by K. R. Bolton
[←443]
Aristo, p. 57.
[←444]
G. P. de Montalk, Whited Sepulchres (London: The Right Review, 1933).
[←445]
Unquiet World, p. 222.
[←446]
Unquiet World, 222–23.
[←447]
Unquiet World, p. 227.
[←448]
Unquiet World, p. 228.
[←449]
Unquiet World, p. 228.
[←450]
Although dedicated to New Zealand race relations de Potocki mentions in Kahore, Kahore! that Hitler had “liberated” Germany from its “oppressors,” the financiers. For the Duke of Bedford, like Potocki’s friend Fairburn, the financial system was of primary concern. Bedford wrote:
It is well to remember that the financiers of Britain and America are bitterly opposed to the Axis governments for reasons quite other than tyranny or aggression. Financiers, as has already been pointed out, desire to control the creation and issue of money in the interests of money-lending and then keep the supply short in order that people may be compelled to borrow. The Axis Governments on the other hand insist on money being the servant of the State and if labour and materials are available, they order the creation of sufficient money to render possible any work which they hold to be in the national interest.” (Propaganda for Proper Geese, p. 9, n.d., or publication details).
The pamphlet could have been written ca. 1939 when Bedford formed the British People’s Party.
State credit issued at 1% interest through the Reserve Bank was also undertaken by the 1935 New Zealand Labour Government to fund the iconic State Housing project without recourse to debt. This one act eliminated 75% of unemployment; the difference with Germany here being that Labour did not have the stamina to continue to implement its election promises on banking reform. (K. R. Bolton, “The Global Debt Crisis,” Ab Aeterno, No 3, June 2010).
[←451]
Unquiet World, p. 229.
[←452]
“Jews” lacked capitalization, which was to become an idiosyncrasy of Potocki’s grammar also towards the “english.”
[←453]
G. P. de Montalk, Katyn Manifesto (Half Moon Cottage, Bookham, Surrey, May 4, 1943). There was a Second Katyn Manifesto in 1983, about which more below.
[←454]
Unquiet World, p. 232.
[←455]
Unquiet World, p. 234.
[←456]
Unquiet World, p. 235.
[←457]
It should not be assumed that being anti-Bolshevik or pro-fascist during the war made one ipso facto pro-USA and anti-USSR after the war. Many, unlike Potocki, Mosley, and even Evola for that matter, saw the USSR as preferable to the USA or at least as a hindrance to American cultural pathology, including such post-war “fascist” luminaries as Maj. Gen. Otto Remer, Otto Strasser, and Francis Parker Yockey. See for example: K. R. Bolton, “Yockey: ‘Stalin’s Fascist Advocate,’” International Journal of Russian Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2, June, 2010.
Potocki’s pro-American attitude seems to have eventually changed however, as he expressed to Stephanie de Montalk his opposition to the USA anywhere in the world and the hypocrisy of condemning Germany for war crimes when the USA continued to commit such crimes in Vietnam.
[←458]
Unquiet World, p. 237.
[←459]
Unquiet World, pp. 238–40.
[←460]
In reality there is no “irony,” for Rightists such as Ezra Pound who also had strongly negative views about certain factions of Jewry, were not so obsessive and ignorant as to preclude the possibility of having Jewish friends and associates.
[←461]
Chris Martin, “‘I’ve Spent My Life Being Me’: The Life and Singular Exploits of Count Potocki de Montalk,” The Lost Club Journal, http://freepages.pavilion.net/users/tartarus/potocki.html
[←462]
Unquiet World, p. 249.
[←463]
Dr. R. G. Fowler, director of the Savitri Devi Archive, personal communication with the writer, July 21, 2010. Dr. Fowler states that he had interviewed two friends of Savitri who knew her when she was in England during the 1960s, and they identified the “East European Count” who printed the leaflets as Potocki.
[←464]
Ibid.
[←465]
Unquiet World, p. 253.
[←466]
Unquiet World, p. 265.
[←467]
Unquiet World, p. 264.
[←468]
The Australian literary figure and Rightist Percy Stephensen was also of a decidedly pro-Aboriginal disposition well before it became fashionable. He helped to promote the pioneer Aborigine publication Abo Call, and served as secretary of the Aboriginal Citizenship Association.
[←469]
G. P. de Montalk, Two Blacks Don’t Make a White: Remarks About Apartheid (Dorset: The Melissa Press, 1964). The pamphlet is reproduced in Aristo, pp. 81–91.
[←470]
Unquiet World, p. 264.
[←471]
G. P. de Montalk, The King of Poland’s Plan for Rhodesia (Draguignan: The Melissa, Press, 1966).
[←472]
Ibid.
[←473]
G. P. de Montalk, Let the Rhodesians Not (Provence: The Mélissa Press, 1977).
[←474]
Maori term for white New Zealander.
[←475]
G. P. de Montalk, Kahore, Kahore!
[←476]
Unquiet World, p. 300.
[←477]
Unquiet World, pp. 266–67.
[←478]
G. P. de Montalk, Text of a Resolution submitted to the General Assembly of the New European Order (Draguignan, France: The Mélissa Press, 1970).
[←479]
Stephen Dorrill, Black Shirt: Sir Oswald Mosley and British Fascism (London: Penguin, 2007), p. 596.
[←480]
G. P. de Montalk, Text of a Resolution submitted to the General Assembly of the New European Order.
[←481]
Ibid.
[←482]
Ibid. This is presumably Gen. Vjekoslav Luburić, commander of the Ustase concentration camps in Croatia during World War II. After the war, he was active in Croatian emigrant communities and founded the underground Croatian National Resistance. As Potocki insisted, Luburich was killed by an agent of UDBA, the Yugoslav secret service, Ilija Stanich, on April 20, 1969, in Carcaixent, Spain.
[←483]
Ibid.
[←484]
Unquiet World, p. 122.
[←485]
Unquiet World, p. 127.
[←486]
Unquiet World, p. 153.
[←487]
F. W. Nielsen Wright, Count Potocki de Montalk: the all time bad boy of Aotearoa letters, news of some recent developments in Potocki studies, (Wellington, New Zealand: Cultural and Political Booklets, Monograph of Aotearoa literature No. 12, 1997), p. 3. As Wright explains, both he and Potocki preferred the Maori name for New Zealand.
[←488]
Given the troglodyte nature of New Zealand academe in the social sciences this pariah status is surely an honor.
[←489]
Count Potocki de Montalk.
[←490]
Count Potocki de Montalk, p. 302.
[←491]
Count Potocki de Montalk, p. 316.
[←492]
Count Potocki de Montalk, pp. 4–5.
[←493]
Henry Scott Stokes, The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima (Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1985), p. 15.
[←494]
Stokes, p. 18.
[←495]
Ruth Benedict, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, 1946 (New York: Mariner Books, 2005).
[←496]
Stokes, p. 18.
[←497]
Evola states of this: “Every traditional civilization is characterized by the presence of beings
who, by virtue of their innate or acquired superiority over the human condition, embody within the temporal order the living and efficacious presence of a power that comes from above.” Hence, the Roman Pontifex for example, means “a builder of bridges” between the natural and the supernatural. Julius Evola, Revolt Against the Modern World (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 1995), p. 7.
[←498]
Inazo Nitobe, Bushido: The Code of the Samurai, 1899 (Sweetwater Press, 2006), p. 104.
[←499]
Nitobe, p. 105.
[←500]
Evola, p. 84.
[←501]
Nitobe, p. 59.
[←502]
Ian Buruma, Foreword, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, p. xii.
[←503]
Mishima, Confessions of a Mask (London: Peter Owen, 1960), p. 14.
[←504]
Mishima was “well versed in Nietzsche” (Stokes, p. 152).
[←505]
Stokes, p. 72.
[←506]
Stokes, p. 80.
[←507]
Stokes, p. 81.
[←508]
Stokes, p. 89.
[←509]
Stokes, p. 89.
[←510]
Stokes, p. 119.
[←511]
Stokes, p. 152.
[←512]
Mishima, Sun and Steel (London: Kodansha International, 1970), p. 49.
[←513]
During World War II.
[←514]
Mishima, Sun and Steel, p. 59.
[←515]
Mishima, “Patriotism,” Death in Midsummer and Other Stories (New Directions, 1966), p. 115.
[←516]
Stokes comments that Mishima “was a brilliant playwright, perhaps the best playwright of the post-war era in Japan. His dialogue was superb and the structure of his plays excellent.” (p. 170).
[←517]
Mishima, cited by Stokes, p. 200.
[←518]
Mishima, The Voices of the Heroic Dead, 1966.
[←519]
Stokes, p. 200.
[←520]
Sunday Mainichi, March 8, 1966.
[←521]
“Imperial Japan.”
[←522]
Stokes, p. 203.
[←523]
Stokes, p. 205.
[←524]
Queen Magazine, England, January 1970.
[←525]
Benedict, p. 21. See below.
[←526]
Comments to Stokes, p. 227.
[←527]
Kathryn Sparling, “Translator’s Note,” Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan, 1967 (New York: Basic Books, 1977), p. viii.
[←528]
Yukio Mishima on Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan, 1967 (New York: Basic Books, 1977).
[←529]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 4.
[←530]
Mishima on Hagakure, pp. 5–6.
[←531]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 6.
[←532]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 17. Jocho, Hagakure, Book One.
[←533]
Mishima on Hagakure, pp. 18–19. Jocho, Hagakure, Book One.
[←534]
Mishima on Hagakure, pp. 20–21.
[←535]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 24.
[←536]
Mishima on Hagakure, pp. 24–25.
[←537]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 27.
[←538]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 29.
[←539]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 61.
[←540]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 67. Jocho (Book One).
[←541]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 69.
[←542]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 74. Jocho (Book One).
[←543]
Oswald Spengler, The Decline of The West (London, George Allen and Unwin, 1971).
[←544]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 82.
[←545]
This refers to the entering of three progressively degenerate stages according to the Buddhist cycles of history. Mishima on Hagakure, p. 95, note 11.
[←546]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 83.
[←547]
Benedict, p. 21.
[←548]
Stokes, pp. 29–51.
[←549]
Army.
[←550]
Stokes, p. 241.
[←551]
Mishima on Hagakure, p. 46.
[←552]
Kathryn Sparling, “Translator’s Note,” p. vii.
Table of Contents
Front Matter
Cover
Title page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Forward by Greg Johnson
1. Richard Wagner
2. Aleister Crowley
3. T. S. Eliot
4. P. R. Stephensen
5. A. R. D. Fairburn
6. Count Potocki of Montalk
7. Yukio Mishima