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NONE DARE CALL IT
CONSPIRACY
by Gary Allen,
1971
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Originally published by Concord
Press
P.O. BOX
2686
Seal Beach, Calif.
90740
...
........
This act (the Federal Reserve
Act)
establishes the most gigantic trust on
Earth...
When the President signs this
act, the invisible
government by the money power, proven to
exist by the Money Trust
Investigation,
will be
legalized...
The new law will create
inflation
whenever the trusts want
inflation..."
Congressman Charles A. Lindbergh
Sr.
December,
1913
"IN THE UNITED STATES
TODAY
WE HAVE IN EFFECT TWO
GOVERNMENTS...
We have the duly constituted
government...
Then we have an
independent,
uncontrolled and uncoordinated
government
in the Federal Reserve
System,
operating the money
powers
reserved to Congress by the
Constitution."
- Congressman Wright
Patman, (former)
Chairman of the House Banking
Committee
........ "Those that create
and issue the money and
credit
direct the policies of
government
and hold in their
hands
the destiny of the
people."
Reginald McKenna, (former) president of the
Midlands Bank of
England.
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Chapter
3
The Money Manipulators
Many college history
professors tell their charges that the books
they will be using in the class are "objective". But
stop and ask yourself: Is it possible to write a history book without
a particular point of view? There are billions of events
that take place in the world each day. To
think of writing a complete history of
a nation covering even a year is to
entertain a fantastic conceit. Not only
is a historian's ability to write an
"objective" history limited by the sheer volume of happenings but by
the fact that many of the most important happenings
never appear in the papers or even in somebody's memoirs.
The decisions reached by the "big boys" in the smoke-filled rooms are
not reported in even the New York Times, which ostensibly
reports all the news that's fit to print.
("All the news that fits" is a
more accurate desription.) In order to build his
case, a historian must select a miniscule number of facts from
the limited number that are known. If he does not have a
"theory", how does he separate important facts
from unimportant ones? As Professor Stuart Crane has pointed out,
this is why every book "proves" its author's theory. But
no book is objective. No book can be objective
and this book (NDCC) is not objective. The
information in it is true, but the book is
not objective. We have carefully selected the
facts to prove our case... Most of
the facts that we bring out are readily verifiable
at any large library. But our contention is that we
have arranged these facts in the order that most accurately
reflects their true significance in history. These are the
facts as the Establishment does not want you to know them.
Have you ever had the experience of walking into a mystery
movie two-thirds of the way through? Confusing,
was'nt it? All the evidence made it look as though
the butler were the murderer, but in the final scenes you find
out that, surprisingly, it was the man's wife
all along. You have to stay and see the beginning of the
film. Then, as all the pieces fall into place, the story
makes sense. This situation is similar to one
millions of Americans find themselves in
today. They are confused by current happenings in the
nation. They have come in as the movie, so to speak, is
going into its conclusion. The earlier portion of the mystery is
needed to make the whole thing understandable.
(Actually, we are not really starting at the
beginning, but we are going back far enough to give meaning to today's
happenings.) In order to
understand the conspiracy (to
usurp the constitutional right of governments to coin
money so as to force these governments to borrow money with
usury [interest]), it is neccesary to
have some rudimentary knowledge of banking
and, particularly, of international bankers. While it would be an
over- simplification to ascribe the
entire conspiracy to
the international bankers, they nevertheless have played the key
role. Think of the (world) conspiracy as a hand with one finger
labeled "international banking", others labelled
"charity foundations" (i.e. Ford, Carnegie,
Rockefeller Foundations, etc.), the "anti- religion movement",
"Fabian Socialism", and "Communism". But it was the
International Bankers of whom Professor Carroll Quigly (of the Foreign
Service School at Georgetown University) was speaking when
we quoted him earlier (in this book) as stating that
THEIR AIM IS NOTHING LESS THAN CONTROL OF THE WORLD
THROUGH FINANCE. (Professor Quigly does not see anything harmful
in this(!), only objects to the secrecy with which
these aims are cloaked. Hence his book, a 1300 hundred
page, 8 pound tome, Tragedy and Hope.) Where do governments get
the enormous amount of money they need? Most of course comes from
taxation; but governments often spend more than they
are willing to tax from their citizens and so are forced
to borrow. Our national (U.S.) debt is now
(1974) 455 billion dollars - every cent of it
borrowed at interest from somewhere.
The public is led to believe that our government borrows
from "the people" through savings bonds. Actually,
however, only a small percentage of the national debt
is held by individuals in this form. Most
government bonds, except those held by
the government itself through its trust funds,
are held by vast banking firms known as international
banks . For centuries there has
been big money to be made
by international bankers in the financing of governments
and kings. Such operators, however, are faced with
certain thorny problems. We know that smaller banking
operations protect themselves by taking
collateral, but what kind of collateral can you get from
a government or a king?. What if the banker comes to collect and
the king says, "Off with his head!" The process
through which one collects a debt from a government
or a monarch is not a subject taught in the business
schools of our universities, and most of us - having never
been in the business of lending money to kings - have not
given the problem much thought. But there is a
king- financing business, and to those who can ensure collection
it is lucrative indeed. Economics professor Stuart
Crane notes that there are two means used to collateralize loans
to governments and kings. Whenever a business firm
borrows big money its creditor obtains a voice
in management to protect his
investment. Like a business,
no government can borrow big money unless willing to surrender to
the creditor some measure of sovereignty as
collateral. Certainly, international bankers who have
loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to
governments around the world command
considerable influence in the policies of such goverments.
But the ultimate advantage that the creditor
has over the government or ruler is the threat that
if the borrower steps out of line the banker can
finance an enemy or rival and can even create an
enemy by such means. Therefore, if you want to stay
in the king-financing business, it is wise to have an
enemy or a rival waiting in the wings to unseat every ruler
to whom you lend. If the king does'nt have an enemy, you must create
one. Pre-eminent in playing this game
was the famous House of Rothschild
(German for Redshield, a name adopted by this
family for the red shield over the front door
of their house). Its founder, Meyer
Amschel Rothschild (1743-1812) of
Frankfurt, Germany, kept one of his five sons at home to
run the Frankfurt bank, and sent the others to Paris, London,
Vienna and Naples. The Rothschilds became incredibly
wealthy during the nineteenth century
by financing governments to war with
one another. According to Professor Stuart
Crane:
"If you will look
back at every war in Europe during
the Nineteenth Century, you will see that they
always ended with the establishment of a
'balance of power'. With every
re-shuffling there was a balance of power
in a new grouping
around the House of Rothschild
in England, France or Austria.
They grouped nations, so
that if any king stepped out of line a war would
break out and the war would
be decided by which way
the financing went. Researching
the debt positions of the warring
nations will usually indicate who was to
be punished."
In
describing the characteristics of the Rothschilds and other major
international bankers, Professor Quigly tells us that
they remained different from ordinary bankers in
several ways: they were cosmopolitan
and international; they were
close to governments and were particularly concerned with
government debt, including foreign government
debts; these bankers came to be called
"international bankers". (Quigly,Tragedy and Hope, p.52) A
major reason for the historical blackout on the role of
the international bankers in political history is that the
Rothschilds were Jewish. ANTI-SEMITES HAVE
PLAYED INTO THE HANDS OF THE CONSPIRACY,
by trying to portray the conspiracy as
a Jewish conspiracy to rule the world. Nothing could
be further from the truth! The traditionally
Anglo-Saxon J.P.Morgan and the Baptist Rockefeller
international banking institutions have played a key role in the
conspiracy. But there is no denying the importance of the
Rothschilds and their satellites. However, it is
just as unreasonable and immoral to blame the Jewish people for
the crimes of the Rothschilds as it is to hold Baptists
accountable for the crimes of the Rockefellers. (Other
authorities, however, trace the Rockefellers' Jewish roots and hold
their adoption of the Baptist faith and their church-going a
sham. -editor.) The Jewish members of the conspiracy have
used an organization called the Anti-Defamation League (A.D.L.)
as an instrument to try to convince everyone that any mention of the
Rothschilds or their allies is an attack on the Jewish
people. In this way they have stifled almost all honest
scholarship on international bankers and made the subject taboo in the
universities. Any individual or book exploring this
subject is immediately attacked by hundreds of
A.D.L. committees all over the country. The A.D.L.
has never let truth or logic interfere with its
highly professional smear jobs... But actually,
nobody has more of a right than the
Jewish people to take just vengeance on
the Rothschilds and their clique. The Jewish Warburgs (bankers),
part of the Rothschild empire, helped finance Adolph Hitler. There
were few, if any, Rothschilds or Warburgs in the
Nazi concentration camps! They sat out
the war in luxurious hotels in Paris or emigrated to
the United States or England. As a group, the Jewish people have
suffered most at the hands of these power-seekers.
A Rothschild has much more in common with a Rockefeller than with
a Jewish tailor from Budapest or the Bronx. Since the
keystone of the international banking empires has
been government bonds, IT HAS BEEN
IN THE INTEREST OF
THESE INTERNATIONAL FINANCIERS TO ENCOURAGE GOVERNMENT DEBT. The
higher the debt, the more the interest on
the debt. Nothing drives government deeply into debt
like a war (in 1935, before the out- break of World War
Two, total U.S. public debt was $28 billion 708 million, or
$225.55 per capita. In 1940, before the attack
on Pearl Harbour, the public debt was $42 billion 968
million, or $325.23 per capita.
But, by 1945, with the cessation
of hostilities, it was $258 billion 682 million, or
$1,848.60 per capita! -ed.); and it has not been an
uncommon practice among the international bankers to
finance both sides of the bloodiest military
conflicts! For example, during the American Civil War the North was
financed by the Rothchilds through their American agent, August
Belmont, and the American South through the
Erlangers, Rothschild relatives. But while
wars and revolutions have been useful
to the international financiers in gaining or
increasing control over governments, the key to
such control has always been control of money. You can control a
government if you have it in your debt; a creditor is in a
position to demand the privileges of monopoly from
the sovereign. Money-seeking governments
have granted monopolies in state banking, natural
resources, oil concessions, transportation, medicine,
and others. However, the monopoly the international
financiers have most coveted is control over
a nation's money. Eventually, these bankers actually owned as
private corporations the central banks of the various European
nations. The Bank of England, Bank
of France and Bank of Germany were not owned
by their respective governments, as almost everyone
imagines, but were PRIVATELY-OWNED MONOPOLIES granted
by the heads of state, usually in return for loans.
Under this system, observed Reginald McKenna, president of the
Midlands Bank of England: "Those that create
and issue the money and credit direct the
policies of government and hold in their hands the
destiny of the people." ONCE THE
GOVERNMENT IS IN DEBT TO THE BANKERS IT IS AT
THEIR MERCY. A frightening example was cited by the
London Financial Times of September 26,
1921, which revealed that even at the time:
"Half a dozen men at the top of the Big Five Banks
could upset the whole fabric of government finance by
refraining from renewing Treasury Bills." All
those who have sought dictatorial control
over modern nations have understood the necessity of a central
bank. When The League of Just Men hired a hack
revolutionary named Karl Marx to write a blue-print for
conquest called The Communist Manifesto, the fifth
plank read: "Centralization of credit in the hands of the
State, by means of a national bank with State capital and
an exclusive monopoly." Lenin was
later to write that
the establishment of a central bank was ninety percent of
communizing a country! Such conspirators knew that you cannot
take control of a nation without military force unless that
nation has a central bank through which you can
control its economy. The anarchist Bakunin
sarcastically remarked of the followers of Karl
Marx: "They have one foot in the bank and one foot
in the socialist movement." The
international financiers set up their own front
men in charge of each of Europe's
central banks. Professor
Quigly reports:
It
must not be felt that the heads of the
world's chief central banks were
themselves substantive powers in world
finance. They were not. Rather they were
the technicians and agents
of the dominent
investment bankers of their own
countries, who had raised them up,
and who were perfectly capable of throwing them
down. The substantive financial powers
of the world were in the
hands of these investment bankers (also
called "international" or "mercantile"
bankers) who remained
largely behind the scenes in their own
unincorporated private banks.
These formed a system of international
cooperation and national dominance which
was more private, more
powerful, and more secret than that
of their agents in the central banks..."
(Quigly, op.cit.,
pp.326-7)
Dr. Quigly also reveals that the
international bankers who owned and controlled
the Banks of England and France maintained their power even
after those Banks were theoretically socialized. Naturally,
those who controlled the central banks of Europe were eager
from the start to fasten a similar establishment
on the United States. From the earliest days, the
Founding Fathers had been conscious of attempts
to control America thruogh
money manipulation, and they carried on a
running battle with the international bankers. Thomas
Jefferson wrote to John Adams: "...I sincerely believe, with you,
that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing
armies..." But even though America did not
have a central bank after President
Jackson abolished it in 1836, the European financiers and
their American agents managed to gain a great deal of
control over (the American) money system. Gustavus Meyers, in his
History of the Great American Fortunes,
reveals:
"Under
the surface, the Rothschilds long
had a powerful influence in dictating
American financial laws. The law records
show that they were powers in the
old Bank of the
United States (abolished by
Andrew Jackson)."
During
the nineteenth century the leading financiers of
the metropolitan East often cut one another's financial
throats, but as their Western
and rural victims started to
organize politically, the "robber barons" saw that they had a
"community of interest" towards which they
must work together to protect themselves
from thousands of irate farmers and
up-and-coming competitors. This diffusion of economic power was
one of the main factors stimulating the demands for a
central bank by would-be business and financial
monopolists. In Years of Plunder Proctor Hansl writes of this
era:
Among the
Morgans, Khun-Loebs (bankers) and
other similar pillars of the industrial
order there was less disposition to
become involved in disagreements that led to
financial dislocation. A community of interest
came into being, with results that were
highly beneficial to themselves
..."
But, aside from the major Eastern centers, most
American bankers and their customers distrusted the whole
concept.
In order to show the hinterlands that they were
going to need a central banking system, the international bankers
CREATED A SERIES OF PANICS as a demonstration of their power - a
warning of what would happen unless the rest of the bankers
got into line. The man put in charge of conducting these lessons was
J. Pierpont Morgan, American-born but educated in
England and Germany. Morgan is referred
to by many, including Congressman Louis
McFadden (a banker, who for ten years headed the
House Banking and Currency Committee), as the top American agent
of the English Rothschilds. By the turn of the century,
J.P.Morgan was already an old hand at creating artificial panics.
Such affairs were well coordinated. Senator Robert Owen, a
co-author of the Federal Reserve Act (who later deeply regretted
his role), testified before a Congressional Committee that
the bank he owned received from the
National Banker's Association what came to be known as the "Panic
Circular of 1893". It stated: "You will at once retire
one-third of your circulation and call in one half of your
loans..." Historian Frederick Lewis Allen tells us in
Life magazine of April 25, 1949, of
Morgan's role in spreading rumours about the insolvency
of the Knickerbocker Bank and the Trust Company
of America, which rumours triggered the 1907 panic. In answer to
the question: "Did Morgan precipitate the panic?" Alan
reports:
"Oakly Thorne,
the president of that particular trust
company, testified later before
a congressional committee
that his bank had been subjected to
only moderate withdrawals...that he had not
applied for help and that it
was the (Morgan) 'sore point'
statement alone that had caused the run
on his bank. From this
evidence, plus other fragments of
other supposedly pertinent evidence,
certain chroniclers have come to the
ingenious conclusion that the Morgan
interests took advantage of the
unsettled conditions during the autumn
of 1907 to preciitate the panic, guiding it slowly as
it progressed so that it would
kill off rival banks and
consolidate the pre-eminence of the banks within
the Morgan orbit."
The
'panic' which Morgan had created, he proceeded to end
almost single-handedly. He had made his point. Frederick Allen
explains:
"The lesson of the
Panic of 1907 was clear, though not for
some six years was it destined to be embodied
in legislation: the United States
badly needed a central banking
system."
The man who was to play the most
significant part in foisting onto America that
central bank was Paul Warburg, who along with his brother
Felix had immigrated to the United States from Germany in
1902. They left brother Max (later a major bankroller of
the Russian (Bolshevik) Revolution) at home in Frankfurt to
run the family bank (M.N.Warburg & Co.). Paul
Warburg married Nina Loeb, daughter of Solomon
Loeb of Khun, Loeb & Company,
America's most powerful international banking
firm. Brother Felix married Frieda Schiff, daughter
of Jacob Schiff, the ruling power behind Kuhn,Loeb
& Co.. Stephen Birmingham writes in
his authoritative Our Crowd : "In
the eighteenth century the Schiffs and Rothschilds
shared a double house" in Frankfurt. Schiff
reportedly bought his partnership in
Khun,Loeb with Rothschild money. Both Paul
and Felix Warburg became partners in Kuhn,Loeb
and Company. In 1907, the year of the Morgan-precipitated
panic, Paul Warburg began almost all of his time writing and
lecturing on "the need for banking reform". Kuhn, Loeb
& Company was sufficiently public- spirited about the matter to
keep him on salary at $500,000 a year while for the next six
years he donated his time to 'the public good'.
Working with Warburg in promoting this "banking
reform" was Nelson Aldridge, known as "Morgan's floor
broker in the Senate". Aldridge's daughter Abbie married
John D. Rockefeller Jr. (the late Nelson
Rockefeller, Richard Nixon's Vice-President and
long- time Governor of New
York, was named for his
maternal grandfather). After the panic of 1907, Aldridge was
appointed by the Senate to head the National
Monetary Commission. Although he had
no technical knowledge of banking, Aldridge and his
entourage spent nearly two years and $300,000 of the tax-payers'
money being wined and dined by the owners of Europe's central
banks as they toured the Continent 'studying' central
banking. When the Commission returned from its
luxuriuos junket it held no meetings and made no report for
nearly two years. But Senator Aldrich
was busy 'arranging' things.
Together with Paul Warburg and
other international bankers, he staged one of the most important
secret meetings in the history of the United States.
Rockefeller agent Frank Vanderlip admiited many years later in
his memoirs:
"Despite my views about the value to society
of greater publicity for the affairs of
corporations, there was an occasion,
near the close of 1910, when I was as
secretive - indeed, as furtive, as any
conspirator...I do not feel
it is any exaggeration to speak of
our secret expedition to
Jekyl Island (Georgia) as
the occasion of the actual
conception of what eventually
became the Federal Reserve
System."
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