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To: NOW who wrote (19721)	10/9/2004 7:00:43 PM
From: Terry Maloney	Respond to of 110194

Nice find! You use a tinfoil hat or what? <g>

To: NOW who wrote (19721)	10/9/2004 7:22:34 PM
From: glenn_a	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110194

Tooearly, a classic editorial cartoon! Anthony Sutton has that cartoon as the opening page to his book "Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution". A bit of history on the author of that cartoon, Robert Minor, and the context it represents. From Sutton: "The frontispiece in this book was drawn by cartoonist Robert Minor in 1911 for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Minor was a talented artist and writer who doubled as a Bolshevik revolutionary, got himself arrested in Russia in 1915 for alleged subversion, and was later bankrolled by prominent Wall Street financiers. The contradictions suggested by Minor's cartoon have been brushed under the rug of history because they do not fit the accepted conceptual spectrum of political left and political right. Bolsheviks are at the left of the political spectrum and Wall Street financiers are at the right end; therefore, we implicitly reason, the two groups have nothing in common and any alliance between the two is absurd. Factors contrary to this neat conceptual arrangement are usually rejected as bizarre observations or unfortunate errors. Modern history possesses such as built-in duality and certainly if too many uncomfortable facts have been rejected and brushed under the rug, it is an inaccurate history. On the other hand, it may be observed that both the extreme right and the extreme left of the conventional political spectrum are absolutely collectivist. The national socialist (for example, the fascist) and the internaitional socialist (for example, the Communist) both recommend totalitarian politico-economic systems based on naked, unfettered political power and individual coercion. Both system require monopoly control of society. While monopoly control of industries was once the objective of J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller, by the late nineteenth century the inner sanctum of Wall Street understood that the most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to "to political" and make society go to work for the monopolists - under the name of the public good and the public interest ... And later in the book from Sutton: Robert Minor was an operative in Reinstein's propaganda bureau. Minor's ancestors were prominent in early American history. General Sam Houston, first president of the Republic of Texas, was related to Minor's mother, Routez Houston. Other relatives were Mildred Washington, aunt of George Washington, and General John Minor, campaign manager for Thomas Jefferson. Minor's father was a Virginia lawyer who migrated to Texas. After hard years with few clients, he became a San Antonio judge. Rober Minor was a talented cartoonist and a socialist. ... Minor left New York in March 1918 to report the Bolshevik Revolution. While in Russia Minor joined Reinstein's Bureau of International Revolutionary Propaganda, along with Phillip Price, correspondent of the Daily Herald and Manchester Guardian. ... In November 1918 Minor and Price left Russia and went to Germany. Their propaganda products were first used on the Russian Murman front. On June 8, 1919, Robert Minor was arrested in Paris by the French police and handed over to the American military authorities in Coblenz. Simultaneously, German Spartacists were arrested by British military authorities in the Cologne area. Subsequently, the Sparticists were convicted on charges of conspiracy to cause mutiny and sedition among Allied forces. Price was arrested but, like Minor, speedily liberated. The mechanism by which Minor secured his release is recorded in State Department files. (what follows is a story of political intervention at the highest levels of U.S. government - including intervention by 2 U.S. senators, then-Secretary of State Robert Lansing (who by the way was uncle to the Dulles brothers - Alan and John Foster), and most signficantly by the extraordinarily influential Colonel House - senior adviser to President Wilson.) Anyway, just an interesting tidbit of history ... not in any way to suggest assertions of a crackpot or conspiratorial bent. For that, you best look at the activities of the Harriman family (or Brown Brothers Harriman fame), and the illustrious Hammer family, of whom son Armand went on to become CEO of Occidental Petroleum. ;) Regards, Glenn