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its operations. And in 1918 Carnegie endowed a meeting in London of the American Historical
Association where an agreement was made to rewrite American history in the interests of social
efficiency. Not all leaders were of a single mind, of course. History isn’t that simple. Beatrice
Webb, for instance, declined to accept financial aid from Carnegie on her visit, calling him "a
reptile" behind his back; the high-born Mrs. Webb saw through Carnegie’s pretensions, right into
the merchant-ledger of his tradesman soul. But enough were of a single mind it made no practical
difference.
On July 4, 1919, the London Times carried a long account reporting favorably on the propaganda
hydra growing in the United States, without identifying the hand of Carnegie in its fashioning.
According to the paper, men "trained in the arts of creating public good will and of swaying
public opinion" were broadcasting an agenda which aimed first at mobilizing world public opinion
and then controlling it. The end of all this effort was already determined, said the Times—world
government. As the newspaper set down the specifics in 1919, propaganda was the fuel to drive
societies away from their past:
Efficiently organized propaganda should mobilize the Press, the Church, the
stage, and the cinema. Press into active service the whole educational systems
of both countries...the homes, the universities, public and high schools, and
primary schools...histories...should be revised. New books should be added,
particularly to the primary schools.
The same issue of the London Times carried a signed article by Owen Wister, famous author of
the best-selling novel The Virginian. Wister was then on the Carnegie payroll. He pulled no
punches, informing the upscale British readership, "A movement to correct the schoolbooks of the
United States has been started, and it will go on."
In March 1925, the Saturday Evening Post featured an article by a prominent Carnegie official
who stated that to bring about the world Carnegie envisioned, "American labor will have to be
reduced to the status of European labor." 7 Ten years later, on December 19, 1935, the New York
American carried a long article about what it referred to as "a secret Carnegie Endowment
conference" at the Westchester Country Club in Harrison, New York. Twenty-nine organizations
attending each agreed to authorize a nationwide radio campaign managed and coordinated from
behind the scenes, a campaign to commit the United States to a policy of internationalism. The
group also agreed to present "vigorous counter-action" against those who opposed this country’s
entrance into the League of Nations. Pearl Harbor was only six years away, an international
showcase for globalism without peer. 8
Soon after this conference, almost every school in the United States was provided with full-size
color maps of the world and with League of Nations literature extolling the virtues of globalism.
That’s how it was done. That’s how it still is done. Universal schooling is a permeable medium.
There need not be conspiracy among its internal personnel to achieve astonishingly uniform
results; multiply this tactical victory thousands of times and you get where we are. Today we call
the continuation of this particular strand of leveling "multiculturalism"—even though every
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