International Banking and the Capitalist Conspiracy

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[size="4"][color="#008080"]Part VI [/color][/size][size="4"][color="#008080"][size="2"](of XIII)[/size][/color][/size][size="4"][color="#008080"] [/color][/size]– [size="2"]adapted transcript of The Capitalist Conspiracy (by G. Edward Griffin), a 1969 documentary[/size]

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[size="2"]Lord Alfred Milner, Governor-

General and High Commissioner

of South Africa. fell heir to the

leadership of Cecil Rhode's secret

society. Under Milner's direction,

it became a dominant force in

British imperial and foreign affairs.

Later it formed semi-secret groups

in many other countries including

the United States.[/size][/floatright]After the death of Cecil Rhodes, the inner core of his secret society fell to the hands of Lord Alfred Milner, Governor-General and High Commissioner of South Africa. As director of a number of public banks and corporate precursor of England's Midland Bank, he became one of greatest political and financial powers in the world. Milner recruited into his secret society a group of young men chiefly from Oxford and Toynbee Hall and, according to Quigley:

[indent]Through his influence these men were able to win influential posts in government and international finance and became the dominant influence in British imperial and foreign affairs up to 1939. Under Milner in South Africa, they were known as Milner's Kindergarten until 1910. In 1909-1913, they organized semi-secret groups, known as Round Table Groups, in the chief British dependencies and the United States.

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The Round Table Group in the United States promptly created an external organization known as the CFR, the Council on Foreign Relations. Its is through the organizational ring and then outward through tax-exempt foundations, universities, and government agencies that the international capitalist conspiracy has dominated the domestic and foreign policies of the United States for over fifty years. And lest there is any doubt as to who is behind the CFR, Dr. Quigley tells us bluntly:

[indent]In New York it was known as the Council on Foreign Relations, and was a front for J.P. Morgan and Company in association with the very small American Round Table Group.

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The CFR building is located on the west side of fashionable Park Avenue in New York. Although it definitely is not the center of the conspiracy, and although practically none of its members are aware of an inner control, nevertheless, it is semi-secret in its operation. It shuns publicity, and members are sworn not to disclose to the public the proceedings of its conferences and briefings. It has a formal membership of 400 elite personalities.



In Harpers magazine for July, 1958, there is an article entitled "School for Statesmen," written by CFR member Joseph Kraft. Kraft revealed that one of the chief architects for the CFR was none other than "Colonel" Edward Mandel House. Boasting of how the Council had succeeded in penetrating the Executive Branch of the Federal Government even before World War II, Kraft wrote:

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[size="2"]Secretary of State Stettinius (CFR member) holds up first

draft of UN charter before the steering committee at San

Francisco, June 21, 1945. At center is acting UN Secretary

General Alger Hiss (also CFR member). At right is Andrei

Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador and head of the U.S.S.R.

delegation. It is a sobering fact that the UN was created

predominantly by CFR members and Communists. Alger

Hiss was both. Their common goal is world government.[/size][/floatright]

[indent]With the coming of hostilities, the Council's assembled pool of talent and information came into sudden and dramatic play. Stimson went to Washington as Secretary of War, taking with him the small nucleus of men, many unknown then, who were to found this country's modern defense establishment.



"Whenever we needed a man," John McCloy, the present Council chairman who served Stimson as personnel chief, recalls, "we thumbed through the roll of Council members and put through a call to New York."



At least as important, the Council provided for the U.S. government the first organized framework for postwar planning. Less than a fortnight after the guns began pounding in Europe, and a full two years before Pearl Harbor, Armstrong and the Council's executive director, Walter Mallory, journeyed to Washington with a proposition. State lacked the appropriations to set up a planning division; Congress was bearish about any official move that hinted at U.S. intervention; there was a danger that, if it finally did get going with a sudden jolt, postwar planning might be out of the hands of State. Why not, they asked, let the Council begin the work, privately, with the understanding that its apparatus would be turned over to the State as soon as feasible?



Secretary Hull was in favor. Accordingly, in December 1939, the Council, with financial aid from the Rockefeller Foundation, established four separate planning groups – Security and Armaments; Economic and Financial; Political; Territorial – comprising about a dozen men each including research secretaries of the highest caliber (Jacob Viner of Princeton and Alvin Hansen of Harvard in the economic group, for example). A fifth group was added in 1941 to consider the problems of the exiled governments of the occupied European countries which the State Department, because the United States was neutral, had to treat gingerly. In 1942. the whole apparatus with most of the personnel was taken into the State Department as the nub of its Advisory Committee on Postwar Planning Problems ...



It appears that Council studies played a considerable part in shaping the Charter of the United Nations.

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[size="2"]A dramatic moment in history. Alger Hiss (standing right) comes face-to-face with Whittaker

Chambers (standing left). Chambers, a former Communist and spy courier, is the man who

identified Hiss as a member of the Party. Robert Stripling, Chief Investigator for the House

Committee on un-American Activities, is pointing at Chambers. Because of this exposure,

Hiss the Communist is now far better known than Hiss the CFR member. Yet it is that latter

connection that undoubtedly opened many doors of government to him and was responsible

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That, of course, is a classic understatement. It is significant to recall that Alger Hiss, identified as a Communist agent by former Communist Whittaker Chambers, was one of those members of the CFR who was drafted into the State Department. His CFR connections had already earned him the position of special attorney for the Justice Department and Trustee for the Carnegie Endowment Fund for International Peace. Once in the State Department, he became Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs and was in charge of all postwar planning, most of which directly involved the creation of the United Nations.



At the San Francisco Conference, Alger Hiss was the chief planner and executive for the whole affair. He organized the American delegation and was acting Secretary-General. Visitors passes bore his signature. He also served on the steering and executive committees which were charged with the responsibility of actually writing the UN Charter. At the conclusion of the Conference, Alger Hiss personally carried the freshly written document back to Washington by plane for Senate ratification.



While Alger Hiss the Communist is now well known, Alger Hiss the CFR member is not. Yet, the latter connection was just as important – perhaps more so – for opening doors of government service to him and for his meteoric success



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