Douglas Reed and The Controversy of Zion

Douglas Reed 1895 - 1976

I was listening to Adam Green's latest YouTube upload in which he was quoting from Douglas Reed's The Controversy of Zion and so I thought I'd find out what Wikipedia said about him. The article was fairly brief so I'll quote it in full:

At the age of 13, Reed began working as an office boy, and at 19 a bank clerk. At the outbreak of the First World War he enlisted in the British Army. He transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, gaining a single kill in aerial combat and severely burning his face in a flying accident (Insanity Fair, 1938). Around 1921 he began working as a telephonist and clerk for The Times. At the age of 30, he became a sub-editor. In 1927 he became assistant correspondent in Berlin, later transferring to Vienna as chief central European correspondent. He went on to report from various European centres including Warsaw, Moscow, Prague, Athens, Sofia, Bucharest and Budapest. 

According to Reed, he resigned his job in protest against the appeasement of Hitler after the Munich Agreement of 1938. In Somewhere South of Suez: a further survey of the grand design of the Twentieth Century (1949), Reed wrote that his resignation came in response to press censorship which prevented him from fully reporting "the facts about Hitler and National Socialism." He believed that by becoming a "journalist without a newspaper," he would be free to write as he chose. 

His 1938 book Insanity Fair analysing the situation in pre-war Europe brought him worldwide fame. His next few books were also bestsellers. 

Reed spent the duration of the Second World War in England; in 1948, he moved to Durban, South Africa. In his 1951 book Far and Wide he wrote: "During the Second World War I noticed that the figures of Jewish losses, in places where war made verification impossible, were being irresponsibly inflated, and said so in a book. The process continued until the war's end when the figure of six millions was produced… No proof can be given". Reed was subsequently virtually banned by establishment publishers and booksellers, and his previous titles were often removed from library shelves. 

His career as a published author effectively over, Reed nevertheless spent several years, including in New York and Montreal, working on his magnum opus The Controversy Of Zion. Despite some initial discussions with a publisher, the manuscript was never submitted. 

In the 1960s Reed was outspoken in his opposition to the decolonization of Africa. In his The Battle for Rhodesia (1966) he explicitly compared decolonization to the above-mentioned appeasement of Hitler; he strongly supported Ian Smith's unilateral declaration of independence from the United Kingdom, arguing that Smith's Rhodesia had to be defended as "the last bulwark against the Third World War", just as Czechoslovakia should have been defended against Hitler in 1938. 

Reed died in Durban in 1976. Two years later The Controversy of Zion was finally brought to print, the manuscript having lain on top of a wardrobe in Reed's home for over two decades.

So, after his 1951 book, he was virtually banned by establishment publishers and booksellers, and his previous titles were often removed from library shelves. This is the price that an author pays for challenging Zionist statistics and similar to the fate that befell David Irving. I was able to track down The Controversy of Zion on the Internet Archive where it can be downloaded for free. 

From the same source, I also downloaded Far and Wide, the offending book that caused all the outrage. I'm surprised the ADL, the origin of which organisation is discussed in his books, hasn't forced their removal. Eventually it will probably succeed and to the extent that it does, it will mean that alternative history sources are just that little less available to future generations.  

Anyway, I've downloaded a copy for my Kindle and am interested in reading a book by such a courageous author. He wrote the book between 1951 and 1956 but, as revealed above, it wasn't published until 1978. Much has changed since the 1950's and not the better in terms of Zionist control of the levers of power. Somethings remain the same however and it's still professional suicide, whatever your profession, to be openly critical of the machinations of Zionism.

Even though I was a mathematics and information technology teacher in my day, I couldn't fail to notice the extent to which Zionist literature had infiltrated the English curricula of international educational organisations like the IB. Had I been an English teacher and hostile to the inclusion of these books in the curricula, I'm sure my career prospects in international education would have quickly stalled. Retirement at least removes career concerns arising from anti-Zionist activism.

I'm not uncritically supportive of all of Reed's views. For example, he was supportive of the policy of Apartheid in South Africa and it's ironic that Israel and its policies are now being compared to that country when it was an Apartheid state. Here's a link to a more detailed biographical essay of Douglas Reed by a Dane, Knud Eriksen (dated 3rd March 2007). I'm hoping that Reed's book will help give me the big picture of what's going on and why. As I research Zionism, I realise that most people don't have the motivation or the opportunity to delve into this matter and yet it is the hidden hand behind the major developments in 20th Century politics and finance. The 20th Century represents the triumph of Zionism.