When I researched Churchill's Secret Enemy back in 2003, I visited the
National Archives (Public Record Office as it was then) and looked at
the declassified MI5 file for Right Club Leader Archibald Ramsay. It
contained a list of 224 names of Right Club members. I knew that
Joseph Ball had secretly met with Archibald Ramsay in June 1939 at the
Conservative Carlton Club to discuss Ramsay's fears of a Judeo-Masonic
plot against Ball's patron and confidant Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain. Ball submitted a report of the meeting to MI5 but left out
an information relating to the associated Right Club organisation the
Nordic League. Ball has long been suspected as a member of the Right
Club and I was surprised to see that when the Weiner Library published a
list of the Right Club members contained in the infamous Red Book, a
Ball, JP was listed as the 115th member of the anti-semitic club,
following member 114 Ainslee Tait and before member 116 Mr Shipman. On
the MI5 list held at Kew , the 115th member was Mr Shipman, following Mr
Ainslee Tait, any mention of a Mr Ball was omitted.
A strange
cover-up considering that it is probable that Mr JP Ball was not MI5's
Sir Joseph Ball but actually Charles JP Ball Stockbroker and member of
the Anglo-German Fellowship.
Sir Joseph was far too cany to
have his name on the list, instead he kept himself informed by his Right
Club representatives Ramsay and Mrs Newnham, wife of his editor Henry
Newnham who met with other Far Right Leaders including Ramsay and Mosley
secretly in 1939 and 1940.
Curious cover-up but MI5 have very little to say about Ball and with good reason.
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