U.S Sec. of State John Kerry’s grandfather spent his infancy in Shanghai, a heavily commercialized port city which became home to numerous British, French and American trading merchants at the conclusion of the opium wars. James Grant Forbes was sent first to boarding school in England to be educated, then later to Harvard (Class of 1901). After practicing in the United States for a time, he traveled the world as an international lawyer and banker, working on railway ventures in Brazil, Argentina, and Paraguay, though encyclopedic references do not state by whom he was employed. [9] He was, however (according to Alistair Tayler’s description of him in his book, The House of Forbes, published in Aberdeen in 1937), a director of Austin Friars Trust, a ponzi scheme trust built with fraudulent assets set up in London in 1927 which led to the stock collapse in 1929. The public outcry in the aftermath of this scandal led to creation of the Bank for International Settlements and further centralization of the global banking industry. James Grant Forbes was also a director of Blair & Co., Ltd., a large investment banking company—often associated with the Boston investment bank of Lee, Higginson & Co.—which played a central role in financing the Dawes Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War I. His association with Blair & Co. would place him in contact with the central players who devised the means of creating and financing a global one-world government. [Anita McCormick Blair in Chicago, was the matron of Col. Francis Wayland Parker and father Time, Henry Robinson Luce.]
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