12th May 2012
For the attention of
Sir Stephen Lamport, Receiver General &
The Very Reverend Dean of Westminster
Dr. J.H. Hall
The Chapter Office, 20 Deans Yard,
Westminster, London SW1P 3PA
Copies to
Her Majesty the Queen
& National Newspapers
Dear Sirs,
PRIME MINISTER EDWARD HEATH &
DACHAU CONCENTRATION CAMP MEMORIAL
I thank you for your letter in reply to mine of 4th April. Your letter is a copy of a circular posted to those who oppose a Heath memorial in Westminster Abbey, and makes no attempt to address the powerful reasons for opposition to this memorial.
May I request that you pay more attention to this, my letter, in that it provides in the closing paragraphs even more compelling evidence of Heath’s chicanery.
Upon hearing about the Heath memorial, my first thoughts were that is was a well-meaning and ill-judged decision by the Church of England just as certain Bishops naively allowed themselves to front the Constitutional Conventions that were the forerunners of the attempted break up of England into nine EU Regional Assemblies. However knowing that the Abbey whilst part of the Church of England, is independent of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London, the Dean of Westminster therefore being responsible to Her Majesty carries responsibility for this perverse decision.
You have given as justification that after looking “rigorously”, it remains your “firm view” that it is fitting to provide a memorial to those “who dedicated their lives to the service of Britain”.
In looking rigorously at the life of Heath, even if you were unaware of deception beforehand, the letters you are receiving chronicle evidence that has come to light after the 30 years rule to add to what was already well known and proven during media interviews, the memories and records of Members of Parliament during the late 1960s and early 1970s and by Heath’s own admissions. It is unnecessary in this letter to go over in detail the same evidence already provided to you except to single out the admirable research conducted by ex-Magistrate Mrs Anne Palmer in her letter to you dated 30th April quoting from Hansard.
It would appear that you are prepared to turn a blind eye to the deceit practised by Heath in order to mislead the British people into and under the foreign jurisdiction of what the Schuman Declaration described as a common “Higher Authority” in defiance of our Constitution and his Oath of Allegiance to the Crown.
I have before me the order of “A Service for Europe Day to mark the 60th Anniversary of the Schuman Declaration” that took place in Westminster Abbey on Sunday 9th May 2010 at 6.30pm in which homage was paid to the European Union. Laurence Auer, Cultural Counsellor and Director of the French Institute representing the Ambassador of France read from the Great Pulpit an extract from the Schuman Declaration which, translated from the French, reads “Europe will not be made all at once, or according to a single plan. The coming together of the nations of Europe requires the elimination of the age-old opposition of France and Germany. Any action must in the first place concern those two countries……..production of coal and steel as a whole be placed under a common High Authority, within the framework of an organisation open to participation of the other countries of Europe”. The High Authority was the precursor of the fraud ridden i.e.Santer, European Union Commission that even Lords Bishop now recognise as continuing to have a “democratic deficit”. When Edward Heath became Prime Minister, he did not have a mandate to do what he did. The British people were not asked whether or not they wished to join. The terms of entry were concealed to Parliament.
Later in the Europe Day service, in the Act of Commitment, Pascal Gregoire, First Secretary, representing the Ambassador of Belgium, asked all present to say, “Lord God our Father, we affirm our commitment to the European Union” following which the Anthem of the European Union was played, the European Union flag advertisement was returned to its escort and borne from the Abbey.
One wonders at any motive other than you say that memorials to Prime Ministers during the second half of the twentieth century have not been installed since the 1950s. Your letter to me dated 30th April in reply to my FOI enquiry signed by your Deputy Receiver General confirms that the Abbey has not received any funds or grants from the European Union but stops short of confirming that it has not applied in connection with your 2020 Vision. Nor does it comment on any connections currying favour with other EU institutions. Whatever the motive for the proposed memorial, it flies in the face of the conclusion that at the very least, the Heath government’s campaign to get Britain to join the EEC was unethical, and blatantly dishonest. Why should Christians condone such behaviour? Why bring the Abbey into disrepute? If entry into the EEC was best for Britain why was it not done with honesty rather than subterfuge?
The 1971 Foreign and Commonwealth report to Heath (FCO 30/1048) discussed the implications for Britain’s national sovereignty. It dismissed the concept of sovereignty as an irrelevant idea with no real meaning. The report spoke of the supremacy of the European Court over British courts and plans for economic and monetary union. It acknowledged that entry into the EEC would be unpopular with the British people. To deal with that unpopularity the report recommended and in the light of subsequent events, was accepted that “there would be a major responsibility on Her Majesty’s Government not to exacerbate public concern by attributing unpopular measures or unfavourable economic developments to the remote and unmanageable workings of the Community”. Heath did not have a mandate to do what he did and it is to his ever-lasting shame that he proceeded by concealing the truth.
Before it is too late, I ask you to reconsider your decision and I give you one more compelling reason. Since sitting in the Stranger’s Gallery during the evening of the second reading on 17th February 1972, worried about the future for my children and others, and suspecting the damage that would befall our country and industries that would follow, I have campaigned for a trading alliance with our European neighbours but not political integration and subjugation.
In my records, I have one of the most damning reasons why a memorial should not be allowed to sully Westminster Abbey and the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior memorialising the thousands of our people and our allies who were killed fighting to free Europe from dictatorship.
On Sunday 7th April 2002, the Sunday Telegraph published a report headed “Why the Heath Cabinet rejected Dachau pleas”. It was reported , “Edward Heath’s Government refused to support plans to preserve Dachau concentration camp as a Holocaust memorial because “it did not wish to do anything to offend German sensibilities”, fearing that Germany would block Britain’s entry into the Common Market. A Foreign Office memo from 1970 details how Mr. de Koster, the then Dutch foreign affairs minister and a former Resistance fighter attempted to secure the backing of Geoffrey Rippon the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster who was also Heath’s chief European negotiator and one of his closest allies. The reply was, “the last thing we wanted was to antagonise the Germans in the present and delicate and difficult negotiations”. Her Majesty’s Government refused to speak out. The disclosure infuriated Holocaust campaigners. Zoe Polanska Palmer who was interned in Dachau when she was 13 years old said, “The attitude of the Heath government was an absolute disgrace. There is no excuse for burying history. Mr. Heath clearly did not understand that there are things more important than the Common Market”. Dachau, 10 miles south of Munich, occupied a special role in the concentration camp system. Established in 1933 it was the first to be under the direct supervision of Heinrich Himmler, the architect of Hitler’s Final Solution to the extermination of the Jewish people. More than 200,000 people were held at the camp, of whom 32,000 were murdered.
When approached by the Sunday Telegraph, Edward Heath declined to comment on the matter.
This is the man you intend to commemorate in Westminster Abbey. If the Abbey stands for another 1,400 years, your names will be remembered for allowing this memorial to be installed especially at a time of civil unrest, demonstrations and riots, growing signs of European disunity predicted by so many in the early 1970s. No wonder 301 Members of Parliament voted to stay out of the EEC on 17th February 1973 outvoted by a paltry majority of 8 MPs.
I ask you to reconsider and reply to the points I have raised and reply to my letter without recourse to another brief circular.
Yours sincerely,
George West
President, Campaign for an Independent Britain
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