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“A GIGANTIC CONSPIRACY WAS FORMED IN LONDON AND NEW YORK TO DEMONETIZE SILVER”---Martin Walbert, “The Coming Battle—A Complete History of the National Banking Money Power in the United States” (1899)
“Hits Glass On Silver” subtitled “Ex-Senator Cannon Charges That He Caused Price Break In 1919” we find---February 11, 1932, page 3 New York Times---
“Denver, February 10 (Associated Press) ---Frank J. Cannon, former Senator from Utah and now president of the National Bimetallic Association, with headquarters in Denver, charged in an address at a joint session of the Colorado General Assembly today that Senator Glass of Virginia was responsible for breaking the world price of silver in 1919 when he was Secretary of the Treasury. “Glass authorized the dumping of 29,000,000 silver dollars in the Orient for the ostensible purpose of regulating our exchanges with silver using countries, BUT FOR THE ACTUAL PURPOSE OF SMASHING THE WORLD PRICE OF SILVER,” said Mr. Cannon. He declared that he hoped Mr. Glass would not become Secretary of the Treasury in the Roosevelt cabinet.”
Was Glass a Pilgrims member? Documents available at this time don’t show it; however, he was associated with Paul Warburg, according to Elgin Groseclose in “Fifty Years of Managed Money,” 1966, page 98; Warburg is ID’d as a member.
Charter Pilgrims Society member George Fisher Baker (1840-1931), chairman of the First National Bank of New York as of 1909 (predecessor to Citigroup) was according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fisher_Baker a director of 22 corporations; yet in his listing on page 98 of the 1914 Who’s Who, he lists 56 boards he was on "and various other corporations," with an amazing list of railroad corporations. They were correct in referencing Baker as "one of the most imposing figures in banking history." He was on the cover of Time Magazine, April 14, 1924. His son and grandson became Pilgrims Society members. Current George F. Baker Professor of Economics at Harvard University is Martin Feldstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Feldstein who received an award from the anti-silver American Economic Association and served as its president in 2004. Feldstein has served as a director of such silver antagonists as American International Group and J.P. Morgan & Company and is a contributor to the Wall Street Journal. Pilgrims Society kingpin Baker left one of the largest estates on record in 1931---
Another megabank was forming to seize wealth in other areas, by a Pilgrims Society “brother” of George F. Baker, namely, Edward Coleman Delafield, of ancient French aristocratic lineage---
The Bank of America was several years ago (circa 2004) listed on the roster of the Silver Users Association. Due to the extreme difficulty of decisively identifying most Pilgrims Society members, I have my views that several current Bank of America board members are Pilgrims Society members. Herewith a brief look at some major history of this huge megabank. The below scan comes from page 628 of the Who’s Who in America, 1928-1929 and we present this as a “flashback”---
From The Pilgrims 1924 New York list--
The Delafields, actually a very important Pilgrims Society family, trace back over 1,200 years ago to a Count De La Feld in northeastern France near the border with Germany. Here you see the leader of the Delafield family in the late 1920s took the helm of Bank of America after a merger in which the Delafields acquired a large Bank of America shareholding. Note also the pattern was again validated, that most Pilgrims New York members are Episcopalians---not Jews or Catholics! His older brother, born in 1874, John Ross Delafield, was also a Pilgrims member, also an Episcopalian, and also had offices at 44 Wall Street. Note John’s association with a very old English family (Burleigh) with representatives in The Pilgrims New York, and his activities with another Pilgrims dynasty, the Iselins, of Swiss descent. Note both these Delafields, descended from old European royalty, were involved in the budding USA hospital industry! Note also that they had HEAVY ancestry from the Livingston dynasty of very large scale early American land magnates. The Livingston lineage in fact appears in more Pilgrims Society genealogies than any other family, period! Robert Livingston arranged the consummation in 1803 of the Louisiana Purchase from France, which added a truly overwhelming 828,000 square miles to American territory! The history of The Pilgrims New York indeed is the financial history of North America!
Charter Pilgrims Society member Frank Vanderlip played important role in founding the Federal Reserve System, set up to systematically loot the middle class, eventually reverting it to feudalism, chaired the anti-silver Economic Club of New York in 1916-1918. Read about him at http://www.jekyllclub.com/news/webnews-nov07.htm ---
The 1914 Who’s Who, page 2400, shows Vanderlip was “president of National City Bank and director of Riggs National Bank; Seaboard Railway; Chesapeake & Ohio Railway; Oregon Short Line Railroad; Norfolk Southern Railroad; Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway; etc.” The 1969 leaked list of The Pilgrims showed Frank Vanderlip Jr. a member.
The New York Times, April 27, 1933, reported Vanderlip Jr. was chairman of the “Committee on Mental Health Needs of New York City” which translated means “keeping The Pilgrims Society out of the national awareness and forcing compliance with government viewpoints.” He held interests in Palos Verdes Corporation, California, “the most exclusive residential colony in the nation,” built on 16,000 acres his father acquired in 1913, “and other corporations” and was a director of the National Municipal League.
Benjamin Strong, Pilgrims Society, was president of the anti-silver Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1914 to 1928 and was one of the six conspirators at Jekyll Island where the Federal Reserve System was finalized; only one of the six has so far not been identified as a Pilgrims Society member. The 1960 Who’s Who in America, page 2812 shows his son Benjamin married Laura Pratt in 1947, of one of the original families who partnered with John D. Rockefeller in Standard Oil; the son became chairman of United States Trust Company of New York in 1958 and a director of Home Life Insurance; Atlantic Mutual Insurance Companies; and Royal Globe Insurance Companies; and chairman of Union Theological Seminary (perhaps they paint silver out of the Bible) ---
British subject William Peter Hamilton, Pilgrims Society, was editor of the Wall Street Journal, 1908-1929. In “Banks & Politics During the Progressive Era” by Richard McCulley (Routledge Publishers, London, 2012), page 244, the Wall Street Journal editorialized (“propagandized”) against those voicing opposition to the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. He was an associate of newspaperman William T. Stead, Pilgrims Society, who knew Cecil Rhodes intimately and assisted with the secret society plans Rhodes envisioned, which sprang to life after his death, with The Pilgrims Society being “the first organization,” Review of Reviews, May 1902, pages 557-558; (text image is from page 948 of the 1928 Who’s Who) ---
John Bassett Moore (1860-1947), Pilgrims Society, was an expert on international law and held numerous university, government and diplomatic posts and was a power in many international conferences, was (Who’s Who, 1933, page 1652) “counselor Dept. of State, with power to sign as secretary of state, 1913-1914. Member of Permanent Court of Arbitration, The Hague since 1912; judge Permanent Court of International Justice, 1921-1928; delegate to Pan American Financial Congress of 1915.” That meeting was cataloged in a 751 page document in which silver wasn’t mentioned as a monetary quantity http://ia600304.us.archive.org/5/items/proceedingsfirs00confgoog/proceedingsfirs00confgoog.pdf Moore was a director of Equitable Life Assurance Society; honorary president, Pan American Society of the United States; president, American Political Science Association, 1913-1914 and was awarded the Roosevelt Distinguished Public Service Medal in 1927--
According to Wikipedia, Pilgrims Society member, “Beekman Winthrop (September 18, 1874 – November 10, 1940) was a New York lawyer and Governor of Puerto Rico from 1904 to 1907. The son of Robert Winthrop, Beekman came from a family of wealth and influence in New York (though he was born in Orange, New Jersey) and attended Harvard University where he received a law degree in 1900. A descendant of both John Winthrop first Governor of Massachusetts, and John Winthrop, the Younger, first Governor of Connecticut, within four years after graduating he became first a personal secretary to (future President) William Howard Taft while he was Governor General of the Philippines and later was appointed as a judge in the Court of First Instance in the Philippines. He was a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt and was appointed by him in 1904 as Governor of Puerto Rico, at the age of only 28. In 1907, Winthrop was appointed assistant Secretary of the Treasury by President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1909 he was made assistant Secretary of the Navy by President Taft, a post he retained (with time as acting Secretary until 1913.” Now for what Wikipedia could have said and didn’t! The Winthrop's and Aldriches are related, both Pilgrims Society families close to the Federal Reserve System. The Beekman's are also Livingston relatives, and the Livingston name, so far, appears in more Pilgrims Society genealogies than any other; they also were large colonial landowners. The name Beekman, of Dutch origin, also traces to colonial times; the Beekman's were very large land owners, including in downtown Manhattan, and others with “Beekman” in their name have surfaced over the years as members of The Pilgrims (Fenwick Beekman, leaked 1957 list, he was a prominent surgeon, drawing larger sums as a landlord---The Pilgrims have their own MD’s as members!). The British invaders used the Beekman mansion in New York as a headquarters during the Revolutionary War. The Rockefeller's have been involved with Beekman real estate. Lundberg in “America’s 60 Families,” (1937, page 222), called Beekman Winthrop “pre-Civil War landed aristocracy.” The Beekman's were colonial era slave owners, who kept them in chains (Schenectady Daily Gazette, October 29, 1994). James Beekman fled New York as the British approached, suggesting he wasn’t a Crown loyalist; if so, this makes it more ironic that his descendants would revert to Crown loyalty by being members of The Pilgrims. The 1928 Who’s Who, page 2254 showed Beekman Winthrop as senior partner in Robert Winthrop & Company, 40 Wall Street, and a director of National City Bank, American International Group, International Banking Corporation, Cayuga & Susquehanna Railroad, Engineers Public Service Company, Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad, and “etc.,” suggesting an unknown number of other directorships. Years later his nephew Robert Winthrop, surfaced in leaked Pilgrims lists, and appears on boards including International Banking Corporation; National City Bank; National Reinsurance Corporation; Green Bay & Western Railroad; Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western Railroad; United States & Foreign Securities; Nassau Hospital; Seamen’s Bank for Savings; and Wood, Struthers & Winthrop (1966 Who’s Who, page 2332). Ted Butler repeatedly cited American International Group as a major silver suppressor, dumping Chinese silver onto the world market to depress prices (1990's); however, AIG may have been involved for most of a century---
William Cameron Forbes, Pilgrims Society (1870-1959), was Governor General of the Philippines, 1908-1913, an important silver country. He was the son of the president of Bell Telephone Company and grandson of famous essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Forbes was Ambassador to Japan, 1930-1932 and disturbingly, chairman of the American Economic Mission to the Far East in 1935, the same year The Pilgrims Society, United States branch, drove China off her centuries old silver money standard, as of November 3, 1935---
Forbes was honorary president of the China Society of America; member India House Club, New York; trustee, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Overseer, Harvard University, 1914-1920; sent by the President to investigate conditions in the Philippines, 1921; receiver, Brazilian Railway Company, 1914-1919; partner, J.M. Forbes & Company; director, Copper Range Company; Boston Metal Investors; Stone & Webster; American Telephone & Telegraph; United Fruit Company; Massachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance; Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance; Commercial Credit; Petroleum Heat & Power Company; Old Colony Trust; Arthur D. Little Incorporated; and others (Who’s Who, 1940, page 950; Who’s Who, 1952, page 827).
The Pittman Act of 1918, authored by Nevada silver Senator Key Pittman, allowed for melting 270,232,722 silver dollars for bullion conversion into approximately 209 MOZ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittman_Act The bullion was then sold to Great Britain, in order that they could maintain control over British India, where demands were strident for payment in silver relating to expenses of World War I (Mining Congress Journal, February 1057, page 117). Senator Pittman insured that the silver would be replaced at $1 an ounce---then more than market prices---and partly as a result, the 1921 Morgan silver dollars were coined, all 86,730,000 of them. Senator Pittman wasn’t a hatchet man for silver suppressors, he was looking out for silver producers interests; but the silver was used to control British India.
In the Mining Congress Journal, February 1957, W.M. Yeaman, president of Clayton Silver Mines, writing in an article titled, “Silver Again In The Spotlight” commented on the British crisis in keeping control of India at the close of World War I (page 117)---
“In the statement submitted by Senator Malone he reviewed the use of silver as money throughout the world and referred particularly to the crisis that developed in India in 1918 which prompted the British government to urge the United States to supply India with 200 million ounces of silver to be coined into rupees to enable the Bank of India to redeem paper rupee notes WHICH WERE BEING OFFERED AT SUCH AN ALARMING RATE FOR REDEMPTION IN SILVER that the authorities feared the “run” would cause the closing of the banks, WITH RESULTANT RIOTS AND REVOLUTION BY THE NATIVES in the event of failure to meet the demand for note redemption."
In “Silver Serves Throughout the War” (Mining Congress Journal, February 1946, page 55) Nevada Silver Senator McCarran commented on the crisis that started in 1918 over redemption of paper rupee notes---
“Under the terms of the Pittman Act of April 23, 1918, approximately 258,580,000 silver dollars were melted down and 200,000,000 fine ounces of silver derived therefrom sold at $1 an ounce to the British Government to relieve the strain on banks in India. The natives of India, true to their tradition, were attempting to redeem in silver their paper rupee notes and there was not enough silver on hand to make good their redemption pledge. The United States Government did not have sufficient bullion silver on hand, and agreed to melt down enough silver dollars to yield 200,000,000 fine ounces for shipment to India. No publicity was given the enactment of this legislation AS IT MIGHT HAVE CAUSED GREAT BRITAIN TO LOSE FACE BY ADMITTING THE INDISPENSABILITY OF SILVER MONEY.”
Russell Cornell Leffingwell (1878-1960), Pilgrims Society, Yale 1899, was assistant Secretary of the Treasury, 1917-1920, when 200MOZ silver was sent to British India under the Pittman Act of 1918 for purposes of maintaining British control. He was a member, 1920-1923, of what became Cravath, Swaine & Moore, a leading Pilgrims Society law firm; next he joined J.P. Morgan & Company, rising to chairman, retiring in 1950. He was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, one of Pilgrims Society member Andrew Carnegie’s foundations existing for Anglo-American world empire purposes via the United Nations. Leffingwell was president of The Pilgrims unofficial subsidiary, the Council on Foreign Relations, 1944-1946, then chairman into 1953. He was decorated by the government of Italy and was a member of the anti-silver American Economic Association and a fellow of the anti-silver Royal Economic Society---
Lucy Leffingwell Pulling (1907-1979), Russell’s daughter, was evidently related to Thomas Leffingwell Pulling of Citigroup, on The Pilgrims Society’s executive committee as of 2003. Leffingwell was son in law of General J.C. Chamberlain.
The Earl of Reading, British Ambassador to the United States 1918-1919, Pilgrims Society member, obtained silver for British control over India. He was British Viceroy of India, 1921-1925 and as British Foreign Secretary in 1931, assisted his government’s campaign to depress world silver valuations by dumping melted rupees on the world market---
"THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT DETERMINED
TO DESTROY SILVER AS MONEY"
---Nevada silver Senator Key Pittman, quoted in China Weekly Review, Shanghai, January 31, 1931, page 318.
Robert Lansing, Pilgrims Society, Secretary of State 1915-1920, relative of first head of the Central Intelligence Agency, Allen Dulles, Pilgrims Society, worked with the Earl of Reading to get American silver into British India to help his "Pilgrim Partners" maintain control for another generation---
Robert Lansing founded the American Society for International Law (read "world government") in 1906. He was a trustee of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, funded by British Crown loyalist, Pilgrims Society member Andrew Carnegie of the original steel trust. Lansing’s nephews were John Foster Dulles (Pilgrims Society) who became Secretary of State and Allen W. Dulles (Pilgrims Society), Central Intelligence Agency director. Lansing was a member of the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace, 1918-1919, which along with Britain, intentionally imposed such harsh terms on Germany at the close of World War I, that they purposefully assured a second World War; that was the planned objective.
Henry Algernon DuPont (1838-1926), Pilgrims Society, was the largest subscriber to the Anglo-French Loan of 1916, relating to World War I finance ("Pilgrim Partners" 1942, page 110) and in addition to holdings in silver user DuPont had interests in Wilmington & Norfolk Railroad. Eleuthere DuPont, his grandfather, who appropriately died on Halloween in 1834, was a director of the second United States Bank (smashed by Andrew Jackson); an anti-silver and anti-gold forerunner of the Federal Reserve System. Eleuthere DuPont founded chemical and munitions colossus DuPont, today one of the twin pillars of the Silver Users Association (with Dow Chemical). The 1897-1942 Who Was Who in America, page 349. Has DuPont stating his “OPPOSITION TO THE FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE OF SILVER.” DuPont was a Republican Senator from Delaware, 1906-1917 who voted for the Federal Reserve Act of 1913
Thomas Coleman DuPont (1863-1930), Pilgrims Society, was a United States Senator from Delaware. This chemical industry magnate, who owned coal, railroad and hotel interests, gained control of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States in 1915. DuPont, with Dow Chemical, is today one of the twin pillars of the Silver Users Association, who always thinks silver prices are too high. He founded Wilmington Trust Company and was a member of the Republican National Committee from 1908 to 1930. The November 12, 1930 New York Times called him “one of the foremost financiers of the United States.” DuPont was a member of the anti-silver money Bankers Club in Manhattan and as a Senator until 1928, had no objections to British dumping silver out of India---
Dwight W. Morrow, Pilgrims Society, was a J.P. Morgan & Company partner, 1914-1927, appearing on the usual agglomeration of corporate boards. He was Ambassador to Mexico, always a key part of the silver scene, 1927-1930. The New York Times, March 2, 1927, page 29, “Mexico Halts Silver Coinage” stated, “The Government has ordered the mint to stop coining silver peso and half peso pieces.” Determining if Pilgrims Society member Morrow had something substantial to do with that is on a lengthy list of investigations that may necessitate review of Mexican newspaper archives, Bank of Mexico or Treasury documents, if available---
Morrow played a role in supervising the De la Huerta-Lamont Treaty of 1922, secured by Thomas W. Lamont of J.P. Morgan & Company and The Pilgrims Society, as head of the International Committee of Bankers on Mexico, under which export of Mexican silver to America was increased, allegedly to back the peso! How does specie back a currency if exported across the border? Lamont was also the representative of the Treasury Department section of the American Commission to Negotiate the Peace at Paris in 1919 and chairman of the American members of the International Consortium for Assistance to China; in 1926 he facilitated Mussolini’s rise to dictatorship in Italy by arranging a $100 million financing for the Fascist leader, which contributed to several million deaths during World War II and the Italian attack against Greece---
In "America’s 60 Families," 1937 by Ferdinand Lundberg, page 33, we find---
"An extraordinarily complex and resourceful personality like Thomas W. Lamont, who has been the brains of J.P. Morgan and Company throughout the postwar period and was a mentor of Woodrow Wilson in Wilson’s second administration as well as of President Herbert Hoover throughout his fateful single term in the White House, HAS EXERCISED MORE POWER FOR TWENTY YEARS IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, HAS PUT INTO EFFECT MORE FINAL DECISIONS FROM WHICH THERE HAS BEEN NO APPEAL, THAN ANY OTHER PERSON. Lamont has been the First Consul de facto in the invisible directory of postwar high finance and politics, consulted by presidents, prime ministers, governors of central banks, the directing intelligence behind the Dawes and Young Plans. Lamont is Protean; he is a diplomat, an editor, a writer, a publisher, a politician, a statesman---an international presence as well as a financier."
Other sources claimed Andrew Mellon or John D. Rockefeller Jr. were tops on the totem pole. What difference did it make? All three were Pilgrims Society members! Lamont’s input into President Hoover noted, recall that Hoover refused to call an international conference on silver! Pilgrims Society policy is that silver will not be employed as money and recognized only as a commodity to be fed at suppressed prices to the Silver Users Association! Lamont’s son Thomas, Pilgrims Society, was also with J.P. Morgan & Company and a director of corporations such as Nestle; Texas Gulf Sulphur; International Minerals & Chemical; North British & Mercantile Insurance; Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway and Phelps Dodge. His younger brother Corliss, a cesspool of festering reactionary views, authored (1939) "You Might Like Socialism---A Way Of Life For Modern Man."
In “Twenty Eight Years In Wall Street” (1885, NYC) by Henry Clews Pilgrims Society member (1840-1923), page 157, he admitted that the Panic of 1837 took place because very powerful interests (the Crown, the Rothschild's, Astor's and Du Pont's) were unhappy that the charter of the United States Bank was allowed to expire---
Clews married the grandniece of President Madison. At the start of the Civil War Treasury Secretary Salmon P. Chase contracted with Clews firm for the sale of bond issues with which to continue the war. (Chase National Bank was named after Chase.) Next Clews was appointed by President Grant as fiscal agent of the government for all foreign nations. He was “adviser and agent in organizing new financial system of Japan (on recommendation of President Grant)”---Who’s Who, 1914, page 461. Clews was decorated with the Order of the Rising Sun in 1908; founded Clews & Company in 1877; trustee, Northern Ohio University; treasurer, American Geographic Society; treasurer, International Peace Forum; president, American Peace and Arbitration League; director, Japan Peace Society and Economic Club of New York (which was and remains opposed to silver money!) I suspect Mr. Clews, born in Staffordshire, England, was a warmonger. He mentioned his start in banking after the Panic of 1857. One of his relations, a nephew, James B. Clews, was mentioned in the Congressional Record, August 20, 1940, as being a known member of The Pilgrims Society. Also tracing his ancestry to Staffordshire, James Clews married into the Livingston dynasty, into which many other Pilgrims members married (including J.P. Morgan’s son, Henry, born in 1900, who was a General Electric director).
The Livingston's were Crown loyalists in Revolutionary War times who received huge land grants from the King. James Clews said of himself “In banking business since 1890. Head firm of Henry Clews & Company; president Toledo, Ann Arbor & North Michigan Railroad; director of many corporations.” (Who’s Who, 1931, page 532). The paper money mob is highly intermarried. There could still be considerable Livingston influence in the Bank of America (New York Times, January 12, 1927, page 33, “E.C. Delafield and Associates Retain Control at Annual Meeting of Stockholders.”) Who’s Who, 1928, page 628, shows Delafield’s Livingston ancestry as president of Bank of America, member of Pilgrims Society, and glimpses into vast real estate ownership. Bank of America was on the Silver Users Association roster circa 2004. It’s amusing that they do not maintain a list of ex-members, like the North American Mirror Manufacturers Association and Prudential Insurance. Union Carbide, of poison gas infamy, merged into Dow Chemical.
“Silver As Standard Doubted By Gerard” ran in the New York Times, October 9, 1931, page 16---
“There is little possibility that the nations of the world will adopt silver as a monetary standard, because the production of silver is largely owned or controlled in the United States and Mexico, James W. Gerard, former ambassador to Germany, told an audience yesterday. “That seriously the nations will take up silver I do not believe,” Mr. Gerard declared. “They will not do it because three-fourths of the world’s silver production is in Mexico or the United States or by companies owned in the United States.”
James Gerard (1867-1951) was ambassador to Germany, 1913-1917 who was listed on page 900 of the 1930 Who’s Who as treasurer of the Democratic National Committee and a British Knight, Order of the Bath (reference is to ceremonial purification bath by English knight after killing an adversary for the Crown). Gerard became chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee in 1934, a post he held to beyond 1940 (1941 Who’s Who, page 1026, listing his office at 40 Wall Street; he was sent as American representative to the coronation of King George VI, patron of The Pilgrims Society). Ambassador Gerard attended a dinner for Lord Halifax on April 22, 1946. This was the same Halifax who presided over the dumping of Indian silver on world markets, causing the Great Depression, during which his Pilgrim buddies jumped all over the opportunity to expand their global holdings. Ambassador Gerard was also the son in law of Marcus Daly, “Copper King of Montana” (1841-1900, see below), who was the sole owner of Anaconda Copper Mining Company of Montana, and who sold out to John D. Rockefeller (Pilgrims Society) in 1899. While these Pilgrims don’t mind making gains in mining investments, they sure as hell don’t want to see metals as the basis of exchange; unless they ended up owning all metals after a “nationalization!”
Ambassador Gerard’s views as to why he predicted the world would not return to silver money were certainly hokey! Did the world shun diamonds as long as most of them came from South Africa, or earlier, from Brazil, and before that, from Golconda in India? (No!) The same principle holds for Australian opals; Burma rubies; Columbian emeralds; or any other commodity whose production is concentrated in limited regions. Where do U.S. fiat notes come from? Just one country issues these, correct? So based on his logic, the world should not use them because they originate in just one nation! Dishonest, slithering lowlife Pilgrims Society vice president James Gerard---
The New York Times ran an obituary in late June 1987, evidently of a descendant of Gerard---
“Brigadier General James W. Gerard, a retired Army officer and real-estate executive, died of kidney failure on Saturday. He was 73 years old and lived in Manhattan and Luxembourg. June 28, 1987 deceased.
General Gerard, who was born in Manhattan, attended Cambridge University and the University of Grenoble. In 1937, he enlisted in the Army and served in World War II and the Korean War and on the staff of the Pentagon from 1952 to 1957. He retired in 1961.
In 1975, he resumed his military career as commander of the Veteran Corps of Artillery of the State of New York and retired again in 1986. He and family members also owned Aeon Realty, a Manhattan holding company.
He is survived by his wife, Jean, United States Ambassador to Luxembourg; a son, James W., of Washington; a daughter, Harriet C., of Manhattan, and three brothers, C. H. Coster Gerard, Sumner Gerard and John Train, all of Manhattan.”
John Train, as we will see later, is a Pilgrims Society member. “The Pilgrims of the United States,” 2003, page 146, showed James W. Gerard V as on The Pilgrims executive committee, along with Citigroup official Thomas Livingston Pulling. The Livingston's are probably in more Pilgrims Society genealogies than any other; they trace to Crown loyalists in Colonial times. According to “History of the Great American Fortunes,” 1909, pages 44 & 45---
“Robert Livingston, progenitor of a rich and potent family which for generations exercised a profound influence in public affairs, contrived to get together an estate which soon ranked as the second largest in New York and one of the greatest in the Colonies. He loaned money at frightfully usurious rates and hounded his victims without a vestige of sympathy. As a trader and government contractor he made enormous profits; such was his collusion with high officials that competitors found it impossible to outdo him. By a multitude of underhanded and ignoble artifices he finally found himself the lord of a manor sixteen miles long and twenty four broad. When he died in 1728 he left an estate WHICH WAS CONSIDERED OF SUCH COLOSSAL VALUE THAT ITS TRUE WORTH WAS CONCEALED FOR FEAR OF FURTHER ENRAGING THE DISCONTENTED. HE WAS IN COLLUSION WITH CAPTAIN KIDD, THE SEA PIRATE.”
The Livingston's first marriage connection to other immense wealth was the Beekman's; the Astor's, Roosevelt's and Bush families followed
Barron Collier (1873-1939) was the largest landowner in Florida with over a million acres (second largest landowner in Florida was Pilgrims member Harry Harkness Flagler of Standard Oil!) Collier’s museum withholds mention of his membership in The Pilgrims Society, but does mention him as a founding member of INTERPOL, the global police agency. He was a member of the Sheriff’s Jury, New York, starting in 1913, 1929 Who’s Who, page 523).
Collier made his first million before the start of the 20th century, in streetcar advertising and eventually operated in over 70 cities. He was a member of the anti-silver New York State Chamber of Commerce and the anti-silver Bankers Club in Manhattan. He held decorations by 9 foreign governments and was consul general at large for the Republic of Georgia.
He pyramided his original fortune into ever expanding stakes in Florida Railroad & Navigation Corporation; Florida Gulf Coast Hotels; Manhattan Mercantile Corporation; Inter-County Telephone & Telegraph; Central Mercantile Bank & Trust; First National Bank of Arcadia; Cosmopolitan Bank; Baltimore Commercial Bank; Florida Trust & Banking; Bank of the Everglades; State Title & Mortgage; Lee County Bank; Punta Gorda State Bank; Remington Typewriter; Sweets Company of America; and others. He built the first highway across the everglades, connecting the east and west coasts of Florida, for which the legislature named Collier County for him. He was a founder of the Museum of the City of New York---
Herbert Kynaston Twitchell (born 1865), Pilgrims Society, started with Chase National Bank in 1889, and became chairman of Chemical National Bank in 1920. He was also a director of the ostensibly competing Bankers Trust Company, and of the Bank of Suffolk County; Seamen’s Bank for Savings; J.E. Curran Corporation; General Heating Corporation; United Combustion Engineers; trustee, Middlebury College and Adelphi College; Commissioner, Port Authority of New York; office 74 Wall Street; member of anti-silver Banker’s Club in Manhattan (Who’s Who, 1928, page 2095) ---
The 1980 leaked list of The Pilgrims, New York, page 22, had the name “Herbert Kenaston Twitchell,” apparently his grandson, note the variation of middle name, nevertheless, of the same genealogy!
Charles M. Schwab, Pilgrims Society, chaired Bethlehem Steel and was a director of Empire Trust; Metropolitan Life; Tonopah Extension Mining; United Zinc Smelting; Vanadium Corporation; Chicago Pneumatic Tool; American Surety et al (whose brother in law, Alva C. Dinkey of Carnegie Steel, was also a member), Schwab was a director of the silver suppressing Chase National Bank (1928 Who’s Who, page 1853) ---
Pilgrims Society member George W. Wickersham (1858-1936) of 40 Wall Street (president of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, 1914-1917) was noted in the New York Times, November 5, 1932, page 4, "policies of the Hoover administration were defended by George W. Wickersham." In this context, Hoover’s policy of refusing to call an international silver conference because Great Britain opposed it---
President Hoover appointed him to what became known as the Wickersham Commission (on law and order) which is sardonically amusing to consider given his criminality. He was chairman of the executive committee of the France America Society, a Pilgrims Society front extending influence into that major European state; he was president of the American Society of the French Legion of Honor and member of the anti-silver Economic Club. France turned against silver in French Indo-China when Britain started dumping India’s silver. He was president of the Council on Foreign Relations, 1933-1936, one of many proofs the C.F.R is under Pilgrims Society management. He was Attorney General in the Taft administration, 1909-1913 and became a trustee of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and was a member of the Commission on Reorganization of New York State government, 1925-1926. He was a principal in Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, powerhouse law firm at 40 Wall Street dating to 1792 in which Henry Taft, President Taft’s brother, was a partner. William Taft was American governor of the Philippines, 1901-1903. Alphonso Taft, father of the Taft brothers, was Attorney General, 1876-1977. Wickersham became president of the American Law Institute in 1923 and was president of the American Prison Association in 1920. In 1924 Wickersham was appointed a member of the Committee for Progressive Codification of International Law of the League of Nations and was a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, 1920-1926.
The Earl of Balfour, Pilgrims Society of Great Britain, was Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in 1916-1919, in which capacity he made a contribution to his government obtaining American silver in order to quell unrest in British India---
Balfour was a member of the sardonically named anti-silver Stable Money Association. This was the same aristocrat who, in cooperation with the Rothschild's, issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 which became the political basis for creation of the State of Israel.
Lord Milner, another Pilgrims Society member and a key financier of the Soviet Red Revolution of 1917 in Russia, was the third member of that triumvirate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration_of_1917
The British (a source within Midland Bank) even called for a so-called “super bank” to be organized that would control all the gold and silver mined by companies based in the British Commonwealth and the United States (New York Times, May 17, 1931, page 9) which would then issue a new currency unit for the world---the “Rex” (Latin meaning “king”) ---named of course, for King George V of England---then Patron of The Pilgrims Society---
It should be unsettling to know that The Pilgrims London list for 1980 included Lord Cornwallis, an heir to the title held by an invading British redcoat general in our Revolutionary war!
The Pilgrims Society staged a massive nationalization---read "confiscation" of gold and silver, March 1933 into early 1937, dispossessing Americans of their natural right to protect themselves from depredations of their inflationary government. See "Metals Confiscation Facts And Prospects," a 312 page pdf file in Archives at www.silver-investor.com with original source material from the Commercial & Financial Chronicle and the New York Times and other sources, covering in depth week by week over a four year span Franklin Roosevelt’s seizure of precious metals from Americans. Franklin Roosevelt, PILGRIMS SOCIETY member ---
to be continued...
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