FINAL WARNING: Introduction
governments’ plans.”On October 1, 1877, Henry Edward Manning, Cardinal Archbishop of
Westminster, said of the trouble in the Balkan States: “It is not
emperors or kings, nor princes, that direct the course of affairs in the
East. There is something else over them and behind them; and that
thing is more powerful than them.”In 1902, Pope Leo XIII wrote of this power: “It bends governments to its
will sometimes by promises, sometimes by threats. It has found its
way into every class of Society, and forms an invisible and
irresponsible power, an independent government, as it were, within the
body corporate of the lawful state.” Walter Rathenau, head of German
General Electric, said in 1909: “Three hundred men, all of whom know
one another, direct the economic destiny of Europe and choose their
successors from among themselves.”President Woodrow Wilson said in 1913: “Since I entered politics, I
have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the
biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and
manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power
somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so
complete, so pervasive that they better not speak above their breath
when they speak in condemnation of it.”John F. Hylan, mayor of New York City (1918-25), said in a March 26,
1922 speech:“...the real menace of our Republic is this invisible government
which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state
and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of
a self-created screen ... At the head of this octopus are the
Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful
banking houses generally referred to as ‘the international
bankers.’ The little coterie of powerful international bankers
virtually run the United States Government for their own selfish
purposes. They practically control both political parties.”In the December, 1922 edition of Foreign Affairs, Philip Kerr wrote:
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