THE REAL RULERS OF U.S.A.

Southland Times, Issue 23166, 6 April 1937, Page 11

THE REAL RULERS OF U.S.A.

DOMINATION OF THREE MEN In Miss Anna Rochester’s “Rulers of America,” which was recently published there are surprising details of the people who really control the destiny of the United States —not the President and the Supreme Court, but Morgan, Rockefeller, Mellon and their allies and lieutenants.

Commenting on the revelations, Peterborough, of The Daily Telegraph, writes:

She places the Morgans first in power, the Rockefellers first in wealth. The private fortune of the latter is probably in the region of £2OO millions. She traces back for 40 years the struggle for supremacy between Morgan and Rockefeller. Meanwhile, they work together in many of the largest American concerns.

Miss Rochester gives a table of their corporate connections. I give the rough sterling equivalents:

Morgan without Rockefeller £lO,OOO millions. Rockefeller without Mor-

gan £3,000 millions. Both groups represented £6,000 millions Morgan Dominance £4,000 millions Rockefeller Dominance £l,OOO millions Indecisive £l,OOO millions.

Miss Rochester’s figures are for 1932. They would, of course, be very much larger today. Altogether the Morgan influence in American industry and finance embraces concerns with a total capital value of about £15,000 millions, more than one-fourth of the total corporate wealth of America. Miss Rochester in inclined to consider Mr Andrew Mellon a richer man than Mr Pierpont Morgan. In power he comes well after both the Morgans and the Rockefellers.

In Mr Henry Ford and his son, Edsel, though their wealth might place them next to the Rockefellers, Miss Rochester is little interested. Outside their own business their power, she says, is negligible.