JFK and the Federal Reserve - A Historical Perspective

[Gary Craig]

Franklin Roosevelt Memorandum to Cordell Hull, January 24, 1944 from Major Problems in American Foreign Policy, Volume II:
Since 1914, 4th edition, edited by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995), p. 189.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrch.htm
I saw Halifax [Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States] last week and told him quite frankly that it was perfectly
true that I had, for over a year, expressed the opinion that Indo-China should not go back to France but that it should be
administered by an international trusteeship. France has had the country-thirty million inhabitants for nearly one hundred years,
and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning.

As a matter of interest, I am wholeheartedly supported in this view by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek [of China] and by Marshal
Stalin. I see no reason to play in with the British Foreign Office in this matter. The only reason they seem to oppose it is that
they fear the effect it would have on their own possessions and those of the Dutch. They have never liked the idea of trusteeship
because it is, in some instances, aimed at future independence. This is true in the case of IndoChina.
Each case must, of course, stand on its own feet, but the case of Indo-China is perfectly clear. France has milked it for one
hundred years. The people of IndoChina are entitled to something better than that.

-----------------------

Franklin Roosevelt on French Rule in Indochina, Press Conference, February 23, 1945, from Major Problems in American Foreign Policy,
Volume II: Since 1914, 4th edition, edited by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995), p. 190.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrpc.htm
With the Indo-Chinese, there is a feeling they ought to be independent but are not ready for it. I suggested at the time [19431, to Chiang,
that Indo-China be set up under a trusteeship--have a Frenchman, one or two Indo-Chinese, and a Chinese and a Russian because they are on
the coast, and maybe a Filipino and an American--to educate them for self-government. It took fifty years for us to do it in the Philippines.

Stalin liked the idea. China liked the idea. The British don't like it. It might bust up their empire, because if the Indo-Chinese were to
work together and eventually get their independence, the Burmese might do the same thing to England. The French have talked about how they
expect to recapture Indo-China, but they haven't got any shipping to do it with. It would only get the British mad. Chiang would go along.
Stalin would go along. As for the British, it would only make the British mad. Better to keep quiet just now.

--------------------------

Franklin Roosevelt Conversation with Charles Taussig on French Rule in Indochina, March 15, 1945, from Major Problems in American Foreign
Policy, Volume II: Since 1914, 4th edition, edited by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995), p. 190.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrct.htm
The President [FDR] said he was concerned about the brown people in the East. He said that there are 1,100,000,000 brown people. In many
Eastern countries, they are ruled by a handful of whites and they resent it. Our goal must be to help them achieve independence--1 ,100,000,000
potential enemies are dangerous. He said he included the 450,000,000 Chinese in that. He then added, Churchill doesn't understand this.
The President said he thought we might have some difficulties with France in the matter of colonies. I said that I thought that was quite
probable and it was also probable the British would use France as a "stalking horse."

I asked the President if he had changed his ideas on French Indo-China as he had expressed them to us at the luncheon with [British secretary
of state for the colonies Oliver] Stanley. He said no he had not changed his ideas; that French Indo-China and New Caledonia should be taken
from France and put under a trusteeship. The President hesitated a moment and then said--well if we can get the proper pledge from France to
assume for herself the obligations of a trustee, then I would agree to France retaining these colonies with the proviso that independence was
the ultimate goal. I asked the President if he would settle for self-government. He said no. I asked him if he would settle for dominion status.
He said no--it must be independence. He said that is to be the policy and you can quote me in the State Department.

[Adele Edisen]

That could have been a chance to avoid the US Vietnam War; it could have saved 58,000 American lives and millions of Vietnamese lives. Opportunity knocks but once. So close, and yet so far....
I'd bet the international banking interests were delighted with their profits.

Adele

[Adele Edisen]

http://www.biography.com/people/franklin...lt-9463381

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) died on April 12, 1945, less than a month after his last statement, above, on March 15, 1945. He had been elected to his fourth term as President in November, 1944. He was 63 years old.

Adele

[Adele Edisen]

A descriptive note on the Money Masters Video:


The Money Masters - How International Bankers Gained Control of America


3:35:19 - 5 years ago

Also watch FIREWALL: (http://www.larouchepac.com/firewall) "The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching plan, 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...Their secret is that they have annexed from governments, monarchies, and republics the power to create the world's money..." THE MONEY MASTERS is a 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central" bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international central bankers. Segments: The Problem; The Money Changers; Roman Empire; The Goldsmiths of Medieval England; Tally Sticks; The Bank of England; The Rise of the Rothschilds; The American Revolution; The Bank of North America; The Constitutional Convention; First Bank of the U.S.; Napoleon's Rise to Power; Death of the First Bank of the U.S. / War of 1812; Waterloo; Second Bank of the U.S.; Andrew Jackson; Fort Knox; World Central Bank; Loose Change 911 truth police state globalists NWO New World Order Federal Reserve Alex Jones Aaron Russo America From Freedom To Fascism zionist IMF BIS John Perkins 911 911 Globalism bilderberg Rothschild Rockefeller Schiff Warburg illuminati bohemian grove idi amin freemason Also recommended: "Firewall: In Defense of Nation State" http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=8...5816415310 Video news on "Federal Reserve": http://newstree.org/search.jsp?query=Fed...deo&vx=1«

[Kenneth Kapel]

In response to the last post by Adele Edisen ,why was Harry Truman selected to be FDR's running mate in 1944, replacing the more liberal and sitting Vice President Henry Wallace ? Those close to FDR knew that it was unlikely that he would survive his full term, thus handing the Presidency to the man from Missouri.yIMO the establishment doesn't hand the Presidency to anyone with out expecting a lot in return. Harry S. Truman helped to build the current National Security State,that we all love so well. Mr. Truman also was a McCarthyite before Joe McCarthy by establishing loyality oaths and subversive activity control boards. Another so-called liberal Woodrow Wilson was the instrument used by the establishment to create the mammonish Federal Reserve. Real liberals are eliminated, phony ones are praised to high heaven.

In his magnum opus Professor Carroll Quigley, of Georgetown University and Bill Clinton's mentor, Tragedy & Hope states that the world's power structure, through such organizations as The Council on Foreign Relations, plan to create a world dominated by the various central banks and force the world's citizens to live as serfs, another key, if not THE Key cog in this financial scheme will be The Bank of International Settlements of Switzerland. In 1946 Richard Nixon was elected to Congress after beating five term Democrat Jerry Voorhis, Mr. Voorhis was a fierce foe of the Bank which was accused of collaboration with the Nazis during the war. One of Mr Nixon's major backers in the race against Voorhis was Prescott Bush, of Brown Brothers - Harriman, both he & Averill Harriman were members of Skull & Bones, and Mr. Bush was the principle stockholder in the Union Banking Corporation, whose assets were seized by the Federal Government for violation of The Trading with the Enemies Act Nixon was later forced out of the Presidency by a coup, IMHO.

Back in the 1970's The John Birch Society pushed Professors Quiqley's 1,300 page tome. Currently the Koch Brothers, whose father was a Birch founder, are leading the way to lessen citizent's ability to vote, join unions, and other such neo-fascist policies that can only lead the United States into a non-middle class society and totally downa Road to Serfdom.

[Adele Edisen]

In response to the last post,why was Harry Truman selected to be FDR's running mate in 1944, replacing the more liberal and sitting Vice President Henry Wallace ? Those close to FDR knew that it was unlikely that he would survive his full term, thus handing the Presidency to the man from Missouri.yIMO the establishment doesn't hand the Presidency to anyone with out expecting a lot in return. Harry S. Truman helped to build the current National Security State,that we all love so well. Mr. Truman also was a McCarthyite before Joe McCarthy by establishing loyality oaths and subversive activity control boards. Another so called liberal, Woodrow Wilson established the Mammonish private Federal Reserve, real liberals are eliminated, phony ones are praised to high heaven.

Your questions are good ones, and important ones. I don't have an answer for every one, but your last question about Woodrow Wilson I might be able to shed some light on. The bankers who wanted to establish a privately owned central bank
met in secret on Jekyll Island and literally wrote the legislative act which would be presented for Congressonal action. Woodrow Wilson, a college professor at Princeton, was a candidate for the presidency in 1912. These bankers sent someone to Wilson to tell him that they would provide him with money for his political campaign if he would promise to sign the Federal Reserve Act into law when he became president. They may have made the same offer to his opponent as well. Wilson did win his 1912 election and he did keep his promise to sign the act into law. It seems that he may have thought that the Federal Reserve system would prevent the swings in the economy and provide the stability required in the nation's monetary system. Wilson was not a banker or an economist who could have understood what a privately owned central bank in control of the monetary system could do. There were many who were opposed to such a system, having awareness of U.S. history with central banks. Hindsight is always a great teacher; Wilson apologized to the American people for his mistake when he finally understood what had transpired as a result of his signing the Federal Reserve Act into law.

I remember Henry Wallace, a very progressive politician. Truman had the support of the very powerful Pendergast Democratic political machine in Missouri, but I don't know why he was able to be selected over a sitting vice-president - I'm thinking that there was something about a third party headed by Wallace, but that must have come later(?). Truman regretted signing the National Security Act of 1947 which also created the Central Intelligence Agency. Like Wilson, he also apologized to the American people on December 22, 1963, one month after the assassination of President John Kennedy, in the Washington Post newspaper. He had wanted the CIA only to furnish foreign intelligence to the president so that he (and other presidents) could make intelligent foreign policies and other decisions regarding foreign nations. He loathed the monstrous organization he had unwittingly created, and suspected the CIA of the JFK assassination.

There was a great deal of turmoil after the end of World War II. We had been wartime allies with the Soviet Union. but after the war there began a competition, an unnecessary one, I might add, with the Soviet Union over spheres of influence and stockpiling of nuclear weapons because German Nazis (Paperclip guests of the US) and Wall Street bankers, etc., were eager to see the US and USSR at war with each other*. This produced the hunt for domestic communists and 'fellow travelers' of which McCarthy was a part. That had a lot to do with breaking up labor unions and creating suspicions of their progressive-minded leaders. Artists, poets, writers, playwrights, screen directors, college and medical school professors even were hauled before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Loyalty oaths had to be signed. The country was seized by paranoia of the kind exhibited by the current Rep. West from Florida who claims 78-81 Democrats in Congress are communists. The Communist Party was outlawed as a political party in the 1950s. Incidentally, Joe McCarthy, in his very first political campaign for office in Wisconsin, according to Drew Pearson's biography of McCarthy, borrowed the Communist Party's platform for his own and won!

I'll see if I can find out more about the Wallace/Truman VP story.

*Remember President Eisenhower's warning to the American people to beware of the industrial-military complex.

Adelr

[Adele Edisen]

Biography of Henry Wallace

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USARwallace.htm

Adele

[Adele Edisen]

The Democratic Vice-Presidential Nomination of 1944


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Democra...on_of_1944


Adele

[Kenneth Kapel]

Thank you for the links.

[Gary Craig]

Franklin Roosevelt Memorandum to Cordell Hull, January 24, 1944 from Major Problems in American Foreign Policy, Volume II:
Since 1914, 4th edition, edited by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995), p. 189.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrch.htm
I saw Halifax [Lord Halifax, British ambassador to the United States] last week and told him quite frankly that it was perfectly
true that I had, for over a year, expressed the opinion that Indo-China should not go back to France but that it should be
administered by an international trusteeship. France has had the country-thirty million inhabitants for nearly one hundred years,
and the people are worse off than they were at the beginning.

As a matter of interest, I am wholeheartedly supported in this view by Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek [of China] and by Marshal
Stalin. I see no reason to play in with the British Foreign Office in this matter. The only reason they seem to oppose it is that
they fear the effect it would have on their own possessions and those of the Dutch. They have never liked the idea of trusteeship
because it is, in some instances, aimed at future independence. This is true in the case of IndoChina.
Each case must, of course, stand on its own feet, but the case of Indo-China is perfectly clear. France has milked it for one
hundred years. The people of IndoChina are entitled to something better than that.

-----------------------

Franklin Roosevelt on French Rule in Indochina, Press Conference, February 23, 1945, from Major Problems in American Foreign Policy,
Volume II: Since 1914, 4th edition, edited by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995), p. 190.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrpc.htm
With the Indo-Chinese, there is a feeling they ought to be independent but are not ready for it. I suggested at the time [19431, to Chiang,
that Indo-China be set up under a trusteeship--have a Frenchman, one or two Indo-Chinese, and a Chinese and a Russian because they are on
the coast, and maybe a Filipino and an American--to educate them for self-government. It took fifty years for us to do it in the Philippines.

Stalin liked the idea. China liked the idea. The British don't like it. It might bust up their empire, because if the Indo-Chinese were to
work together and eventually get their independence, the Burmese might do the same thing to England. The French have talked about how they
expect to recapture Indo-China, but they haven't got any shipping to do it with. It would only get the British mad. Chiang would go along.
Stalin would go along. As for the British, it would only make the British mad. Better to keep quiet just now.

--------------------------

Franklin Roosevelt Conversation with Charles Taussig on French Rule in Indochina, March 15, 1945, from Major Problems in American Foreign
Policy, Volume II: Since 1914, 4th edition, edited by Thomas G. Paterson and Dennis Merrill (Lexington, MA: D.C. Heath and Company, 1995), p. 190.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrct.htm
The President [FDR] said he was concerned about the brown people in the East. He said that there are 1,100,000,000 brown people. In many
Eastern countries, they are ruled by a handful of whites and they resent it. Our goal must be to help them achieve independence--1 ,100,000,000
potential enemies are dangerous. He said he included the 450,000,000 Chinese in that. He then added, Churchill doesn't understand this.
The President said he thought we might have some difficulties with France in the matter of colonies. I said that I thought that was quite
probable and it was also probable the British would use France as a "stalking horse."

I asked the President if he had changed his ideas on French Indo-China as he had expressed them to us at the luncheon with [British secretary
of state for the colonies Oliver] Stanley. He said no he had not changed his ideas; that French Indo-China and New Caledonia should be taken
from France and put under a trusteeship. The President hesitated a moment and then said--well if we can get the proper pledge from France to
assume for herself the obligations of a trustee, then I would agree to France retaining these colonies with the proviso that independence was
the ultimate goal. I asked the President if he would settle for self-government. He said no. I asked him if he would settle for dominion status.
He said no--it must be independence. He said that is to be the policy and you can quote me in the State Department.

WTF?

I've used the link I posted for years.

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/fdrch.htm


Now I get: - Page not found

The requested page "/acad/intrel/fdrpc.htm" could not be found.

And no way to get to those pages.

Is this the result of the commercialization of information on the e-net or something else?

Buy the book or take the class or remain ignorant???

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?u...th+Edition

That link was a rich resource.

What a loss. :>(