“The Rhodes Scholarships, established by the terms of Cecil Rhodes’s seventh will, are known to everyone. What is not so widely known is that Rhodes in five previous wills left his fortune to form a secret society, which was to devote itself to the preservation and expansion of the British Empire. And what does not seem to be known to anyone is that this secret society was created by Rhodes and his principal trustee, Lord Milner, and continues to exist to this day.
To be sure, this secret society is not a childish thing like the Ku Klux Klan, and it does not have any secret robes, secret handclasps, or secret passwords. It does not need any of these, since its members know each other intimately. It probably has no oaths of secrecy nor any formal procedure of initiation. It does, however, exist and holds secret meetings, over which the senior member present presides. At various times since 1891, these meetings have been presided over by Rhodes, Lord Milner, Lord Selborne, Sir Patrick Duncan, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Lord Lothian, and Lord Brand. They have been held in all the British Dominions, starting in South Africa about 1903; in various places in London, chiefly Piccadilly; at various colleges at Oxford, chiefly All Souls; and at many English country houses such as Tring Park, Blickling Hall, Cliveden, and others.
This society has been known at various times as Milner’s Kindergarten, as the Round Table Group, as the Rhodes crowd, as The Times crowd, as the All Souls group, and as the Cliveden set. All of these terms are unsatisfactory, for one reason or another, and I have chosen to call it the Milner Group. Those persons who have used the other terms, or heard them used, have not generally been aware that all these various terms referred to the same Group.
It is not easy for an outsider to write the history of a secret group of this kind, but, since no insider is going to do it, an outsider must attempt it. It should be done, for this Group is, as I shall show, one of the most important historical facts of the twentieth century.”
Carroll Quigley, The Anglo-American Establishment
These remarks are a copy of an earlier comment made by me:
Quigley’s book “Tragedy & Hope” was a watershed event for those who suspected a secret ruling elite when it was published in 1966. It’s actually a rather boring tome that I had to drag myself through. But for about 75 pages it’s electric, exposing the financial elite who choreograph events behind the scene. You can find interviews on You Tube where Quigley will come up to that point of exposing the rulers then back off in palpable fear shutting down the questioners flat. He was on thin ice. You don’t piss off these people and live to tell about it. The book was pulled off shelves, the plates used to print the book destroyed and it was dumped down the memory hole. But enough people had read it and bought copies so it survives to this day. I started to rub intellectual shoulders with such people after I graduated college in 1971. Soon after reading that book I came across “Rush to Judgement” by Mark Lane on the JFK assassination published in the same year. It started to come together in my thinking that there was a vast difference between what is seen and what is unseen.
Preach CCRider!
Pdf if anybody is interested. It might be on archive.org, too. It’s really, really long.
http://www.carrollquigley.net/pdf/Tragedy_and_Hope.pdf