This page includes an introduction to Carroll Quigley, with information on
hisTragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our Time and The
Anglo-American Establishment, You may also find how to order thebooks.
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An introduction to President Clinton's Political Mentor Carroll Quigley.
It is not hard to understand why President Clinton gave tribute to Carroll
Quigley in his nomination speech at the Democratic Party Convention.
Quigley graduated magna cum laude with MA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard.
He was even in Ripley's Believe It or Not for being Harvard's youngest
person to receive a Ph.D. After teaching at Harvard and Princeton he went
to Georgetown where for 28 consecutive years alumni selected him as their
most influential professor. Dean of The School of Foreign Service, Dr.
Peter F. Krough aptly states, 'He was one of the last of the great
macro-historians who traced the development of civilization...with awesome
capability.' With his teachings, Clinton and other aspirants have aligned
themselves in positions of influence. As Quigley espoused, 'Look at the
real situations which lie beneath the conceptual and verbal symbols.'
As of his death in 1977 Dr. Carroll Quigley is no longer with us, yet
Tragedy and Hope is a hallmark of history, a classic to be owned by those
who care to know of the forces that have shaped and are shaping history.
Carroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope: A History Of The World In Our Time.
When Carroll Quigley was still living in April of 1971, Phyllis Schlafly in
The Phyllis Schlafly Report wrote a commentary on Tragedy and Hope.
Who is really running things in America? What is the hidden,
powerful force that seems to control U.S. policies no matter who
is elected? The overwhelming majority of Americans oppose foreign
giveaways. What is the hidden force that persuades Congress to
vote at least $10 billion in foreign giveaways year after year
after year, in direct opposition to the wishes of their
constituents?
Dr. Quigley is an authority on the world's secret power structure
because HE IS ONE OF THE INSIDERS. He boasts that he has been
associated with many of the dynastic families of the super-rich.
He writes approvingly of their power, influence, and activities.
To assure his readers of his own unique qualifications for the
writing of this book, Dr. Quigley states: 'I know of the
operations of this network because I have studied it for twenty
years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960's, to
examine its papers and secret records. I have no aversion to it
or to most of its aims and have, for much of my life, been close
to it and to many of its instruments. I have objected, both in
the past and recently, to a few of its policies. . . but in
general my chief difference of opinion is that it wishes to
remain unknown, and I believe its role in history is significant
enough to be known.'
In other words, Dr. Quigley is one of those on the inside of the
'network,' and his chief disagreement with his associates is that
he wants to tell what the 'network' is doing, and the others want
to remain secret. Hence the book, Tragedy and Hope, in which Dr.
Quigley 'tells all,' thereby exposing one of the best-kept
secrets in the world. The 'Hope' in the title represents the
man-made millennium of a collectivist one-world society which the
world will enjoy when the 'network' achieves its goal of ruling
the world. He says the 'network' already has such power and
influence that it is now too late for the little people to turn
back the tide. All who resist represent the 'Tragedy.' He urges
us not to fight the noose which is already around our necks,
because if we do we will only choke ourselves to death.
Phyllis Schlafly's commentary answers 8 questions. You may read all eight,
scroll to, or link to the comments that interest you. The questions proceed
as follows: 1. Who Runs The Establishment. 2. How the Tax- Exempt
Foundations are the Base of Operations. 3. How The Establishment Helped
Give China to the Communists. 4. The Role of the CFR in The Establishment.
5. How the Establishment Controls the Universities. 6. Establishment
Influence on the Election of Presidents. 7. The Influence of Cecil Rhodes.
8. The One Thing the Establishment Fears.
1.Who Runs The Establishment. The greatest value of Tragedy and
Hope is that it constitutes a bold and boastful admission BY ONE
ON THE INSIDE of the Establishment that there actually exists a
relatively small but powerful group which has succeeded in
acquiring a choke-hold on the affairs of America and Europe. Dr.
Quigley identified this group as the 'international bankers,' men
who are quite 'different from ordinary bankers in distinctive
ways: they were cosmopolitan and international; they were close
to governments and were particularly concerned with questions of
government debts. . .; they were almost equally devoted to
secrecy and the secret use of financial influence in political
life. These bankers came to be called international bankers and,
more particularly, were known as merchant bankers in England,
private bankers in France, and investment bankers in the United
States.'
Dr. Quigley shows that the core of control is in the financial
dynasties of Europe and America who have exercised political
control through the formation of international financial
combines. These monopoly money dynasties learned the elementary
lesson that all governments must have sources of revenue from
which to borrow in times of emergency. By providing such funds,
the international bankers could make both kings and democratic
leaders tremendously subservient to their will. Quigley names who
they are. He tells how they hid the extent of their immense
wealth from the public by keeping their firms unincorporated,
usually partnerships, offering no shares, no reports, and usually
no advertising.
Dr. Quigley traces the immense power and control exercised by the
Rothschilds, the Bank of England, J.P. Morgan, and the
Rockefellers. By 1900, according to Dr. Quigley, 'the influence
of these business leaders was so great that the Morgan and
Rockefeller groups acting together, or even Morgan acting alone,
could have wrecked the economic system of the country.'
By the beginning of the twentieth century, the American economy
had become so dynamic that the major banking dynasties found it
increasingly difficult to maintain a tight control. Furthermore,
their control was being challenged as a major political issue in
national elections. So the Morgan and Rockefeller dynasties
decided to follow the pattern of monopoly control over finance
established by the Bank of England, that is a PRIVATELY
controlled institution which had the APPEARANCE of an official
government institution. The result was the Federal Reserve Act,
originally plotted in a secret meeting on Jekyl Island in 1910
attended by representatives of the Morgan and Rockefeller banks.
The Federal Reserve bill was introduced into the Senate by
Senator Nelson Aldrich, grandfather of Governor Nelson Aldrich
Rockefeller. The original bill failed because Aldrich was too
closely connected with Morgan and Wall Street.
The Morgan-Rockefeller group then realized they had to have
Democratic backing in order to erase the Wall Street taint of the
bill. The opportunity presented itself during the election of
1912. Desperate to defeat President William Howard Taft (who
opposed the Aldrich bill), Wall Street poured funds into the
campaigns of both Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt, in order
to split the Republicans and assure the election of Wilson.
The operation of the Federal Reserve is one of the most
interesting and mysterious combines in the country. Since it was
founded in 1913, it has successfully resisted every attempt to
conduct an audit of its affairs. Its most recent political
activity was to manipulate the interest rates during 1970 to the
highest in 100 years which quickly caused a recession. This was
blamed on the Republicans, and insured the election of a Democrat
Congress. When David Kennedy, the Nixon Secretary of the
Treasury, was asked about the credit-tightening policies of the
Federal Reserve, he replied: 'It's not my job to approve or
disapprove. It is the action of the Federal Reserve.'
2. How the Tax-Exempt Foundations are the Base of Operations. Dr.
Quigley tells of the panic the Establishment went into at the
formation of the Special Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt
Foundations in 1953 with Congressman Carroll Reece of Tennessee
as chairman. In substance, Dr. Quigley admits the truth of the
excellent book by Rene A. Wormser called Foundations: Their Power
and Influence which detailed the facts about foundations as
uncovered by the Reece investigation. Here are some criticisms of
tax-exempt foundations given in the Wormser book: a) How they
interlock into a monolithic monopoly of power to carry out
globalist policies. b) How they develop an elite corps of social
engineers with a compulsive drive to remake the world along
Socialist lines. c) How the foundation-sponsored Kinsey report
was deliberately designed as an attack on Judaic-Christian
morality. d) How they imported a Swedish Socialist to produce a
study on American Negro which has been used to justify
revolutionary activities. e) How they use the ultimatum 'conform
or no grant' to subvert and American education. f) How they
finance and promote Socialist textbooks. g) How they push Rhodes
scholars into Government service. h) How they produce history
books which keep Americans from learning the truth. I) How they
promote the United Nations as the home base for the
Socialist-Communist coalition.
Dr. Quigley explains why the Reece investigation did not have the
impact it should have had: 'It soon became clear that people of
immense wealth would be unhappy if the investigation went too far
and that the most respected newspapers in the country, closely
allied with these men of wealth, would not get excited enough
about any revelations to make the publicity worthwhile, in terms
of votes or campaign contributions.'
GSG offers Foundations: Their Power and Influence, see books.
3. How The Establishment Helped Give China to the Communists. The
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee in 16 volumes of hearings
documented beyond any doubt that China was lost to the Communists
by the deliberate actions of a group of academic experts on the
Far East, and Communist fellow travelers whose work was
controlled and coordinated by the Institute of Pacific Relations.
Dr. Quigley adds a new dimension to the China story. He says:
'The influence of the Communists in IPR is well established, but
the patronage of Wall Street is less well known.' He shows how
the IPR money came from the Carnegie Foundation, the Rockefeller
Foundation, and specific Wall Street interests, adding, 'The
financial deficits which occurred each year were picked up by
financial angels, almost all with close Wall Street connections,'
including Frederick Vanderbilt Field, Thomas Lamont, the senior
head of J.P. Morgan and Company, and his son, Corliss Lamont.'
Dr. Quigley, in talking about the loss of China, admits the
thesis of the great book by John T. Flynn, While You Slept, who
was the first to expose how the leading book review journals are
loaded to aid the Communists. Dr. Quigley states: 'It is also
true that this group, from its control of funds, academic
recommendations, and research or publication opportunities, could
favor persons who accepted the established consensus and could
injure, financially or in professional advancement, persons who
did not accept it. It is also true that the established group, by
its influence on book reviewing in The New York Times, theHerald
Tribune, the Saturday Review, a few magazines, including the
liberal weeklies, and in the professional journals, could advance
or hamper any specialist's career. It is also true that these
things were done in the United States in regard to the Far East
by the Institute of Pacific Relations, that this organization had
been infiltrated by Communists, and by Communist sympathizers,
and that much of this group's influence arose from its access to
and control over the flow of funds from foundations to scholarly
activities.'
4. The Role of the CFR in the Establishment. Dr. Quigley
describes the Council on Foreign Relations as one of several
'front' organizations set up by the inner group for the purpose
of advancing its conspiratorial schemes. Dr. Quigley explains
more specifically that the Council on Foreign Relations 'was a
front for J.P. Morgan and Company.' Some idea of the influence of
the Council of Foreign Relations may be gleaned from the fact
that there were 74 CFR members in the American delegation to the
United Nations Conference at San Francisco in 1945, including
Alger Hiss (Communist spy), Harry Dexter White (Soviet agent),
Owen Lattimore ('a conscious, articulate instrument of the Soviet
international conspiracy'), John J. McCloy (formerly head of the
Rockefeller Chase-Manhattan Bank), Harold Stassen, Nelson
Rockefeller, John Foster Dulles, Philip Jessup and Dean Acheson.
Internationally, the CFR is interlocked with the Bilderbergers,
the Pugwash Conferences, the English-speaking Union, the Pilgrims
Society, and the Round Table. Within the United States, CFR
members are interlocked with the American Association for the
United Nations, the Foreign Policy Association, the World Affairs
Council, the Committee for Economic Development, Business
Advisory Council, Commission on National Goals, American
Assembly, National Planning Association, and Americans for
Democratic Action.
5. How the Establishment Controls the Universities. Dr. Quigley
explains in detail how for generations the international
financiers have dominated American universities through their
control of university endowment money. He tells how Columbia
University was dominated by J.P. Morgan and Company. and 'its
president, Nicholas Murray Butler, was Morgan's chief spokesman
from ivied halls.' Butler once said, 'The world is divided in to
three classes of people: a very small group that makes things
happen, a somewhat larger group that watches things happen, and
the great multitude which never knows what happened.' Dr. Quigley
gives many examples of how the international bankers placed their
men as presidents of leading universities, including the
placement of Dwight Eisenhower as president of Columbia.
Columbia University was the intellectual rostrum of the father of
Progressive Education, John Dewey, and his favored disciples,
William H. Kilpatrick, Harold O. Rugg, and George S. Counts,
author of Dare the Schools Build a New Social Order? which urged
teachers to 'deliberately reach for power and then make the most
of their conquest.'
6. Establishment Influence on the Election of Presidents. Dr.
Quigley tells how and why the Establishment was determined to
defeat and destroy Barry Goldwater in 1964, unleashing a torrent
of rage against him with such epithets as 'extremist,' 'racist,'
'atomic bomber,' 'trigger happy,' 'warmonger,' and
'psychologically unfit.'
Dr. Quigley tells how the international financiers manipulated
the nomination of Dwight Eisenhower at the Republican National
Convention in 1952. As Quigley explains, 'The lower-middle-class
groups had preferred Senator Taft as their leader. Eisenhower,
however, had been preferred by the eastern establishment of old
Wall Street, Ivy League, semi-aristocratic Anglophiles whose real
strength rested in their control of eastern financial endowments,
operating from foundations, academic halls, and other tax-exempt
refuges.'
Dr. Quigley explains Establishment support of John F. Kennedy
like this: 'Kennedy, despite his Irish Catholicism, was an
Establishment figure. This did not arise from his
semi-aristocratic attitudes or his Harvard connections . . .
These helped, but John Kennedy's introduction to the
Establishment arose from his support of Britain, in opposition to
his father, in the critical days at the American Embassy in
London in 1938- 40. His acceptance into the English Establishment
opened its American branch as well.'
In describing the Communist sympathizers and fellow travelers who
took over in the United States under the Roosevelt
Administration, Dr. Quigley says: 'It must be recognized that the
power that these energetic left-wingers exercised was never their
own power or Communist power but was ultimately the power of the
international financial coterie.'
7. The Influence of Cecil Rhodes. The great and lasting influence
of the Englishman, Cecil Rhodes, who had the money to
propagandize for the strange ideas he believed in, is spelled out
in detail by Dr. Quigley: 'In the middle of 1890s Rhodes had a
personal income of at least a million pounds sterling a year
(then about $5,000,000) which was spent so freely for his
mysterious purposes that he was usually overdrawn on his account
. . . These purposes centered on his desire to federate the
English-speaking peoples and to bring all the habitable portions
of the world under their control. For this purpose Rhodes left
part of his great fortune to found the Rhodes Scholarships at
Oxford . . .'
Rhodes formed a secret society called the 'Circle of Initiates,'
along with other fronts for those who were not on the inside.
According to Dr. Quigley, 'The power and influence of the
Rhodes-Milner group in British imperial affairs and in foreign
policy since 1889, although not widely recognized, can hardly be
exaggerated.' For example, Dr. Quigley goes on to show how this
group dominated The London Times from 1890 to 1912 and 'has
controlled it completely since 1912 (except for the years
1919-1922).' [See The Anglo-American Establishment for more on
Rhodes.]
What we call the Eastern Establishment is the American branch of
the Rhodes organization. J.P. Morgan and Company was the inner
core of command, and the Council on Foreign Relations is its
principal front. The Eastern Establishment extended its influence
in the press in the same way in the United States as the Rhodes
group did in England. According to Dr. Quigley, 'The American
branch of this English Establishment extended much of its
influence through five American newspapers (The New York Times,
New York Herald Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, The
Washington Post, and the lamented Boston Evening Transcript).'
Dr. Quigley also shows how the Establishment reached out to
control the left-wing press as well. He names the Wall Street
fortunes which established the New Republic, and says that 'the
original purpose for establishing the paper was to provide an
outlet for the progressive Left and to guide it quietly in an
Anglophile direction. . . . This latter task was entrusted to . .
. Walter Lippmann . . . the authentic spokesman in American
journalism for the Establishments on both sides of the Atlantic
in international affairs.'
8. The One Thing the Establishment Fears. Dr. Quigley describes
the conflict between grassroots Americans and the Establishment
as 'the Midwest of Tom Sawyer against the cosmopolitan East of
J.P. Morgan and Company, of old Siwash against Harvard, of the
Chicago Tribune against the Washington Post or The New York Times
. . .' He leaves no doubt as to where the real power centers are.
Dr. Quigley admits that nothing panics the international
Establishment like the possibility of a threatened exposure.
Whenever the public became somewhat aware of the conspiratorial
processes, the vast, interlocking power structure of the whole
London-Wall Street combine immediately shifted into high gear to
cover up their agents and their tracks.
This is why the Establishment has viciously attacked nearly every
Congressional investigation. Congressional hearings are the best
sources of unvarnished truth we have had in America in the last
35 years. The Establishment turned all their heavy guns against
Democrat Congressman Martin Dies, Republican Congressman Carroll
Reece, Democrat Senator Pat McCarrran, and Republican Senator
Joseph McCarthy because they were opening up the secrets of the
conspiracy for the American people to see.
The American people had been nationally alerted to the fact of
Communist infiltration of our Government by the Alger Hiss
conviction in 1950, and to the fact that our boys were sent off
to fight no-win wars in which the Communists had privileged
sanctuaries by the Korean War of 1950-52. By the time of the
Communist takeover of Cuba in 1959, nearly everyone knew
something had to be terribly wrong at the top.
Unfortunately, the Establishment counteroffensive spearheaded by
the Reuther Memorandum and the Fulbright Memorandum has been very
successful in intimidating American citizens from taking action
and spreading information.
However, there has been a steady growth in the number of informed
patriots. They are the true 'Hope' of the country. In 1964,
27,000,000 of them proved that they could resist intimidation and
insult of every vicious kind, and still stand up and be counted
for their convictions.
See books for how to attain Tragedy and Hope or continue reading about The
Anglo-American Establishment where Carroll Quigley unravels the story of
people who have been a force behind shaping British and American history.
Though The Anglo-American Establishment was completed in 1949, it was not
published until 1981. Even as a renowned scholar with a best selling book
the Evolution of Civilizations, The Anglo- American Establishment was
rejected by 15 publishers.
Carroll Quigley states in the preface and introduction:
The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil
Rhodes's seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so
widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his
fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to
the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what
does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society
was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and
continues to exist to this day. ...This society has been known at
various times as Milner's Kindergarten, as the Round Table Group,
as the Rhodes crowd, as The Times crowd, as the All Souls group,
and as the Cliveden set. ... This Group is, as I shall show, one
of the most important historical facts of the twentieth century.
. . .
Facts came to me from sources which I am not permitted to name,
and I have mentioned them only where I can produce documentary
evidence available to everyone. . . . I feel that the truth has a
right to be told, and, once told, can be an injury to no men of
good will.
One wintry afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in
earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to
flow consequences of the greatest importance to the British
Empire and to the world as a whole. ... The leader was Cecil
Rhodes, fabulously wealthy empire-builder and the most important
person in South Africa. The second was William T. Stead, the most
famous, and probably also the most sensational, journalist of the
day. The third was Reginald Baliol Brett, later known as Lord
Esher, friend and confidant of Queen Victoria, and later to be
the most influential adviser of King Edward VII and King George
V. . . .
This organization has been able to conceal its existence quite
successfully, and many of its most influential members, satisfied
to possess the reality rather than the appearance of power, are
unknown even to close students of British history.
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Books by Carroll Quigley:
TRAGEDY and HOPE: A History of the World in Our Time
A definitive treatise expounding 'one world' government.
1,348 pages. Hardcover .......................................$39.95
($35.95 with discount)
THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ESTABLISHMENT
Provides crucial 'linkage' to understanding 20th century political,
economical, and military phenomena.
354 pages. Softcover ............................................$14.95
($13.45 with discount)
THE EVOLUTION OF CIVILIZATIONS
Is a comprehensive perspective of the factors behind the rise and fall of
civilizations.
452 pages. Softcover ............................................$14.95
($13.45 with discount)
Other Books
FOUNDATIONS: Their Power and Influence by Rene Wormser
Documents the great philanthropic foundations thrust to alter mindsets,
that one day Americans would willingly accept socialism.
412 pages. Softcover ............................................$19.95
NEW LIES FOR OLD by Anatoliy Golitsyn
Is a 1984 classic where former KGB Officer Golitsyn forewarned the West of
USSR's long range stratagems for the 'liberation' of Eastern Bloc
Nations...merging the two Germany's...and dismantling the Berlin Wall.
412 pages. Softcover .............................................$14.95
THE STRUGGLE FOR WORLD POWER by George Knupffer
Who exiled during the Bolshevik revolution has closely studied
revolutionary subversion from every angle, and clearly explains how
banking, economics, money and credit are wielded for world power and
ultimate domination.
240 pages. Softcover .............................................$11.95
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