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Published by 2ndvtrepublic at March 4, 2022

All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars – Part II

World War One

Introduction

The parable of the three blind men describing an elephant comes to mind when I think of the research involved in this investigation. The three blind men were individually correct in their descriptions, but what was the result?

Research into WWI leads one into several different territories, to different stories, and to different characters and motivations. Even within the limited province of banking there are conflicting tales as to who did what in the making and prolonging of the war that engulfed England, The Netherlands, Belgium, Flanders, Russia, France, Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Middle East and eventually the United States.

Readings for this project included first-hand accounts from soldiers, banking records, correspondences and negotiations, political intrigue and military strategies, and propaganda via the press and the pulpit from the elite conspirators who orchestrated the war and the many military conflicts within it.

WWI was a conspiracy 1) to secure oil, the routes by which it traveled and the profits from its production and sale, 2) to exploit the military assistance and investment opportunities of Russia, 3) to destroy the Ottoman empire, Germany, and the Austro-Hungarian union, 4) to pull the United States into the war and build up the Anglo-American establishment, 5) to increase the hegemony of the British empire, 6) to divide up the Middle East among Britain, France and Russia, 7) to “reconstitute” Palestine “as a National Home of the Jewish people”¹ (via the Balfour Agreement), the collateral benefit of which would be a British military outpost.² 8) to make monstrous profits by prolonging the war and dividing up the spoils of profiteering, production, and trading with the “enemy,” who were at times their business partners.

To accomplish these geo-political goals on the chessboard of Europe, Russia and Middle East, the protagonists needed to cover the bases: the crown, the press, the money powers, and military strategy. They did so, and all else fell into place.

The Players:

A secret group devoted to English ideals and to the Empire as the embodiment of these ideals, a group created in the period after 1890 by Cecil Rhodes, William Stead and, above all, Alfred Milner³

Alfred Milner: 1854-1925. Milner headed the board of inland revenue from 1892-1896, knighted in 1895. His career in civil service advanced rapidly. By 1887 he was responsible for the budget of the foreign service and became the director general of accounts in Cairo as the British government recognized the strategic importance of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Such finances were handled by the Rothschilds with whom Milner met in April of 1891 during a home visit. He was a frequent guest of Lords Rothschild, Salisbury and Rosebery. In 1897 he became high commissioner in South Africa. In 1901 a baron, 1902 a viscount, in 1918 Minister of War – he was considered to be a brilliant strategist, devoted champion of the British empire, and a charismatic, tireless and effective leader. His expertise in finance, diplomacy, propaganda and war placed him in contact with those who made the crucial decisions for the empire and who influenced public opinion and government policy. This made him a natural leader of the Secret Elite that lead Britain to war.⁴

Cecil Rhodes: 1853-1902. Rhodes was the founding father who brought the Secret Elite together and insured their financial backing. He gained monopoly control over the several diamond mines in South Africa through his partnership with Lord Nathaniel Rothschild. They transformed De Beers Consolidated Mines into the world’s biggest diamond supplier. Among the wishes in his legacy was “The establishment, promotion and development of a Secret Society, the true aim and object whereof shall be for the extension of British rule throughout the world . . . and, finally, the foundation of so great a Power as to render wars impossible, and promote the best interests of humanity.”⁵ He died before his hopes for peace on earth were shattered by the very patriots he nurtured.

Reginald Esher (Viscount Esher): 1852-1930. Co-founder of Rhodes’ secret society, South African War Commission, Committee of Imperial Defense. Esher was the society’s connection with the crown and the voice of the king.⁶

William Stead: 1849-1912. Stead was a co-founder of the secret society, the most prominent journalist of his day, and a pioneer in investigative journalism.⁷

Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury: 1830-1903. Salisbury served as prime minister three times for a total of fourteen years. He had four siblings, five sons and three daughters, all of whom were interlocked by marriage within the upper echelons of the English ruling class, called the Cecil Bloc. He ruled the conservative party.⁸

Archibald Primrose, 5^th Earl Rosebery: 1847-1929 Prime minister 1894-1895. Lord Rosebery ruled the liberal party and married Hannah de Rothschild, connecting him to the banking dynasty.⁹

Nathaniel Mayer Rothschild: 1840-1914. Lord Rothschild represented the international money power whose reach included banking houses in London, Frankfurt, Paris, Vienna, and, later, the United States. His investments were primarily in steel, gold (via Cecil Rhodes), oil, the Suez Canal (via Disraeli) and the indebted British royal family.¹⁰

The Prince of Wales/King Edward VII: 1841-1910, King from 1901-1910. Responsible for the secret entente between Britain and Russia in 1908, and the “Entente Cordiale” between Britain and France in 1904. These diplomatic successes were the beginnings of the encirclement of Germany prior to the war. He laid the groundwork for the inclusion of the major British banking houses in these imperial plans. (Relations with the anti-semitic and repressive czar were off the table until the King/diplomat trumped the prevailing sentiment and parliament with helpful lies from Sir Edward Grey, Herbert Asquith, and the press.)¹¹

Lord Northcliffe (Alfred Charles William Harmsworth): 1865-1922. 1st Viscount Northcliffe was a British newspaper and publishing magnate. As owner of the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror, he was an early developer of popular journalism, and he exercised vast influence over British popular opinion during the Edwardian era. (Wikipedia) He bought up a large section of the popular press, including the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror, Evening News, Daily Graphic,and Weekly Dispatch. Eventually he gathered 51 percent of the London Times and by 1908 had bought up The Observer and the Sunday Times. He was a most valuable player of the Secret Elite, consummating their plan to vilify the kaiser.¹²

Herbert Asquith, 1st Earl of Oxford and Asquith: 1852-1928. Prime Minister, 1908-1916. Along with Richard Haldane, Sir Edward Grey and Lord Esher, he maintained an iron grip on the Committee of Imperial Defence, which was the long-standing (since 1902), extra-constitutional force and brains behind the preparations for WWI. (He convened a key war briefing, including new-comers Winston Churchill and Lloyd George, on August 23, 1911.)¹³

Richard (Lord) Haldane (1st Viscount Haldane): 1856-1928. Secretary of State for War, 1905-1012. Committee of Imperial Defence. He was a leader in the plot to undermine the liberal government’s plans to avoid war, in part by promulgating the myth of the great naval race. He overhauled the British war machine with the Haldane Reforms. “In addition to the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), Haldane set up the Territorial Army, the Officer Training Corps, the Special Reserve, the Secret Service Bureau (via act of parliament) and the Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.”¹⁴

Sir Edward Grey: 1862-1933. British foreign secretary, 1905-1916. Committee of Imperial Defence. 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon, KG, PC, DL, FZS, was a British Liberal statesman and the main force behind British foreign policy in the era of the First World War. (Wikipedia)¹⁵

Sir Ernest Cassel: (Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath) 1852-1921. German born merchant banker, financier and businessman, Kuhn, Loeb agent in London, close to King Edward VII, Lord Esher and Alfred Milner. He was sent to Germany on a secret mission in 1912 to discuss armaments and neutrality, setting up further meetings at the highest level with the kaiser in the guise of “a new era of cooperation and friendliness.” The real reason for the meetings was for Haldane to glean confidential information about Germany’s naval program. Asquith, Haldane, Grey, Churchill and Lloyd George were the only ones in the know, as parliament had passed two resolutions against such communications with any country “without previous approval of the Cabinet.”¹⁶

Winston Churchill (Knight Companion Order of the Garter): 1874-1965. Home Secretary, 1910-1911. First Lord of the Admiralty, 1911-1915. Conservative MP who crossed to Liberals, member of the Secret Elite, who, with prime minister Asquith, worked against his Liberal party and Parliament to insure the war against Germany.¹⁷

Herbert Kitchener: 1850-1916. General, Chief of Staff, Commander-in-Chief, Field Marshall in South Africa (see Part One, Continued of this article on The Boer War). He established concentration camps there in which between 18,000 to 28,000 men, women and children died. He was promoted to Secretary of State for War, 1914-16, and awarded the title of Lord Kitchener, 1^stEarl Kitchener. (Wikipedia) He was a concern to Milner because he acted on the principle that wars were meant to be won and not prolonged until other geo-political, economic, and business issues were established.¹⁸

The Players from the United States

Selected by the Secret Elite to convince the masses to join the war party,to fund the war effort and provide supplies and raw materials

.Woodrow Wilson: 1856-1924. 28^th president of the United States from 1913-1921.

Edward Mandell House: 1858-1938. Advisor to president Wilson, British trained political operative. Influential in creating the Federal Reserve with J.P.Morgan Jr, Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburg and senators who sponsored the Federal Reserve bill.¹⁹ He was also influential in putting Wilson in the White house and eventually convincing him to join the war against Germany. “I began with him before he became President and I have never relaxed my efforts. At every turn, I have stirred his ambition to become the great liberal leader of the world”²⁰

J.P.Morgan Jr.: 1867-1943. Banker, financier, anglophile, Pilgrim*, closely associated with the Rothschild dynasty.

*The Pilgrim Society was formed via the “Anglo-Amercan Establishment” and included the names of Rockefeller, Luce, Carnegie, Rothschild, Schiff, Windsor and several members of the Secret Elite in Britain.²¹ Such a pool of wealth and talent the world had never seen.

Paul Warburg: 1862-1932. German-born US banker.²²

Jacob Schiff: 1847-1920. Pilgrim, NY banker and financier, Kuhn, Loeb & Co.²³ (See Part One, Continued of this article: The Russo-Japanese War)

Herbert Hoover: 1874-1964. Not a creator of WWI, he was never-the-less occupied, victimizing mid-western farmers, minors in Australia, Chinese officials in Kaiping, and in selling Chinese coolies into slavery in the gold mines of South Africa.

During WWI he fronted the Committee for the Relief of Belgium (CRB) while supplying Germany with food and materials and while enriching himself and his masters with the profits. He earned his bona fides by the fraudulent take-over of the Kaiping mines in China in 1901, which he accomplished in cahoots with the Belgian bankers, Chevalier de Wouters and Emile Francqui. The Secret Elite were sufficiently impressed by this unscrupulous anglophile with a bio of greed and ruthless exploitation, who was devoid of human sympathies, that they made the connections for him to take over the Committee of Relief for Belgium. He secured diplomatic support from American Ambassador, Walter Page. This enabled him to control the CRB venture, its organization and finances, operating through their trans-Atlantic tentacles: their banks, their shipping and their businesses.²⁴

Perfect Together: War and the Federal Reserve

There were, of course, many more players. The Playbill is not complete. But it suffices to show the time-frame of the events, the players and their motivations over the long haul. Part I of this article focuses on the relationship between money and war. Part II brings in the specifics of how it was done to create WWI.

“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.” Benjamin Disraeli (Leader of the House of Commons: 1874-1880, Prime Minister: 1868 and 1874-1880, First Lord of the Treasury: 1874-1880, Leader of the House of Lords: 1874-1880)²⁵

Indeed, “ . . . 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.”²⁶ Among this group are the bankers who are also the gate-keepers of policy, financial support, investment, and, on the international scale: government borrowing. The international investment bankers set up “dynasties of political control through the formation of financial combines.”²⁷

The powers that these banking dynasties had over governments (and still have) would be increased by the formation of the The Federal Reserve. Schiff, Morgan, Rockefeller, House, and Warburg et al knew that the opposition to such a plan was overwhelming. Undaunted, they proceeded in modus operandi: They met in secret, and they lied.

They concocted a scheme (the pattern of which had worked before and has worked ever since) that claimed to turn the power of money creation over to the government, when, “in reality, the control would be solidified in the same secret group which (sic) had always held it.”²⁸ The Bank of England, established in 1694, issued (lent) money privately, as had the major banks in France, Germany, Italy and Switzerland. The aforementioned bankers were determined to bring the US into the fold.

In America, however, it would be difficult. There was a long and successful history of opposition to private banking issuing the currency and to foreign entanglements. The practice of fractional reserve lending (money creation and seigniorage)) by private banks was anathema to those legislators who looked out for the public good.

Enter Paul and Felix Warburg who had arrived in the US from Germany in 1902. They married into two prominent banking families: “Paul married Nina Loeb of Kuhn, Loeb and Company, while Felix married Jacob Schiff’s daughter, Frieda.”²⁹ Their goal was to set up a central banking system in the US, and, after lining up the players, they met secretly on Jekyl Island in 1910. The plan hatched by the luminaries of the banking world was introduced as a bill by their man in Washington, Republican Senator Nelson Aldrich.³⁰

The bill failed because Aldrich was known to be a shill for the bankers, and because the Republican party was known to be the party of Wall Street.³¹

Plan B: Get the Democrats into power with a president who would endorse a Federal Reserve while claiming to strip Wall Street of its power. (See House and Wilson in “The Players” above.) They accomplished this by making it a three-cornered contest: Taft (Republican), Teddy Roosevelt (Progressive) and Wilson (Democrat). The money poured into Roosevelt’s and Wilson’s campaigns from Wall Street and the “money trust;” and Wilson won the support of the New York Times.” They called this central bank maneuver “the National Citizens League for the Promotion of a Sound Banking System.” They centered the front organization in Rockefeller territory, at the University of Chicago where J. Lawrence Laughlin and H.Parker Willis wrote the necessary legislation, which was “the Aldrich Bill in a new dress.”³²

Mandell House became the “virtual president”³³ of the US – “the unseen guardian angel” of the new Federal Reserve Act.³⁴

The icing on the cake was the smoke-screen of fake opposition fulminated by the international bankers who claimed that it was “populistic, socialistic, half-baked, destructive, infantile, badly conceived and unworkable.”³⁵

“Thus the stage was set. 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.”³⁶

The first Governor of the New York Federal Reserve was Benjamin Strong, president of Morgan’s Bankers Trust Company. (The other eleven [Federal Reserve] banks were so many expensive mausoleums erected to salve the local pride and quell the Jacksonian fears of the Hinterland.”)³⁷ Their fears, however, no longer included the interlocking relations with the Bank of England, which were assured by Benjamin Strong and his English colleague, Montague Norman.³⁸ The board of the Fed, including Paul Warburg, was largely hand-picked by Mandell House.³⁹

The above evidence and Playbill do not prove that international bankers create wars, even though it does prove that many of the players who create wars happen to be international bankers. The evidence furhermore exposes the lie that WWI was not planned well in advance of the first shots. The evidence throughout the several sections of this article will prove banker participation. In the meantime, suffice it to repeat the obvious: 1) Lending money to governments can be a very safe and lucrative business. 2) Governments that won’t allow themselves to be sucked into the web of debt are attacked and usually destroyed by wars. 3) The Federal Reserve created “ . . . a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the POLITICAL SYSTEM of each country and the ECONOMY of the world as a whole.”⁴⁰ 4) Politicians and candidates who effectively work for peace and against imperialism are attacked and dismissed by the media and their own parties. 5) War is the international bankers’ bread and butter. (Please see the quote by David Graeber at the beginning of Part I of this article.)

Why Does the Method Have to be War? And Why Does it Have to be Prolonged?

“We are now at the year nineteen hundred and eight, which was the year that the Carnegie Foundation began operations. And, in that year, the trustees meeting, for the first time, raised a specific question, which they discussed throughout the balance of the year, in a very learned fashion. And the question is this: Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people? And they conclude that, no more effective means to that end is known to humanity, than war. So then, in 1909, they raise the second question, and discuss it, namely, how do we involve the United States in a war?

“Well, I doubt, at that time, if there was any subject more removed from the thinking of most of the People of this country, than its involvement in a war. There were intermittent shows in the Balkans, but I doubt very much if many people even knew where the Balkans were. And finally, they answer that question as follows: we must control the State Department.

“And then, that very naturally raises the question of how do we do that? They answer it by saying, we must take over and control the diplomatic machinery of this country and, finally, they resolve to aim at that as an objective. Then, time passes, and we are eventually in a war, which would be World War I. At that time, they record on their minutes a shocking report in which they dispatch to President Wilson a telegram cautioning him to see that the war does not end too quickly. And finally, of course, the war is over.”

From an interview with Norman Dodd by G Edward Griffin in 1982.

Banker financing of WWI and the financial aspects of WWI are not subjects that many have tackled. The most recent attempt that I found is Bankers and Bolsheviks, International Finance and the Russian Revolution by Hassan Malik. Most accounts of the root causes of the war focus on the political aspects such as Serbian independence from the Ottoman empire and Austria-Hungary, and the assassination of Duke Ferdinand and the alliances. Others have followed the purchasing of rights and concessions (the acquisition of resources), nationalism, imperialism and German militarism. This article focuses on the business aspect of empire building, the displacement of peoples, military tactical maneuvers and decisions, propaganda and profiteering. It exposes the lies told by the Secret Elite to win the support of the people in order to destroy Germany, to deceive and rape Russia, to secure resources and territory, to trade with the enemy, to erase their plans and deeds from history, to increase their power and influence and that of the international bankers, and to glorify Britannia.

War is a Racket

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small “inside” group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

Smedley Butler

Congressional Medal of Honour, 1914 and 1919; Distinguished Service Medal 191;, Major General United States Marine Corps.

The examples given in Part I of this article, including “Three Little Bankers’ Wars” above, show the motivations and banking connections for six wars from the American War of Independence to the Russo-Japanese War. Part II will look at the plans and the several theaters of WWI. Below are three aspects of preparation: Propaganda, Oil and Alliances.

The Teutonic Menace

Since WWI, especially, the masters of war have taken the important step of demonizing the next victim – the enemy to be. Never mind if this enemy was recently an ally. Propaganda overrides previous perceptions and/or creates new perceptions to fit the next war. I cannot think of a single case in which this was not done, and done with complete success, with the possible exception of Assad in Syria against whom they achieved partial success. In that case, there was no outright, fully destructive war, but let’s give the war machine

credit for trying. (And it was not the aggressor that had a unilateral change of heart. It was Vladimir Putin who stood against it.)

In the minds of the British and French people who had to actually fight, there was no particular animosity against the people of Germany (the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 notwithstanding). The fear and hatred of the vicious Hun had to be created. That was not, nor has it ever been much of a problem for the pr department (the Vietnam War notwithstanding).⁴¹

“On his return from South Africa in 1905 Alfred Milner set about preparing the British Empire for war with Germany.”⁴² William Stead was put in charge of the propaganda. “He was one of he first journalistic crusaders and built an impressive network of younger journalists around his newspapers, who in turn promoted the Secret Elite’s ambitions throughout the Empire.”⁴³

By 1900 Germany had over 4,000 merchant ships plying the seas. The Hamburg-American line became the largest in the world.⁴⁴ Bitter stories began in the press to plant suspicion in the minds of the people (and therefore in he minds of politicians) that Germany’s growth in shipping and several other aspects of industry were due to spying and other unfair practices. “By the turn of the century German success was being denounced in exaggerated, over-excited terms, but the truth was ever more evident: German industrial expansion had left important sections of the British economy behind.”⁴⁵ German industrial growth did not sit well with the Secret Elite, nor did they countenance German investments in oil production in Romania and Galicia.⁴⁶ They knew that there was no way to compete with these accomplishments. “The German threat had to be removed, and war was the only means by which that could be achieved.”⁴⁷

Enter Lord Northcliffe. (see The Players above.) Through his sweeping influence in the popular press he prepared the nation for war, creating the impression that Germany was theenemy. The Times worked on its business and governmental readership, and Northcliffe’s many papers worked on the people with outrageous attempts to generate fear and resentment.⁴⁸

OIL

l892: “ . . . the availability of oil in the Qaṣr-e Šīrīn region of Persia prompted new activities, spearheaded by de Reuter’s agent, Edouard Cotte, and Iran’s customs director, Ketābčī Khan. The latter traveled abroad to interest French and British financiers in oil exploration; with the assistance of Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, formerly the British minister in Tehran, he entered negotiations with the British financier William Knox D’Arcy. . . . A concession was granted to D’Arcy on 28 May 1901 by Moẓaffar-al-dīn Shah. Because of Russian opposition, the five northern provinces of Azerbaijan, Gīlān, Māzandarān, Astarābād, and Khorasan were excluded from the deal. The sixty-year contract gave D’Arcy exclusive rights to explore, obtain, and market oil, natural gas, asphalt, and ozocerite.”

In 1903 Lord Nathaniel Rothschild and Baron Alfonse de Rothschild were prepared to spend £2 million for oil exploration in Persia. A meeting took place in February 1904 in Cannes between Baron de Rothschild and William Knox D’Arcy of D’Arcy’s First Exploitation Company, formed in 1903 when the search for marketable oil in Iran began in earnest. (B. Shwadran, The Middle East, Oil and the Great Powers, 3rd ed., New York, 1973, pp. 14-16) The Admiralty was trying to secure concessions for Britain in Persia and Mesopotamia from D’Arcy who had spent £150,000 already. “British government involvement in the oil concession was intimately connected with the imminent conversion of the Royal Navy to oil fuel. The British provided indirect financial assistance and political backing to D’Arcy’s company, and in 1909, through complicated financial arrangements and intricate political maneuvers, the original D’Arcy concession became the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.” (APOC; cf. N. S. Fatemi, Oil Diplomacy: Powderkeg in Iran, New York, 1954, pp. 11-17).⁴⁹

Let the Oil Wars begin.

Alliances

Belgium, 1905

The success of the plans to create the war depended on the all the pieces of the puzzle fitting together. One of those pieces was supposed Belgian neutrality. Britain couldn’t rescue plucky, little, neutral Belgium if she weren’t neutral. Therefore the fact that Belgium was not neutral was one of the top secrets of the war, which was discovered by the Germans during their occupation of Brussels.⁵⁰

“Britain’s military link with Belgium was one of the most tightly guarded secrets, even within privileged circles. General [James] Grierson, [director of British military operations,] was present with Lord Roberts, Admiral Fisher, Prime Minister Arthur Balfour and the director of Naval Intelligence, Captain Charles Ottley, at the CID [Committee of Imperial Defence] meeting 26 July 1905. They agreed to treat the special sub-committee that would take forward joint planning with French and Belgium military personnel as so secret that minutes would not be printed or circulated without special permission from the Prime Minister.⁵¹ Grierson was tasked to drive forward the links with France and Belgium. On 16 January 1906, he opened official military “conversations” with Major Victor Huguet in France, and on the same day wrote to Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Barnardiston, the British Military Attache’ in Brussels, advising him that a British force of 105,000 would be sent to Belgium if a war broke out between France and Germany.⁵²

“Every bit as crucial was the hidden preparation for war which the Secret Elite approved and directed. The myth persists to this day that Belgian neutrality was the key reason why Britain declared war on Germany on 4 August 1914. In reality Belgium was never neutral. General Grierson . . . [of the Committee of Imperial Defence] wrote to Brussels in 1906, advising the Belgian chief of staff that the British government was prepared to put ‘4 cavalry brigades, 2 army corps and a division of mounted infantry’ into Belgium, with the explicit intention of stopping a German advance.”⁵³

Russia, 1905

Edward VII and Kaiser Wilhelm were both secretly courting Czar Nicholas: Edward VII on behalf of the Secret Elite and French bankers – Kaiser Wilhelm on behalf of his country, Germany. Wilhelm reasoned that an alliance with Russia would guarantee peace in Europe by safeguarding both Russia and Germany. To consummate this (secret) alliance they signed the Treaty of Bjorkov.⁵⁴

King Edward, on the other hand, reasoned, correctly, that an alliance with Russia would encircle Germany and guarantee war and the benefits thereof.

Follow the money.

During the Russo/Japanese War, “an international consortium including British-owned banking houses like Barings, Samuels and Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank raised over £5 billion at today’s value to assist Japan. Almost half of Japan’s war debt was financed though bonds sold mostly in London and New York.”⁵⁵

“The London and Paris Rothschilds negotiated a further £48 million issue to help Japanese recovery.”⁵⁶ “At every turn the war profits flowed back to the Secret Elite.”⁵⁷

In the meantime, impoverished Russia was kept financially afloat by that same consortium, lead mostly by the bankers of Paris. If Russia were to proclaim an alliance with Germany – that would jeopardize Russia’s financial connections with Paris and London. If Russia negated the 1905 Treaty of Bjorkov, that would ally her with Britain and force Germany into a strategically impossible position. A Russian fear was that the Baltic could become a German lake, while the irresistible prize for Russia was the warm water port of Constantinople. That’s the carrot they secretly held out. King Edward and the Russian anglophiles won the day. The Treaty of Bjorkov was abrogated by Czar Nicholas.

Thus Russia became another cat’s paw for the Secret Elite – “a victim of British trickery, manipulated into a different treaty [with Britain and France] that was designed not to protect her or the peace of Europe but to enable the Secret Elite to destroy Germany.”⁵⁸

The Man in the Middle: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Isvolsky.

There were a number of anglophiles in Russia who had influence at the czar’s court, none as influential as Alexander Isvolsky. He assisted King Edward in foiling the Treaty of Bjorkov and in pulling Russia over to the Anglo-French alliance against Germany. For this he was rewarded both by the czar and the Secret Elite that bankrolled him through the British diplomatic service.⁵⁹

Rewarding traitors has been a common practice. Let’s pause the narrative of the Russian alliance to point out that, while selling out Russia to the masters of war, Isvolsky was promoted to Minister of Foreign Affairs and given even more influence over future deals and strategies (until his treason became an embarrassment that was too obvious to ignore). This was because of an unspeakable power, higher than the sovereignty and safety of Russia.

The US has been a frequent practitioner of rewarding traitors as well. The cause has always outweighed the price in the eyes of the few who make such decisions. I suggest such events as the set-up of the naval force at Pearl Harbor, the assassination of John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the refusal by Johnson, McNamara, and Admiral McCain to defend the USS Liberty, and the crimes of 9/11 as examples of treason that were protected and rewarded. (As you follow the money, keep your eyes on mandatory vaccinations and 5-G for crimes against humanity masquerading as world-saving.)

Meanwhile, back in Reval, Russia, aboard imperial and royal yachts, another piece of the complex diplomatic strategy was put in place on June 8 1908. This meeting between King Edward VII and his nephew, Czar Nicholas, and other meetings with Russian Premiere Pyotr Stolypin and Alexander Isvolsky were reported as reunions of “family affection” by the press, since any official meeting of this sort, by British law, had to be attended by a “minister responsible to Parliament.”⁶⁰

Reval consummated five years of diplomacy started in Denmark between King Edward and Alexander Isvolsky (then the Russian ambassador to Denmark).

Note the “the Loan that saved Russia” of 1906, was pushed through by the czarist regime without prior approval by the Duma.⁶¹This was one of the largest loans in history, and it was needed to pull Russia out from the disasters of the Russo-Japanese war and the revolution of 1905.⁶²Russia’s decision to join the Anglo-French alliance must have been largely in consideration of such financial support, which Germany was not able to provide.

(That sort of loan is called “disaster capitalism” or “vulture capitalism,” the most recent examples of which, to date, are the loans “on account” of a virus known as COVID-19.)

The Russian people were getting uppity by now. Their Manifesto of St. Petersburg of 1905 and the Vyborg Manifesto of 1906 proclaimed a prohibition of government borrowing, a refusal to pay taxes or to join the army.

The Czar brutally took care of that and proceeded to borrow one of the largest loans in history. His brutality did not sit well with either the British people or the British Parliament. No problem for the Secret Elite, whose entente with France held enough influence to work the controversial loan on an international stage set in Paris.

“On 16 April 1906 a contract was signed at the Russia embassy in Paris by Count V.N. Kokovtsof, representing the Russian government, and by representatives of a consortium of French, British, Austrian, Dutch and Russian banks for an unprecedentedly large loan of 2,250 million francs to Russia who had just emerged from a disastrous war and a revolution. The French accounted for the largest share of the loan, and they also undertook responsibility for the Austrian share . . .

“In Russia, the political parties in opposition to the government of Nichols II resented what they considered to be a hurried bargain with the autocratic government on the eve of the meeting of the newly elected national assembly. They branded the French government’s decision to lend money to the Witte-Durnovo government as siding with the forces of reaction against the people. Threats were even made that the Duma would repudiate the debts incurred by the autocratic government without its consent. A special Franco-Russian committee was formed in Paris for the purpose of combating the loan.”⁶³

Despite public and parliamentary sentiment to the contrary, more loans followed well into WWI augmented by the US. Subsequent loans payed for Russia’s naval rearmament in 1912, and served “to actively shore up the czarist regime.” They also “stifled the private sector and added to the empire’s debt.”⁶⁴

As the war continued and as you probably know, the Bolsheviks gained control in October of 1917 by means of The Russian Revolution. During the war the banking sector became schizophrenic as to whom to support: The czar, the interim Kerensky government, or the Bolsheviks. The Rothschilds never directly supported the czar due to his pogroms against Russian Jews. But stories of who supported and financed the Bolsheviks contain a minefield of conflicting information to be discussed in Part III.

France, 1903

“The days of hostility between the two countries are, I am certain, happily at an end. I know of no two countries whose prosperity is more interdependent. There may have been misunderstandings and causes for dissension in the past, but that is happily over and forgotten. The friendship of the two countries is my constant preoccupation.” King Edward VII to the French people, 1903.⁶⁵

Britain and France sign Entente Cordiale

“On April 8, 1904, with war in Europe a decade away, Britain and France sign an agreement, later known as the Entente Cordiale, resolving long-standing colonial disputes in North Africa and establishing a diplomatic understanding between the two countries.

“Formally entitled a Declaration between the United Kingdom and France Respecting Egypt and Morocco, the Entente Cordiale of April 1904 amounted more than anything to a declaration of friendship between these two great European powers. By its terms, France promised not to challenge British control over Egypt; for its part, Britain recognized France’s right, as a Power whose dominions are conterminous for a great distance with those of Morocco to act in that country to preserve order and to provide assistance to bring about whatever reforms in the government, economy or military it deemed necessary.

“ Through the Entente Cordiale, Britain and France established the beginnings of an alliance, promising, in the concluding words of the agreement, to afford to one another their diplomatic support, in order to obtain the execution of the clauses of the present Declaration regarding Egypt and Morocco. The agreement stopped short, however, of requiring the two nations to provide military support to each other; this aspect of the alliance would come later.

“A motivating factor behind the agreement was undoubtedly France’s desire to protect itself against possible aggression from its old rival, Germany, who had steadily been growing stronger in the years since its victory in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and now possessed the most powerful land army in the world. Britain was also eager to keep Germany in check, especially in light of a revamped, ambitious German naval program, which—if successful—threatened to challenge Britain’s clear dominance at sea.”⁶⁶

Not mentioned in the above are the key players nor the base motivation for the Entente Cordiale. Viz:

In the summer of 1903 the president of France, Emile Loubert, and Revanchist* Theophile Delcasse’ paid a visit to King Edward VII. Hungry for another war with Germany, Delcasse’ met with Foreign Secretary, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5^th Marquess of Lansdowne. Eight months later, on 8 April 1904 the Entente Cordiale was signed. It was a diplomatic triumph credited, justly, to King Edward, but the purpose of the entente was war with Germany. Its secret clauses, hidden from Parliament and public knowledge, paved the way to war.⁶⁷

*(Revanchism (French: Revanchisme, from revanche, “revenge”) is the political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country, often following a war)

The United States

Alliance? The connection between the Secret Elite in England and the Pilgrims in the US was more than an alliance, more than family, more than marriage. The Anglo-American Establishment was a unified social structure and a cabal of international investment bankers loyal to the English aristocracy and devoted to bringing the US into WWI. American democracy and sovereignty was anathema to them, hence the creation of the Federal Reserve, the successful control of academia and the State Department. (See The Players above, in this article, especially House, Wilson, Schiff, Morgan and Warburg.) (See also https://isgp-studies.com/pilgrims-society-us-uk)

Members included the Rockefeller, Carnegie and Morgan dynasties, and many men in senior government posts. “Within a short period of time they created an American version of what Carroll Quigley termed the triple-front penetration of politics, the press and education.⁶⁸ The Pilgrims Society brought together American money and British aristocracy, royalty, presidents and diplomatic representatives.”⁶⁹ It was a very special relationship.⁷⁰

End of Part II

¹ Jim Macgregor & Gery Docherty, Prolonging The Agony (Waterville, OR: TrineDay) p. 401 This reference includes a quote from Lord Walter Rothschild comprising his recommendation “ . . . that Palestine should be reconstituted as the national home of the Jewish people.” and 2) His majesty’s government . . . secure the achievement of this object . . .”

2 https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2017/11/02/what-was-the-balfour-declaration-of-1917-and-why-is-it-significant/

³ From Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment p. x in Jim Macgregor & Gerry Docherty, Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War (Edinburgh: Mainstream Publishing Company) p. 27. Though Hidden History is credited as the source of biographical information, other general sources were used as well in the writing of the biographies of The Players listed in this article.

⁴Ibid.

⁵Ibid. p. 31

⁶Ibid. pp. 22 and 364.

⁷Ibid. p 21.

⁸Ibid. p. 28.

⁹Ibid.

¹0 Ibid. p. 30

¹1 Ibid. pp. 125, 211, 214, 363

¹2 Ibid p. 146

¹3 Ibid. pp. 72, 125, 134, 181, 363

¹4 Ibid pp. 104, 134 and 150

¹5 Ibid. p. 365

¹6 Ibid. pp. 186-189 and 364

¹7 Ibid. pp. 45, 55, 121, 150, 181, 188, 364

¹8 Ibid. pp. 46 and 365

¹9 Ibid. p. 222

²0 Godrey Hodgson, Woodrow Wilson’s Right Hand: The Life of Colonel Edward M House (Yale University Press) p.139 – as found in the article “Who was Edward M. House,” by Robert Higgs.

²1 https://isgp-studies.com/pilgrims-society-us-uk

²2 Macgregor and Docherty, Hidden History op.cit. p. 369

²3 Ibid.

²4 Ibid. pp. 215 and 216. Referring to The Life of Herbert Hoover, the Engineer 1874-1914 by George H. Nash pp.5-11.

²5 Wikipedia: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&sxsrf=ALeKk02FNyJZi-V1exMNEbal8pivKRGLZg:1584383793645&q=benjamin+disraeli+previous+offices&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3MLQoMtHSzk620k_PL0stystNzSvRL8jPySzJTM5MzLMqKEoty8wvLVYoyC8GiuXnLWJVSkrNy0rMzcxTSMksLkpMzclUgKvKT0vLTE4tBgBPOMZ8XgAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-59TJ0Z_oAhUTZDUKHeSdBKQQ44YBKAEwG3oECBMQAw

²6 W.Cleon Skousen, The Naked Capitalist, A review and commentary on Dr. Carroll Quigley’s book Tragedy and Hope (Salt Lake City, Utah: Skousen) p. 6.

²7 Ibid. p. 7.

²8 Ibid. pp. 15 and 16.

²9 Ibid. p. 17

³0 Ibid.

³1 Ibid. pp. 17 and 18.

³2 Ibid. pp.. 18, 19, and 20.

³3 Ibid. p. 20.

³4 Ibid. p 21. Referring to Charles Seymour, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House.

³5 Ibid. p 21. Referring to the Autobiography of William McAdoo, pp. 213 and 225.

³6 Ibid.

³7 Ibid. p. 23.

³8 Ibid.

³9 Ibid.

⁴0 Ibid. p. 22.

⁴1 Stopping the spread of communism was all the pr that was needed at first. As the war dragged on, opposition picked up until most of the US realized that the war was immoral and idiotic. My question was always: For whom? It certainly wasn’t idiotic for he bankers and the military industrial complex. Lest we forget, the US lost.

⁴2 Macgregor and Docherty, Prolonging the Agony. p. 9.

⁴3 Ibid. p. 5

⁴4 Ibid. p. 10

⁴5 Ibid.

⁴6 Ibid. Quoting from Keith Hitchins, Romania, 1866-1947. p. 192.

⁴7 Ibid.

⁴8 Ibid. p. 16.

⁴9 Quotes and references in the above two paragraphs are from Andrew Cook, Ace of Spies, The True Story of Sidney Reilly (Stroud, Gloucester, Tempus Publishing Limited, 2004) pp. 62 and 63.

⁵⁰Macgregor and Docherty, Prolonging the Agony p. 16

⁵¹Ibid. referring to Cabinet Papers, CAB38/9/1905, no. 65.

⁵²Ibid. referring to Sir Frederick Maurice, Haldane, p. 175

⁵³Ibid. referring to a paper by the War Office presented on this action to the Committee of Imperial Defence in September 1905. CAB 38/10/1905, no. 73.

⁵⁴Macgregor and Docherty, op.cit. Hidden History, p. 94

⁵⁵Ibid. p. 92 referring to Takahashi Korekiyo, The Rohschilds and the Russo-Japanese War, 1904-1906, pp. 20 and 21.

⁵⁶Ibid. p. 93 referring to Ibid.

⁵⁷Ibid.

⁵⁸Ibid. p. 95.

⁵⁹Ibid. p. 98

⁶⁰Ibid. pp.125 and 126

⁶¹Hassan Malik, Bankers and Bolsheviks, International Finance and the Russian Revolution, (Princeton University Press, 2018) pp. 74-84.

⁶²Ibid. p.127

⁶³Neue freie Presse, 5 April 1906; Berliner Tageblatt, article by Maxim Gor’ky, 9 April 1906; Journal des Debats, 9 April 1906. As found in Journal Article “The Russian Liberals and the 1906 Anglo-French Loan to Russia” by Olga Crisp.

⁶⁴Malik, op.cit. pp. 123-125

⁶⁵Macgregor an Docherty, Hidden History, op.cit. p.70 referring to Fay, Origins of the World War, vol. I p. 153.

⁶⁶ https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/britain-and-france-sign-entente-cordiale

⁶⁷Macgregor and Docherty, Hidden History, op.cit. p. 70

⁶⁸Ibid. p. 212. referring to Quigley, Anglo-American Establishment, p. 15.

⁶⁹Ibid.

⁷⁰Ibid.

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