Greetings,

For my very first blog post I am going to share with you the Foreword from Taylor Caldwell’s novel Captains and The Kings: The Story of An American Dynasty.  I believe the information shared is still as relevant today as when it was penned by its author.   There is much for us to learn and also re-learn about our world’s and our nation’s history.  We all know that history is written by the winners; and is therefore susceptible to errors, omissions & re-writes.

Also unfortunately, it will always be controlled and censored by those who are working “behind the scenes”, by the evil power structure that threatens the safety, lively hood and freedom of not only Americans but all the citizens of our world.  At this point in our history I believe that there might not be much that can be done to free us from their grasp, but as long as we have free thinking, intelligent individuals…there is at least a glimmer of hope left.

-Mokuren

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Foreword

This book is dedicated to the young people of America, who are rebelling because they know there is something very wrong with their country, but do not know just what it is.  I hope this book will help to enlighten them.

There is not, to my knowledge, any family like the “Armagh Family” in America, nor has there ever been, and all characters, except those obviously historical, are my own invention.  However, the historical background and the political background of this novel are authentic.  The “Committee For Foreign Studies” does indeed exist, today as of yesterday, and so does the  “Scardo Society”, but not by these names.

There is indeed a “plot against the people”, and probably always will be, for government has always been hostile towards the governed.  It is not a new story, and the conspirators and conspiracies have varied from era to era, depending on the political or economic situation in their various countries.

But it was not until the era of the League of Just Men and Karl Marx that conspirators and conspiracies became one, with one aim, one objective, and one determination.  This has nothing to do with any “ideology” or form of government, or ideals or “materialism” or any other catchphrases generously fed to the unthinking masses.  It has absolutely nothing to do with races or religions, for the conspirators are beyond what they call “such trivialities.”  They are also beyond good and evil.  The Caesars they put into power are their creatures, whether they know it or not, and the peoples of all nations are helpless, whether they live in America, Europe, Russia, China, Africa or South America.    They will always be helpless until they are aware of their real enemy.

President John F. Kennedy knew what he was talking about when he spoke of the “Gnomes of Zurich.”  Perhaps he knew too much!  Coups d’etat are an old story, but they are now growing too numerous.  This is probably the last hour for mankind as a rational species, before it becomes the slave of a “planned society.”  A bibliography ends the book, and I hope many of my readers will avail themselves of the facts.  That is all the hope I have.

-Taylor Caldwell (1972)

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