The Organization of Power
Part 6
The World's Fair in London in 1851 is "generally considered to be the first world's fair".
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In the years following, World's Fairs were organized in many of the great cities of the time so that engineers, architects, industrialists, and artists could put on display, their achievements. In 1905, the World's Fair was in Liége, Belgium but by this time, there was something even bigger happening. An international organization of business was forming. The first meeting of the International Congress of the Chamber of Congress and Commercial and Industrial Associations met in Liége, Belgium in 1905.
In a book titled, Merchants of Peace, The History of the International Chamber of Commerce, George L. Ridgeway1 wrote the following:
Merchants of Peace
1959 Edition - Pages 21-23
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The picture below is the group photo of the participants at
the 1912 meeting in Boston when, as quoted above, Henry A. Wheeler, President of
the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said,
"The business interests of the United States are deeply sensible of the importance of the gathering. It signifies to us a recognition of a world interdependence, an acknowledgement that the happiness, the welfare and prosperity of all the people are so interlaced that harm permitted to be done to the least of the nations must necessarily find its adverse effect upon the greatest”. And later, speaking for the multitude of industrial financial and trading interests represented by the United States Chamber of Commerce at Boston, Wheeler foresaw the need for such international organization as would insure “international arbitration of individual and national disputes” and would “with commerce create and maintain world peace”.
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On the U.S. Chamber of Commerce website,
100 year history display,
it shows the following picture and message:
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There is no mention of the fact that the
Chamber of Commerce organized in 1912, was an international organization that
originated in Liége, Belgium.
There was an earlier edition of Merchants of Peace published in 1938. It's instructive to read the first couple of pages in the earlier edition to see how history was cleaned up by the later edition in 1959. As you read it, consider the ideas expressed as the trail heads of the major threads of history that when combined reveal the source of the true power in the world.
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Vicky Davis
January 21, 2014
Another relevant and interesting side note is that Robert S. Brookings, founder of the Brookings Institute was the organizer of the 1904 World's Fair exposition in St. Louis Missouri.
