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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 221
remainder of the year. The question was: “Is there any means known more effective than war
assuming you wish to alter the life of an entire people?” They came to the conclusion that “no
more effective means than war to that end is known to humanity.”
In 1909 the foundation raised its second question, which was: “How do we involve the
United States in a war?” The trustees of the Carnegie Endowment came to the conclusion that
they “must control the State department.” They determined to accomplish this by “taking over
the diplomatic machinery” of the United States. These facts were discovered in the foundations
records during a Congressional investigation.
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The U.S. Involvement In WW I Lengthened The War
After the United States became embroiled in WW I the Carnegie Endowment “dispatched
a telegram to president Wilson cautioning him to see that the war does not end to quickly.”
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As will later be shown, Winston Churchill is not the most reliable source concerning WW
I; nevertheless, after World War II he stated that the United State’s involvement in the war was
an international disaster. He commented that if the US had minded its own business “peace
would have been made with Germany; and there would have been no collapse in Russia leading
to Communism; no breakdown in government in Italy followed by Fascism; and Nazism never
would have gained ascendancy in Germany.”
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Indeed, after Lenin had seized control of Russia
he was not prepared for war and therefore sued for peace with Germany in November of 1917.
At this time, for Russia the war was over. France and England could have easily done the same
had not the US entered the war.
Initial American Neutrality
The United States was officially neutral in the war prior to joining the Allies. Initially
America took a hard line on its neutrality. At the time America set a higher standard for itself
than was allowed under international law. International law allowed neutral nations to both sell
arms and loan money to nations at war but the US State Department ruled that “loans by
American bankers to any foreign nation which is at war are inconsistent with the true spirit of
neutrality.
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However, it didn’t take long for America to realize how profitable war can be.
Robert H. Zieger explains in his book America’s Great War:
Initially, the outbreak of fighting in Europe disrupted trade and financial
markets, worsening an already bad situation. As orders for materials, foodstuffs,
and weapons began to pour in, however, Americans increasingly came to couple
their horror at the European catastrophe with appreciation of the opportunities for
profit and longer-range economic benefits that the war now offered. Now, in
October, when American Bankers asked Wilson’s administration for clarification
of its attitude towards loans, they got a different answer: short-term loans and
credits by American financial institutions to belligerents in connection with trade
were acceptable. The administration made a careful distinction between these
kinds of “normal” credit arrangements and public subscription loans, of which it
continued to disapprove, but even so, declares historian Paul Koistinen, this shift
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