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lifelong supporter of Wilson, as he acknowledged in a 1956 lecture trade" and the "removal...of all economic barriers". Wilson was at the University of Chicago when he said, "from the first day [had attempting to realise the vision of 19th-century British free-trade met [Wilson] until he died, he had my wholehearted admiration and advocates Richard Cobden and the so-called "Manchester School" respect". Fosdick also claimed to have had a "long and occasionally of economists, of a world in which war would be banished, once it close association" with Wilson that dated from 1903 when he had was linked together by free trade. But Wilson was also concerned started studying at Princeton University, where Wilson was the that American industries had "expanded to such a point that they president.’ will burst their jackets if they cannot find a free outlet to the markets That first meeting at Princeton proved to be the start of along and _ of the world". Entrenching free trade through a binding global productive association for Fosdick, with Wilson taking more than a treaty, he reasoned, would save US manufacturers."* passing interest in his career in the years that followed. During * Third, Wilson was a supporter of regional integration at both Wilson's campaign for the presidency in 1912, Fosdick was person- political and economic levels, evident in his abortive "Pan- ally appointed by Wilson to be Secretary and Auditor of the Finance American Pact" proposal of 1914—15—the purpose of which, Committee of the National Democratic Committee. He went on to according to his adviser Colonel House, was to "weld North and hold a variety of positions in the Wilson Administration, including South America together in closer union". Wilson and House also Chairman of the Commission on Training Camp Activities in both believed that the Pan-American Pact could serve as a model for the Navy and War departments. As a civilian aide to General political organisation in Europe, and thus the world." Pershing, Fosdick accompanied Wilson to ¢ Fourth, Wilson believed the US should Europe for the Paris Peace Conference in assume a global leadership role so it could 1919. During this period, Fosdick also culti- "play the part which it was destined she vated close relations with Wilson's enigmatic should play", and lend its "power to the adviser, Colonel House. . authority and force of other nations to guar- Fosdick obviously made a substantial It Is remarkable antee peace and justice throughout the impression, for in May 1919 he was asked by that Fosdick's name world".!° Wilson to accept an offer from League of Wilson's invocation of "peace and justice" Nations Secretary-General Sir Eric Drummond is absent from most should, of course, be treated with the caution to become an Under Secretary-General to the that most political rhetoric deserves, especial - League. A keen supporter of the League, New World Order ly in view of the myriad paradoxes in Fosdick had enthusiastically accepted the offer histories, for his Wilson's political career. It was Wilson, after and, in July 1919, took up his new all, who campaigned for the presidency in appointment. It was a significant advance for relationship with 1911-1912 with the claim that he would rai as it made hin one of only two Junior is crucial to stand XP e ne meses of the govern: nder Secretaries-General in the League . ment of the United States...the com- (the other was French technocrat Jean any understanding of bined capitalists and manufacturers". Monnet, the future founder of the how the Rockefellers Yet he relied heavily on the generosity European Community) as well as the . . of those same "masters of the govern- became involved in the NWO. highest-ranking American in the ment", with just 40 individuals provid- organisation."® ing a third of his campaign funds. This But Fosdick's dream run was to be exclusive group included Wall Street short-lived, when opposition in the US bankers Jacob Schiff (Kuhn, Loeb & Senate to American membership in the Co.) and Cleveland Dodge, the stock- League reached breaking point later that broker Bernard Baruch and numerous year as Senator Henry Cabot Lodge per- industrialists, including the owners of sisted in his attempts to "Americanise" the International Harvester Company the League of Nations Treaty. Although (also known as the "Harvester Trust"). convinced that Lodge's actions stemmed from a "degree of immatu- _—_ This was also the same Wilson who expressed his opposition to the rity in our ideas and thinking", Fosdick knew the controversy had "credit trust" of the bankers, but went on to found the Federal made his position untenable and so he resigned from the League in Reserve System, fulfilling Wall Street's dual aims of internationalis- January 1920. Declaring himself to be finally released from a"bur- _ing the US dollar and controlling currency and credit creation in the den of silence", a bitter and disappointed Fosdick now resolved "to _ United States.'* speak [his] faith before the world". Realising Wilson's vision of a Given that Wilson was captive to those same "trusts" he had so New World Order thus became Fosdick's obsession."! publicly attacked, it was probably inevitable that one of his most At this point, it is important to review exactly what Wilson's devoted followers would go on to serve one of the greatest trusts of original New World Order vision entailed. There were four main them all. components. Driven by a desire to see Wilson's ambitious model of world * The first, and most well known, was the League of Nations, con- order become a reality, Fosdick had lobbied for US involvement in ceived by Wilson as "a community of power" and "an organized the League of Nations, founding the League of Nations Association common peace", with the League acting as a global forum to settle in 1923. In January 1924, Fosdick had visited the ailing Woodrow territorial disputes through arbitration, but it would also have the Wilson to seek some final inspiration and guidance. He was not to power to enforce those settlements. According to Henry Kissinger, be disappointed, as Gene Smith relates in When The Cheering Wilson's bold vision for the League "translated into institutions tan- Stopped: tamount to world government".”” [Wilson] said to Fosdick that it was unthinkable that America * Second, Wilson was a strong advocate of global free trade, would permanently stand in the way of human progress; it was including in his Fourteen Points a demand for complete "equality of unthinkable that America would remain aloof, for America histories, for his relationship with Junior is crucial to any understanding of how the Rockefellers the NWO. APRIL — MAY 2003 NEXUS = 21 It is remarkable that Fosdick's name is absent from most New World Order became involved in www.nexusmagazine.com