Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions

By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West

A state is not the same thing as a society, although the Greeks and Romans thought it was. A state is an organization of power on a territorial basis.

A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.

On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.

This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy to persons of tremendous public power who dreaded public knowledge of their activities as an evil almost as great as inflation.

It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.