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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 223
Essentially operating as a German spy in London in his efforts to coordinate the CRB
was not out of character at all for Hoover. He and Francqui had been implicated in a number of
scandals throughout the world: 1) He had been barred from the London Stock Exchange as a
result of his activities. 2) He and Francqui were involved in the “Kaiping Coal Company scandal
in China that is said to have set off the Boxer Rebellion, which had as its goal the expulsion of
all foreign businessmen from China.” 3) Hoover was also involved in obtaining and transporting
200,000 Chinese slaves to work in Francqui's copper mines in the Congo.
On October 3, 1931 the New York Times reported that Francqui would visit with
President Hoover at the White House. On October 30, the New York Times reported that “Mr
Francqui spent Tuesday night as a personal guest of the President... Mr. Francqui was an
associate of President Hoover during the latters ministrations in Belgium during the war.”
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America Profits From The War
Wars are fought for freedom, for religion, for territory and for money. Almost every war
between nations has money as a motive on one side or the other. It is not always the case that the
nations themselves are fighting for money. Rather, nations are often manipulated by those who
stand to gain by the war. In the last century this has never been more true. Those who stand to
gain from war are the bankers who lend the money and the industrialist who supply the weapons
and other supplies for war.
In the 1930s retired US Marine Corps General Smedley Butler was meeting with a man
who he thought might be able to write his autobiography. Butler had served in WW I and ten
other military actions, he stated: “There are things I've seen, things I've learned that should not
be left unsaid. War is a racket to protect economic interests, not our country, and our soldiers
are sent to die on foreign soil to protect investments by big business.”
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On another occasion
in a speech before the Atlanta V.F.W. He stated: “[War was] largely a matter of money...
Bankers lend money to foreign countries and when they cannot repay the President sends
Marines to get it. I know-I've been in eleven of these expeditions.”
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During WW I, essentially the American economy became a war economy. “The typical
17,000-man British division—of which there were more than forty on the Western Front by mid-
1916—required the contents of twenty railroad cars each day to supply food and fodder for its
men and horses.”
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That’s a total of 5,600 rail cars per week for the forty divisions. Much of this
came from the United States. In addition the US supplied arms, ammunition and war materials of
every type. America was in the business of profiting off the misery and killing of others. Because
America both supplied the Allies and provided financing, the war was prolonged and eventually
America began sending her own sons and daughters off to the war. This resulted in the deaths of
116,708 American service men and women.
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The president of Bethlehem Steel, Eugene G. Grace, admitted in testimony before the
Nye Committee that his corporation received almost $3 million in bonuses during WW I.
General Butler said their actual profits increased ten fold (1,000%) during the war. But the men
who fought the war were paid $1 a day.
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In 1915 and 1916, Morgan and Rockefeller banking interests and the other financial elite
in America had loaned Great Britain and France some $500 million. In 1917 a loan was made to
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