...12.95 ls SUICIDE OF THE WEST-James Burnham...
...and would lay them open to civil-rights suits in a number of cases...
...9.95 494 THE HOLY BIBLE-Family Reading Edition...
...12.95 476 CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY: Vol...
...National Review...
...117 reading lessons, 73 writing lessons, 67 arithmetic lessons...
...8.95 470 THE COLLAPSE OF DEMOCRACY - Robert Moss...
...16 pages of daily Bible readings...
...Without the means to resist the demands of groups which were themselves without any incentives to exercise self-restraint, Lindsay caved in...
...Or—more obviously sinister—the same company might be blacklisted because it trades with another company which has a Jew on its board...
...BOOK REVIEW The Abuse of Power: The Permanent Government and the Fall of New York Jack Newfield and Paul DuBrul / Viking Press / $12.50 Steven D. Lagerfeld The notion of a "permanent government," a ruling elite drawn from sources as diverse as banking and party politics, is an enduring feature of populist reform ideology...
...Yet his switch to reform politics marked the beginning of the fragmentation of the city's politics...
...And how many small companies, uncertain of government protection, have silently acquiesced under threat...
...8.95 296 THE FAILURE OF THE "NEW ECONOMICS"-Henry Hazlitt...
...Stipulations about the company's trading and employment practices are laid down...
...To those modern scholars who view statesmanship as the unvarying application of universal rules of action, Churchill remains an enigma...
...12.95 349 PLAYING THE PRICE CONTROI.$ GAME -Mark Skousen...
...and the United States has been the first in any degree to act on that apprehension...
...8.95 472 THE COMING BREAKPOINT-Barry Goldwater...
...It reveals the chronic self-deception of reform: the illusion that there exists an elite with enough power to create and perpetuate urban ills, and that reformers endowed with the same powers could therefore easily cure them after acceding to political office...
...As things stand, the most powerful, and the most resistant, companies are American, just as the United States has been the foremost country in its refusal to comply with the injuries offered its citizens by the Arabs...
...Note again, though, the use of the word "Jewish" in the quotation above...
...8.95 377 HOW YOU CAN BEAT THE KILLER DIS- EASES-Harold W. Harper, M.D...
...19.95 462 THE COMING DEFLATION: ITS DANGERS - AND OPPORTUNITIES - C. V. Myers...
...F. Buckley...
...He quickly set out to humble the municipal labor unions, to tame the bureaucracy, and to pass ambitious legislation in the state capital, and he suffered quick defeats...
...was the crippling 12-day strike by transit workers, which began within months of Lindsay's inauguration...
...Under dire circumstances actions might have to be taken which may yet be justified by necessity—perhaps survival itself...
...This guide works...
...The scope for distortion of, and damage to, the interests of individuals and especially small companies (vulnerable because they have fewer resources than .the giants) is obvious and considerable...
...Family Record Section...
...As long as the Arabs are unable to divide western companies from one another, or play one off against the other, they invariably back down on their threats...
...3 - Murray N. Rothbard...
...Until the true character and intention of a man or regime became clear, the momentary use of extreme tactics did not instantly place him beyond the pale...
...8.95 356 THE CAPITALIST READER...
...then Barry shows why...
...A fine literary achievement...
...gold page edges and stamping...
...106-page Concordance and Cyclopedia of Bible Facts...
...They are even less aware that the boycott machinery has been employed against individuals who are not Jewish but who admit—as I do myself—to the description "Zionist," meaning someone who supports the right of the state of Israel to exist...
...splendid stimulus to a critically needed self-examination...
...9,95 516 TEXTBOOKS ON TRIAL - J. C. Hefley...
...Publishers Weekly...
...The Saudis require a "solemn" declaration "that this company is not a Jewish company, nor controlled by Jews or Zionists...
...Modern Age...
...8.95 452 LIBERAL PARENTS, RADICAL CHILDREN-Midge Decter...
...If we have anything to be grateful for, it is simply that collectively the Arabs have never managed to implement the boycott with real efficiency...
...How to outwit, even profit from, the coming controls-legally...
...show why capitalism works best: $9.95 173 DID YOU EVER SEE A DREAM WALK!NG...
...In the final year of Wagner's tenure, the first in a long series 38 The American Spectator June/ July 1978...
...What followed had been foreshadowed during the administration of Lindsay's predecessor, Robert Wagner, who, after two terms in office as a Tammany Hall Democrat, unfurled his colors and ran as a reform Democrat in 1961...
...much more...
...And, of course, the only power that can ensure equal treatment for all its own companies is the third-country government...
...One can hardly complain about that, since they consider themselves to be in a state of war with her...
...F. Buckley collects 23 brilliant spokesmen for conservatism...
...The American colonies, 17101763...
...2: Pope John's Council...
...Quantities of information about the activities of third-country companies are often demanded by the boycott authorities...
...Michael L. Culbert...
...Wall St...
...The most notable Steven D. Lagerfeld is assistant editor of The Public Interest...
...Sparkling rundown of 1965 campaign...
...White Russians were "six of one and halfa-dozen of the other...
...Over 600 pages...
...Y. Times...
...9.95 369 THE ASSAULT ON THE SEXES-Jim & Andrea Fordham...
...First (the primary boycott), Arab countries refuse to trade with Israel...
...and it is at this point that their desire to disrupt and distort the internal commercial affairs of third countries—and the rights and activities of third-country companies—becomes most apparent...
...New nutritional approaches that can help you live better-and longer...
...9.95 358 CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY: Vol...
...quick guidance on what Bible teaches-over 300 subjects...
...Masterly fusion of history, biography and the novelist's art...
...A similar disaster occurred when Lindsay moved precipitously to decentralize the school system and succeeded, unnecessarily, in alienating the teaching professionals and the middle class whose cooperation could have minimized the dislocation...
...In this sense, Prittie and Nelson's title is at once more comprehensive than one might expect, and less comprehensive than the truth...
...Readable libertarian history of colonial America...
...The great and fundamental fact, however, is the extent to which the Arab world desperately needs western goods and western technology...
...As a result of concessions made by Lindsay to prevent another strike and "buy" union support, or at least neutrality, wages in the transit system (to cite one small example) rose 117 percent in the decade before the recent agreement, and now make up over 82 percent of the mass-transit budget at a time when the system's physical plant is in desperate need of revitalization...
...Famed anti-Communist minister proves the existence of God...
...14 giants (Mises, Hayek, Friedman, Rand, BoehmBawerk, etc...
...That is a questionable matter, but could still be considered within their rights...
...Devastating...
...In surveying the story of the Arab boycott it does not require a cynic to emphasize the fact that it is the mighty companies—Ford...
...Patrick Cosgrave is a political columnist for the London Spectator...
...Beautiful word-and-picture journey...
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...How liberals worked their will...
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...13 computer-tested methods-but none for the fainthearted...
...It is time—especially following the 1977 meetings of American and European parliamentary delegations—for the American government to give lead and sustenance to the less secure, less certain, European governments as well...
...Likewise, the U.S., which has engaged in a great deal of negotiation about the ethics of international trade with the EEC countries, could ensure their support for the anti-boycott provisions of various UN resolutions and of the OECD...
...a free subscription to the Club Bulletin, which brims with book opportunities to get in touch with my fellow members...
...These institutions, released from the constraints and benefits of participating in the governingcoalition, suddenly became outsiders, freed of the obligation to compromise and encouraged to pursue their goals more aggressively...
...And if any part of that assertion be doubted, one need only look at the terms of a form which the government of Saudi Arabia insists must be completed by any company trading within its borders...
...Most Europeans and Americans who are politically aware know that the Arab nations refuse to trade with Israel and refuse to trade with companies who trade with Israel...
...Wall St...
...Journal...
...12.95 343 HOME OF THE BRAVE-John A. Carroll & Odie B. Faulk...
...In their rush to supplant the "permanent government," the reformers failed to recognize that it was one thing to win elections and quite another to govern...
...Ford is not the first case of a company —and most of the brave and successful ones are American—defying the boycott without suffering its penalties...
...The boycott is, thus, a planned cancer, working its way through western commercial society...
...Informative text throws new light on the Gospel narratives...
...25.00 426 TRADING SILVER- PROFITABLY - D. Turner & S. H. Blinn...
...Right on target...
...would prevent them from full observance...
...How to profit in up and down markets...
...This classic gives the ',est answers yet...
...With her enormous commercial power, the United States could enforce the sanction stated in international insurance conventions, to the effect that those observing trade boycotts automatically lose all insurance entitlement...
...Thus, for example, a company in Pritain who trades in engineering goods might find itself blacklisted because it buys its stationery from a company which sells stationery in Israel...
...7.95 422 THE UNHOLY ALLIANCE - C. Gregg Singer...
...if I don't want a Selection, or efer one of the several Alternates, I simply inform you on the handy form always rovided...
...To understand its insidious nature one must grasp the way it works, and the extensiveness of its ambition...
...It raised instead its own chorus of inchoate and unrestrained demands for reforms and services...
...Even better [than the first excellent volume...
...The rot fed to our children, and what you can do...
...Giant encyclopedia of financial plans for every investment need...
...Teddy, Chappaquiddick and the big cover-up...
...Balanced, objective, best book on the subject...
...Brilliant young writer refutes the updaters-with the words of Jesus Himself...
...As one commentator said, "the engine room still has a Jewish heart...
...The boycott had its origin in events which took place long before the state of Israel was founded...
...Inspiring alternative to Women's Lib: the Positive Woman...
...Let me give an example...
...It is relevant to add that, despite the foot-dragging of successive administrations, Congress has been consistently prepared to defend the freedom of American companies (most recently in the Export Administration Amendments Act of 1977) to work in spite of foreign pressure...
...BOOK REVIEW The Economic War Against the Jews Walter Henry Nelson and Terence Prittie / Random House / $10.00 Patrick Cosgrave Pr he most important thing to say, and to say immediately, about Prittie and Nelson's book is that its title is at once challenging and true...
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...Witty traditional look at the Unisex Society...
...And much of the increase went to the welfare bureaucracy, which consumes one of every three New York social-service dollars...
...Lord Mancrift, a prominent British Jew, was driven from the board of the Norwich Union insurance company...
...73/4 x 91/2 luxury size: weighs 3 lbs., 15 oz...
...Printed throughout on rich coated stock...
...is being used against Jews, whether they are of American, British, or any other nationality...
...9.95 548 THE 1978 INSIDER'S BANKING AND CREDIT ALMANAC - Mark Skousen...
...9.95 71 THE UNMAKING OF A MAYOR-Wm...
...7.95 532 Vol...
...7.95 LITURGICAL REVOLUTIONMichael Davies 53$ Vol...
...8.50 514 MY ANSWER TO THE MOSCOW ATHEISTS - Re...
...Library Journal...
...Lindsay's mistakes were not merely tactical errors—they reflected a profound flaw in reform ideology...
...Richly illustrated...
...Warm portraits of 13 heroes: Washington, Eddie Rickenbacker, Lee, Lincoln, MacArthur, Lindbergh, etc...
...It was promised a Land Rover manufacturing plant in Egypt, but never got it...
...The greatest writer of our time joins six other dissidents to score Red tyranny -and Western liberalism...
...The colonies just before Independence, 1760-75...
...Their rightto make appointments and promotions according to their own commercial judgment is challenged...
...and with the accretion of their oil wealth the Arabs have certainly been making the boycott more effective in recent years...
...British Leyland, my own country's largest, domestically-owned automobile manufacturer, gave up its assembly plant in Israel, and joined the Arab-British Chamber of Commerce...
...and often given...
...over 1,200 pages...
...K. Fitzpatrick...
...Such a misunderstanding of government powers does more than obscure the true nature of the crisis...
...They are not, I think, aware of the fact that the near-thirty-yearold boycott was designed for use against, has been used against, and...
...15.00 458 CONCEIVED IN LIBERTY: Vol 2-Murray N. Rothbard...
...The Arab boycott is, indeed, an instrument of war against the freedom of citizens of all countries to express and act upon their opinions and beliefs...
...Richard Wurnibrand...
...or Hilton, which declined to accept the Boycott Office's prohibition on the construction of the Tel Aviv Hilton, and saw the Arab summit of 1974 nonetheless take place in the Hilton in Rabat—who most readily resist the importunings of Damascus...
...Lindsay adeptly put together an electoral coalition of upper-middle-class reformers and minority groups, but at the expense of support from the city's major political institutions and much of the middle class...
...Second (the secondary boycott), they refuse to trade with companies who trade with Israel...
...The reform constituency, a loose and formless aggregation, did not provide the kind of organized support necessary to withstand these pressures...
...Few outside the ranks of the idealists would expect to find the majority of companies in an economy to be insensitive to informal pressure...
...A small, sardonic masterpiece...
...Wagner managed to retain much of his original support, particularly among the municipal labor unions, on the strength of past allegiances and his administration's equanimity...
...6.95 540 A CRITIQUE OF INTERVENTIONISMLudwig von Mises...
...Churchill saw "a universally valid hierarchy of ends, but...no universally valid rules of action...
...Jack Newfield, who over the years has exhaustively catalogued New York City's dirty political laundry in the pages of the Village Voice, and Paul DuBrul would have us believe that a ruling elite of no more than 2,000 men seeking personal gain was responsible for New York City's fiscal collapse...
...That is why, admirable though much of what Congress has done is, it is still to be regretted that the White House and the Treasury have invariably been slow to implement the legislative rules that would oblige all companies 36 The American Spectator June/ July 1978 3 FOR 119c VALUES TO $69.40 361 THE POWER OF THE POSITIVE WOMAN -Phyllis Schlafly...
...Exciting account by highest-ranking KGB counterspy ever to defect...
...And, even if all the humiliating and sometimes disabling conditions are met, there is no guarantee of advantage gained...
...Outspoken history of the National Council of Churches...
...Rich in valuable features: 67 color paintings by the great Tissot...
...9.95 337 THE LAST KENNEDY - Robert Sherrill...
...The famed financial maverick delivers a sobering message...
...11.95 36 JFK: THE MAN & THE MYTH-Victor Lasky...
...But on the way to these successes small companies, and cowardly companies, have suffered...
...16.50 478 LENIN IN ZURICH-AlexanderSolzhen- itsyn...
...Lindsay's eight-year tenure brought a series of defeats at the hands of the forces he sought to subdue, which added to the city's fiscal burdens and impaired the administration's ability to address chronic urban problems...
...and that individual Arab countries have always ignored its provisions when these do not suit their national interests...
...7.95 306 HOW TO TUTOR-S...
...A wonderfully readable history of America for patriots...
...Henry Hazlitt assembles rebuttals by 22 masters: Hayek, Mises, Rueff, Roepke, Hutt, etc...
...7.95 364 DOUBLE YOUR MONEY EVERY 3 YEARS-Gerald Appel...
...The boycott has three interlocking dimensions...
...This was clearly the assumption in the first mayoral campaign of John Lindsay, who on his first day in office delivered an attack on the "power brokers" who had allegedly run the city...
...if due to late mail delivery I get a Selection without having had 10 days to decide if I want it, 1 may return it at Club expense...
...Now it is erecting a $150 million plant in Egypt as well...
...9.95 528 THE CRITICS OF KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS...
...How the Catholic Mass became the Lord's Supper in 16th-century England...
...Journal...
...1 agree to buy 4 more ong more than 150 to be offered-books on politics, Communism, economics, conservative ideas, history, etc...
...It arose from attempts by Arab nationalists to boycott the activities—commercial and otherwise—of the Jewish community in Palestine...
...1 - Murray N. Rothbard...
...An intellectual and political event of the first importance...
...or to even the wilder wishes of a good customer...
...But the danger remains...
...Oversized 81/2 x 10...
...feisty, fighting hook...
...The immense value of Prittie and Nelson's book lies in its worldwide coverage—relentless, detailed, and cumulative—of the operations and ramifications of the secondary and tertiary boycotts...
...7.95 4% IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF JESUS - W. E. Pax (Institute of Bible Research, Jerusalem...
...K. Fitzpatrick...
...Definitive refutation of Keynes...
...Ford Motor Company, on the other hand, simply ignored communications from the Boycott Office, and retained its Israeli plant...
...and General Pierre Koenig, a French war hero, from the board of a major French company...
...First time in English...
...L. Blumenfeld...
...I'll be offered a new Selection every 24 days-15 times a year...
...If men of that eminence could be punished for their ethnic character or their sympathy, how many humbler citizens have been done down...
...F. Buckley & L. Brent Bozell...
...It has since been formalized in a coordinating committee with headquarters in Damascus and representatives on most Arab-oriented Chambers of Commerce throughout the world...
...The extravagant and fanatic lengths to which the Arabs are sometimes prepared to go, however, are indicated by the refusal of Saudi Arabia to grant port space to an American ship, National Peace, because it had once, under a previous name, Memory, carried on trade with Israel...
...1: Cranmer's Godly Order...
...Make extra thousands on your bank accounts...
...and yet that it is not true enough...
...It is a poor sham of a country that cannot protect its own economy and citizens...
...We are still forced to distinguish between right and wrong, loyalty and treachery, health and disease, progress and anarchy...
...I do think the nation has less than ten years...
...If I want a Selection, g, it will come automatically about a month later...
...12.95 432 HOW THE EXPERTS BUY AND SELL GOLD BULLION, GOLD STOCKS & GOLD COINS-James E. Sinclair & Harr D. Schultz...
...11.95 438 FROM UNDER THE RUBBLE-Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
...The cost of social services, perhaps the leading example, more than tripled during the Lindsay years and was also the only major category to expand its share of the budget, growing from 14 percent of the first Lindsay budget to 22 percent of the last...
...Their right to trade with other companies in their own city is questioned...
...Classic political biography, and still the best on Kennedy and the Clan...
...8.95 488 JESUS CHRIST BEFORE HE BECAME A SUPERSTAR-A-J...
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...9.95 367 BUILDERS OF THE AMERICAN DREAM -J...
...8.95 180 McCARTHY Bt HIS ENEMIES-Wm...
...Third (the tertiary boycott), they refuse to trade with those in third countries' who trade with those who trade with Israel...
...The complexities of modern industry and commerce are great...
...122 gorgeous photographs-68 in breathtaking full color...
...King James Version...
...What makes liberals that, way...
Vol. 11 • June 1978 • No. 8
