Hitler's economic revolution in Germany had reduced financial considerations to a point where they played no role in economic or political decisions.
By the winter of 1945-1946, the Russian peoples were being warned of the dangers from the West.
Bolshevism presented itself as an economic threat to themselves at the same time that Nazism presented itself as a political threat to their countries.
On this basis, which was originally financial and goes back to George Peabody, there grew up in the twentieth century a power structure between London and New York which penetrated deeply into university life, the press, and the practice of foreign policy.
It is this power structure which the Radical Right in the United States has been attacking for years in the belief that they are attacking the Communists.