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September 16, 2004
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[The following is a reprint of an article in 'The W D Gann Technical Review' written by Billy Jones on January 21, 1983.]
Gann's War Predictions
An interesting aspect of W. D. Gann’s research and studies showed his interest in wars.
The commodity and stock markets rise and fall with the beginning and ending of wars, so it is no surprise to see the research and predictions by Gann.
It is common knowledge that he foretold of the First World War, as well as the end.
An early newspaper write-up stated, “In the spring of 1918 Mr. Gann forecast the end of the war. This forecast was sent out to the newspapers throughout the country, and in January, 1919, the New York Herald and other papers gave Mr. Gann credit for forecasting the end of the war and the Kaiser’s abdication.”
In 1940, Gann put out a booklet entitled “Face Facts America! Looking ahead to 1950.”
The following is a portion of this booklet.
Face Facts America! Looking Ahead to 1950
By W. D. Gann
With the greatest war in the history of the world raging and man’s inhumanity to man the greatest that has ever been known, with the Germans ruthlessly destroying women and children and showing no mercy, it becomes the duty of everyone who can, by word, deed or act to do anything to aid the United States to protect America’s interest in the future. I write this with a desire that the truth will help because holding on to hope has ruined other countries and will ruin the United States if it is continued.
In 1927, when I wrote The Tunnel Thru the Air or Looking Back From 1940, by the use of time cycles that I have discovered through knowledge gained in reading the Bible, I foresaw what would happen and it has all come true. Unbelievable weapons of death and airplanes making five or six hundred miles per hour are being used in the war. All of these things I predicted in The Tunnel Thru The Air in 1927.
I wrote then to try and help and I write not to tell the truth to those who can and will not act. If I can wake up a few people to realize that they must do something to help save liberty and Christianity in our great country, then I will not have written in vain. I believe in God and in the law of compensation. I advise everyone to read the Book of Revelation and they will see how this terrible war was predicted. People should read the Bible more, especially the books of Solomon and Proverbs, and follow the wise counsel and try to gain knowledge.
Cause of the World’s Troubles
We must first determine the cause and not deal with effects because dealing with effects instead of causes is what has brought all the troubles to the world and to the United States. More and greater troubles will follow unless the World and the United States face facts and act before it is everlastingly too late. There are many causes for the present troubles existing throughout the world, but the greatest cause of all is greed for power and money. The Bible says that love of money is the root of all evil. Unwise leaders, ruthless and reckless politicians in their greed for power have deceived the people and this is the most important cause of all, in my opinion, of the world’s troubles.
When the World War ended in 1918, we were told that it would be the last war. This war was fought to save Democracy. Germany was disarmed and agreed to a settlement of debts and reparations. Germany’s failure to live up to these agreements and pay these debts is the cause of the war and troubles today, to Germany, Europe and the world. Germany could have paid every dollar of the World War debt. The proof of this is that Germany has spent more than forty billion dollars to prepare for war and that is why they are waging such a successful war. In 1870, when Germany won the war, she settled a debt on France of one billion dollars and France paid every dollar of it and still lives. One billion dollars in 1870 was equal to ten billion dollars in 1920. Germany, of course, worked upon the sympathy of the world and finally President Hoover declared a moratorium and Germany stopped paying her debts. From that day on, Germany started to repudiate everything and started to spend money to prepare for another war, bleeding her people white and practically enslaving them.
England and France trusted Germany and believed she would live up to the agreement and never fight again. That is where they made their mistake, hoping instead of facing facts and preparing for the worst. There is no question but that the Allies hoped, wanted and worked for peace. They know the cost and the horrors of war and wanted no more of it. Hitler, no doubt believed, once he started bluffing, he could continue to bluff and take everything he wanted. The Allies hoped and failed to prepare and the result is that they have to pay the penalty for not facing facts.
If Germany had paid her debts as she had agreed to after the end of the war and had been made to pay, then England and France could have paid the United States. Regardless of the mistakes that have been made by the Allies, the final cause of the present war and all the troubles must be laid at the door of Germany.
Why Hitler Succeeds
The reason Hitler succeeds is based on two words: Hope and fear. Hitler knowing that the German people had gone through privations and suffering during the World War promised them impossible things, raising their hopes. In this way he gained a following and ascended to power. Then, to control the people and make slaves out of them and to take from then everything they had, he worked upon their fears. In fact, no ruler who has ever lived has been more ruthless with his own people than Hitler. He has been the most supreme dictator that every lived in the history of the world and if the truth was known, he is the most hated man in Germany among the common people, but they fear him and have to submit to whatever he imposes upon them.
Hitler is not fighting for a just cause or for the benefit of the German people. He is fighting to gratify egotism and to be a world dictator. He is the kind of man who wants vengeance and wants power. Once he holds a grudge, he will resort to any means to accomplish his purpose. He hates England and would rather conquer England probably than all the rest of the world. When any man works and acts through his anger or through his hatred he fails. It is not necessary to take up time to review the history of the world to prove that this is a fact. All rulers who have tried to conquer the world and become a world power have met defeat, with the exception of Alexander. If the world had been larger at that time, he would have met the same fate as Napoleon and others.
Another reason for Hitler’s success is the fact that human nature does not change. Every twenty years a young generation comes along which is full of hope and optimism. They are hero worshippers and can be easily led. Hitler’s rise to power is due to his following by the younger generation. The older German’s have opposed Hitler’s ideas from the start. The young blood hero worshippers are following Hitler to their doom. That is why rulers and politicians can rise to power because they appeal to the imagination or the hope of the young generation who act without thinking, believe all they hear and do not seek knowledge or act accordingly to well-defined laws or plans.
Why Germany Will Lose the War
First, I will give a well-known economic reason why the Germans must lose in the end. They are fighting the fastest war in history, therefore using up food and all kinds of materials faster than ever before. They started out with a limited supply, with the expectation of that supply being greatly increased. Their hopes and expectations have not been realized and I do not believe they will. Germany is rapidly exhausting her man power as well as materials, munitions and food supplies. Hitler has gambled everything on one lightning-bolt strike. If it fails, the war is lost.
If Germany invades the Balkans, it is my opinion that Russia will turn against her. Certainly Turkey will fight on the side of the Allies and it is more than possible that Romania will. In the final analysis, Mussolini may be smart enough to join the Allies against his partner, because if Germany should win and Italy should help, Italy will get nothing. If Germany loses and Italy is on her side, she will be ruined.
It is always darkest just before the dawn. As I write on May 24, 1940, it looks bad for the Allies. But they now know that they are fighting a battle of life and death. They are fighting for liberty. If they lose, it means slavery and the worst conditions possible in the history of the world. Hitler is fighting on the same ground that Napoleon met his Waterloo. My opinion is that Hitler will meet defeat and will meet it sooner than he expects. Just as sure as retribution follows crime, by the law of compensation and God, the man who violates all the laws of God and man, always loses in the end and Hitler and Germany will lose this time. There has never been a man so smart that success did not go to his head and when he is drunk with success he makes the one fatal mistake that causes his downfall. England and France have produced some of the smartest men that have ever lived in the world. They have just as many and more men of brains today than Germany and they are now working day and night to find the way to win the war.
Should the United States Enter the War?
The reasons for the United States entering the war or helping the Allies at this time is much greater than they were in 1917. We know now and know much better than we did in 1917 that if Germany wins the war than no country on the face of the earth will be safe. Hitler and Germany will attempt to enslave and rule the world. Christianity will go and freedom will go. The will of the dictator will be law. Only God can save America if the Germans win. There is no past history or no reason to believe that if the Germans will this war and are drunk with victory that they will stop and settle down to be a peaceful nation. They are certainly going to try to conquer South America and North America. Let no one deceive himself about that. It pays to face the facts, and hope can only lead to disaster. That is why the world is in the trouble it is in today – because too many of our rulers have hoped instead of facing the facts and preparing for the worst. Whether it be in private or national affairs, the man who looks forward and sees the darkest side and prepares for it is the man who will succeed, and the nation that prepares for the worst will not have to face the worst.
It will be much cheaper for us to lend all the aid possible to the Allies now than to fight Germany alone later when all the weapons would be turned against us. We do not have to send men across the water to fight the war. Men will not help. The Allies need airplanes, tanks and food. That we can furnish them and that we should do. If we do our part in that way, the Allies will win and the world will be saved, Christianity will be saved and religion will once more be the hope of free men. We follow false prophets and unwise politicians who tell us that “it can’t happen here”; who lead us to believe that they can get us out of the worst trouble by more false promises, when we know the mess we are already in now by following the promises of the New Deal leaders and dictators. We are a peaceful nation and may not want to fight but we will be forced to fight and will have to fight alone if we do not help the Allies. Many people will argue that the Allies failed to pay their debts just the same as other nations, but it must also be recognized that this was due partly to the fact that Germany did not pay the Allies. We must blame ourselves for Germany not paying because it was the United States that declared the moratorium and gave Germany a chance to welch on her debt.
We must be fair and see both sides of the question and at this critical hour we cannot let prejudges stand in the way. If you had a neighbor who had been your enemy and his house was burning down and you knew that unless the flames were stopped your house would naturally burn up, would it not be a part of wisdom to help that enemy stop the fire that was destroying his house in order to save your own? It is the same situation today. If we don’t help the Allies put out this flame of war, it will destroy us next. There is one thing that we can be sure of – That England and France will never fight the United States. They will remain peaceful Christian nations and will help us if they can if we help them win the war. Another fact that we must face is that Germany will never change. She never has changed. She has always rebuked her debts; has always broken every promise she has made and will in the future. Therefore, the only way to play safe against Germany is to prepare to defeat her and place her in a position where she will never be a menace to the world again.
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Gann kept notes and notations in a collection of Ephemeris. These Ephemeris were bound and were ten to fifteen years to a volume. The Ephemeris were the “Raphael’s Astronomical Ephemeris of the Planets’ Places.” These books dated back to 1800 and Gann made notes in these as if he were checking certain cycles out. The year 1932 was noted several times as well as 1941 and 1945.
Day counts were made as well as squares marked such as when 2025 war days was reached Gann noted it was square of 45.
Gann noted in the 1940-1950 Ephemeris that 2074 war days had passed when Germany surrendered in May 1945 and 1335 days from December 7, 1941 to August 1945 when Japan surrendered. He also noted 44 months on August 7, 1945.
[A copy of one page of Mr. Gann’s ephemeris is reproduced at the end of this article.]
Gann kept a very large war chart in the form of a hexagon. The chart is impossible to copy in the Technical Review due to size and clarity.
He circles the wars with a red pen. (Years of wars.)
Dates go back to 1588.
After the First World War, in which he had 1914 and 1918 circled, other circled years were 1939, 1941, 1945, 1950, 1953, 1957, 1975 and a red arrow pointing to 1982-83, whatever that means.
W. D. Gann died in 1955. The last dates (after 1955) were after his death.
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