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ROCKEFELLER INTERNATIONALISM ROCKEFELLER INTERNATIONALISM THE NEW WORLD ORDER VISIONS OF THE ROCKEFELLERS: John D. Rockefeller Ill, Laurance, the Cousins and the Rockefeller Network Today The current generation of Rockefellers seems to be little more than guardians of a legacy that continues to be endorsed through a network of philanthropies and policy planning groups. JOHN AND LAURANCE: SAVING THE WORLD FROM ITSELF longside Winthrop and Babs, John D. Rockefeller III and Laurance are the forgot- ten children of John D. Rockefeller, Junior. On some levels this should be no sur- prise, given the more prominent public roles of Nelson and David, who clearly overshadowed their siblings in terms of political power and influence; but from the point of view of the New World Order, to ignore the respective contributions of John and Laurance to the Rockefeller globalist ideology is to commit a significant oversight. This error is, however, the inevitable consequence of their much lower public profile, even the invisibility of this duo. John D. Rockefeller III (hereafter JDR3), despite being the titular heir to the Rockefeller fortune and carrying the name of Standard Oil's feared founder, was hardly a prominent public figure during his lifetime, while Laurance has always eschewed public exposure, rarely making public speeches or appearances. The clues therefore, are fragmentary and can only be expanded into their inevitable impli- cations through deduction, but the evidence of their complicity is there. It is most evident in their avowed enthusiasm for environmentalism, though through the distorted prism of need- ing to conduct population control amongst the mass of the poor rather than the rich, and, in JDR3's case, of his moves to open the economies of East Asia to American capital. John D. Rockefeller Ill (1906-1978) The eldest son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, and his wife, Abby Aldrich, JDR3 seemed to have inherited all of Junior's less appealing personal traits, including a tiresomely guilty con- science about being one of a number of inheritors of such a vast fortune and with it an obses- sion with trying to atone for the sins of his grandfather. A perception that Rockefeller gains were ill-gotten was only reinforced by John D. Rockefeller Senior's deliberate refusal to dis- cuss the origins of Standard Oil with his children or grandchildren. According to Ron Chernow, JDR3 "Like his father...aspired to be a paragon of virtue and, also like his father, paid a terrible price for it". JDR3 strove to meet Junior's lofty stan- dards of personal decorum and sacrifice, devoting himself to charitable works, eschewing luxuries, and displaying seemingly endless self-criticism.' Yet, as is the case with all such personalities who indulge in such self-flagellation and sac- rifice, a belief that one has earned the moral right to impose one's will upon others soon intrudes. This soon afflicted JDR3, especially as he took his place in the Rockefeller philan- thropic network, chairing the Rockefeller Foundation and the General Education Board and later founding the Asia Society and the Population Council. Alex Morris, the author of the otherwise respectful tome Those Rockefeller Brothers (1953), noted that in an 18-year peri- od JDR3 had been a member of at least 36 boards and committees.’ In fact, his involvement began at the end of the 1920s. Besides the Rockefeller Foundation and General Education Board, JDR3 had also been a board member of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, the China Medical Board and the Bureau of Social Hygiene. Through his participation in this plethora of for-profit and non-profit organisations, JDR3 soon replaced his guilt with a determination to take further action, to make good on Senior's original contention that the Rockefellers were in fact the "stewards" of God's wealth. JDR3 also seemed to have accepted Senior's accompanying stricture, piously followed by Junior, that it was in fact up to the Rockefeller family to disperse that wealth in a manner that by Will Banyan © December 2003 Email: banyan007@rediffmail.com NEXUS + 29 FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com