WHEN THEY DELEGATED PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT 

to "arbitrate" a Peace Treaty between Russia and Japan ... 

This was the first time the International Bankers had used

their friend Theodore, but it was by no means the last time. 

 

It was also during these proceedings that Theodore entered into

a "secret" agreement with Japan (see Mussey's American History

1942 ed. page 566) , an agreement so secret that even American

statesmen knew nothing about it until years later. 

(See also Smssey's History, page 560-565.)

 

-But here we are ahead of our story, so let's return to that

fateful year 1890 when the International Bankers first began

their plans to remove German and American competition. 

The question which then troubled them was, which of the two nations

should be attacked frist, but having had some experience

in attacking America, in 1776 and 1812, they quickly and wisely

decided to center their first attack upon Germany:

 

And to this end in 1900 they set out to secure allies to

"aid" them with the fighting.  Aware that France was still suffering

as a result of the German defeat at Sedan in 1870; and that

France had long desired to seize and colonize Morocco

just across the Mediterranean; and remembering finally

that Frence ambitions in Morocco had long been thwarted

by Great Britain; the Bankers now planned to give Morocco to France,

in return for a French pledge to join England in a later attack upon Germany. 

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The Bankers were well aware of the risk they here assumed

for a "colonized" Morocco would not only double the economic

and military strength of France but would bring this revitalized France

right next door to British possessions in Egypt and the Sudan. 

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Moreover the gift of Morocco to France would not only be resisted

by Spain and Morocco but might be resisted by both Germany and Italy. 

But since their European market was at stake and their World Plan

endangered, they were forced to assume these risks;

 and so in 1904 the secret treaty for the theft of Morocco

was duly signed by France and England . . .

 

And you may be sure that here as in the treaty between Theodore

and Japan, the PEOPLE of the countries involved had no knowledge

of the Secret Treaty . . .  That Spain made no open resistance

to the French-English plot against her holdings in Morocco, is

understood when we remember that Spain had just lost her financial,

economic and military power in the Spanish-American War;

Nor did Morocco have the resources for successful resistance. 

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But as the International Bankers had foreseen, Germany

DID resent the French-English plot and for a good reason . . .

For more than twenty years prior to 1904, almost all

of the hydro-electric, sanitary and railroad equipment installed

in Morocco had come from Germany and had been paid for

with the surplus products of Morocco . . . As in our own case,

this "trade and barter" carried on without borrowed Capital had been

highly profitable to both countries and particularly to Morocco: 

 

And as a by-product of this trade a strong friendship had grown up

between the German Kaiser and the Sultan of Morocco. 

Therefore when in 1905 it was clear that the French-English plot

would deprive both German and Morocco of their profitable trade,

the Kaiser visited the Sultan and urged the Moroccan monarch

to resist the French and English.  Sorrowfully the Sultan replied

that he could not resist; he was surrounded on all sides

by French and English military and naval strength.

 ...But the Kaiser COULD do something about it and he did: 

He demanded that German trade still have free passage into

and out of Morocco (And had this been then agreed to Morocco

would never have become a French colony and France might then

have hesitated to join England in a war against Germany.) 

 

So at the suggestion of the International Bankers,

the matter was referred to arbitration. 

But what nation or monarch in Europe could arbitrate such a matter

when they were all financially interested in the outcome? 

For this question the International Bankers had been waiting

and they at once proposed Theodore Roosevelt as arbitrator,

since he, they said, had no interest in the outcome. 

In 1906 Theodore made his report and as you have already guessed

his report was in favor of France and England and against Germany. 

(Mussey's History, p. 575.)

 

...Aware at last that he had been tricked, the Kaiser again

demanded that Moroccan ports be kept open to German shipping;

and since neither France nor England were then ready for their war,

they were forced to submit.  Out of that affair only one nation

came forth as victor, and that was England; for she had won

permanently, French support for her coming war;

and of equal importance for the success of that war,

she had won for the second time the support of Theodore Roosevelt,

who two years later would appear for the third time

as a friend of the International Bankers.

 

 

  With France already preparing for the War, England now turned

to Russia, whose boundaries encircled Germany on the East

as did those of France on the West.  As the International Bankers

had feared, the winning of Russia would prove far more difficult

than had been the winning of France;

 

For Russia still remembered that it was England which for 

200 years had deprived her of a passage into the Mediterranean,

and that in the past fifty years English armies had twice defeated

Russian armies at Sevastapol and Constantinople . . . 

Moreover in still more recent years Russia's plan to acquire

the oil fields of Persia had been blocked by this same England. 

Thus when asked to join the French-English military alliance

against Germany, Russia demonded both a passage

into the Mediterranean and the oil fields of Persia. 

 

This was clearly a terrible price to pay for a Russian alliance, for

the Persian Oil fields were already being developed by the British

Bankers and were among the most valuable oil fields in the world: 

And to grant Russia a passage-way through the Dardanelles

would not only endanger English domination of the Mediterranean,

but might drive Turkey into an alliance with Germany (as later happened.) 

Moreover to bring Russia into Persia and the Meditirranean

might later endanger English domination of India; and the India

of that date furnished two-thirds of Britain's income.

 

  But again England must assume all the risks here involved,

and with her promise that Russia should have the Persian oil fields

and a passage into the Mediterranean, the British-Russian

military alliance against Germany was signed in 1907.

 

A few months later England arranged a similar treaty with Belgium

by which English money and French engineers erected

a chain of forts along the Belgian-German border. 

Being already allied to Greece and Rumania by Royal marriages,

the fall of 1907 found England ready to begin actual preparation for war. 

For between 1900 and 1907, England had completely encircled

Germany with a wall of steel, and beyond that wall stood the

armies of Russia, Rumania, Greece, France, Belgium and England,

ready for the word to attack.

 

   Thus in 1907, the English press suddenly burst forth with violent

and continued attacks upon Germany, propaganda to secure

the support of the English public, for the war which

the International Bankers had hoped would begin in 1908 ...

 

   But there was one English statesman who know that England

was not ready for war, for as this statesman Winston Churchill

pointed out, they could not safely attack Germany until a way

 could be found to stop the flood of food and raw-materials flowing

into Germany from Scandanavia and the smaller states of Europe. 

 

If these imports had been of great value to Germany in time of Peace

they would be absolutely vital in time of war.  But how could these

European states be persuaded to stop their trade with Germany

when that trade was as important to them as it was to Germany?

 

Again the International Bankers had the answer.  They would

call in their good American Friend Theodore Roosevelt; as president

of the United States he could solve their problem, and he did.

 

For during 1907 and 1908 the American Goverment entered into

"reciprocal Trade Treaties" with every nation in Europe

EXCEPT Germany; as a result of which treaties

ALL THE SURPLUS PRODUCTS OF THESE EUROPEAN NATIONS

could be bought by the United States and would be paid for

with Gold or goods as the said nations might require ... 

 

Thus for the third time in four years the "good-neighbor" Theodore

had stepped into the World Picture;

and by so doing was guilty of a direct violation

of the Constitution and of his twice repeated oath of office;

but he had pulled the "Big" Banker's chestnuts out of the fire ...

But he had done more than that; he had destroyed that

Washington Policy of Isolation to which we had adhered

for one hundred and ten years to our continuing profit;

and he had set in motion that forty-year period of

Internationalist Imperialism which has already cost us two Wars,

four Depressions, a dozen Panics, and a Financial loss

beyond computation.  And the end is not yet.