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#NowReading The Anglo-American Establishment: From Rhodes to Cliveden (1981) by Carroll Quigley

Lord Salisbury practiced a shameless nepotism, concealed to some extent by the shifting of names because of acquisition of titles and female marital connections, and redeemed by the fact that ability as well as family connection was required from appointees.

Quigley

The Balfour government was nothing but a continuation of Salisbury’s government, since, as we have seen, Balfour was Salisbury’s nephew and chief assistant and was made premier in 1902 by his uncle.

Quigley

The four leaders of the Liberal Party after Gladstone were strong imperialists: Rosebery, Asquith, Edward Grey, and Haldane. These four supported the Boer War, grew increasingly anti-German, and supported the World War in 1914

Quigley

Rhodes scholarships were a facade to conceal the secret society, or more accurately, they were to be one of the instruments by which the members of the secret society could carry out his purpose, which was the “recovery of the USA as an integral part of a British Empire”

Quigley

What has been the main cause of the success of the Roman Church? The fact that every enthusiast, call it if you like—every madman finds employment in it. Let us form the same kind of society—a Church for the extension of the British Empire.

Cecil Rhodes, A Confession of Faith

Lionel Curtis devoted his life to his dominant idea, that the finer things of life—liberty, democracy, toleration, etc.—could be preserved only within an integrated world political system, and that this system could be constructed about Great Britain

Quigley

Lionel Curtis believed that freedom and democracy would not be used to disrupt the integrated world system of which he dreamed, but to integrate it more fully and in a sounder fashion—a fashion based on common patterns of thought rather than subjection, censorship, and duress

CQ

“Personally I regard this challenge to the long unquestioned claim of the white man to dominate the world as inevitable and wholesome, especially to ourselves.”

Lionel Curtis. Papers Relating to the Application of the Principle of Dyarchy to the Government of India. (1920)

“I should prefer to work quietly and in the background, in the formation of opinion, rather than in the exercise of power… The word Empire, the word Imperial are, in some respects, unfortunate.”

Lord Milner, 1905

Curtis sincerely felt that if the British Empire died in the proper way (by spreading liberty, brotherhood, and justice), it would be born again in a higher level of existence—as a world community, or as he called it, a “Commonwealth of Nations.”

Quigley

“English success in planting North America and the comparative failure of their rivals must, in fact, be traced to the respective merits not of breed but of institutions.”

Lionel Curtis

Love—call it, if you like, by a longer name—is the only thing that can make our post-war world go round, and it has, I believe something to say here too. The future of the Empire seems to me to depend on how far we are able to recognize this.

John Dove 🇬🇧

Phillimore and Zimmern prepared drafts for the organization of the future League of Nations. Most of the group went en masse to the Peace Conference at Paris as expert advisers

The Milner Group was eager to get rid of the Kaiser… By 1919 they began to think in terms of … the need to reconstruct Germany against the dangers of “Bolshevism” … and they felt that if Germany were made democratic … she could be incorporated into the British world system…

The revolt of the Irish Republicans against the Free State government was a development which the Milner Group were powerless to prevent. They continued to believe that the Irish, like others, could be bound to Britain by invisible ties if all visible ones were destroyed.

The Milner Group has always had very close relationships with the associates of J P Morgan and the various branches of the Carnegie Trust. These relationships … are merely examples of the closely knit ramifications of international financial capitalism…

Allen Dulles, then of the Council on Foreign Relations, giving speeches about collective security at Chatham House in 1935

Representative government without responsibility, once political consciousness has been aroused, is apt to be a source of great weakness and, not impossibly, great danger. We had not learned that lesson in the eighteenth century, and we paid very dearly for it.

Lord Halifax

The Milner Group had been willing to toy with the idea of an integrated Europe, because in 1918, they believed that a permanent system of cooperation between Britain and the United States was a possible outcome of the war… The bitterness of their disappointment was beyond bounds

You could almost count them on the fingers of one hand. I have also been struck by the prodigious power which this group of individuals have been able to exert and relay through the vast machinery of party, of Parliament, and of patronage, both here and in the East.

Churchill

British opinion can no more tolerate a French military hegemony over Europe than it could a German or Napoleonic.

It is urgently necessary to seek effective securities against aggression by international treaties and to report upon the capacity of Germany to pay reparations.

France went into the Ruhr not to collect reparations but to cripple Germany. France was spending immense sums of money on military occupation and armaments but still was failing to pay either the principal or interest on her debt to Britain.

Locarno, reparations, and what was called interest slavery

Stresemann’s policy ended in the Dawes Plan and the Pact of Locarno and he got the Nobel Peace for this work

Baron Robert H. Brand was a member for the committee of experts on stabilization of the German mark in 1923, the committee which paved the way for the Dawes Plan.

A settlement based on ideal principles and poetic justice can be permanently applied and maintained only by a world government to which all nations will subordinate their private interests… It demands, not only that they should sacrifice their private interests, etc.

Hitler was reputed to have proposed an alliance between England, Germany, and the United States which would in effect give Germany a free hand on the Continent, in return for which he had promised not to make Germany a “world power” or to attempt to compete with the British Navy.

You hear much less today of the violation by which the French Army, with the acquiescence of this country [Britain], crossed the frontier in order to annihilate German industry and in effect produced the present Nazi Party.