\u2013 What is it Really \u2013<\/p>\n There\u2019s been a\u00a0lot<\/em>\u00a0of hype about a secret society that Cecil John Rhodes created, which erroneously gets given the name \u2013 the Round Table.<\/p>\n This library article will attempt to help sort out what really happened on a\u00a0documentable<\/em>\u00a0basis \u2013 no \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d.<\/p>\n To do this, let\u2019s start with the secret society that Cecil Rhodes actually\u00a0did\u00a0form. The earliest reference to which was \u201cConfession of Faith\u201d, as revealed by William Thomas Stead in his book of 1902.<\/p>\n Rather than duplicating the details of my already completed research on that particular item, I\u2019ll just direct you to my library article called:\u00a0Cecil John Rhodes \u2013 \u2018Confession of Faith\u2019\u00a01877<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Just Dox<\/em>\u00a0(British Intelligence) section.<\/p>\n The\u00a0original\u00a0source, that catapulted \u2018Confession of Faith\u2019 into the public eye, was a book published by his friend and mentor William Thomas Stead. It was entitled:\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em>\u00a0and was published in 1902. You can\u00a0read it for free<\/a>\u00a0at the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n Now from that, let\u2019s briefly just take up the part that matters for the purposes of\u00a0this<\/em>\u00a0article.<\/p>\n Cecil Rhodes \u2013 \u2018Confession of Faith\u2019, June 1877<\/p>\n \u201cWhy should we not form a\u00a0secret society<\/strong>\u00a0with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable, it is possible.\u201d<\/p>\n In Stead\u2019s book, there are several passages that discuss this \u201csecret society\u201d, where Stead is now included in this shadowy arrangement.<\/p>\n That was my idea as I expressed it. That was Mr. Rhodes\u2019s idea also. It was \u201cour idea\u201d his idea of the secret society broadened and made presentable to the public without in any way revealing the esoteric truth that lay behind. Mr. Rhodes recognised this and eagerly welcomed it.<\/p>\n Stead also gives us an approximate time period when this society is already in place. He quotes from a letter that Cecil had sent him when he was upset about Stead\u2019s journalistic attacks (through Review of Reviews) against the Boer War.<\/p>\n That is the curse which will be fatal to our ideas \u2013 insubordination. Do not you think it is very disobedient of you? How can our Society be worked if each one sets himself up as the sole judge of what ought to be done? Just look at the position here. We three are in South Africa, all of us your boys [\u2026] I myself, Milner and Garrett, all of whom learned [\u2026]<\/p>\n Curiously, there are several cases of dissembling by Stead in his book. For example, he refuses to name Lord Rothschild as such, when he was added to Cecil\u2019s will, but instead calls him \u201cX\u201d. Such is also the case with this society. Stead seems to go out of his way to act like it had not been ever formed, when it had been, as you will soon see.<\/p>\n So it may be that someone coming after Mr. Rhodes may prosper exceedingly in founding the great Order of which Mr. Rhodes did dream.<\/p>\n It also seems somewhat of an insult of Milner, if you understand the history here, because Milner had Rhodes remove Stead from the will later on \u2013 there seems to have been some sort of power-play going on between Milner and Stead.<\/p>\n Backing up little here, it was on 4 April 1889, that Stead first met Rhodes. In light of the expose Stead had done that targeted heavily the nobility, the \u201cupper crust\u201d of the British, this\u00a0first approach<\/em>, followed immediately by showering Stead with money, strikes me as some sort of intelligence infiltration\/control operation done\u00a0by<\/em>\u00a0those very nobility.<\/p>\n To read these articles Stead penned in July of 1885, please see\u00a0this wonderful website<\/a>\u00a0archiving his works. The articles by Stead were exposing the London slave trade wherein young virgin girls were sold into sexual slavery, and many of the customers were the British nobility.<\/p>\n Professor Quigley, drawing from Sir Whytes biography of Stead, tells us about Rhodes\u2019 interest in Stead and when it began.<\/p>\n Although Rhodes accepted Stead\u2019s ideas, he did not decide that Stead was the man he wanted to be his lieutenant in the secret society\u00a0until\u00a0Stead was sent to prison in 1885 for his articles on organized vice in the\u00a0Pall Mall Gazette<\/em>. This courageous episode convinced Rhodes to such a degree that he tried to see Stead in prison but was turned away.<\/p>\n Quigley then tells us about the \u201ctrap\u201d or \u201cbait\u201d \u2013 my words \u2013 that Rhodes used to gain influence with Stead.<\/p>\n After Stead was released, Rhodes did not find the opportunity to meet him until 4 April 1889. The excitement of that day for Stead can best be shown by quoting portions of the letter which he wrote to Mrs. Stead immediately after the conference. It said:<\/p>\n \u201cMr. Rhodes is my man! I have just had three hours talk with him. He is full of a far more gorgeous idea in connection with the paper than even I have had. I cannot tell you his scheme because it is too secret. But it involves millions. He had no idea that it would cost \u00a3250,000 to start a paper. But he offered me down as a free gift \u00a320,000 to buy a share in the P.M. Gazette as a beginning. Next year he would do more. He expects to own before he dies 4 or 5 millions, all of which he will leave to carry out the scheme of which the paper is an integral part. He is giving \u00a3500,000 to make a railway to Matabeleland, and so has not available, just at this moment, the money necessary for starting the morning paper. His ideas are federation, expansion, and consolidation of the Empire [\u2026]<\/p>\n He took to me. Told me some things he has told no other man\u2014save Lord Rothschild\u2014 and pressed me to take the \u00a320,000, not to have any return, to give no receipt, to simply take it and use it to give me a freer hand on the P.M.G. It seems all like a fairy dream [\u2026]<\/p>\n *P.M.G. =\u00a0Pall Mall Gazette \u2013\u00a0<\/em>Stead was the Editor.<\/p>\n \u201cIt seems all like a fairy dream\u201d \u2013\u00a0truly<\/em>\u00a0encapsulates what went on here. In modern parlance we call that\u00a0schmoozing<\/em>.<\/p>\n Later that year, in November of 1889, Stead and Rhodes had a long conversation prior to Rhodes leaving London for Africa again, and Stead includes a letter that he wrote to Rhodes in February of 1890, where he directly discusses the political outlet of Rhodes\u2019 ideals \u2013\u00a0creating a new paper.<\/p>\n I kept no written notes of that memorable conversation. But the spirit and drift of our talk the following extract from a letter which I wrote to Mr. Rhodes three months later may suffice to illustrate:<\/p>\n I have been thinking a great deal since I first saw you about your great idea (that of the Society) and the more I think the more it possesses me, and the more I am shut up to the conclusion that the best way in which I can help towards its realisation is, as you said in a letter to me last month, by working towards the paper [\u2026]<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A year later (November 25th, 1890) Cecil wrote :<\/p>\n My dear Stead, I am getting on all right, and you must remember that I am going on with the same ideas as we discussed after lunch at Sir Charles Mills\u2019. \u2026 I am sorry I never met Booth. I understand what he is exactly. . . . When I come home again I must meet Cardinal Manning, but I am waiting until I make my Charter a success before we attempt our Society you can understand.<\/p>\n The plan for a new paper, financed by Rhodes, was\u00a0well<\/em>\u00a0underway by the time this letter reached him. So much so, that Stead had actually\u00a0left<\/em>\u00a0his previous job at the Pall Mall Gazette (where Milner and Garrett had been his protege\u2019s) and was preparing for the publication of the very first issue of their new paper, Stead titled it: REVIEW OF REVIEWS.<\/p>\n The first issue was on January 15th, 1891.<\/p>\n Stead, when describing\u00a0why<\/em>\u00a0Cecil was supporting this effort, hints at the structure of this secret society.<\/p>\n He regarded it as a practical step towards the realisation of his great idea, the reunion of the English-speaking world through the agency of a central organ served in every part of the world\u00a0by affiliated Helpers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I am including the extracts from the manifesto, as Stead calls it, that appeared in the first issue of\u00a0Review of Reviews<\/em>. I suspect that Stead is, in some cloaked fashion, somehow one of Catholicism\u2019s covert operatives \u2013 perhaps even a Jesuit. I say that for many reasons, which I\u2019m not going to go into in this article, but I think the odd acknowledgement of the Catholic church (and a number of other points along that same line) just\u00a0really\u00a0stand out.<\/p>\n To ALL ENGLISH-SPEAKING FOLK.<\/p>\n There exists at this moment no institution which even aspires to be to the English-speaking world what the Catholic Church in its prime was to the intelligence of Christendom. To call attention to the need for such an institution, adjusted, of course, to the altered circumstances of the New Era. to enlist the co-operation of all those who will work towards the creation of some such common centre for the inter-communication of ideas, and the universal diffusion of the ascertained results of human experience in a form accessible to all men, are the ultimate objects for which this REVIEW has been established.<\/p>\n We shall be independent of party, because, having a very clear and intelligible faith, we survey the struggles of contending parties from the standpoint of a consistent body of doctrine, and\u00a0steadily seek to use all parties for the realisation of our ideals.<\/strong><\/p>\n These ideals are unmistakably indicated by the upward trend of human progress and our position in the existing economy of the world. Among all the agencies for the shaping of the future of the human race none seem so potent now and still more hereafter as the English-speaking man.<\/p>\n Already he begins to dominate the world. The Empire and the Republic comprise within their limits almost all the territory that remains empty for the overflow of the world. Their citizens, with all their faults, are leading the van of civilisation, and if any great improvements are to be made in the condition of mankind, they will necessarily be leading instruments in the work. Hence our first starting-point will be a deep and almost awestruck regard for the destinies of the English-speaking man. To use Milton\u2019s famous phrase, faith in \u201cGod\u2019s Englishmen\u201d will be our inspiring principle. To make the Englishman worthy of his immense vocation, and, at the same time, to help to hold together and strengthen the political ties which at present link all English-speaking communities save one\u00a0in a union which banishes all dread of internecine war<\/strong>, to promote by every means\u00a0a fraternal union with the American Republic, to work for the Empire, to seek to strengthen it, to develop it, and, when necessary, to extend it,\u00a0these will be our plainest duties.<\/p>\n Imperialism within limits defined by common sense and the Ten Commandments is a very different thing from the blatant Jingoism which some years ago made the very name of empire stink in the nostrils of all decent people. The sobering sense of the immense responsibilities of our Imperial position is the best prophylactic for the frenzies of Jingoism.<\/p>\n And in like manner the sense of the lamentable deficiencies and imperfections of \u201cGod\u2019s Englishmen,\u201d which results from a strenuous\u00a0attempt to make them worthy of their destinies, is the best preservative against that\u00a0odious combination of cant* and arrogance\u00a0which made Heine declare that the Englishman was\u00a0the most odious handiwork of the Creator.<\/strong>\u00a0To interpret to the English-speaking race the best thought of the other peoples is one among the many services\u00a0which we<\/strong>\u00a0would seek to render to the Empire.<\/p>\n *cant<\/em>\u00a0= hypocritical and sanctimonious talk, typically of a moral, religious, or political nature.<\/p>\n We believe in God, in England, and in Humanity. The English-speaking race is one of the chief of\u00a0God\u2019s chosen agents<\/strong>\u00a0for executing coming improvements in the lot of mankind.<\/strong>\u00a0If all those who see that could be brought into hearty union to help all that tends to make\u00a0that race more fit to fulfil its providential mission<\/strong>, and to combat all that hinders or impairs that work,\u00a0such an association or secular order<\/strong>\u00a0would constitute a nucleus or rallying point for all that is most vital in the English world, the ultimate influence of which it would be difficult to overrate.<\/p>\n This is the highest of all the functions to which we aspire. Our supreme duty is the winnowing out by a process of natural selection, and enlisting for hearty service for the commonweal all those who possess within their hearts the sacred fire of patriotic devotion to their country.<\/p>\n Who is there among the people who has truth in him, who is no self-seeker, who is no coward, and who is capable of honest, painstaking effort to help his country? For such men we would search as for hid treasures.<\/p>\n They are the salt of the earth and the light of the world, and it is the duty and the privilege of the wise man to see that they are like cities set on the hill which cannot be hid.<\/p>\n The great word which has now to be spoken in the ears of the world is that the time has come when men and women must work for the salvation of the State with as much zeal and self-sacrifice as they now work for the salvation of the individual. To save the country from the grasp of demons innumerable, to prevent this Empire or this Republic becoming an incarnate demon of lawless ambition and cruel love of gold, how many men or women are willing to spend even one hour a month or a year?\u00a0The religious side of politics has not yet entered the minds of men.<\/strong><\/p>\n What is wanted is a revival of civic faith, a quickening of spiritual life in the political sphere, the inspiring of men and women with the conception of what may be done towards the salvation of the world, if they will but bring to bear upon public affairs the same spirit of self-sacrificing labour that so many thousands manifest in the ordinary drudgery of parochial and evangelistic work. It may, no doubt, seem an impossible dream.<\/p>\n That which we really wish to found among our readers is in very truth a civic church, every member of which should zealously as much as it lay within him preach the true faith, and endeavour to make it operative in the hearts and heads of its neighbours. Were such a church founded it would be as a great voice sounding out over sea and land the summons to all men to think seriously and soberly of the public life in which they are called to fill a part. Visible in many ways is the decadence of the Press.<\/p>\n The mentor of the young democracy has abandoned philosophy, and stuffs the ears of its Telemachus with descriptions of Calypso\u2019s petticoats and the latest scandals from the Court. All the more need, then, that there should be a voice which, like that of the muezzin from the Eastern minaret, would summon the faithful to the duties imposed by their belief.<\/p>\n This, it may be said, involves a religious idea, and\u00a0when religion is introduced harmonious co-operation is impossible. That was so once; it will not always be the case.<\/p>\n To establish a periodical circulating throughout the English-speaking world, with its affiliates or associates in every town, and its correspondents in every village, read as men used to read their Bibles, not to waste an idle hour, but to discover the will of God and their duty to man, whose staff and readers alike are bound together by a common faith and a readiness to do common service for a common end that, indeed, is an object for which it is worth while to make some sacrifice. Such a publication so supported would be at once an education and an inspiration; and who can say, looking at the present condition of England and of America, that it is not needed?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n By 1891, Stead had convinced Rhodes to shift his ideas from the glory of the British Empire to the glory of the English-speaking races, much as you see this manifesto, as Stead calls it, going on about. Stead talks about this change in Rhodes, when he met with him after the first publication of Review of Reviews.<\/p>\n [as compared to 1889 when they first met]<\/p>\n But in 1891, abandoning in no whit his devotion to his own country, he expressed his deliberate conviction that English-speaking reunion was so great an end in itself as to justify even the sacrifice of the monarchical features and isolated existence of the British Empire. At our first conversation in 1889 he had somewhat demurred to this frank and logical acceptance of the consequences of his own principles; but in 1891 all hesitation disappeared, and from that moment the ideal of English-speaking reunion assumed its natural and final place as the centre of his political aspirations. He resumed very eagerly his conversation as to the realisation of his projects.<\/p>\n This private meeting, which was just a couple weeks after a splash like\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0made in the pond of Slavemaster politics, is when Rhodes revealed that he had discussed \u201cour ideas\u201d with two other men.<\/p>\n He was in high spirits, and expressed himself as delighted with the work which I had done in founding the REVIEW of REVIEWS, and especially with the effort which was made to secure the co-operation of the more public-spirited persons of our way of thinking in every constituency in the country, which formed the inspiration of the Association of Helpers.<\/p>\n \u201cYou have begun,\u201d said he, \u201cto realise my idea. In the REVIEW and the Association of Helpers you have made the beginning which is capable afterwards of being extended so as to carry out our idea.\u201d<\/p>\n We then\u00a0discussed the persons who should be taken into our confidence. At that time he assured me he had spoken of it to no one, with the exception of myself and two others.<\/p>\n He authorised me to communicate with two friends, now members of the Upper House, who were thoroughly in sympathy with the gospel according to the Pall Mall Gazette, and\u00a0who had been as my right and left hands<\/strong>\u00a0during my editorship of that paper.<\/p>\n Do note that he does\u00a0not<\/em>\u00a0mention Lord Esher, for some strange reason \u2013 perhaps the same reason he doesn\u2019t name \u201cX\u201d as being Lord Rothschild? Protecting the highest levels? Esher\u00a0had\u00a0been in Parliament, but had retired from that in 1885 citing that he preferred a \u201cbehind the scenes role\u201d.<\/p>\n For the statement \u2013 \u201cnow members of the Upper House\u201d Garett however,\u00a0did\u00a0have a Parliamentary position in Africa, \u201cVictoria East\u201d, in the more relevant time period to Stead\u2019s 1902 book. He was elected in 1898 and he immediately took a foremost place in the house of assembly, and in the two heated sessions preceding the Boer War he was the most persuasive, speaker on the \u201cprogressive\u201d (i.e. British) side, warmly supporting Cecil Rhodes and the policy of Lord (then Sir Alfred) Alfred Milner.<\/p>\n So, it makes sense that these two protegees, Milner and Garrett, were brought in to the \u201csociety\u201d.<\/p>\n That\u2019s what the \u201cright and left hands\u201d reference is about then.<\/p>\n It is referring to Alfred Milner and Edmund Garett (full name Fydell Edmund Garett).<\/p>\n This is Garrett.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2026. with Rhodes but with his two former prot\u00e9g\u00e9s from the\u00a0Pall Mall Gazette<\/em>,\u00a0Alfred Milner and Edmund Garrett.*<\/p>\n Although Stead does\u00a0not\u00a0go into the details of this arranged meeting in his book, other than an odd stand-alone mentions here and there of names like \u201cAssociation of Helpers\u201d, Professor Quigley does.<\/p>\n What\u2019s interesting here, however, is that per Stead, Rhodes authorised him to talk to Milner and Garrett, but Quigley discusses a structure involving Lord Esher, so apparently Milner must have brought Esher into the mix.<\/p>\n Reginald Baliol Brett<\/strong>, later known as Lord Esher<\/p>\n Quigley tells us about the same conversation Stead mentioned, between he and Rhodes in February of 1891, but Quigley goes into much more detail about it.<\/p>\n First Quigley tells us \u2013<\/p>\n About the same time, in February 1891, Stead and Rhodes had another long discussion about the secret society. First they discussed their goals and agreed that, if necessary in order to achieve Anglo-American unity, Britain should join the United States. Then they discussed the organization of the secret society and divided it into two circles: an inner circle, \u201cThe Society of the Elect\u201d, and an outer circle to include \u201cThe Association of Helpers\u201d and\u00a0The Review of Reviews\u00a0<\/em>(Stead\u2019s magazine, founded 1890). Rhodes said that he had already revealed the plan for \u201cThe Society of the Elect\u201d to Rothschild and \u201clittle Johnston.\u201d<\/p>\n By \u201clittle Johnston\u201d he meant Harry H. Johnston (Sir Harry after 1896), African explorer and administrator, who had laid the basis for the British claims to Nyasaland, Kenya, and Uganda. Johnston was, according to Sir Frederick Whyte, the biographer of Stead, virtually unknown in England before Stead published his portrait as the frontispiece to the first issue of\u00a0The Review of Reviews\u00a0<\/em>in 1890.(8) This was undoubtedly done on behalf of Rhodes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Reference (8) mentioned above, is:<\/p>\n I have\u00a0verified by\u00a0search<\/a>\u00a0at HathiTrust<\/strong>\u00a0that \u201cJunta of Three\u201d (see below excerpt) is indeed part of Volume II, as is the discussion and documentation of the creation of the secret society at this time.<\/p>\n I obtained Whyte\u2019s books recently to further verify this, and I scanned the relevant pages of\u00a0Sir Frederick Whyte,\u00a0Life of W. T. Stead\u00a0<\/em>Volume II, Chapter 25, pp. 196-213<\/a>\u00a0and uploaded the PDF to the\u00a0Just Dox \u2013 British Intelligence<\/em>\u00a0section of our Reading Library \u2013 This provides documentation concerning the fact that Cecil Rhodes\u00a0did\u00a0form his Secret Society, and who with.<\/p>\n Quigley also cites:<\/p>\n concerning Lord Esher\u2019s involvement.<\/p>\n Concerning the membership of \u201cThe Society of the Elect,\u201d Stead had asked permission to bring in Brett (Lord Esher) as well. Rhodes agreed, so they telegraphed at once to Brett, who arrived in two hours. Together they drew up the membership, although strangely contradictory to Stead\u2019s account, Fydell Edmund Garett is not named even though he is one of the aforementioned \u201cright and left hands\u201d that Stead said he asked permission to bring in. Perhaps Garett is simply considered \u201cas one\u201d or the same as the Milner contingent.<\/p>\n Quigley lays out the structure \u2013<\/p>\n They then drew up the following \u201cideal arrangement\u2019 for the society:<\/p>\n Quigley expands a bit on the above, going into more details about the three men planning the secret society.<\/p>\n One wintry afternoon in February 1891, three men were engaged in earnest conversation in London. From that conversation were to flow consequences of the greatest importance to the British Empire and to the world as a whole. For these men were organizing a secret society that was, for more than fifty years, to be one of the most important forces in the formulation and execution of British imperial and foreign policy.<\/p>\n The three men who were thus engaged were already well known in England. The leader was Cecil Rhodes, fabulously wealthy empire-builder and the most important person in South Africa. The second was William T. Stead, the most famous, and probably also the most sensational, journalist of the day. The third was Reginald Baliol Brett, later known as Lord Esher, friend and confidant of Queen Victoria, and later to be the most influential adviser of King Edward VII and King George V.<\/p>\n [\u2026] The leader was to be Rhodes, and the Junta was to be Stead, Brett, and Alfred Milner. In accordance with this decision, Milner was added to the society by Stead shortly after the meeting we have described.<\/p>\n It was in fact, within the next few weeks that Stead had another talk with Rhodes and a talk with Milner, who was \u201cfilled with admiration\u201d for the scheme, according to Stead\u2019s notes as published by Sir Frederick Whyte.*<\/p>\n Quigley, much maligned by no-global-conspiracy theorists \u2013 is\u00a0actually\u00a0pretty accurate in his portrayal of these events.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll show you.<\/p>\n Frederick Whyte tells us that these events he writes of are taken from Stead\u2019s personal notes, and that what he is about to document has not been generally known of.<\/p>\n Section II, Chapter 25, p. 205<\/p>\n Among Stead\u2019s papers have been preserved typewritten record, dictated in his rapid, unstudied way, of a number of talks With Cecil Rhodes. They were, for the most part, long, discursive, intimate talks, not to be turned to account as \u2018interviews.\u2019 Stead drew upon them, of course, from time to time, when discussing Rhodes\u2019s achievements and opinions, but\u00a0a good deal of what follows will be quite new, I think, even to his most constant readers and most intimate friends.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n On p. 207, Whyte reveals that this Secret Society is concerned with a British\u00a0and\u00a0American world dominance, which of course really means Britain. That is new, most conspiracy cover-up dupes and operatives don\u2019t mention the goal to take back America, so to speak. Whyte refers to this as\u00a0Anglo-American<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The theme of Anglo-American world-predominance is treated of most fully in the first of the conversations, held in Stead\u2019s office at Mowbray House in February, 1891.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n On pp. 208, 209, Cecil Rhodes and William Stead discuss the Society of the Elect, with Rhodes portraying Lord Rothschild as a paper-pusher basically, which is a very accurate portrayal. As contrasted with the reams of written misdirection portraying Rothschild as a\u00a0master<\/em>, rather than an Igor who simply handled the finances of his masters.<\/p>\n This funny image is one that I made to portray that both humorously and more accurately as to his real role, if any.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The talk concentrated presently upon the Secret Society- the Society of the Elect (Rhodes liked that word) who were to bind themselves to work for the British Empire in the way in which the Jesuits worked for the Church of Rome.<\/p>\n Hitherto, apart from Stead, Rhodes had confided his scheme only to Lord Rothschild and to \u2018little Johnston.\u2019<\/p>\n .. But he had grave misgivings in this connection. Lord Rothschild, he felt, was an excellent man, but entirely lacking in imagination. Rich men of the Rothschild type were to him an object of contemptuous pity. \u2018Look at the criminal in his cell,\u2019 he exclaimed to Stead, \u2018and at Lord Rothschild! It is hard to say which has the harder lot. The prisoner has some fun, at least, with the spiders and the mice, but look at Rothschild! Out of the 365 days, he spends 300 in turning over bits of paper and marking them. Look at the two men far enough off, so as not to see any difference in clothing, and it will be hard to see any difference between them.<\/p>\n \u2026 Stead\u2019s\u00a0Review of Reviews\u00a0<\/em>and \u2018Association of Helpers,\u2019 he went on, had made a good beginning for the work he had in mind:<\/p>\n You have got all the ideas, but you require the funds. In a year or two, the funds should be forthcoming- enough even to buy\u00a0The Times,\u00a0<\/em>if necessary.<\/p>\n But Lord Rothschild must not be left in sole control of the money.<\/p>\n There must be a General of the Society, with powers like those of the General of the Jesuits, and there must be a Committee of three or so.<\/p>\n You\u00a0<\/em>have the ideas,\u00a0you\u00a0<\/em>understand, and little Johnston,\u00a0he\u00a0<\/em>knows \u2013 what would you say to you and Johnston being associated with Rothschild in this Trust?<\/p>\n Stead feared that Johnston- the right man in other respects \u2013 would not be available, being generally away in Africa. Rhodes agreed.<\/p>\n Very well, then, let the Trust be vested in Rothschild and Stead alone.<\/p>\n Rothschild would not like that, Stead objected laughingly. \u2018When he reads the will and finds that I am in it also, there will be ructions!\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018Well,\u2019 said Rhodes, \u2018I don\u2019t mind. I shall be gone!\u2019<\/p>\n And so it was left. Here,\u00a0verbatim,\u00a0<\/em>is Stead\u2019s concluding paragraph:<\/p>\n \u2018I telegraphed for Brett, who came two hours later and we had a long talk. The net upshot of which was that the ideal arrangement would be, so far as we could see at present: Rhodes, General of the Society;<\/p>\n Stead, Brett, Milner, to be the Junta of three.<\/p>\n After Rhodes, Stead to be General, with a third, who might be Rothschild\u00a0in succession; behind them, Manning, the Booths, little Johnston, Albert Grey, Arthur Balfour, to constitute a circle of Initiates.<\/p>\n The Association of Helpers to be developed. A College, say under Professor Seeley, to be established to train people in the English-speaking idea.<\/p>\n Brett thought that some money should be in at once \u2013 not much, but some.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n It\u2019s very important to note Stead\u2019s description of\u00a0a continuing succession\u00a0of General\u2019s or \u201chead\u201d of this Secret Society \u2013 for that is\u00a0exactly<\/em>\u00a0what happened, and continued to happen. The head changed as generations and political situations changed \u2013 the society continued.<\/p>\n Curiously, both Whyte and Stead (in their respective books) try to portray this secret society that they obviously formed, as having\u00a0not\u00a0been formed.<\/p>\n Whyte says, after describing the further cementing of the Society (taken from Stead\u2019s notes), that \u201cThe Society was stillborn.\u201d That\u2019s quite a contradiction there. Is this cover-up or dogged blindness on his part?<\/p>\n p. 210 \u2013<\/p>\n The sequel is told on May 5, 1891, Stead having had meanwhile a second talk with Rhodes and one with Milner, recently home from Egypt, who is \u2018filled with admiration\u2019 and full of enthusiasm for the scheme:\u00a0Milner himself, it seems, had cherished a somewhat similar project for a band of\u00a0Companions of St. George.<\/p>\n Rhodes, before leaving for Cape Town, had looked in one evening at Mowbray House, whence, he said, he was going direct to his lawyer, Mr. Hawkesley, having altered his will, as he had said he would, and left the whole of his fortune to Lord Rothschild and Stead together.<\/p>\n Stead to be considered by Lord Rothschild as the representative of his [Rhodes] ideas, and the money to be utilized in accordance with Stead\u2019s views.<\/p>\n \u2026 From that last will Rhodes removed Stead\u2019s name because, as he said, of his \u2018extraordinary eccentricity,\u2019 a phrase covering Stead\u2019s two besetting sins in his friend\u2019s eyes- his pro Boer partisanship, chiefly, but also, in some degree, his obsession with spooks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The first \u201csin\u201d is a reference to Stead\u2019s anti-Boer War writings, the second is a reference to Stead\u2019s involvement with the British Society of Pyschical Research.<\/p>\n It was\u00a0after\u00a0this passage that Whyte then said:<\/p>\n The Secret Society was still-born.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Ah, but therein lies the rub, the contradiction in terms.<\/p>\n Per Stead\u2019s own notes of what he and Rhodes had set-up,\u00a0and the other members, the Society was built on a\u00a0succession<\/em>, removing Stead would simply mean he was\u00a0replaced,\u00a0which he indeed was \u2013 by Lord Alfred Milner who was already one of the Junta of Three anyway.<\/p>\n On page 211, Whyte tells us about a discussion between Cecil Rhodes and William Stead, on April 10, 1900, where besides setting up the Rhodes Scholarship, Rhodes made some interesting statements about the Boer War, making it clear that it was\u00a0Milner\u2019s war.<\/p>\n The war had been Milner\u2019s war,\u00a0he added, not Chamberlain\u2019s-Chamberlain had been strong against it.<\/p>\n This led to the usual wrangle, Stead deploring the war, Rhodes justifying it and\u00a0accusing Stead of insubordination\u2013 the kind of insubordination, he complained, which he had always seen in the way of their Secret Society.<\/p>\n \u2018Yes, insubordination,\u2019 he insisted. \u2018Now here we are, your three boys, Garrett, Milner and myself. We are all your boys and we are on the spot, and we all agree that a certain course is necessary and instead of your accepting our authority, we being on the spot, being your boys, nothing will satisfy you but to go off on your own line and oppose us!\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n As you can see, the Society\u00a0was\u00a0formed, and\u00a0did\u00a0continue, it\u2019s purpose being to bring America back together with Britain, with Britain dictating how to \u201crule\u201d the world.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s\u00a0exactly\u00a0what these people devoted themselves to, using every means at their disposal. That is also exactly what the later \u201cLeague of Nations\u201d was about, but Senator Borah of Idaho caught the fact that despite this whole \u201calliance\u201d poppycock and glad-handing schmoozing by the Brits,\u00a0the cold, hard truth was that Britain would dominate the votes<\/strong>\u00a0in this \u201cleague\u201d through using it\u2019s dominions.<\/p>\n The later Round Table, was formed\u00a0based<\/em>\u00a0on Milner (and others) experiences in Africa, which were now to be applied to America\u00a0and\u00a0the rest of the world.<\/p>\n OK.<\/p>\n As another point of verification of the fully formed society definitely in action \u2013 you can see that the\u00a0Association of Helpers<\/strong>\u00a0(part of the structure created in 1891) was definitely in place because three years later, Stead discusses that Rhodes came to England again and they discussed the progress of the secret society as well as further plans. You can\u2019t discuss the\u00a0progress<\/em>\u00a0of something that supposedly doesn\u2019t exist.<\/p>\n In 1894 Mr. Rhodes came to England and again discussed with me the working of the scheme, reported to me his impressions of the various Ministers and leaders of Opposition whom he met, discussing each of them from the point of view as to how far he would assist in carrying out \u201d our ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n We also discussed together various projects for propaganda, the formation of libraries, the creation of lectureships, the despatch of emissaries on missions of propagandism throughout the Empire, and the steps to be taken to pave the way for the foundation and the acquisition of a newspaper which was to be devoted to the service of the cause. There was at one time a discussion of a proposal to\u00a0endow the Association of Helpers\u00a0with the annual income of \u00a35,000, but Mr. Rhodes postponed the execution of this scheme until he was able to make the endowment permanent.<\/p>\n Strangely, Quigley, for whatever reason,\u00a0also<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0somewhat contradicts his earlier (and well documented) statements about the formation of this society in 1891, by quoting a letter from Rhodes to Lord Esher. Or perhaps this was simply Rhodes being playfully secretive about what was verifiably\u00a0already\u00a0created.<\/p>\n On 5 February 1896, three years after his sixth will, Rhodes ended a long conversation with R. B. Brett (later Lord Esher) by saying, \u201cWish we could get our secret society.\u201d<\/p>\n Literally\u00a0just after<\/em>\u00a0the formalization of the creation of this\u00a0Society of the Elect<\/em>, in March of 1891 Rhodes then added William Stead as an executor of his estate\u00a0and\u00a0this political plan he had outlined in 1877 \u2013 Confession of Faith. Now come to fruition in the\u00a0Society of the Elect<\/em>, but as changed by Stead to be directing its efforts towards the creation of the Empire of the \u201cenglish-speaking race\u201d.<\/p>\n Will #4<\/strong>\u2013 March 1891<\/p>\n Mr. Rhodes superseded the will, which he had made in 1888, on a sheet of notepaper, which left his fortune to \u201cX.,\u201d\u00a0[Lord Rothschild]\u00a0by a formal will, in which the whole of his real and personal estate was left to \u201cX.\u201d and to \u201cW. Stead, of the REVIEW OF REVIEWS.\u201d This will, the fourth in order, was signed in March, 1891.<\/p>\n Remember, Rhodes wished this society to be patterned on and follow the actions of Loyola and the creation of the secret paramilitary group called the Jesuits \u2013 as created to counteract the loss of face (and members) that the Catholic Church experienced after the Reformation. See\u00a0Cecil John Rhodes \u2013 \u2018Confession of Faith\u2019\u00a01877<\/a>\u00a0in the\u00a0Just Dox<\/em>\u00a0(British Intelligence) section.<\/p>\n It\u2019s an odd choice by Rhodes, as is his \u201cgreat admiration\u201d of the Jesuits in the first place. At the very least, it should raise the obvious corallary questions of what\u00a0he\u00a0(and Milner\/Esher) are attempting to counter, like Loyola, and\u00a0for whom.<\/p>\n Things continued in this way for some time, but the circumstances surrounding the Boer War intervened.<\/p>\n Briefly, various factions of the Nesilim (European Royalty and the Catholic Church) were fighting over gold fields as well as the diamond fields of Cecil Rhodes. The Boer were the descendants of the original Dutch settlers in the east\/southeast of Africa, right up against Leopold\u2019s Territory where he was engaging in his own atrocities, which happened to be right where Cecil Rhodes and Britain were seeking control. Although, that\u2019s not as straightforward as it might seem, because Queen Victoria of England was in fact blood related (and by marriage to Prince Albert) to Leopold and the House of Saxe-Colburg Gotha.<\/p>\n The Boer were at war with Shaka Zulu and the Zulu nation.<\/p>\n The long and short of these disgusting \u201cBoer\u201d wars, was that the Brits armed the Zulus who then, of course, took down the Boer as well as entire villages and families in the process. That is how that war was \u201cwon\u201d. The human atrocities that resulted from this short-lived war were astronomical \u2013 not to mention the millions being killed in Leopold\u2019s rubber \u201cmines\u201d \u2013 so to speak.<\/p>\n William Stead decided to stand against the Boer War in his paper, and ergo also against the actions of Milner, Rhodes, and Balfour. He turned the \u201cmarching pens\u201d straight at them.<\/p>\n At the birth of the new journalism, Milner lessons learned at the Pall Mall Gazette from John Morley and William Stead, who would both turn their pens against him.<\/p>\n This did\u00a0not\u00a0go over well with the\u00a0Society of the Elect<\/em>, as you might imagine. By the time the second Boer War was over, Stead had been eliminated from the trusteeship\u00a0and\u00a0the secret society.<\/p>\n Personally, I think this had been the plan of Milner and Esher all along.<\/p>\n Rhodes removed Stead from his trusteeship in January of 1901, as per these two passages from Stead\u2019s book \u2013<\/p>\n When, after the raising of the siege of Kimberley, Mr. Rhodes returned to London, I had a long talk with him at the Burlington Hotel in April, 1900. Mr. Rhodes, although more affectionate than he had ever been before in manner, did not in the least disguise his disappointment that I should have thrown myself so vehemently into the agitation against the war. It seemed to him extraordinary; but he charitably concluded it was due to my absorption in the Peace Conference at the Hague. His chief objection, which obviously was present to his mind when,\u00a0nearly twelve months later, he removed me from being executor, was not so much the fact that I differed from him in judgment about the war, as that\u00a0I was not willing to subordinate my judgment to that of the majority of our associates\u00a0who were on the spot.<\/p>\n [\u2026] In January, 1901, he had added a codicil to his will, removing my name from the list of executors, fearing that the others might find it difficult to work with me. He wrote me at the same time saying I was \u201ctoo masterful\u201d to work with the\u00a0other\u00a0executors.<\/p>\n Milner was particularly onerous towards Stead, he wouldn\u2019t even\u00a0see<\/em>\u00a0him, let alone confide in him after this \u201cbetrayal\u201d by Stead. Since Milner was the\u00a0real\u00a0leader of the secret society, this had the effect of eliminating Stead from the society. Although in true unctuous rectitude*, he continued to protest his \u201cpersonal affection\u201d for him.<\/p>\n *unctuous rectitude =\u00a0false<\/strong>\u00a0outward moral actions and \u201crighteousness\u201d.<\/p>\n In that succession set-up of the secret society, Milner\u00a0replaced<\/strong>\u00a0Stead, in the Junta of Three.<\/p>\n Milner was officially added as a trustee in October that same year.<\/p>\n In a second Codicil dated October, 1901, Mr. Rhodes added the name of Lord Milner to the list of joint tenants, executors and trustees.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Coming back to Lord Esher here, as a reminder he was part of the Junta of Three segment of the secret society.<\/p>\n Lord Esher<\/strong><\/p>\n Esher, much like Cecil Rhodes, had homosexual inclinations but due to his position (and the amount of dirt he had on others) his flirtations with young men were tolerated. He was evidently sufficiently discreet to avoid becoming entangled in the\u00a0Cleveland Street Scandal, unlike his friend Lord Arthur Somerset, who sacrificed himself to protect the Prince of Wales involvement.<\/p>\n Lord Esher had earned himself the reputation of behind-the-scenes \u201cfixer\u201d, and had reached a point where he was the chief unofficial representative of the King and the \u201cliaison between King and ministers.\u201d The Cleveland Street Scandal reached the very highest echelons of British society, and Somerset had both been a patron of the male brothel at 19 Cleveland Street, and the designated fall guy to protect other more important clients.<\/p>\n Somerset<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 as caricatured by Vanity Fair in 1887<\/p>\n![\"library](\"https:\/\/mikemcclaughry.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/library-basement.jpg\")
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\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, p. 109, Cecil Rhodes to William Stead<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, p. 109, Cecil Rhodes to William Stead, p. 115<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0Anglo American Establishment<\/a>\u00a0 by Professor Quigley \u2013 this book was written in 1949 but published posthumously in 1981; Chapter 1.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, William Stead, p p 102 103<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, William Stead, p p 102 103<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u2013\u00a0Anglo American Establishment<\/a>\u00a0 by Professor Quigley \u2013 this book was written in 1949 but published posthumously in 1981; Chapter 1.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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<\/a>Mowbray House, Norfolk Street, Victoria Embankment \u2013 1888<\/h5>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, William Stead, p 104 105<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0Anglo American Establishment<\/a>\u00a0 by Professor Quigley<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, William Stead<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n\u2013 J. Lee Thompson (2007).\u00a0Forgotten Patriot:<\/a>\u00a0A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James\u2019s And Cape Town, 1854\u20131925. ISBN 0-8386-4121-0.<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\u2013\u00a0The Last Will and Testament of Cecil J. Rhodes<\/em><\/a>\u00a0published in 1902, William Stead<\/h5>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cThe West End Scandals, some Further Sketches,\u201d Illustrated Police News, 4 December 1889 \u2013 image found\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n