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financial depressions would ultimately result in World Government, a 

new order of one world government."

The Rothschild family has played a crucial role in international finance 

for two centuries, as Frederick Morton, in The Rothschilds writes:

"For the last one hundred and fifty years the history of the House of 

Rothschild has been to an amazing extent the backstage history of 

Western Europe."38 (Preface)... Because of their success in making 

loans not to individuals, but to nations, they reaped huge profits, 

although as Morton writes, p. 36, "Someone once said that the wealth 

of Rothschild consists of the bankruptcy of nations."43

E.C. Knuth writes, in The Empire of the City, "The fact that the House of 

Rothschild made its money in the great crashes of history and the 

great wars of history, the very periods when others lost their money, is 

beyond question."44

The Great Soviet Encyclopaedia, states, "The clearest example of a 

personal linkup (international directorates) on a Western European 

scale is the Rothschild family. The London and Paris branches of the 

Rothschilds are bound not just by family ties but also by personal link-

ups in jointly controlled companies."45 The encyclopaedia further 

described these companies as international monopolies.

The sire of the family, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, established a small 

business as a coin dealer in Frankfurt in 1743. Although previously 

known as Bauer*, he advertised his profession by putting up a sign 

depicting an eagle on a red shield, an adaptation of the coat of arms 

of the City of Frankfurt, to which he added five golden arrows