The Anglo-American Establishment i The Anglo-American Establishment FROM RHODES TO CLIVEDEN Carroll Quigley Books In Focus Copyright © 1981 by Books in Focus, Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form, mechanical or electronic, without written permission from Books in Focus, Inc., except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in connection with a review. Manufactured in the United States of America Books in Focus, Inc. P.O. Box 3481 Grand Central Station New York, N.Y. 10163 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Quigley, Carroll. The Anglo-American establishment. Includes index. 1. Great Britain — Foreign relations —20th century. 2. Commonwealth of Nations. 3. Rhodes, Cecil John, 1853-1902. 4. Milner, Alfred Milner, Viscount, 1854-1925. 5. Secret societies —England. I. Title. DA566.7.Q5 325\32'06041 80-70620 ISBN 0-916728-50-1 AACR2 Contents Publisher's Note vii Preface ix 1 Introduction 3 2 The Cecil Bloc 15 3 The Secret Society of Cecil Rhodes 33 4 Milner's Kindergarten, 1897-1910 .51 5 The Milner Group, Rhodes, and Oxford, 1901-1925 .84 6 The Times 101 7 The Round Table 117 8 War and Peace, 1915-1920 140 9 The Creation of the Commonwealth 148 10 The Royal Institute of International Affairs 182 11 India, 1911-1945 198 12 Foreign Policy, 1919-1940 227 13 The Second World War, 1939-1945 303 Appendix: A Tentative Roster of the Milner Group 311 Notes 317 Index 337 Publisher's Note ON VERY RARE OCCASIONS a book appears which forever changes the way in which we perceive the world around us. Within a short while it becomes hard to understand how we could have functioned without the knowledge gained from it. The Anglo-American Establishment is such a book. In it Professor Carroll Quigley presents certain "keys" crucial to the understanding of 20th century political, economic and military events -events of the past, present, and future. That the nar rative ends in 1949 does not detract in any way from what is presented, and its great value. It does, however, break open the way for current writers and students to work more effectively in their areas. The fact that Carroll Quigley, a highly respected professor at Georgetown University and an instructor at Princeton and Harvard, could not find a publisher for this work, is in itself significant. How Books in Focus came to discover the existence of the manuscript is a story in itself, which began on a beach in Lindos on the Mediterranean island of Rhodes, in 1967, eight years before the com pany was formed; but that story will have to be told at a later time. Stephen A. Zarlenga Publisher January 8, 1981