Imperial conquest - Michel Chossudovsky

[David Guyatt]

I can only really see one possible sponsor, and that has to be the Council for Foreign Relations. And I suspect that Chossudovsky was hinting at this when he gave the timeline above.

From the Wiki entry on the CFR:

Origins[edit]

Elihu Root, a powerful corporate lawyer who served as Secretary of State, Secretary of War, and U.S. Senator, headed the first Council on Foreign Relations with a small group of New York financiers and lawyers

"[T]he common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialized class whose personal interests reach beyond the locality."

Former CFR board member Walter Lippman, Public Opinion (1922)

Towards the end of World War I, a working fellowship of about 150 scholars called "The Inquiry" was tasked to brief President Woodrow Wilson about options for the postwar world when Germany was defeated. Through 19171918, this academic band, including Wilson's closest adviser and long-time friend "Colonel" Edward M. House, as well as Walter Lippmann, gathered at the Harold Pratt House in New York City, to assemble the strategy for the postwar world.[SUP][2][/SUP] The team produced more than 2,000 documents detailing and analyzing the political, economic, and social facts globally that would be helpful for Wilson in the peace talks. Their reports formed the basis for theFourteen Points, which outlined Wilson's strategy for peace after war's end. These scholars then traveled to the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and participated in the discussions there.[SUP][3][/SUP]
As a result of discussions they had at the Peace Conference, a small group of British and American diplomats and scholars met on May 30, 1919 at the Hotel Majestic in Paris and decided to create an Anglo-American organization called The Institute of International Affairs, which would have offices in London and New York.[SUP][4][/SUP][SUP][5][/SUP] However, due to the isolationist views that were prevalent in American society at the time, the scholars had difficulty gaining traction with their plan, and turned their focus instead to a set of discrete meetings that had been taking place since June 1918 in New York City, under the name Council on Foreign Relations. The meetings were headed by the corporate lawyerElihu Root, who had served as Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt, and attended by 108 "high-ranking officers of banking, manufacturing, trading and finance companies, together with many lawyers." The members were proponents of Wilson's internationalism, but were particularly concerned about "the effect that the war and the treaty of peace might have on postwar business."[SUP][6][/SUP]The scholars from the inquiry saw an opportunity here to create an organization that brought diplomats, high-level government officials and academics together with lawyers, bankers, and industrialists to engineer government policy. On July 29, 1921 they filed a certification ofincorporation, officially forming the Council on Foreign Relations.[SUP][7][/SUP] In 1922 Edwin F. Gay, former dean of the Harvard Business School and director of the Shipping Board during the war, spearheaded the Council's efforts to begin publication of a magazine that would be the "authoritative" source on foreign policy. He gathered $125,000 from the wealthy members on the council, and via sending letters soliciting funds to "the thousand richest Americans". Using these funds, the first issue of Foreign Affairs was published in September 1922, and within a few years had a gained a reputation as the "most authoritative American review dealing with international relations".[SUP][8][/SUP]
In the late 1930s, the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller Foundation began contributing large amounts of money to the Council.[SUP][9][/SUP] In 1938 they created various Committees on Foreign Relations[SUP][10][/SUP] throughout the country, funded by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation. Influential men were to be chosen in a number of cities, and would then be brought together for discussions in their own communities as well as participating in an annual conference in New York. These local committees served to influence local leaders and shape public opinion to build support for the Council's policies, while also acting as "useful listening posts" through which the Council and U.S. government could "sense the mood of the country".[SUP][11][/SUP]
Beginning in 1939 and lasting for five years, the Council achieved much greater prominence within the government and the State Department when it established the strictly confidential War and Peace Studies, funded entirely by the Rockefeller Foundation.[SUP][12][/SUP] The secrecy surrounding this group was such that the Council members who were not involved in its deliberations were completely unaware of the study group's existence.[SUP][12][/SUP] It was divided into four functional topic groups: economic and financial, security and armaments, territorial, and political. The security and armaments group was headed by Allen Welsh Dulles who later became a pivotal figure in the CIA's predecessor, the OSS. It ultimately produced 682 memoranda for the State Department, marked classified and circulated among the appropriate government departments. [SUP][12][/SUP]

We could do with Linda Minor's input here, as she has researched Colonel House thoroughly. And, of course, Elihu Root had close connections to the Skull & Bones - and both Linda's and my old chum RoadsEnd/Kris, is the expert on the Bonesmen - so we could do with his input too.

The CFR also explains the constant British component of the US imperialistic drive, with the RIIA in London being the painted face of the Rhodes-Milner "Group", that in turn directly connects to the Skull & Bones -- as Prof. Tony Sutton revealed in his four slim volumes on that "Order".