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• Tragedy and Hope published and pulled from the market pp. 1-4

  The original edition published by Macmillan in 1966 sold about 8800 copies and sales were picking up in 1968

• Royal Institute of International Affairs founded pp. 1-4

  By 1919, it had formed the Royal Institute of International Affairs (also known as Chatham House)

• Senate subcommittee investigates the IPR pp. 5-7

  In 1951 the Subcommittee on Internal Security of the Senate Judiciary Committee…sought to show that China had been lost to the Communists by…

• Institute of Pacific Relations created pp. 5-7

  shortly after the creation of the IPR in 1925 the civil war in China conveniently began.

• Reece Committee on tax-exempt foundations set up pp. 5-7

  The Eighty third Congress in July 1953 set up a Special Committee to Investigate Tax Exempt Foundations with Representative B. Carroll Reece…

• Meiji oligarchy gains full control of Japan pp. 12-14

  These leaders, organized in a shadowy group known as the Meiji oligarchy, had obtained complete domination of Japan by 1889.

• Meiji oligarchy drafts the Japanese constitution pp. 12-14

  the oligarchy in 1889 drew up a constitution which would assure, and yet conceal, their political domination of the country.

• Royal Colonial Institute founded pp. 15-17

  The Royal Colonial Institute was founded in 1868 to fight

• Disraeli's imperial acts as prime minister pp. 15-17

  Disraeli as prime minister (1874–1880) dramatized the profit and glamour of empire by such acts as the purchase of control of the Suez Canal…

• Cecil Rhodes founds his secret society pp. 15-17

  the secret society he founded in 1891

• Death of Rhodes and Milner's inheritance pp. 18-21

  With the death of Rhodes in 1902, Milner obtained control of

• Round Table Groups organized pp. 18-21

  In 1909–1913 they organized semisecret groups, known as Round Table Groups, in the chief British dependencies and the United States.

• CIA founded as a Network creation pp. 25-27

  since it was founded in 1947, the CIA (a creation of the Network)

• Edward Mandell House publishes Philip Dru: Administrator pp. 25-27

  originally published (anonymously) in 1912

• Woodrow Wilson writes of a confederation of empires pp. 28-30

  As early as 1887, Wilson had written of a

• Wilson's July 4, 1914 address on America's global role pp. 28-30

  In an address he gave as president (July 4, 1914), Wilson proclaimed that the role of the United States was to be

• Wilson meets Colonel Edward Mandell House pp. 31-33

  In November 1911, Wilson met Colonel Edward Mandell House, one of the first kingmakers in modern American politics.

• Woodrow Wilson wins the 1912 presidential election pp. 34-36

  Republican ballots were split between Taft and Roosevelt, and Woodrow Wilson became President with only forty two percent of the popular vot…

• Income tax and central bank enacted under Wilson pp. 34-36

  Before the end of 1913, the income tax would be law. Before the end of 1913, the central bank would be a reality.

• International bankers command London money markets pp. 34-36

  they could access the immense monetary power of

• Federal income tax and Federal Reserve System of 1913 pp. 37-39

  two crowning achievements of 1913: the federal income tax and the Federal Reserve System.

• J. P. Morgan and the Panic of 1907 pp. 40-42

  He even admits that J. P. Morgan precipitated the

• Secret Jekyll Island meeting on monetary reform pp. 40-42

  There was an occasion near the close of 1910, when I was as secretive

• Bernanke returns to Jekyll Island for the Fed centennial pp. 40-42

  Federal Reserve Chairman (Ben Bernanke) returned to Jekyll Island in 2010 to commemorate

• Milner's desire to abandon the gold standard pp. 43-45

  Lord Milner himself, had written of his desire to abandon the gold standard as early as 1923.

• States nullify the REAL ID Act of 2005 pp. 58-60

  Two dozen American states nullified the REAL ID Act of 2005.

• Alien and Sedition Acts and early nullification pp. 58-60

  From the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 to the unconstitutional searches and seizures of 1807–1809

• Carnegie trustees ask whether war can alter a people pp. 61-63

  We are now at the year 1908…In that year, the trustees…raised a specific question, which they discussed throughout the balance of the year

• Carnegie trustees ask how to involve the US in war pp. 61-63

  So then, in 1909, they raised the second question and discussed it

• CFR's 1939 War and Peace Studies pp. 61-63

  the 1939 War and Peace Studies

• Daniele Ganser begins researching Operation Gladio pp. 64-66

  In 1998, Daniele Ganser was looking for a PhD research topic

• Assassination of Franz Ferdinand triggers World War I pp. 64-66

  In June 1914, the so called Black Hand[18] reached into Europe

• US Senate rejects the League of Nations pp. 67-69

  In November 1919, after months of debate, the US Senate voted not to join.

• Stock market crash of 1929 and the Great Depression pp. 67-69

  inevitably led to the stock market crash of 1929 and the economic devastation of the Great Depression.

• Roosevelt confiscates citizens' gold pp. 67-69

  This pressure on the banking system continued until 1933 when the Network convinced President Roosevelt (FDR) to confiscate

• Milner Group begins undermining the peace settlement pp. 70-72

  began their program of appeasement and revision of the settlement as early as 1919.

• The Dawes Plan loans to Germany pp. 70-72

  Germany paid reparations for five years under the Dawes Plan (1924–1929) and owed more at the end than it had owed at the beginning

• Britain blocks the Geneva Protocol pp. 70-72

  When, at the behest of the Network, Britain blocked the Geneva Protocol in 1924, this finally sparked outrage around the world.

• Franco's fascist revolution underway in Spain pp. 73-75

  by early August 1936, the fascist revolution was well underway.

• Franco dictatorship takes over Spain pp. 73-75

  everything from the Spanish American War of 1898 to the Franco dictatorship that took over Spain in 1939.

• Franco's long rule and death pp. 73-75

  In power from 1939 until his death in 1975

• Hitler remilitarizes the Rhineland pp. 76-78

  when Hitler did violate the Locarno agreements by remilitarizing the Rhineland in March of 1936

• Hitler's 1933 seizure of power in Germany pp. 76-78

  he had done that from day one of his 1933 German coup.

• The 1939 Battle of Poland pp. 76-78

  in the 1939 Battle of Poland, 3.9 million Polish civilians

• Reichstag fire before the March 1933 German election pp. 79-81

  Prior to the German election of March 5, 1933, the Nazi Party had done all it could to weaken and disrupt opposing political parties

• Operation Himmler and the 1939 attack on Poland pp. 79-81

  used by Hitler as a justification for attacking Poland in 1939.

• CFR launches its global governance program pp. 79-81

  The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched a comprehensive five year program on international institutions and global governance.

• Judge Casson reopens the 1972 Peteano bombing pp. 82-84

  In 1984 Judge Felice Casson began digging into an unsolved crime: a car bomb attack that took place near Peteano, Italy, in 1972.

• First government disclosure of Operation Gladio pp. 82-84

  first on the record government disclosure was made

• US pressure on Greece over Cyprus pp. 85-87

  In 1964 (prior to the coup), the Greek ambassador had rejected Network demands to divide the island nation of Cyprus.

• FM 30-31B document surfaces in the European press pp. 88-90

  In 1976, after the fall of the Franco/Gladio dictatorship in Spain, excerpts of the document were published in the Spanish press, and in 197…

• E. H. Carr's Conditions of Peace pp. 88-90

  In his 1942 book Conditions of Peace, Carr argued that it was a flawed economic system that had caused World War II

• Scale of Soviet labor camps before 1941 pp. 88-90

  Estimates of the number of persons (prior to 1941) vary from as low as two million to as high as twenty million.

• Johnson and the Joint Chiefs seek to widen the Vietnam War pp. 91-93

  During the summer of 1964, President Johnson and the Joint Chiefs of Staff were eager to widen the war in Vietnam.

• The dubious second Gulf of Tonkin incident pp. 91-93

  the evidence of any armed attack on the evening of Aug. 4, 1964, the so called

• Lusitania secretly converted to an armed cruiser pp. 94-96

  In 1913, after adding armor and some other modifications, the British did exactly that.

• Lusitania's captain resigns over munitions pp. 94-96

  On March 8th 1915…the captain of theLusitania turned in his resignation

• Wilson enters World War I pp. 97-99

  before entering World War I in April 1917.

• Epicyte announces a contraceptive corn pp. 100-100

  In September 2001 Epicyte reported that they had successfully created the ultimate GMO crop—contraceptive corn.

• CBS reports USDA-financed spermicidal corn trials pp. 100-100

  On October 6, 2002, CBS News reported that the United States Department of Agriculture hadFINANCED thirty two field trials