THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY INCORPORATED Belmont, Massachusetts 02178 Bulletin For January, 1970 Approved by Executive Committee C 1969 by The John Birch Society FOREWORD If the people understood the revolution today, it would end tomorrow. Joseph de Maistre, 1811 This was the whole problem, my friends. And it is still the whole problem today. What's more, we are still dealing with the same revolution. It had already been under way for a generation in 1811. It was fomented, financed, sustained, and controlled even then, as it still is, by a self-perpetuating Inner Circle of conspirators. (If some of what follows begins to sound familiar to you oldtimers, please forgive the repetition of anything you have come across before on these premises, or wherever else our fountain pen leaves its tracks. For one thing, we are going to have a lot of new readers, beginning with this very bulletin. For another, this rerun of some earlier reels is vital to the point that we wish to make in due course. And so, as we were saying ). The sole purpose of these Insiders always has been, and is now, simply to acquire more power (or wealth or fame) for themselves, at any cost in human suffering. And, as a general rule, comparable rewards have similarly been made available, all down the line, for those in the lower echelons who helped, at their own levels, to carry forward the malign work of the Conspiracy. Already, as early as the middle 1780's, the government of Bavaria was warning the other governments of Europe of what was afoot.