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The Carnegie
Endowment and the Ford Foundation
Andrew Carnegie
(1835-1919) came to the United States as a poor immigrant from Scotland
in 1848, and never became an American citizen. He built the Carnegie
Steel Corporation, which he sold to J. P. Morgan for $500 million, who
incorporated the company into the United States Steel Corporation in
1901, enabling Carnegie to retire and concentrate on his philanthropic
activities.
In 1889, William Torrey Harris, the U.S. Commissioner of Education, told
a high-ranking railroad official that the schools were being
scientifically designed not to overeducate children. He believed that
the schools should alienate children from their parents and religion. In
1890, Carnegie wrote eleven essays which were published under the title
The Gospel of Wealth. The underlying premise was that the
free-enterprise system had been locked-up by men such as himself, J.P.
Morgan, and John D. Rockefeller, and that they not only owned
everything, but also controlled the government. His worry, was that
subsequent generations would realize this, and work against them. His
solution was to control the education system, and to create a direct
relationship between the amount of education a person had, and how good
of a job they could get. Therefore, this created a motivation for
children to attend school, where they would be taught only what the
social engineers of this country wanted them to know.
This was to be accomplished by instituting the educational system
developed by Prussia between 1808 and 1819. German Philosopher Johann
Gottlieb Fichte (1762-1814) in his "Addresses to the German Nation"
(1807-08) said that he did not trust parental influence and preferred
education to be carried out in a "separate and independent" environment
controlled by the state. Prussia became the first government to have
compulsory education, setting up a three-tiered system. The children of
the elite, about one-half of one percent, went to schools called
academies, and were taught to think and be independent. About 5-1/2%
went to Realschulen, where they were partially taught how to think. The
other 94% went to Volkschulen, where the idea of being a follower and a
good citizen was stressed.
This system of education was brought to the United States through the
effort of a coalition of big business led by Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, and
Rockefeller; major universities like Columbia, Johns Hopkins, the
University of Wisconsin, the University of Michigan, and the University
of Chicago; and large foundations like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Ford,
Mellon, Peabody, Sage, and Whitney. The success in creating an organized
compulsory educational system in this country has allowed the elite of
this country to prevent each generation from truly understanding how
this country is actually run, thus keeping them from doing anything
about it. This 'dumbing-down' has enabled the government to more easily
assimilate the people of this country into a population which can be
easily deceived and controlled.
The success in creating an organized compulsory educational system in
this country has allowed the elite of this country to prevent each
generation from truly understanding how this country is actually run,
thus keeping them from doing anything about it. This 'dumbing-down' has
enabled the government to more easily assimilate the people of this
country into a population which can be easily deceived and controlled.
John Dewey, known as the "Father of American Education," was a
Socialist, and a founding member of the Intercollegiate Socialist
Society (who changed their name to League for Industrial Democracy,
which he became the President of), and one of the 34 signers of the
Humanist Manifesto in 1933. In his My Pedagogic Creed (1897) and The
School and Society (1899), he expressed his belief at how the schools
should be instrumental in developing a socialist society in America."
His system of 'progressive education' would deemphasize academics, and
use psychology to do that. The July, 1908 Hibbert Journal quoted him as
saying: "Our schools . are performing an infinite significant religious
work. They are promoting the social unity out of which in the end
genuine religious unity must grow."
With a grant of $27,000,000, Carnegie established the Carnegie Institute
of Technology in Pittsburgh, in 1900, which became the Carnegie-Mellon
University in 1967, when it merged with the Mellon Institute, which had
been founded in 1913. In 1905, he established the Carnegie Foundation
for the Advancement of Teaching, which, within a 20 year period, gave
over $20 million to retiring teachers (and widows) at universities and
technical schools in the United States and Canada to support the
profession and encourage higher education. In 1904, in the U.S., and
1908 in the United Kingdom, he set up the Carnegie Hero Fund to reward
heroic deeds by civilian citizens, and gave out close to $500,000,000.
He also established the world renowned Carnegie Hall, and over 2,000
public libraries. He was also a major supporter of the Tuskogee
Institute in Alabama, which was founded by Booker T. Washington.
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was established in 1910,
to promote international peace and bring about the abolition of war; and
the Carnegie Corporation of New York in 1911 (with a grant of
$125,000,000), was set up "to promote the advancement and diffusion of
knowledge and understanding among the people of the United States by
aiding technical schools, institutions of higher learning, libraries,
scientific research, hero funds, useful publications, and by such other
agencies and means as shall time to time be found appropriate
therefore."
With such a history of philanthropic contributions, the Carnegie
Endowment, on its face, appeared to be innocent. However, its goal of
promoting international peace, was just a ruse to disguise its true
purpose to promote one-world government.
The first three Presidents of the group were: Elihu Root, socialist and
former Secretary of State under President Theodore Roosevelt, who was a
leading advocate of the League of Nations; he was succeeded in 1925 by
Nicholas Murray Butler, the former President of Columbia University; and
then Alger Hiss, the communist who helped found the United Nations.
Their President during the 1960's, was Joseph E. Johnson (a member of
the CFR), a close friend of Hiss, who was known as the "permanent
unofficial Secretary of State." He worked closely with the Donner
Foundation, which financed the Temple of Understanding, an occult
organization connected to the Lucis Trust in England (a group of Satan
worshipers with ties to the Theosophical Society). Members of the Temple
met at the Endowment headquarters in the United Nations Plaza. Among
their members: Robert McNamara (Secretary of Defense under Kennedy and
Johnson), Eleanor Roosevelt, Thomas Watson (President of IBM), Max
Lerner, James Linen (of Time-Life), Norman Thomas, James A. Pike,
Ellsworth Bunker, and John D. Rockefeller IV.
The 1934 Yearbook of the Carnegie Endowment, said that they were "an
unofficial instrument of international policy, taking up here and there
the ends of international problems and questions which the governments
find it difficult to handle, and ... reaching conclusions ... which
officially find their way into the policies of government."
The 1947 Yearbook recommended:
".that the Endowment work for the establishment of the United Nations
headquarters in New York ... that the Endowment construct its programs
primarily for the support of the United Nations ... that the Endowment's
programs should be broadly educational in order to encourage public
understanding and support of the United Nations at home and abroad ...
that Endowment supported organizations such as International Relations
Clubs in colleges, the Foreign Policy Association, the Institute of
Pacific Relations, the Council on Foreign Relations, and local community
groups be utilized to achieve these goals, of achieving broader
understanding and support for the United Nations."
The Carnegie Endowment and Rockefeller Foundation gave over $3,000,000
to the Institute of Pacific Relations, who used the media to convince
the American people that the Communists in China were agricultural
reformers. The Endowment has also given money to the Council on Foreign
Relations, the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, the United
Nations Association of the U.S., and the American Civil Liberties Union
Foundation.
Norman Dodd, who in July, 1953, was appointed as the research director
of the Special Congressional Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt
Foundations, said he discovered that the oldest tax exempt foundations
were established before the initiation of income taxes, therefore they
existed for a different purpose. He examined minutes of the Board of
Trustees, and found that for the first year, the members concentrated on
whether there was any means more effective than war to alter the life of
the people of a nation. They concluded that to get America into an
upcoming war, they had to control the diplomatic machinery of the State
Department.
Dodd discovered that all high-level appointments in the State Department
took place only after they had been cleared through a group called the
Council of Learned Societies, which was established by the Carnegie
Endowment. He saw in the minutes of the Carnegie Board, record of a note
to President Wilson, requesting that he "see to it that the War does not
end too quickly."
Board of Directors, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to
President Woodrow Wilson, "see to it that the War does not end too
quickly."
Syndicated columnist Joseph Kraft, writing in Harper's in July, 1958,
said that records indicated that the Carnegie trustees hoped to involve
the U.S. in a world war to set the stage for world government. Dodd said
they wanted "to bring the idea of 'one-world' (government) to the point
where it is acceptable to the people of this country. That is the
primary aim, and everything that has happened since then is a means to
that one end." Their memos indicated that they believed their efforts
were successful, because the war "had brought about a change in the
American psyche."
In the archives of the Endowment, Dodd discovered that they felt that
the "only way to maintain control of the population was to obtain
control of education in the U.S. They realized this was a prodigious
task so they approached the Rockefeller Foundation with the suggestion
that they go in tandem and that portion of education which could be
considered as domestically oriented be taken over by the Rockefeller
Foundation and that portion which was oriented to international matters
be taken over by the Carnegie Endowment." Dodd said that "they decided
that the success of this program lay in an alteration in the matter in
which American history was to be presented."
The Guggenheim Foundation agreed to award fellowships to historians
recommended by the Carnegie Endowment, and a group of 20 were assembled,
and sent to London, where they were briefed and became founding members
of the American History Association. In 1928, the A.H.A. was given a
grant of $400,000 by Carnegie to write a 7-volume study on the direction
the nation was to take. The secret of its success would be that it would
be done gradually.
Rene Wormser, legal counsel to Reece's Committee, said that the Carnegie
Endowment was attempting to mold the minds of our children by deciding
"what should be read in our schools and colleges." He also described how
the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Endowment,
and the Carnegie Corporation jointly sponsor conferences to push the
goals of the United Nations.
The investigation by Reece's Special House Committee, found that the
Carnegie Corporation financed the writing and publication of the Proper
Study of Mankind by Stuart Chase, the book praised by the communist
agents Harry Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie, which outlined an "ideal"
society in which the individual is suppressed. Over 50,000 copies of the
book were distributed by the foundation to libraries and scholars. They
also gave a $340,000 grant to print a 17-volume study on American
education by Dr. George Counts, which was later called "an educational
program for a socialist America."
The Ford Foundation
In 1903, Henry Ford, Sr. (1863-1947) founded the Ford Motor Company, and
in 1907, he bought out all of his partners, so his family would control
the entire company. In 1924, he was so popular, that various polls
indicated that he would be elected President if he ran.
In 1936, with his son Edsel, he established the Ford Foundation as an
inheritance tax dodge, which he saw as a plot to take money away from
Americans; and for his family to retain control after his death. An
enemy of the establishment, Ford wanted American hero Charles A.
Lindbergh (who supported the conservative 'America First' movement) to
be the Director of his Foundation, but Lindbergh refused. Ford, and his
son Edsel, died before the Foundation's leadership could be placed in
safe hands, and control passed to Edsel's widow, and grandson Henry Ford
II (who later married into the Rothschild family), who brought in such
'insiders' as William Benton, Dr. Robert M. Hutchins (who became
Associate Director), and Paul G. Hoffman (who became the Chief
Administrator).
The Ford Foundation, with assets of $4 billion, is the world's largest
endowment. They own 90% of Ford Motor's stock. Ford also established the
Edison Institute; and the Henry Ford Hospital, which gave two-thirds of
its grants to education, and one-third to communications, public health,
economic development, science, engineering, senior citizens, the
humanities and the arts.
The Foundation financed a Black voter registration drive in Cleveland,
which helped elect the city's first Black mayor ($175,000); financed the
pro-Castro Mexican-American Youth Organization in Texas; gave grants to
the Marxist Black group known as C.O.R.E. ($475,000); the leftist
National Students Association ($315,000); the socialist Citizens Crusade
Against Poverty ($508,500); the communist-controlled Southern Christian
Leadership Conference ($230,000 ); the leftist Urban League
($1,600,000); the pro-Vietcong American Friends Service Committee, which
encouraged pacifism, resistance to military service and preparedness,
and conscientious objectors ($100,000); National Council of Churches
($108,000); Anti-Defamation League ($35,000); National Catholic
Conference for Interracial Justice ($552,000); American Jewish Congress
($100,000); American Council for Nationalities Service ($200,000);
National Committee Against Discrimination in Housing ($162,000); Council
on Foreign Relations ($1,000,000); Adlai E. Stevenson Institute of
International Affairs ($1,000,000); UNESCO ($200,000); United Nations
Association ($150,000); Institute for International Education
($1,625,000); American Assembly ($166,000); World Affairs Council
($102,000); Congress for Cultural Freedom ($1,500,000); the Committee
for Economic Development's Foreign Policy Research ($275,000); National
Committee on U.S.-China Relations ($250,000); the communist-staffed
Southern Regional Council ($648,000); the leftist National Educational
Television and Radio Center ($6,000,000); and the Public Broadcast
Laboratory ($7,900,000).
In November, 1953, Norman Dodd, Director of Research for the House
Special Committee investigating the tax-exempt foundations, was told by
Roman Gaither, President of the Ford Foundation,
"that most of the men who are now running the foundations, formerly
worked for the State Department, the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Association, the Marshall Plan or other foreign relief
agencies, and that in those capacities, they were working under
instructions from the White House to bring about such sociological,
economic, and political changes, as would make union with communist
Russia easy and comfortable for the American people. Now, in the
foundations, we are working toward the same objectives."
He said that the Ford Foundation operated under directives which
"emanate from the White House," and that the "substance of the
directives under which we operate is that we shall use our grant-making
power so to alter life in the United States that we can be comfortably
merged with the Soviet Union."
The Fund for the Republic (one of the six other Ford-controlled
foundations), founded in 1953 under the direction of Robert G. Hoffman
and Robert M. Hutchins, are known for their attacks on the internal
security program of America, and criticism towards the FBI and
Congressional committees investigating communism. They were responsible
for ending the anti-communist fervor that was sweeping the country. They
were also responsible for the establishment of the Center for the Study
of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara, California, who developed
a Constitution for one-world government.
Robert McNamara, an executive with the Ford Motor Co., became the
Foundation's President in 1960, later resigning to serve as the
Secretary of Defense (1961-68) in the Kennedy and Johnson
Administration. He helped lay the foundation for the SALT treaty. In
1968, he became President of the World Bank. McGeorge Bundy, a CFR
member, the Chief Advisor for Foreign Affairs for Kennedy and Johnson,
became President of the Foundation in 1966. He ushered in an era of
social unrest by announcing that the Negro movement, "the first of the
nation's problems," would be his top priority.
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