An Introduction to the Order of Skull and Bones - vHo

IN PEACE AND WAR
BY
HENRY L. ST IMSON
Secretary of War 1911-13 Secretary of State 1929-33
Secretary of War 1940-45
AND
McGEORGE BUNDY
Junior Fellow, Society of Fellows
Harvard University
HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK
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On Active Service In Peace And War
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Furthermore, there are approximately 2500 institutions of higher learning in the United States. Are we to
believe that only one of these institutions can generate the talent to lead the country
The Whitney-Stimson-Bundy-Acheson Chain of Influence
Four families provide an example of one such chain of influence. Multiply this chain by a few dozen and you
readily see how control is perpetuated by a small group. The families in this chain are Whitney, Stimson,
Acheson and Bundy. The Acheson family is only partly in The Order. Dean Acheson was a member of Scroll &
Key at Yale. This is an offshoot of The Order and at least influenced by it. Dean Acheson's daughter, Mary
Acheson, married William Bundy (The Order). Dean Acheson's son, David, is a member of The Order.
(1) We start with the Whitneys in the late 19th century. Whitney The Order), along with Ryan and a handful of
other capitalists, have been heavily criticized in several books on grounds of massive corruption and fraud. New
York street railway franchises generated enormous profits for the Whitney group. When Whitney was Secretary
of the Navy he promoted a giant naval ship building program - which didn't hurt his friends who owned
shipyards and steel mills.
Whitney's attorney and close associate was Elihu Root. Although not a member of The Order, Root has been
called "Whitney's artful attorney" (Point "A" on our chart). Root, one of the sharpest legal minds n American
history and a power in his own right, worked along with the purposes of The Order.
(2) 1n 1890 along comes young Henry Stimson, fresh out of Yale, The Order, and Harvard Law School.
Stimson joins Root's law firm - B"). then called Root & Clark. After a while, in 1897, it became mown as Root,
Howard, Winthrop & Stimson and by 1901 it became Winthrop and Stimson. In the meantime ("C"), Stimson
married Mabel White daughter of Charles A. White (The Order).
Stimson proved he was capable in the law and when Taft (The Order) was looking for a Secretary of War in
1911, he appointed Stimson (The Order) . which brings us to Point "D."
Then Stimson's career went like this: