Columbia University And Blood Thirsty Lamont Family: Does Financing Communism and Mussolini Bother the Ivy League University?

Flashback to the sleazy financiers of totalitarianism: the Lamont family. Don Bell reports:

CORLISS LAMONT. The story really begins with the parents of our subject. Thomas W. Lamont was a Harvard graduate who was working as a financial reporter on a New Jersey newspaper. According to Rose L. Martin in her "The Selling of America," Lamont "displayed a rare gift for ingratiating himself with the most imposing figures of Wall Street." And the most imposing figure of the time was J.P. Morgan, who spotted Lamont and gave him a position in his firm. Soon Lamont was a junior partner in the company. Then came a brief hiatus in his climb to money and power. Colonel House was organizing his "The Inquiry", a team of young intellectuals who were to accompany him to Paris and the Peace Conference that was to end the war and set up the League of Nations. And Lamont was selected as one of the group. Here was born what came to be called The Council on Foreign Relations, Lamont being a charter member. Also, he had connections with the super-secret Pilgrim Society USA. He and his wife became officers in the Foreign Policy Association. Mrs. Lamont was a trustee of the pro-communist New School for Social Research (Eleanor Roosevelt was a member of the board). Meanwhile, back on Wall Street, Thomas had become a senior partner with J.P. Morgan, had become sufficiently imnportant that it was he who signed the so-called "Bankers' Report" advocating diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia. President Roosevelt duly followed suit and in 1933 established full diplomatic relations with the Bolshevik regime.

Meanwhile, young Corliss had grown up, graduated from Harvard, which school had received a two million donation from Lamont Senior. Corliss, while a student had become active in the League for Industrial Democracy, began his career of writing and teaching to promote Communist causes. His first important public notice came about as a result of his relationship with the Carnegie foundations. In his well documented book "Prejudice and the Press," Frank Hughes wrote: "The Carnegie Endowment's 1946 Yearbook, reported that the Carnegie Endowment had distributeed to its 'international mind alcoves' in high schools and universities copies of 'The People of the Soviet Union,' by Corliss Lamont. Lamont was a lecturer in the Jefferson School of Social Science, the Commuinst Party school in New York City, and has been affiliated with a host of Communist Front organizations." The HUAC and other Congressional investigating committees have listed Corliss Lamont as having been a member of 56 Communist and/or Communist Front organizations.

For Columbia's "relationship" with the Lamonts. For a look at how Thomas W. Lamont financed Mussolini, click on this. For a look at how Thomas W. Lamont helped finance the Soviet Union , click on this.