FINAL WARNING: The Council on Foreign Relations
From 1919-1927, there was an Institute of International Affairs started
to cover all the Round Table Groups in the British dependencies, and
the United States (where it is known as the Council on Foreign
Relations), which was a front for J. P. Morgan and Company who
controlled a small American Round Table Group. They were funded by
Sir Abe Bailey and the Astor Family. Today you’ll find the Institut des
Relations Internationales in Belgium, the Institute for International
Affairs in the Netherlands, the Institute for International Affairs in
Rome, the Norwegian Institute for Foreign Affairs, the French Institute
of International Relations, the Australian Institute of International
Affairs, and many others.
In June, 2002, the former royal butler, Paul Burrell, revealed to the
Daily Mirror in London, that Queen Elizabeth II told him: “There are
powers at work in this country about which we have no knowledge.”
THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS
In the spring of 1918, a group of people met at the Metropolitan Club in
New York City to form the Council on Foreign Relations. The group
was made up of “high-ranking officers of banking, manufacturing,
trading, and finance companies, together with many lawyers ...
concerned primarily with the effect that the war and the treaty of peace
might have on post-war business.” The honorary Chairman was Elihu
Root, a Wall Street lawyer, former New York Senator, former Secretary
of War under McKinley, former Secretary of State under Theodore
Roosevelt, member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1912), and the most recognized
Republican of his time. From June, 1918 to April, 1919, they held a
series of dinner meetings on a variety of international matters, but
soon disbanded.
In the fall of 1917, a group called ‘The Inquiry’ was assembled by Col.
Edward M. House to negotiate solutions for the Paris Peace
Conference in Versailles. They worked out of the American
Geographical Society doing historical research, and writing position
papers. The Inquiry was formed around the inner circle of the
Intercollegiate Socialist Society, which was a group of American