CHAPTER NINE
Political Intrigue — 1914 – 1919

The way international intrigue was used to depose the Right Honourable H.H. Asquith when he was Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1916 was explained to me by a man who was extremely well informed.  I met him while serving as King’s Messenger in 1917.  We were in my room, in a hotel when, during the course of conversation, I mentioned that I strongly suspected that a comparatively small group of extremely wealthy men used the power their wealth could buy to influence national and international affairs, to further their own secret plans and ambitions.

My companion replied :  “If you talk about such things it is unlikely that you will live long enough to realize how right you are.”  He then told me how Mr. Asquith had been deposed in December 1916, and Mr. David Lloyd George, Winston Churchill, and The Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour were placed in power in England.

The story he told me had a remarkable similarity to the plot used by the Secret Powers who directed the campaign of L’Infamie immediately prior to the outbreak of the French revolution in 1789.  It will be recalled a letter was used to lure Cardinal Prince de Rohan to the Palais Royal where he was involved with a prostitute disguised as Marie Antoinette.  The alleged modern method is as follows :

Shortly after the outbreak of the war in August 1914 a small group of wealthy men authorized an agent to turn an old, but very spacious mansion, into a fabulous private club.  Those who made it possible to finance such a costly undertaking insisted that their identity remain secret.  They explained that they simply wished to show their deep appreciation to officers in the Armed Forces who were risking their lives for King and Country.

The club provided every kind of luxury, entertainment, and facilities for pleasure.  The use of the club was usually restricted to commissioned officers on leave in London from active service.  A new member had to be introduced by a brother officer.  My companion referred to it as the “Glass Club”.^[1]

Upon arrival, officer guests were interviewed by an official.  If he was satisfied with their credentials they were told how the club functioned.  The officer applying for admission was asked to give his word of honour that he would not mention the names of any persons he met during his stay at the club, or reveal their identity after he left the club.  Having given this solemn promise, it was explained to the guest that he would meet a number of women well known in the best of London’s society.  They all wore masks.  The officer was asked not to try to identify any of the ladies.  He was sworn to keep their secret should he happen to identify any of them accidentally.

With the preliminaries over, the officer was shown to his private room.  It was furnished in a most luxuriant manner.  The furnishings included a huge double bed, dressing table, wardrobe, cabinet with wines and liqueurs, a smoking humidor, and private toilet and bath.  The new guest was invited to make himself at home.  He was informed that he would receive a lady visitor.  She would wear a brooch of costume jewelry with the number of his room.  If, after getting acquainted, he wished to take her down to dinner that was his privilege.

The reception room, where guests and their hostesses mingled over cocktails before dinner, was like that of a King’s palace.  The dining room was large enough to accommodate fifty couples.  The ballroom was such that many people dream about but few seldom see.  Costly decorations were set off by luxurious drapes, subdued lighting, beautiful women gorgeously dressed, soft dreamy music, the smell of rare perfumes, made the place an Arab’s dream of heaven.  The whole atmosphere of the club was such that the officers home on leave relaxed at first and then set out to have a real Roman Holiday.  There was nothing gross or vulgar about the “Glass Club”.  Everything about the place was beautiful, delicate, soft, and pliant ... the exact opposite of the horrors, the violence, the brutality, of a modern war.  Between dance numbers entertainers gave performances which brought out the feelings of joy, fun and laughter.  As the evening progressed, a long buffet was literally loaded with luscious dishes of fish and game.  A bar provided every kind of drink from champagne to straight whisky.  Between midnight and one a.m. five beautiful girls performed the Dance of the Seven Veils.  The dance depicted a scene in a Sultan’s Harem.  The girls started the dance fully clothed, (even to the veil they wore to conceal the facial features) but, when the dance ended the girls were entirely naked.  They danced the final act in their lithe-nakedness, waving the flimsy veil around and about them in a manner which extenuated, rather than concealed, their physical charms.  Couples, when tired of entertainment, dancing, and other people’s company, retired to their private rooms.

Next day they could enjoy indoor swimming, tennis, badminton, billiards, or, there was the card room which was a miniature Monte Carlo.  About November 1916 a very high personage was lured into visiting the Club when he received a note saying that he would obtain information of the greatest importance to the British Government.  He drove to the Club in his private car.  He instructed his chauffeur to wait for him.  After being admitted, he was taken to one of the luxuriously furnished bed-sitting rooms.  A lady joined him.  When she saw him she nearly fainted.  It was his own wife.  She was much younger than her husband.  She had been acting as hostess to lonely officers on leave for a considerable time.  It was a most embarrassing situation.

The wife knew nothing of the plot.  She had no secret information to give.  She was convinced that both she and her husband were philandering.  She thought it was only this unfortunate chance meeting which had brought them face to face.  There was a scene.  The husband was informed regarding the part hostesses played at the Club.  But his lips were sealed as if in death.  He was a member of the Government.  He couldn’t afford to figure in a scandal.

Every employee in the club, both male and female, was a spy.  They reported everything that happened at the club to their masters.  The identity of those involved became known.  The information thus obtained was printed for the record in what became known as “The Black Book”.  “The Black Book” recorded their sins of omission and commission, their peculiar vices, their special weaknesses, their financial status, the condition of their domestic relations, and the degree of affection they had for relatives and friends.  Their connection with, and their influence over, influential men in politics, industry, and religion was carefully noted.

In November 1916, a member of Parliament tried to expose the real character of the “Glass Club”.  Three army officers, who had patronized the club, became suspicious that it was a vast espionage system, after an attempt had been made to blackmail them into giving information that would have been valuable to the enemy.  Their adventure involved an Australian lady, her chauffeur, and the wives, and daughters of several highly placed government officials.^[2]

The effort to make known the true facts was suppressed, but mention of “The Black Book” was made in Parliament, and in the public press.  The government’s policy was said to be based on the contention that a scandal of such magnitude could prove a national calamity at a time when the armed forces at sea, on land, and in the air, were meeting severe reverses.

The Liberal press began to attack the Prime Minister.  He was accused of harbouring men within his government who were unfit to hold office.  He was accused of having had extensive dealings with German industrialists and financiers prior to the war.  He was accused of being friendly towards the Kaiser.  He was accused of being unable to make prompt and firm decisions.  He was ridiculed as “Wait-and-see-Asquith”.  My companion told me that evidence against high officials involved in the “Glass Club” scandal caused the Government to resign.  Thus, according to my companion, the British Empire was forced to change political Horses in the middle of a World War.  When Mr. Asquith did resign in December 1916 he was superseded by a coalition government headed by David Lloyd George.  Winston Churchill and Mr. Balfour were two of the more prominent members.

Shortly after hearing the above story, I was struck by the fact that the three army officers mentioned were reported in the official lists as “Killed in action”.  In war-time such a thing is quite possible.  Next came a brief notice that the Australian lady, and her chauffeur, had been imprisoned under the Defence of the Realm Act.  Then came an announcement that the member of parliament involved in the case had retired from public life.  A few weeks later I was taken off duty as King’s Messenger and appointed as Navigating Officer of British Submarines.  We did lose 33 per cent of our officers and men but I was one of those to survive.

It was not until long after the war, when I was studying modern history and comparative religions, that I began to realize the vast importance of political Zionism to those who planned to obtain undisputed control of the world’s economy.  The following historical events speak for themselves.

When war broke out in 1914 the Rt. Hon. H.H. Asquith was Prime Minister.  He was an Anti-Zionist.  The International Bankers decided that Asquith’s Government had to go and be replaced by a coalition government in which David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill would wield great influence.  Lloyd George had for years been Solicitor for the Zionist movement as planned and financed by the Rothschilds.  Winston Churchill had been a supporter of political Zionism from the time he first entered politics.

In 1917 the International Bankers were supporting both the Bolshevik and Zionist movements.  It would seem incredible that the British Cabinet didn’t know what was going on, particularly when the British Government had had to intervene to get Trotsky and his revolutionary leaders released after they had been detained in Halifax while on their way from New York to Russia.

The overthrow of the Russian Empire was bound to cause the withdrawal of the mighty Russian Armies from the war on the side of the Allied Powers.  The German Armies, which had been engaged on the Eastern Front, would be free to re-inforce the Armies fighting against the allied forces on the Western Front.

footnote

1 An exact duplicate of this club was organized just outside Montreal during World War Two.

2 This was in keeping with paragraph 8 of the plot exposed in Chapter 3.

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