Listers: For those who didn't see this one, here is a good compilation of research quotes from Skousen's"The Naked Capitalist." This book is a rare find, retailing in paperback for upwards of $300. See below -- Judith _____________________________________ "WHO IS TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD? "I think the Communist conspiracy is merely a branch of a much bigger conspiracy!" ____________________________________________ Thus runs the first line of the publication *The Naked Capitalist, A Review and Commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley's *Tragedy and Hope,* by W. Cleon Skousen published as a private edition by the Reviewer in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1970. This book is recommended as an early but important treastee on the economic foundations and history of the New World Order from the early 1880s on. Like the Turner Diaries and The Report From Iron Mountain, this publication is a conspiracy classic, however it pulls together the economic history of the development of the Federal Reserve, a private enterprise, headed by international world bankers, especially the Rothschild's and J.P. Morgan who are pictured within it. Here is the beginning of the book with some particularly salient conspiracy quotes from it. According to the endcovers, Skousen's credentials include sixteen years with the FBI, four years as Chief of Police in Salt Lake City and ten years as editorial director of the nation's leading police magazine, Law and Order, and seven years as a university professor. It is a difficult publication to obtain, having been printed in limited editions by small offbeat presses. c Judith ABR, 1998. _____________________________________________ (Nine Pages of Significant Quotes): (Page 1) "The above statement was made to this reviewer several years ago by Dr. Bella Dodd, a former member of the National Committee of the U.S. Communist Party. ` "Perhaps this is an appropriate introduction to a review of Dr. Carroll Quigley's book, *Tragedy and Hope.* "Dr. Dodd said she first became aware of some mysterious superleadership right after World War II when the U.S. Communist Party had difficulty getting instructions from Moscow on several vital matters requiring immediate attention. The American Communist hierarchy was told that any time they had an emergency of this kind they should contact any one of three designated persons at the Waldorf Towers. Dr. Dodd noted that whenever the Party obtained instructions from any of these three men, Moscow always ratified them. "What puzzled Dr. Dodd was the fact that not one of these three contacts was a Russian. Nor were any of them Communists. In fact, all three were extremely wealthy American capitalists! "This reviewer had also observed a number of strange developments which seemed to point to a conspiratorial control center higher and stronger than either Moscow or Peiping. For example, when Harry Dexter White (Under-Secretary of the U.S. Treasury during World War II) was discovered by the FBI to be a Soviet agent, the White House was immediately informed. But instead of being fired or arrested, Harry Dexter White was appointed as the new Executive Director of the U.S. Mission to the International Monetary Fund of the United Nations. He was also given a substantial increase in salary, J. Edgar Hoover was amazed. Attorney General Herbert Brinell, Jr. stated publicly that President Truman knew White was a Soviet spy when he made the appointment. (Quigley, *Tragedy and Hope,* p. 991). "Why would men in charge of the world's massive financial problems want an exposed Soviet agent such as Harry Dexter White to occupy such a highly important position in the World Bank? And why in the name of common sense would the President of the United States approve of such a thing? I heard both Congressmen and intelligent officers quizzically exclaiming, "What's going on?" "It was not long after this that the former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board began advocating economic aid and comfort to Communist China. His speech was all the more shocking because the American people had just been jolted by a Congressional hearing in which it had been shown with sworn testimony that the U.S. State Department had either recklessly allowed or deliberately propelled six leaders. Nevertheless, here was this American capitalist (and former chairman of the Federal Reserve Board) telling a large meeting (where the reviewer was present) that the United States should immediately undertake extensive trade with Red China. Said he, "We never fight the people we trade with." I thought to myself, "Well, we certainly had to fight Japan in spite of all the oil and scrap iron we sold her just before World War II." It did not seem possible that this famous international banker would have forgotten such an elementary lesson so quickly. "A couple of years later, while visiting Central and South America, I noticed that certain well-known American bank were extremely powerful in controlling the politics and economic affairs of many Latin American countries. But what was baffling about it was the fact that the political regimes which these American banks supported were often virtual dictators who promoted socialism and engaged in the confiscation of privately-owned industries, including American industries. Many of these bank-sponsored regimes were also openly pro-Communist. (...) "Politics in Washington were equally puzzling. Why were so many top government officials always members of the Democratic Socialist cadre called Americans for Democratic Action (ADA) or where members of the exclusive Council on Foreign Relations? Whether the President was Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson or Nixon, it seemed to make no difference. There was often a change of personalities, but membership in these two organizations seemed a prerequisite for many top government jobs. "Another puzzle was the fact that whenever the political blunders of these high-powered people aroused the anger of the public, they were not only allowed to quietly resign, but were given extremely lucrative outside jobs, usually in one of the tax-exempt foundations. It didn't look like government "of the people" but government by certain people. "I was reminded of the words of Benjamin Disraeli: "The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are NOT behind the scenes." I began to wonder if there might be something to the British Intelligence Digest reports which claimed that there is a small but powerful control group behind the scenes which is extremely influential in manipulating world events. The Digest seemed to have inside contacts with this group and therefore avoided identifying them by name. It simply referred to the control center as "Force X." "Professional investigators of criminal conspiracies will tell you that no matter how carefully these conspiracies are organized, they do not remain secret for long because eventually somebody on the inside becomes dissatisfied or abused and goes to the authorities with facts which can be independently verified. Political conspiracies also have a way of reaching the public, because someone on the inside is willing to tell the story. I have waited for thirty years for somebody on the inside of the modern political power structure to talk. At last, somebody has. (Page 4) DR. CARROLL QUIGLEY WRITES A BOOK ON THE WORLD'S SECRET POWER STRUCTURE "Dr. Carroll Quigley is a professor of history at the Foreign Service School of Georgetown University. He formerly taught at Princeton and Harvard. He has done research in the archives of France, Italy, and England. He is the author of the widely known text, *Evolution of Civilizations.* "When Dr. Quigley decided to write his 1,300 page book called *Tragedy and Hope,* he knew he was deliberately exposing one of the best kept secrets in the world. As one of the elite "insiders," he knew the scope of this power complex and he knew that its leaders hope to eventually attain total global control. Furthermore, Dr. Quigley makes it clear throughout the book that by and large he warmly supports the goals and purposes of the "network." But if that is the case, why would he want to expose this world-wide conspiracy and disclose many of its most secret operations? Obviously, disclosing the existence of a mammoth power network which is trying to take over the world could not help but arouse the vigorous resistance of the millions of people who are its intended victims. So why did Dr. Quigley write this book? (Page 5) "His answer appears in a number of places but is especially forceful and clear on pages 979-980. He says, in effect, that it is now too late for the little people to turn back the tide. In a spirit of kindness he is therefore urging them not to fight the noose which is already around their necks. He feels certain that those who do will only choke themselves to death. On the other hand, those who go along with the immense pressure which is beginning to be felt by all humanity will eventually find themselves in a man-made millennium of peace and prosperity. All through his book, Dr. Quigley assures us that we can trust these benevolent, well-meaning men who are secretly operating behind the scenes. THEY are the *hope* of the world. All who resist them represent *tragedy.* Hence, the title for his book. (...) "Anyone reading Dr. Quigley's *Tragedy and Hope* will have little difficulty detecting the tremendous self-esteem of the author. He considers himself not only an "insider" but a member of the intellectual elite among the insiders. (...) He expresses the utmost contempt for members of the American middle class who think they can preserve what he calls their "petty-bourgeois" property rights and constitutional privileges. "He also expresses contempt for those who thought the Communist conspiracy was the real center of collectivized conspiracy. He ridicules their conclusions (p. 949) and then turns right around and admits that their conclusions were correct -- American anti-Communists had merely erred in knowing who to blame. (pp. 950-956) (...) (Page 6) "The real value of *Tragedy and Hope* is not so much as a "history of the world in our time" (as its subtitle suggests), but rather as a bold and boastful admission by Dr. Quigley that there actually exists a relatively small but powerful group which has succeeded in acquiring a choke-hold on the affairs of practically the entire human race. "Of course, we should be quick to recognize that no small group could wield such gigantic power unless millions of people in all walks of life were "in on the take"and were willing to knuckle down to the iron-clad regimentation of the ruthless bosses behind the scenes. As we shall see, the network has succeeded in building its power structure by using tremendous quantities of money (together with the vast influence it buys) to manipulate, intimidate, or corrupt millions of men and women and their institutions on a world-wide basis. PERHAPS WE SHOULD HAVE ANTICIPATED JUST SUCH A DEVELOPMENT "Anyone familiar with the writings of John's Apocalypse might have suspected that modern history would eventually contain the account of a gigantic complex of political and economic power which would cover the whole earth. "John predicted that before the great epic of Messianic or Millennial peace, the human race would be subjected to a ruthless, world-wide conglomerate of dictatorial authority which would attempt to make all men subservient to it or be killed (Rev. 13:15). He said it would compel all men, "both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond," to be identified with it (Rec. 13:16). "John also referred to its economic grip on humanity and said that unless a person were identified with its monopoly network, "no man might buy or sell." (Rev. 13"17). Dr. Quigley assures us that this type of global power structure is on the verge of becoming a total reality. He points out that during the past two centuries when the peoples of the world were gradually winning their political freedom from the dynastic monarchies, the major banking families of Europe and America were actually reversing the trend by setting up new dynasties of political control through the formation of international financial combines. (...) (Page 7) "Dr. Quigley points out that these banking dynasties had learned that all governments must have sources of revenue from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned from which to borrow in times of emergency. They had also learned that by providing such funds from their own private resources, they could make both kings and democratic leaders tremendously subservient to their will. It had proven to be a most effective means of controlled political appointments and deciding political issues. (...) THE BANKER FAMILIES DEVELOP A VAST NETWORK TO CONTROL HIGH FINANCE AND THE AFFAIRS OF GOVERNMENTS "In time they bought into their financial network the provincial banking centers, organized as commercial banks and savings banks, as well as insurance companies, to form all of these into a single financial system on an international scale which manipulated the quantity and flow of money so that they were able to influence, if not control, governments on one side and industries on the other. The men who did this...aspired to establish dynasties of international bankers and were at least as successful at this as were many of the dynastic political rulers." (p. 51) INTRODUCING SOME OF THE MAJOR BANKING FAMILY DYNASTIES: "The greatest of these dynasties, of course, were the descendants of Meyer Amschel Rothschild (1743 - 1812) of Frankfort, whose male descendants, for at least two generations, generally married first cousins or even nieces. Rothschild's five sons, established at branches in Vienna, London, Naples, and Paris, as well as Frankfort, cooperated together in ways which other international banking dynasties copied but rarely excelled... "The names of some of these [other] banking families are familiar to all of us and should be more so. They include Baring, Lazard, Erlinger, Warburg, Schroder, Silingman, the Speyers, Mirabaud, Mallet, Fould, and above all Rothschild and Morgan." (pp. 51- 52) (Page 8) WAS THIS A JEWISH CONSPIRACY? (A note by the reviewer) It should be noted in passing that while the Rothschilds and certain other Jewish families cooperated together in these ventures this was by no means a Jewish monopoly as some have alleged. Neither was it a "Jewish conspiracy." As we shall see, men of finance of many nationalities and many religions or non-religious backgrounds and political power which Dr. Quigley is about to disclose. No student of the global conspiracy should fall for the Hitlerian doctrine that the root of all evil is a super "Jewish conspiracy." Nor should they fall for the long since discredited document, *The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion,* which Hitler palmed off on the German people as an authentic declaration of policy by an all-Jewish congress. The spurious origin of this document was proven decades ago and serves as an object lesson to those who are inclined to accept an over-simplified explanation for the rise of the global power structure which has snared mankind. (...) In studying the global conspiracy it is important to keep in mind that it was not any particular race or religion but the "passion for money and power" which has drawn the tycoons of world finance into a tightly-knit mutual-aid society. Dr. Quigley identifies this group as the "International Bankers." THE INTERNATIONAL BANKERS ARE DIFFERENT FROM ORDINARY BANKERS: ""...they remained different from ordinary bankers in distinctive ways: 1) they were cosmopolitan and international, 2) they were close to governments and were particularly concerned with questions of government debts...3) their interests were almost exclusively in bonds and very rarely in goods...4) they were, accordingly, fanatical devotees of deflation...5) they were almost equally devoted to secrecy and the secret use of financial influence in political life. These bankers came to be called "international bankers," and more particularly were known as "merchant bankers" in England, "private bankers" in France and "investment bankers" in the United States. In all countries they carried on various kinds of banking and exchange activities, but everywhere they were sharply distinguishable from other, more obvious kinds of banks, such as savings banks or commercial banks." (p. 52) (Page 9) ""...Thus, people of considerable political knowledge might not associate the names of Walter Burns, Clinton Dawkins, Edward Grenfell, Willard Straight, Thomas Lamont, Dwight Morrow, Nelson Perkins, Russell Leffingwell, Elihu Root, John W. Davis, John Foster Dulles, and S. Park Gilbert with the name "Morgan," yet all centered on the J. P. Morgan office at 23 Wall Street. This firm, like others of the international banking fraternity, constantly operated through corporations and governments..." (pp. 52-53). THE CAMPAIGN TO KEEP GOVERNMENTS FROM CONTROLLING THEIR OWN MONEY SYSTEMS: "Both of these were based on the assumption that politicians were too weak and too subject to temporary popular pressures to be trusted with control of the money system...To do this it was necessary to conceal, or even to mislead, both governments and people about the nature of money and its methods of operations." (p. 53) (Page 10) THE ROTHSCHILDS -- ONE OF THE OLDEST BANKING DYNASTIES The founder of the famous Rothschild dynasty was Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812) of Frankfurt, Germany. Although destined originally to be a rabbi, he became highly successful in a number of commercial pursuits and eventually established his famous banking house in Frankfurt with his five sons. Four of these sons were later sent to Vienna, London, Paris, and Naples, to set up branches of their family bank. This combine soon became the most powerful banking establishment in Europe. THE PRIVATE BANKERS DECIDE TO SET UP THE BANK OF ENGLAND AS A MEANS OF CREATING CREDIT OUT OF NOTHING ""...In effect, this creation of paper claims greater than the reserves available means that bankers were creating money out of nothing. The same thing could be done another way...Deposit bankers discovered that orders and checks drawn against DEPOSITS by depositors and given to a third person were often not cashed by the latter but were deposited to their own accounts. Thus there were no actual movements of funds, and payments were made simply by bookkeeping transactions on the accounts. Accordingly, it was necessary for the banker to keep on hand in actual money (gold, certificates, and notes) no more than the fraction of deposits likely to be drawn upon and cashed: the rest could be used for loans, and if these loans were made by creating a deposit [account] for the borrower, who in turn would draw checks upon it rather than withdraw it in money, such "created deposits" or loans could also be covered adequately by retaining reserves to only a FRACTION of their value. Such created deposits also were a creation of money out of nothing, although bankers usually refused to express their actions, either note issuing or deposit lending, in these terms, William Paterson, however, on obtaining the charter of the Bank of England in 1694, to use the moneys he had won in privateering, said, "The bank hath benefit of interest on all moneys which it creates out of nothing." (pp. 48 - 49) (Page 14) "The structure of financial controls created by the tycoons of "Big Banking" and "Big Business" in the period 1880-1933 was of extraordinary complexity, one business fief being built on another both being allied with semi-independent associates, the whole rearing upward not two pinnacles of economic and financial power, of which one, centered in New York, was headed by J.P. Morgan and Co., and the other, in Ohio, was headed by the Rockefeller family. When these two cooperated, as they generally did, they could influence the economic life of the country to a large degree and could almost control its political life, at least on the Federal level." (pp. 71-72) "...The influence of these business leaders was so great that the Morgan and Rockefeller groups acting together, or even Morgan acting alone, could have wrecked the economic system of the country..." (p. 72) (Page 21) ...It was December 22, 1913, that the Federal Reserve Act passed the House of Representatives by a vote of 298 to 60 and the Senate passed it by a majority of 43 to 25. (...) The operation of the Federal Reserve System is one of the most interesting and mysterious combines in the country. Since it was founded in 1913 it has successfully resisted every attempt to conduct an audit of its affairs. The system consists of 12 "National Banks" but the only one of any significance is the one in New York. The New York bank has always been managed by someone completely congenial to the interests of the international bankers. It is important to realize that the Federal Reserve System is not a bona fide Government agency. Technically the stock is owned by the 12 National Banks which receive a dividend of six percent each year. Any profits from the System are supposed to be turned over to the U.S. Treasury. In fact, the President appoints the seven members of the Federal Reserve Board for fourteen year terms, but in spite of all this window dressing the FRB is completely independent in its decisions. (Page 24) "There is a growing volume of evidence that the highest centers of political and economic power have been forcing the entire human race toward a global, socialist, dictatorial-oriented society. And what has been most baffling about it has been the fact that this drift toward dictatorship with its inevitable obliteration of a thousand yours of struggle toward human freedom, is being plotted, promoted and implemented by the leaders of free nations and the super-rich of those nations whose positions of affluence would seem to make them the foremost beneficiaries of the free-enterprise, property-oriented, open society in which so much progress has been made... ...Dr. Quigley prides himself in being a member of this secret power group which is identified with the international jet-set of super-rich banking dynasties....He therefore undertakes to show who has been largely responsible for the massive movement toward the collectivizing of power on the Socialist-Communist Left during the past fifty to seventy-five years...It began with the ideological conquest of some important people's minds. END>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
