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day trip each way for bankers from the Far West to come to 

Washington for a council meeting with the Federal Reserve Board. 

These men had extensive business interests which demanded their 

time. J.P. Morgan was a director of sixty-three corporations which held 

annual meetings, and

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* "The Federal Advisory Council has great influence with the Federal 

Reserve Board. Conspicuously upon that council is J.P. Morgan, the 

leading member of J.P. Morgan Company and son of the late J.P. 

Morgan. Every one of the twelve members of the Advisory Council, as 

you well know, was educated in the same atmosphere. The Federal 

Reserve Act is not only a special privilege act but privileged persons 

have been placed in control and are its advisors in its administration. 

The Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Advisory Council 

administer the Federal Reserve System as its head authority, and no 

one of the lesser officials, even if they wished, would dare to cross 

swords with them."

(FROM: "Why Is Your Country At War?" by Charles Lindbergh, published 

in 1917). The above paragraph explains why Woodrow Wilson ordered 

government agents to seize and destroy the printing plates and copies 

of this book in the spring of 1918.

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could hardly be expected to travel to Washington to attend meetings 

of the Federal Reserve Board if his advice was to be considered of no 

importance.**

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