The dollar and the Vatican by Avro Manhattan

Author:Avro Manhattan [Manhattan, Avro]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

10 THE ATOM, THE GIANT TRUSTS AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

UNTIL THE YEAR I945 THE GIGANTIC accumulation of power in the hands of the few, their control of the economic and political life of the great American nation, would have been a phenomenon as worthy of saddened astonishment as that other bloody one, the appearance of world Fascism.

Yet an event far more portentous than the rise of Communism, of Fascism, of the invisible dictatorship of the big American trusts, or even of both the two world wars, sprang suddenly before a bewildered world: the splitting of the atom.

The ushering of mankind into the Atomic Age, although accomplished by a mighty explosion which incinerated hundreds of thousands of peaceful civilians, promised, notwithstanding such unpropitious beginnings, the opening of the greatest vistas of prosperity that man had ever dared to envisage.

The secret atomic race upon which the Allied and Nazi nations had been engaged was won by the United States. For this the nations of the world thanked God or Fate, as it was then believed that, with this mightiest of all natural

184 forces in their possession, the freedom-loving American people were surely going to initiate such a mighty revolution as to dwarf both the French and the Russian ones. Furthermore, that this would have been done through a peaceful transformation of the whole economic framework, thanks to a large-scale application of atomic energy, first to American and then to Western, and, indeed, world industry.

Such rosy dreams, however, never came true. Worse still, there was not the faintest sign that the U.S.A. wished to make them a reality.

Had the American people decided otherwise? The American people had not decided anything. For atomic energy had never belonged to them. Atomic energy, in fact, had been the sole property of the invisible government of the billionaire corporations from the very beginning. Its transfer had occurred undetected, secretly, and silently in the usual smooth, professional fashion of which the giant trusts are past-masters.

During the secret atomic race with Nazi Germany the U.S. Government sank approximately two billion dollars into atomic experiments and research. Of this, some $1,300,000,000 financed facilities, nearly all of which were operated by the Eastman, Kodak, Union Carbide, the Carbon Company, and the Du Ponts. Westinghouse, General Electric, and Allis-Chalmers built almost all the equipment for atomic energy research. The result was that atomic energy soon became a monopoly possession. For the few giant corporations which received federal money for scientific research, instead of handing over to the American Government the discoveries thus obtained, held patent rights on new developments financed by public funds. The ultimate reality was that atomic energy became, not a national possession, but the private monopoly of the giant corporations of America. It had been as simple as that.

With the atom in their hands, the Monopolistic Colossi were faced with a most fateful decision. Should or should not the masses of the world be ushered into an Age of Plenty? The goal was neither Utopian nor mere wishful thinking. It was concretely reachable, through a revolution in industry.

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