Creature From Jekyll Island by G. Edward

SCHIFF WAS NOT ALONE

It would be a mistake to conclude that Jacob Schiff acted alone m his drama. Trotsky could not have gone even as far as Halifax without having been granted an American passport, and this was accomplished by the personal intervention of President Wilson Professor Anthony Sutton says:

President Woodrow Wilson was the fairy godmother who

provided Trotsky with a passport to return to Russia to 'carry forward' the revolution.... At the same time careful State Department bureaucrats, concerned about such revolutionaries entering Russia were umlaterally attempting to tighten up passport procedures2

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What emerges from this sampling of events is a clear pattern of strong support for Bolshevism coming from the highest financial and political power centers in the United States; from men who, supposedly, were 'capitalists' and who, according to conventional wisdom, should have been the mortal enemies of socialism and communism.

Nor was this phenomenon confined to the United States.

Trotsky, in his book, My Life, tells of a British financier who, in 1907, gave him a 'large loan' to be repaid after the overthrow of the Tsar. Arsene de Goulevitch, who witnessed the Bolshevik Revolution first hand, has identified both the name of the financier and the amount of the loan. 'In private interviews,' he said, 'I have been told that over 21 million roubles were spent by Lord [Alfred]

Milner in financing the Russian Revolution.... The financier just mentioned was by no means alone among the British to support the Russian revolution with large financial donations.' Another name specifically mentioned by de Goulevitch was that of Sir George Buchanan, the British Ambassador to Russia at the time.1

It was one thing for Americans to undermine Tsarist Russia and, thus, indirectly help Germany in the war, because Americans were not then into it, but for British citizens to do so was tantamount to treason. To understand what higher loyalty compelled these men to betray their battlefield ally and to sacrifice the blood of their own countrymen, we must take a look at the unique organization to which they belonged.

THE SECRET SOCIETY

Lord Alfred Milner was a key figure in organizing a secret society which, at the time of these events, was about sixteen years old. It was dedicated to nothing less than the quiet domination of the world. The conquest of Russia was seen as but the first phase of that plan. Since the organization is still in existence today and continues to make progress toward its goal, it is important to have its history included in this narrative.

One of the most authoritative reference works on the history of this group is Tragedy and Hope by Dr. Carroll Quigley. Dr. Quigley Was a professor of history at Georgetown University where President Clinton had been one of his students. He was the author of the 1 - See Arsene de Goulevitch, Czarism and Revolution (Hawthorne, California: Omru Publications, n.d., rpt. from 1962 French edition), pp. 224, 230.

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widely used textbook. Evolution of Civilization; he was a member of the editorial board of the monthly periodical, Current History; and he was a frequent lecturer and consultant for such groups as the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, the Brookings Institution the U.S. Naval Weapons Laboratory, the Naval College, the Smith soman Institute, and the State Department. But Dr. Quiqley was no mere academic. He also had been closely associated with many of the family dynasties of the super-rich. He was, by his own boast, an insider with a front row view of the world's money power structure.

When Dr. Quigley wrote his scholarly, 1300-page book of drv history, ,t was not intended for the masses. It was to be read by the intellectual elite, and to that select readership he cautiously exposed one of the best-kept secrets of all time. He also made it dear however, that he was a friendly apologist for this group and that he supported its goals and purposes. Dr. Quigley said: I know of the operation of this network because I have studied it tor twenty years and was permitted for two years, in the 1960s to examine : its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it or to most of its amis and have, for much of my life, been close to it and to many of its instruments...In general, my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to remain unknown.

As mentioned, Quigley's book was intended for an elite readership composed of scholars and network insiders. But, unexpect-edly, it began to be quoted in the journals of the John Birch Society which correctly had perceived that his work provided a valuable insight to the inner workings of a hidden power structure That exposure triggered a large demand for the book by people who were opposed to the network and curious to see what an insider had to say about ,t. That was not according to the original plan. What happened next is best described by Quigley, himself. In a personal letter dated December 9,1975, he wrote: MASQUERADE IN MOSCOW

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up to $135 arid parts were reprinted in violation of copyright, but I could do nothing because I believed the publisher, and he would not take action even when a pirate copy of the book appeared. Only when I hired a lawyer in 1974 did I get any answers to my questions....

In another personal letter, Quigley commented further on the duplicity of his publisher:

They lied to me for six years, telling me that they would reprint when they got 2,000 orders, which could never happen because they told anyone who asked that it was out of print and would not be reprinted. They denied this to me until I sent them Xerox copies of such replies in libraries, at which they told me it was a clerk's error. In other words, they lied to me but prevented me from regaining publication rights.... I am now quite sure that Tragedy and Hope was suppressed....

To understand why 'powerful people' would want to suppress this book, note carefully what follows. Dr. Quigley