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  A lot of people will now know exactly what Dr. Quigley thinks of them! Incipient Nazis, no less.

  Of course, he does admit that there were some rather substantial people (financially speaking) who supported Goldwater, but he assures us that they were primarily the “new rich” who were “unbelievably ignorant and misinformed.”6 In fact, Dr. Quigley has some interesting things to say about the contest between the “new rich” and the “old wealth” who represent the Establishment. Note how Dr. Quigley finds it impossible to discuss any opposition to his favorite global collectivist friends without putting it on a basis of angels vs. the devils.

  Quigley’s Theory That the Goldwater Campaign Was a Struggle Between the “Old Rich” and the “New Rich”

  “At issue here was the whole future face of America, for the older wealth stood for values and aims close to the Western traditions of diversity, tolerance, human rights and values, freedom, and the rest of it, while the newer wealth stood for the narrow and fear-racked aims of petty-bourgeois insecurity and egocentricity.”7

  Dr. Quigley assures us that such a ragtag assortment of country bumpkins, petty bourgeoisie and ignorant “new rich” could never win over the city slickers of the Global Establishment. He equates this low-bred contingent of Americans as the “neo-isolationists” who constitute a threat to the modern world. They are modern man’s cultural enemy and therefore his political enemy. In other words, the global collectivists offer modern man his only hope. Anyone who stands in the way is an evil omen of tragedy.

  Dr. Quigley is certain, however, that the Global Establishment has the brains and the resources to put down any Americans like McCarthy or Goldwater who have the audacity to suggest that America restore the basic Constitutional concepts on which she was built and eliminate from public life those who have been subverting them. Dr. Quigley says it is a contest between the amateurs and the professionals. Note the air of disdain and smug superiority in the following quotation concerning the success of the Establishment in suppressing opposition during the early 1950’s.

  Quigley Feels Middle Class “Neo-Isolationist” Americans Can Always Be Beaten By Establishment Forces

  “On the whole, the neo-isolationist discontent [another of Dr. Quigley’s epithets for ordinary Americans who object to what the Establishment has been doing to them was a revolt of the ignorant against the informed or educated, of the nineteenth century against the insoluble problems of the twentieth, of 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, of simple absolutes against complex relativisms, of immediate final solutions against long-range partial alleviations, of frontier activism against European thought, a rejection out of hand, of all the complexities of life which had arisen since 1915 in favor of a nostalgic return to the simplicities of 1905, and above all a desire to get back to the inexpensive, thoughtless, and irresponsible international security of 1880.”8

  In this quotation Dr. Quigley clearly sets the stage for the coming conflict between traditional Americans and the powerful secret combination of the Global Establishment. Dr. Quigley has no doubt in his mind as to the final outcome. He equates hope and progress with the Establishment, tragedy and horse-and-buggy backwardness with traditional Americanism.

  Of course, if you go to Washington, New York, the United Nations Headquarters, or to the capitals of any major nation in the world you will find massive evidence that Dr. Quigley has a basis for his bias. His people are everywhere. And they ARE running things.

  Let’s take a look at one or two of these groups in action.

  Chapter Footnotes

  << 1. Stephen Shadegg, What Happened to Goldwater?, New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1965.

  << 2. Stephen Shadegg, What Happened To Goldwater?, New York: Holt Rinehart and Winston, 1965, pp. 263-264.

  << 3. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, p. 1248, emphasis added.

  << 4. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, pp. 1234 to 1278.

  << 5. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, pp. 1243-1244.

  << 6. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, p. 1247.

  << 7. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, p. 1246.

  << 8. Quigley, Tragedy And Hope, pp. 979-980.

  Chapter Thirteen

  The Bilderberg Group—An Example of Dr. Quigley’s Global Establishment in Action

  Every once in awhile, the network lets down its guard long enough for us to get a slight but alarming peek into the inward parts of the mammoth machine which Dr. Quigley believes is now too big to stop. When one contemplates the interlocking global ramifications which this power structure had developed, it is little wonder that Dr. Quigley feels so tremendously confident about its ultimate and irrevocable victory. Nevertheless, we shall have something to say about this in a moment.

  Meanwhile, let us take a look at some of the “conferences” called by the global establishment. These are held each year as an international master planning conclave. They are secret and attendance is restricted to invited “guests.” These turn out to be about 100 men from the top inner circle representing their four major dimensions of power: the international banking dynasties, their corporations involved in vast, international enterprises, the American tax-exempt foundations, and the establishment representatives who have gained high offices in government, especially the United States government.

  Prince Bernhard

  These conferences always have the same chairman his royal highness Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, who, with his family, owns a massive fortune in the Royal Dutch Shell Oil Corporation. Then, close at hand, will always be David Rockefeller representing his family and especially Standard Oil of New Jersey which is one of the largest corporate structures in existence. It is interesting that in the past two decades when political revolutions have occurred in various parts of the world, these two companies usually end up with all of the oil and natural gas concessions. This has been largely true in Africa, the Middle East, South America and the Far East. These are also the companies whose installations seem to be virtually off limits to the bombers in both sides of any recent war.

  We mention this simply to demonstrate the fact that Dr. Quigley does seem to be correct in alleging that the political and economic forces of the earth are being woven into a gigantic monolith of total global power. As Raymond B. Fosdick, one of those who nearly always attends these Bilderberg conferences, has said, the Bilderberg partners are spinning “the infinity of threads (economically and politically) which bind peace together.”1 And of course the “peace” they have in mind is compulsive cooperation, which a socialized world government could enforce upon humanity to the exclusion of any significant resistance-hence there would be peace as they envision it.

  Prince Bernhard convened the first of these conferences during May, 1954, at the Bilderberg Hotel in Oosterbeek, Netherlands, Ever since then the group has been called The Bilderberg Group. However, they meet at various places. The 1957 meeting was held off the coast of Georgia on St. Simons Island, not far from Jekyl Island where a secret meeting was held in 1908 to set up the format for the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. The 1964 meetings were at Williamsburg, Virginia. They have also met in Canada, Turkey, Germany, England and France.

  All of their meetings are closed. No secretary takes notes of the speeches. No reporters sit in on the debates. And when Prince Bernhard brings down the gavel for the close of the conference, no handouts, policy statements or copies of their adopted resolutions are given to the press. The conferees depart to the four corners of the earth to carry out their adopted goals but the world is never given the slightest hint as to what has been decided.

  This is particularly frustrating to Congress which has tried several times to ferret out the activities of these Bilderberg conferences. Even when top government officials such as Navy Secretary, Paul Nitze, were placed under oath and interrogated, it became virtually impossible to learn anything of significance.

 
The only press representatives in attendance have been trusted Establishment personalities such as Arthur Hays Sulzberger, president and publisher of The New York Times, Ralph E. McGill, pro-Castro editor of the Atlanta Constitution, Gardner Cowles, editor and publisher of Look magazine, and C.D. Jackson, of Life magazine (the same C.D. Jackson who appeared on “Hollywood’s Answer to Communism” in 1961 and tried to placate advertisers who had cancelled hundreds of thousands of dollars in advertising when Life editorially attacked the anti-Communist movement).

  Apparently, the great fear of the Bilderberg Group has been the possibility of infiltration and exposure. They therefore sometimes make a pretense of publicizing their meetings and even acknowledging who has been invited so that the presence of so many world-renowned personalities will not look quite so conspiratorial or mysterious. At least this has helped to demonstrate who is represented at these conferences and what political and economic allies are banding together.

  Here, for example, in addition to these already mentioned, are typical individuals who frequent these conferences:

  Joseph E. Johnson, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (which finances most of these conferences).

  Dr. Joseph H. Retinger, Communist Poland’s Charge d’Affaires in Russia who helped Prince Bernhard set up the first conference in 1954.

  McGeorge Bundy, former Harvard professor who became a presidential advisor and was then made President of the Ford Foundation.

  George W. Ball, former Under Secretary of State.

  Christian Herter, former Secretary of State.

  Dean Acheson, former Secretary of State.

  Dean Rusk, former Secretary of State and former President of the Rockefeller Foundation.

  Lester Pearson, former Prime Minister of Canada.

  Shepard Stone, Director of International Affairs for the Ford Foundation.

  Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, Managing Director of the United Nations International Monetary Fund.

  Dirk U. Stikker, Secretary General of NATO.

  Gardner Cowles, editor in chief and publisher of Look magazine and the Cowles Newspaper chain.

  J. William Fulbright, U.S. Senator of Arkansas and author of the famous Fulbright Memorandum which resulted in the muzzling of the military so they could not discuss the Communist threat and who called on the United States to “accept Red Cuba.”

  Paul G. Hoffman, U.S. chief of foreign aid who later became the architect for the dispersion of the Ford Foundation funds and then went on to head the United Nations Special Fund.

  George F. Kennan, former ambassador to the Soviet Union.

  Paul H. Nitze, who served as Secretary of the Navy.

  Fritz Berg, Chairman, Federation of German Industries.

  Hakon Christianson, Chairman of the Board, East Asiatic Company of Denmark.

  Pierre Commin, Secretary of the French Socialist Party.

  Thomas E. Dewey, former Governor of New York and candidate for President.

  Jacob Javits, Republican Senator from New York.

  H.J. Heinz II, President of the H.J. Heinz Company.

  Jeane De La Garde, French Ambassador to Mexico.

  M. Nuri Birgi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Turkey.

  Imbriani Longo, Director-General, Banco Nazionale del Lavoro, of Italy.

  David J. McDonald, President United Steelworkers.

  Alex W. Menne, President Association of German Chemical industries.

  Don K. Price, Russian Institute, Columbia University.

  J.L.S. Steele, Chairman, British International Chamber of Commerce.

  Paul Van Zeeland, former Prime Minister of Belgium.

  John J. McCloy, former President of the Chase-Manhattan Bank.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Henry Kissinger, advisor to President Nixon, former member of the staff of CRF and an officer of the Rockefeller Fund.

  Perhaps this is enough to represent the width and breadth of global influence which is present when the Bilderberg Group is called into session.

  The Pugwash Conferences

  The student of Dr. Quigley’s global establishment should also be familiar with another facet of the power struggle—the Pugwash Conferences. These are the pride and joy of the Canadian-American multimillionaire, Cyrus Eaton.

  Cyrus Eaton

  Cyrus Eaton was born in Nova Scotia but became a naturalized U.S. citizen. He began his career with John D. Rockefeller, Sr., and eventually became a successful financial tycoon in public utilities, steel, banking, railroading, mining, and the paint industry. Eaton’s interests have included the Republic Steel Corporation, Otis & Company, the Sherwin-Williams Company, and Baltimore and Ohio Railway, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, and various utility companies in both Canada and the United States. His son’s company, Tower International, Inc., has joined with the Rockefeller brothers’ International Basic Economy Corporation, to promote trade between the Communist bloc and the United States, Canada and Latin America.

  Cyrus Eaton is committed to the proposition that the Soviet Union and the United States must be amalgamated. He is host to prominent Communist officials whenever they visit the United States and he is a frequent visitor to the iron curtain countries.

  In 1954 Eaton dedicated his ancestral home at Pugwash, Nova Scotia, as a retreat for intellectuals of his liking. In 1957, he helped develop the first formal Pugwash Conference attended by more than twenty of the world’s best-known nuclear scientists. They came from the United States, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Britain, Austria, Communist Poland, Communist China, and the Soviet Union. What exchange of top-secret nuclear information took place will never be known unless one of these participants someday decides to disclose it.

  Since 1957, more than a dozen Pugwash conferences have been held in various parts of the world, including Communist countries. All of them have been attended by high officials of the last four administrations. Much of the discussion has centered around ways and means of getting the United States to disarm. Cyrus Eaton has labored tirelessly for U.S. diplomatic recognition of Red China and is the recipient of the Lenin Peace Prize—an award reserved exclusively for those who have made highly significant contributions to the advancement of the interests of the Soviet Union.

  Obviously, the Bilderbergers, Pugwash conferees, and other master-planners of the global establishment have a lot of things going for them.

  Chapter Footnotes

  << 1. Quoted in The Review of the News, September 21, 1966, p. 22.

  Chapter Fourteen

  So Where Does All of This Leave Traditional Americans?

  As I see it, the great contribution which Dr. Carroll Quigley unintentionally made by writing Tragedy And Hope was to help the ordinary American realize the utter contempt which the network leaders have for ordinary people. Human beings are treated en masse as helpless puppets on an international chess board where giants of economic and political power subject them to wars, revolution, civil strife, confiscation, subversion, indoctrination, manipulation and outright deception as it suits their fancy and their concocted schemes lot world domination.

  But, as we have previously mentioned, this mass of world humanity is precisely the source of latent power which terrifies the Establishment. There is the constant fear that the masses might awaken and frustrate their gigantic schemes, particularly where they have acquired an education and accumulated a little property (which gives them a highly significant degree of independence).

  That is what has happened to the mass of humanity in America. They now constitute the great and overwhelming majority of the people, called the middle class. And Dr. Quigley, as we have already seen, leaves no doubt as to the menace which middle-class Americans are believed to represent insofar as the Establishment is concerned.

  It was once the great American dream to make as many people as possible a part of the great middle class because it was recognized to be the backbone of our society and the most important segment of the population in maintaining a progress
ive, self-governing, secure, and freedom-loving people. But, obviously, if you are trying to set up a virtual dictatorship, this group is an enemy. This group will resist a dictatorship. At least, it will do so if it knows what is happening.

  So this is the fact of life which the super-rich collectivists of the Establishment face today. Everything they do must be accomplished in an atmosphere of propaganda and deception. Otherwise they keep running into a groundswell of resentment and resistance as they try to compel middle class Americans to give up their independence, their property, and their constitutional prerogatives.

  Then what is the current strategy of the Establishment? It is two-pronged.

  Pressure From the Top and Pressure From the Bottom

  The current tactic is to create revolution, violence and extremely serious social dislocation at the bottom while creating an ever-increasing pressure at the top for monolithic power by demanding that the executive branch of the Federal government be given massive power to “solve” all these problems. These demands are made in the form of proposed “social legislation” involving the expenditure of billions upon billions each year.