Published
in Philadelphia in early 1942, this ‘Outline of
(the) Post-War New World Map’, created by Maurice
Gomberg, shows a proposal to re-arrange the world
after an Allied victory against the Axis forces.
Its title refers to a ‘New World Order’, a vague
concept, its many definitions often contradicting
each other. At the core of the NWO, however, is
always the notion that a small group of powerful
individuals, institutions, industries and/or
nations must lead the world in the right direction
(i.e. towards ‘unification’). This may be against
the world’s own will (and therefore done covertly,
at least in some versions of the NWO-story), but
ultimately it is for its own good.
One of
the most recent references to the NWO by a major
political figure was made by US president George
Bush (Sr), who explicitly used the NWO to refer to
US objectives in a Post-Cold War world. The term
has a pedigree much older than the Cold War, or
even both World Wars. Some might even say – and
now we’re straying somewhat prematurely into the
field of conspiracy theory – that it goes all the
way back to Roman times, as is attested by the
(modified) quote of the Roman poet Virgil on the
revers of the US Great Seal and (significantly or
not, since 1935) on the back of the dollar bill:
Novus Ordo Seclorum – literally: ‘A New Order for
the Ages’.
In a modern context, it was the
British imperialist Cecil Rhodes (who gave his
name to Rhodesia) who first proposed a federal
world government to be imposed by the US and the
British Empire. US President Woodrow Wilson was
inspired by a similar concept to draw up his plans
for a League of Nations in the aftermath of World
War I. Most fascist regimes in the 20s, 30s and
40s of the twentieth century also proposed some
sort of NWO – in fact, most styled themselves to
be a ‘New Order’. H.G. Wells – he of ‘War of the
Worlds’ – wrote ‘The Open Conspiracy’ (1928) in
which he describes his efforts to get
intellectuals to back the idea of a World Social
Democracy and ‘The New World Order’ (1940), in
which he details how a generation of struggle will
be necessary to overcome the opponents of such a
global government.
From this sketchy
overview, it might be equally sketchily concluded
that One World Government was the mostly
benevolent projected outcome of an optimist,
positivist, socialist and/or imperialist (or in
some cases, national-socialist) world view, a kind
of secular New Jerusalem, the best of all possible
worlds. The death of communism, which as an ideal
expired much earlier than its empire, can be seen
as the ultimate argument against this philosophy.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make
it share that resource equally with the other
horses. The philosophy of man is not: work as much
as you can, consume as much as you need, but: work
as little as you need to, consume as much as you
can. Karl Marx defeated by Gordon
Gekko.
And yet, optimism persists – for
what else can it do? In the face of continuing
efforts to better the world, to ‘unify’ it,
opposition to NWO-like groups, institutions and
intentions have coalesced into a myriad of
theories, most of which are of a conspirational
nature (I would say that, being in the pay of the
Bilderberg Group), all of which fly the flag of
freedom (for the secular-minded) or religion (for
those who see the End Times brought nearer by the
likes of UN Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon). This
is where an overview has to limit itself to naming
some of the many conspirational configurations
suspected to be secretly running the New World
Order. Pick and mix, and create your own
conspiracy: the Illuminati, the freemasons, the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral
Commission, the Jews, the Bilderberg Group, the
G-8, the Nazis, the Bretton-Woods agreement, black
helicopters, US-alien collusion, the Zionist lobby
in cahoots with American Neo-Cons, those out to
‘miscegenate’ and dilute the white race, the House
of Windsor, the Antichrist, a cabal of
multinational corporations, extraterrestrial
reptilians, the United Nations…
I don’t
know whether Maurice Gomberg, of whom next to no
information is traceable online, was an
extraterrestrial reptilian, but he certainly has a
Jewish surname, which would make him equally
suspect in some circles. Not much more is known of
him; it has even been suggested that this map was
a Nazi forgery*, to induce fear in America of a
communist takeover of the world. But I think it’s
safer to assume that this map was an earnest
attempt, out of the aforementioned benevolent
socialist sentiments, to propose a reorganization
of the world that would end war once and for all,
and bring “permanent peace, freedom, justice,
security and world reconstruction”. Or at least
let that be our working assumption in evaluating
this map. The main building blocks of his New
World Order were to be:
The footer of
the above map reads as follows:
•The United
States of America (USA): the US, Canada, all
Central American and Carribean states, most
Atlantic islands (including Greenland and
Iceland), most Pacific islands, Taiwan, Hainan,
the Philippines and several now Indonesian
islands, including Sulawesi. This was to be the
dominant power in the world, military and
otherwise.
•The Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR): the Soviets were to be rewarded
with Persia (Iran), Mongolia, Manchuria, Finland,
and all of Eastern Europe, which subsequently
would form part of the Eastern Bloc (excluding
Albania, but including the real-life maverick
state of Yugoslavia, socialist but anti-Soviet) .
All of theses states were simply to become
member-states of the USSR. Austria and most of
Germany, although ‘quarantained’ are shown within
the Soviet sphere.
•The United States of
South America (USSA): including all South American
states, with the three Guianas as a single
constituent state and the Falkland Islands part of
the USSA.
•The Union of African Republics
(UAR): All of Africa as a federation of
republics.
•The Arabian Federated Republics
(AFR): covering Saudi and all other states now
occupying the Arabian Peninsula, plus present-day
Iraq and Syria.
•The Federated Republics of
India (FRI): Present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan,
India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Birma
(Myanmar).
•The United Republics of China
(URC): A federation including all parts of
present-day China, Korea, the erstwhile French
colony of Indochina (now Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia), Thailand and Malaya.
•The United
States of Scandinavia (USS): Norway, Sweden,
Denmark.
•The United States of Europe
(USE): the Benelux countries, the German
Rhineland, France, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal
and Italy.
•And finally the British
Commonwealth of Nations (BCN), including Great
Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Sri Lanka,
Madagascar and most of
Indonesia.
Smaller entities include
Eire (the whole of Ireland), Greece (including
Albania), Turkey (excluding European Turkey),
Hebrewland (the Holy Land plus Jordan) and Japan.
The three axis states (Germany, Italy and Japan)
were to be ‘quarantained’ until they could be
readmitted in the family of nations.
Mr
Gomberg possibly took his cue for this map from US
president Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose speech
about Four Freedoms and a Moral Order (from his
State of the Union to the 77-th Congress) he
quotes, before outlining his own vision (at the
bottom of the map):
“As the USA with
the cooperation of the Democracies of
Latin-America, the British Commonwealth of Nations
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
assumes world leadership for the establishment of
a New World Moral Order for permanent peace,
justice, security and world
reconstruction.”
“OUR POLICY SHALL BE
THIS:
1. We, the U.S.A., in cooperation
with our allies, for reasons of our national
safety and in the interests of international
morality, are determined to crush and completely
destroy the military power of the Axis aggressors,
and their satellites regardless of cost, effort
and time necessary to accomplish this
task.
2. The old world order of colonial
oppression, exploitation of dominions, rival
imperialism and mercenary balance of power
diplomacy; of majesties, dictators, privileged
minorities, plutocratic monopolists and similar
social parasites; the corrupted order responsible
for the present world cataclysm, endangering our
national safety and peaceful process, shall never
rise again.
3. A New World Moral Order for
permanent peace and freedom shall be established
at the successful conclusion of the present
war.
4. For reasons of history, economic
structure, favorable geography and the welfare of
mankind, the U.S.A. must, altruistically, assume
the leadership of the newly established,
democratic world order.
5. To reduce the
burden and criminal waste of armaments
expenditures everywhere in the world, the U.S.A.,
with the cooperation of Latin-America, the British
Commonwealth of Nations, and the U.S.S.R. shall
undertake to guarantee peace to the nations which
will be permanently disarmed and demilitarized
after the conclusion of the present war.
6.
In order to be able, in the fulfillment of our
obligations, to effectively prevent the
possibility of a recurrence of another world
cataclysm, the invincibility of the U.S.A. as a
military, naval and air power, shall be the major
prerequisite.
7. For realistic
considerations of strategy and our
invulnerability, it is imperative that the U.S.A.
shall obtain relinquishment of controls of their
possessions from all foreign Powers in the entire
Western Hemisphere, it’s surrounding waters and
strategic island outposts as outlined on
accompanying map.
8. For considerations of
hemispheric defense and in the spirit and
tradition of the new Monroe Doctrine of
hemispheric solidarity and the “Good Neighbor”
policy, the U.S.A. with the consent of the
Latin-American Republics, shall obtain control and
protectorate rights of the relinquished
territories.
9. To strengthen our position
in the Caribbean area which is of obvious
importance to hemispheric defense, all possible
inducements shall be offered to our neighbors of
Central America and the West Indies to facilitate
their entrance as equal states of the U.S.A. as
outlined on map.
10. To fortify the
politico-economic unity of the Western Hemisphere,
the U.S.A. shall promote and assist the
unification of South America into a well
organized, democratic, federated “United States of
South America.”
11. The liberated British,
French and Netherlands Guiana shall be reorganized
as one state of the U.S.S.A.
12. All
Powers shall relinquish their controls of their
colonial, mandate and strategic island possessions
everywhere in the world.
13. The British
Commonwealth of Nations, the second military and
naval Power of importance cooperating in a binding
compact with the U.S.A. as a Power for freedom,
shall retain and acquire control such territories,
peace-security bases and strategic islands
outposts essential for the maintenance of world
peace and freedom as outlines on the
map.
14. The U.S.S.R., the third military
Power of importance cooperating with the U.S.A. as
a Power for freedom and the maintenance of world
peace, shall acquire control of the liberated,
disorganized adjacent areas and those of
Germany-Austria to be re-educated and eventually
incorporated as equal republics of the U.S.S.R.,
as approximately outlined on map.
15. A
world League of Nationalities with arbitration and
supervision powers shall be organized.
16.
A World Court with punitive powers of absolute
boycott, quarantine, blockade and occupation by
international police, against lawbreakers of
international morality shall be
organized.
17. The U.S.A. with the close
cooperation of the United States of South America,
the British Commonwealth of Nations, the U.S.S.R.
and the World League of Nationalities, shall
promote and assist in the unification of the
relinquished territories and the areas at present
unsoundly divided into well organized democratic
and absolutely demilitarized republics as
approximately on the map.
18. The areas
known as Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg,
Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, the island
of Corsica, and eventually Italy and the islands
of Sardinia and Sicily shall be unified as a
demilitarized, federated “United States of
Europe.”
19. The areas known as Sweden,
Norway, Denmark and the Spitsbergen islands shall
be unified as a demilitarized, federated “United
States of Scandinavia.”
20. The continent
of Africa shall be reorganized and unified as a
demilitarized, federated “Union of African
Republics.”
21. The areas of Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Hejas, Aden and Oman, shall
be unified as a demilitarized union of “Arabian
Federated Republics.”
22. The areas known
as India, including Afghanistan, Baluchistan,
Nepal, Bhutan and Burma shall be unified as a
demilitarized “federated Republics of
India.”
23. The areas known as China, Inner
Mongolia, Tibet, Thailand, Malaya, Indo-China and
Korea, shall be unified as a demilitarized,
federated “United Republics of China.”
24.
The areas known as Greece, Macedonia, Albania,
Crete, Dodecanese and adjacent islands in the
Aegean sea shall be unified as a demilitarized
“Federal Republic of Greece.”
25. The areas
known as Eire and Northern Ireland shall be
unified as a demilitarized independent republic of
“Eire.”
26. The area of the Holy Land of
the ancient Hebrews, at present known as Palestine
and Trans-Jordan, and the adjacent requisite
regions as outlined on map, for considerations of
history and the imperative necessity to alleviate
a post war refugee problem, shall be unified as a
demilitarized republic of “Hebrewland.”
27.
The area known as European Turkey, adjacent to the
Dardanelles, sea of Marmora and Bosporus, for
considerations of realistic peace strategy shall
be placed under joint control of the U.S.S.R. and
Turkey.
28. The area known as Turkey shall
be a demilitarized independent republic of
“Turkey.”
29. All problems of exchange,
transfer and repatriation of populations shall be
administered by the World League of
Nationalities.
30. The criminal
perpetrators and their partners in guilt of this
hideous war shall be brought to justice and
unforgettable punishment administered.
31.
All subjects of Japan and all persons of Japanese
origin of doubtful loyalty shall be expelled from
the entire Western Hemisphere, U.S.A.
protectorates and strategic island outposts and
their property confiscated for post-war
reconstruction needs.
32. All subjects of
Germany and Italy and all persons of German and
Italian origin known as active supporters of Nazi
and fascist ideologies shall be treated
similarly.
33. German, Italian, Japanese
immigration to the Western Hemisphere, its
protectorates and island outposts shall be
indefinitely stopped.
34. All persons of
German origin in East Prussia and the Rhineland
shall be transferred to inner Germany and the
regions permanently de-Prussianized.
35.
All persons of German, Italian and Japanese origin
shall be permanently expelled from their now
conquered territories and their property
confiscated for post-war construction
needs.
36. To cleanse the populations of
the defeated Axis aggressors of the intoxication
of military chauvinism; to effectuate the removal
and destruction of their potential military
establishments; to recover the accumulated loot
and to re-educate them for their eventual
membership in the Family of Nations, the areas of
Germany-Austria, Italy and Japan shall be
hermetically and indefinitely quarantined and
administered by appointed Governors subject to
supervision by the world League of
Nationalities.
37. All resources,
industrial and labor capacity of quarantined areas
shall be employed for the post war restoration and
reconstruction needs.
38. To reduce the
numerical power of the aggressor nations, as a
potential military advantage, a Population Control
Policy shall be elaborated and applied in the
quarantined area.
39. In the New World
Moral Order which we seek to establish, besides
the essential political freedoms, the following
fundamental economic changes are
imperative:
(a) Nationalization of all
natural resources and equitable distribution of
same to all nations…everywhere in the
world;
(b) Nationalization of international
banking, foreign investments, railroads and power
plants….everywhere in the world;
(c)
Nationalization of all armaments producing
establishments by all military powers;
(d)
Federal control of foreign commerce and
shipping;
(e) The establishment of a world
common monetary system;
(f) World wide
limitations of interest rates to a maximum of two
percent;
40. To retain the victory and
leadership of our united democratic effort….the
aim of which is not vengeance or exploitation, but
freedom and security to all nations for peaceful
progress….the unified “Supreme War Command of the
United Nations” at the conclusion of the present
war, shall be recognized and transformed into a
permanent “Supreme Military and Economic Council”
collaborating with the World League of
Nationalities in post war construction and to
enforce world peace.
41. The “Supreme
Military and Economic Council” shall appoint the
Governors to administer the quarantined areas
until their eventual parole.
For this
purposeful beginning we must fight until absolute
victory.”
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