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World Affairs, Australian Institute of International
Affairs, and similar organizations in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece,
and Turkey.
The "Bilderbergers" are another powerful group involved in the
internationalist web. The "Bilderbergers" take their name from the
scene of their first known meeting--the Bilderberg Hotel, Oosterbeck,
The Netherlands, in May, 1954. The group consists of influential
Western businessmen, diplomats, and high governmental officials.
Their meetings, conducted in secrecy and in a hugger-mugger
atmosphere, are held about every six months at various places
throughout the world. His Royal Highness, Prince Bernhard of The
Netherlands, has presided at every known meeting of the Bilderberger
Group.

Prince Bernhard is known to be an influential member of the Societé
Generale de Belgique, a mysterious organization which seems to be an
association of large corporate interests from many countries. American
firms associated with the society are said to be among the large
corporations whose officers are members of the Council on Foreign
Relations and related organizations. I make no effort to explore this
situation in this volume.
My confession of limitation upon my research does not embarrass me,
because two committees of Congress have also failed to make a
complete investigation of the great camarilla which manipulates our
government. And the congressional committees were trying to
investigate only one part of the web--the powerful tax-exempt
foundations in the United States.
My own research does reveal the broad outlines of the invisible
government.
D.S. May, 1962
Chapter 1
HISTORY AND THE COUNCIL

President George Washington, in his Farewell Address to the People of
the United States on September 17, 1796, established a foreign policy
which became traditional and a main article of faith for the American
people in their dealings with the rest of the world.
Washington warned against foreign influence in the shaping of national
affairs. He urged America to avoid permanent, entangling alliances
with other nations, recommending a national policy of benign neutrality
toward the rest of the world. Washington did not want America to build
a wall around herself, or to become, in any sense, a hermit nation.
Washington's policy permitted freer exchange of travel, commerce,
ideas, and culture between Americans and other people than Americans

have ever enjoyed since the policy was abandoned. The Father of our
Country wanted the American government to be kept out of the wars
and revolutions and political affairs of other nations.
Washington told Americans that their nation had a high destiny, which
it could not fulfill if they permitted their government to become
entangled in the affairs of other nations.
Despite the fact of two foreign wars (Mexican War, 1846-1848; and
Spanish American War, 1898) the foreign policy of Washington
remained the policy of this nation, unaltered, for 121 years--until
Woodrow Wilson's war message to Congress in April, 1917.
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Wilson himself, when campaigning for re-election in 1916, had
unequivocally supported our traditional foreign policy: his one major
promise to the American people was that he would keep them out of
the European war.
Yet, even while making this promise, Wilson was yielding to a pressure
he was never able to withstand: the influence of Colonel Edward M.
House, Wilson's all-powerful adviser. According to House's own papers
and the historical studies of Wilson's ardent admirers (see, for example,
Intimate Papers of Colonel House, edited by Charles Seymour,
published in 1926 by Houghton Mifflin; and, The Crisis of the Old
Order by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., published 1957 by Houghton
Mifflin), House created Wilson's domestic and foreign policies,
selected most of Wilson's cabinet and other major appointees, and ran
Wilson's State Department.
House had powerful connections with international bankers in New
York. He was influential, for example, with great financial institutions
represented by such people as Paul and Felix Warburg, Otto H. Kahn,
Louis Marburg, Henry Morgenthau, Jacob and Mortimer Schiff,
Herbert Lehman. House had equally powerful connections with bankers
and politicians of Europe.

Bringing all of these forces to bear, House persuaded Wilson that
America had an evangelistic mission to save the world for
"democracy." The first major twentieth century tragedy for the United
States resulted: Wilson's war message to Congress and the declaration
of war against Germany on April 6, 1917.
House also persuaded Wilson that the way to avoid all future wars was
to create a world federation of nations. On May 27, 1916, in a speech to
the League to Enforce Peace, Wilson first publicly endorsed Colonel
House's world-government idea (without, however, identifying it as
originating with House).
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In September, 1916, Wilson (at the urging of House) appointed a
committee of intellectuals (the first President's Brain Trust) to
formulate peace terms and draw up a charter for world government.
This committee, with House in charge, consisted of about 150 college
professors, graduate students, lawyers, economists, writers, and others.