It never occurred to anyone in a responsible position that Germany and Russia might make common cause, even temporarily, against the West.
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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.
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To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
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The bankers made loans to business so that the volume of money increased faster than the increase in goods. The result was inflation.
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Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
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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.
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