Few things in history have proven as profitable for the major bankers as war.
President Wilson’s Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, spoke the truth:
”The large banking interests were deeply interested in the World War because of the tremendous opportunities for large profits.”
Let’s take a closer look at the forces that operated behind the scenes to manipulate the First World War and how and why they did it.
It wouldn’t have been possible if the majority of people had understood who truly governed and how they did it.
Ph.D. Steven Yates articulated this well in his excellent article ”The Real Matrix”:
”For social engineering to work, it’s necessary for the targeted population to know as little as possible. They have to be educated, or rather trained, not to think but to do as they are told. They have to be conditioned into a state of dependency of various kinds and continually distracted so that they can’t put two and two together.”
In 1954, the Reece Committee, which was investigating tax-exempt foundations, revealed that the Carnegie Foundation, established in 1904, was an organization engaged in promoting wars.
The committee’s head, Norman Dodd, disclosed:
”At a trustees’ meeting, for example, in 1909, the question came up, ’Is there any means known more effective than war, assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people?’ At the end of the meeting, a possibility was that ’it’s necessary to involve the United States in a war.'”
This meant that the elite had planned to use war to achieve their goals.
Historian and professor Carroll Quigley, who gained access to the elite’s own documents, exposed how a group of men in the secret society known as the ”Round Table Group” had been orchestrating chaos, wars, and depressions to advance their agendas since the beginning of the century.
The Round Table Group was formed in 1891 by the Freemason, racist, and imperialist Cecil Rhodes, journalist William Stead, and politician Reginald Baliol Brett. However, the key members were the politician Alfred Milner and the future Prime Minister Alfred Balfour. They were also known as the Milner Group and soon established branches in several countries.
The idea was to enforce a policy that would allow the maintenance of Britain’s economic and political dominance globally. To succeed in this grand plan, they needed to create a privately owned central bank in the emerging superpower, the United States, and install initiated individuals in key positions of power. In Britain, they had at least 11 Cabinet ministers, and in the United States, they had, among others, Colonel Edward Mandell House, who had previously represented British and American banking interests and later became President Woodrow Wilson’s closest advisor.
Quigley extensively detailed the key figures in his book ”The Anglo-American Establishment” and expressed his concern about what he had discovered:
”The picture is frightening. The powers of financial capitalism had another far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create 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. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences. The apex of the system was to be the Bank for International Settlements in Basle, Switzerland, a private bank owned and controlled by the world’s central banks which were themselves private corporations. Each central bank…sought to dominate its government by its ability to control Treasury loans, to manipulate foreign exchanges, to influence the level of economic activity in the country, and to influence cooperative politicians by subsequent economic rewards in the business world.”
The group created the powerful organizations such as the Royal Institute of International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Club of Rome, the Bilderberg Group, and the Trilateral Commission.
These groups have been, and still are, involved in controlling many major global political events. Their members can be found within the global elite, serving as politicians, bankers, businessmen, media figures, lawyers, military personnel, and various officials across different sectors.
Before the second Hague Conference in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt sent U.S. diplomat Henry White to London for a meeting with Arthur Balfour, the leader of the Conservative Party. During the discussion about the developments in Germany, Balfour revealed a shocking agenda to White:
”We are probably mad, quite mad, to think of a war with Germany before she has built more ships and we have spent several million pounds. If we must have a war, we are a better chance now than we shall ever have.”
A stunned White replied:
”You are a great man privately, how can you consider something so politically immoral as provoking war with a harmless country that has every right to build a fleet equal to yours? If you want to compete with Germany, work harder.”
Balfour:
”It would entail a lowering of our standard of living, perhaps it’s better for us to have a war.”
White:
”I am shocked that you of all men should express such opinions.”
Balfour:
”Is it a matter of right or wrong? Perhaps it’s a matter of maintaining our power dominion.”
This incident is recounted in the biography ”Henry White, Thirty Years of American Diplomacy” by renowned historian Alan Nevins, who could also confirm that White’s daughter had heard the conversation.
A crucial aspect of the elite’s plans was the creation of a new central bank. The plans were laid out at Jekyll Island in 1910. Three years later, on December 23, 1913, when most senators had left for the Christmas holiday, the Federal Reserve was approved by Congress. The foundation was laid in 1907 after the creation of a severe economic depression. Colonel House handpicked the first members of the Federal Reserve Board.
The Congress of Vienna, after the Napoleonic Wars, redrew the map of Europe. Smaller states with common culture united, while larger states risked falling apart as various ethnic groups sought independence. The unification of Germany was one of the consequences. Under Bismarck’s rule, a system of alliances was formed to maintain a balance of power between the great powers.
Between 1906 and 1910, the share of global production dropped to 14.7% for Britain, while Germany’s had increased to 15.9%. The political and economic elite of Britain, along with Germany’s well-developed navy, saw this as a direct threat to their global power. International bankers were frustrated that they couldn’t take a bigger share of Germany’s economic growth, while the Serbians were frustrated by their lack of independence.
On October 8, 1908, several ministers, bankers, businessmen, and military figures gathered at the Belgrade government building to form a secret group called National Defense. Its activities included anti-Austrian propaganda, training partisans for war, and recruiting spies and saboteurs. The group was so effective that it provoked an angry response from Austria, forcing Serbia’s government to disband it.
On May 9, 1911, ten members of the National Defense formed a terrorist group called the Black Hand, led by Colonel Apis. They trained some students to carry out an assassination attempt on Austria’s Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was to visit Bosnia. One member of the Black Hand thought the plan was too risky and informed the Prime Minister. The leadership of the group pressured Apis to stop the perpetrators, but it didn’t happen.
The truth is that information about the assassination attempt had leaked weeks in advance, but no further efforts were made to stop the murderers from killing the Austrian heir. It’s less well-known that the assassination attempt initially failed when one of the accomplices threw a bomb that hit the car behind the archduke.
The archduke’s driver hurried to the town hall. After the reception, the archduke wanted to visit the wounded in the hospital. A general advised that they take a different route along the quay for safety. However, the driver was not informed, and when he turned right onto the main street, Gavrilo Princip was waiting there to fire the fatal shots. Serbia refused to hand over the perpetrators, and the murder served as an excuse for the war that the bankers so eagerly desired.
In his book ”How Diplomats Make War,” British Member of Parliament Dr. Francis Neilson revealed how the public had been deceived into believing that the Germans had initiated the naval arms race when it was, in fact, the British authorities and the newspaper barons who fueled the notion of ”the German threat.”
Neilson presented documents as proof of his claims. It was the British who started illegal blockades to obstruct the Germans’ economic expansion. Another myth Neilson debunked was the claim that Britain entered the war to defend Belgium’s neutrality. The truth was that, in the 1831 declaration, the British had committed to RESPECT Belgium’s neutrality, not DEFEND it.
Neilson also revealed that Foreign Minister Edward Grey had made a secret alliance with the French in 1906 that obligated the British to go to war if France went to war with Germany. He explained that Germany’s economy was better than Britain’s, not only because of Germany’s growing industry but also because the Boer War had cost the British dearly.
In a meeting between President Wilson’s advisor Colonel House and Britain’s Foreign Secretary Grey, they discussed how to involve the United States in the war.
Grey asked, ”What will America do if the Germans sink an American passenger ship?”
House responded, ”I think a flame of indignation would sweep over the nation, and I think it would suffice to carry us into the war.”
In 1917, U.S. Ambassador in Britain Walter H. Page sent a confidential message to President Wilson, stating:
”It is not unlikely that the only way to maintain our present preeminent trade position and to avert a panic is to declare war against Germany.”
When the Germans became aware of House and the British’s intentions, they placed advertisements in U.S. newspapers warning Americans not to travel on the ocean liner Lusitania. In May 1915, 1,200 people died when the Lusitania was sunk by a German submarine. Just before the sinking, two escort ships had been ordered back by the British, and it was later revealed that the Lusitania had carried significant amounts of ammunition in its cargo, smuggled on board.
The outrage over the sinking eventually contributed to the United States entering the war. An equally decisive factor, however, was that British codebreakers managed to decipher several of the Germans’ secret messages. One of these was the Zimmermann Telegram. In January 1917, German Foreign Minister Arthur Zimmerman sent a telegram to the German ambassador in Mexico. It mentioned that Germany was soon planning to launch unrestricted submarine warfare without prior warning. They hoped to deter the U.S. from entering the war because of the potential risks. In case peace negotiations with the British and their allies failed, the Germans planned to negotiate with Mexico and Japan to join the Central Powers. They even tempted Mexico with the possibility of regaining territory it had lost to the United States. The telegram was intercepted by British intelligence in London, who decoded it.
Aware that the content would stir up Americans, the British provided a copy of the telegram to the U.S. ambassador on February 23. Two days later, it reached President Wilson. On April 2, 1917, Wilson presented a proposal to Congress to declare war on Germany, which was approved on April 6, 1917.
Dr. Yates explains in Chapter 4 of ”The Real Matrix”:
”The Super Elite had created the conditions for world war. It follows a pattern familiar to students of the German philosopher Hegel, that is, TES-ANTITHESIS-SYNTHESIS.”
In other words, create the conditions for a major crisis (thesis), which will provoke a powerful reaction (antithesis), and this will lead to the elite offering their solution (synthesis). The solution the Super Elite offered in response to the crises they had created involved a takeover of power. Its members have always loved war.
After the humiliating Treaty of Versailles in 1919, in which the British delegation was made up of Milner’s men and the American delegation was dominated by House, they had laid the foundation for a second world war.
