Popularity: 5
Vote:   | Another paradox of banking practice arose from the fact that bankers, who loved deflation, often acted in an inflationary fashion from their eagerness to lend money at interest. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. |
Popularity: 7
Vote: | In these actions of March 1935 and March 1936, Hitler was running no risk, for the government and the Milner Group had assured him beforehand that it would accept his actions. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | In this Western point of view, evil and sin were negative qualities; they arose from the absence of good, not from the presence of evil. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Instead, there were a variety of controls of which some could be influenced by bankers, some could be influenced by the government, and some could hardly be influenced by either. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | Islam, the third in historical sequence of the ethical monotheistic religions of the Near East, was very successful in establishing its monotheism, but had only very moderate success in spreading its version of Jewish and Christian ethics to the Arabs. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | It never occurred to anyone in a responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common cause, even temporarily, against the West. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | More important than the Milner Group's ability to influence opinion in the Dominions was its ability to influence decisions in London. |
Popularity: 0
Vote: | More than fifty years ago the Morgan firm decided to infiltrate the Left-wing political movements in the United States. |
Popularity: 5
Vote: | On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | The bankers made loans to business so that the volume of money increased faster than the increase in goods. The result was inflation. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The ethical sides of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam sought to counteract harshness, egocentricity, tribalism, cruelty, scorn of work and of one's fellow creatures, but these efforts, on the whole, have met with little success throughout the length of the Pakistani-Peruvian axis. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | The failure of Christianity in the areas west from Sicily was even greater, and was increased by the spread of Arab outlooks and influence to that area, and especially to Spain. |
Popularity: -2
Vote: | The history of the last century shows, as we shall see later, that the advice given to governments by bankers, like the advice they gave to industrialists, was consistently good for bankers, but was often disastrous for governments, businessmen, and the people generally. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The merchant bankers of London had already at hand in 1810-1850 the Stock Exchange, the Bank of England, and the London money market when the needs of advancing industrialism called all of these into the industrial world which they had hitherto ignored. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The most critical example of the Soviet refusal to cooperate and of its insistence on relapsing into isolation, secrecy, and terrorism is to be found in its refusal to join in American efforts to harness the dangerous powers of nuclear fission. |
Popularity: -1
Vote: | The Soviet refusal of the American efforts at international nuclear control, like their refusal of American loans and eeonomie cooperation, provides some of the evidence of the Kremlin's state of mind in 1946. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | The supply of money in a single country was subject to no centralized, responsible control in most countries over recent centuries. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | There is, however, a considerable degree of truth behind the joke, a truth which reflects a very real power structure. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | There were people who said the Society of Cincinnati in the American revolution, of which George Washington was one of the shining lights, was a branch of the Illuminati. |
Popularity: -4
Vote: | This conflict of interests between bankers and industrialists has resulted in most European countries in the subordination of the former either to the latter or to the government (after 193l). |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | This double international network in which the Round Table groups formed the semisecret or secret nuclei of the Institutes of International Affairs was extended into a third network in l925, organized by the same people for the same motives. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | This event of March 1936, by which Hitler remilitarized the Rhineland, was the most crucial event in the whole history of appeasement. |
Popularity: -3
Vote: | This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation. |
Popularity: 3
Vote: | Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war. |
Popularity: 1
Vote: | To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | We have indicated that Halifax's influence on foreign policy was increasingly important in the years 1934-1937. |
Popularity: 4
Vote: | When goods are exchanged between countries, they must be paid for by commodities or gold. They cannot be paid for by the notes, certificates, and checks of the purchaser's country, since these are of value only in the country of issue. |
Popularity: 2
Vote: | When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally. |