The European colonial powers had been carving up the African continent throughout the nineteenth century. The French, Belgians, and especially the British did their utmost to seize both land and resources, while at the same time destroying many of the traditions that Africans had followed for centuries. Belgium’s King Leopold II, who administered the Congo, systematically exploited the region for its valuable resources. All protests were brutally suppressed, and between 1885 and 1912, an estimated more than ten million people were killed.
The British appetite for land and natural resources also affected the Boers, the farmers and craftsmen from the Netherlands and France who had emigrated to South Africa in the seventeenth century and considered themselves superior to the Black population. After decades of British rule and wars with indigenous peoples, things appeared to settle down. However, when large quantities of gold and diamonds were discovered during the 1870s and 1880s, the region was flooded by British fortune-seekers. The Boer people once again stood in the way of British ambitions, and between 1880 and 1881 war broke out. The Boers defended themselves skillfully and secured a measure of self-government.
Rhodes, Milner, and the others in the group then began devising new plans, and by 1899 it was time for another bloodbath. Milner had become the new governor of the Cape Colony and assembled a large military force along the borders. The Boers were furious over British expansion, and Rhodes helped inflame tensions by organizing uprisings. Soon the war was underway, but the Boers proved difficult to defeat. The British responded by burning down tens of thousands of Boer farms and then sending the civilian population to a form of concentration camp, where by 1902 there were more than 150,000 people. Due to inadequate care and epidemics, 16,000 children and 4,000 women died.
Out of this bloody war, the Union of South Africa was eventually formed, and it was Rhodes’s society that lay behind it all. By the turn of the twentieth century, Great Britain controlled half of Africa.
Cecil Rhodes drew up a total of seven wills during his lifetime. In the first, written in 1877, he stated, among other things:
”What has been the chief cause of the success of the Roman Church? The fact that every enthusiast, every madman if you will, has found employment in it. Let us form the same kind of society, a church for the extension of the British Empire.”
Rhodes then explained that members of the society should be placed in universities and schools in order to shape and select individuals with the proper mentality to carry out the group’s plans. They would then be sponsored and sent wherever they were most needed. In an early letter to Stead, he had written:
”The only thing that can bring this about is a secret society gradually taking possession of the wealth of the world.”
Professor Carroll Quigley was closely associated with several members of the secret society for much of his life and was granted access to their private archives for two years. His book The Anglo-American Establishment, in which Rhodes’s society was exposed, was written as early as 1949 but could not be published until 1981, four years after Quigley’s death. In the foreword, he wrote:
”What is not generally known is that Rhodes, in five earlier wills, left a fortune to establish a secret society that would work for the preservation and expansion of the British Empire, and that it still exists today.”
Professor Quigley wrote that the group would pursue its objectives through secret political and economic influence behind the scenes, while also controlling journalism, education, and propaganda institutions. When Rhodes died in 1902, leadership passed to Milner, and the group subsequently became known as ”Milner’s Kindergarten.”
At its greatest extent, covering as much as 33.67 million square kilometers and encompassing a population of 532 million people, the British Empire was the most powerful empire the world had ever seen. At its peak, the British ruled over one-third of the globe. However, during the latter half of the nineteenth century, this dominance was increasingly threatened by a strengthening Germany, whose technological and economic development was advancing rapidly. The challenge now was to find ways to weaken Germany and restore Britain’s supremacy.
In April 1904, England and France concluded an agreement to stop competing over Egypt, Sudan, and Morocco, and instead focus on keeping the Germans in check. The British secured exclusive rights to Persian oil resources, and after assisting the Japanese with warships during their victory over the Russians that same year, Britain succeeded in reaching an agreement with Russia that ended the conflict over Afghanistan.
Thereafter, Edward VII met with his relative, Tsar Nicholas II, to establish a British–Russian alliance. For the Germans, apart from the Ottoman Empire and Bulgaria, only Austria-Hungary now remained as an ally.
In 1907, the American diplomat Henry White met with the leader of the British Conservative Party, Lord Balfour—who was also a member of Rhodes’s society—on behalf of the U.S. government to discuss Germany’s growing development. The conversation that took place during the meeting is highly revealing:
Lord Balfour: ”We are probably fools if we do not find a reason to declare war on Germany before they build too many ships and outcompete our trade.”
White: ”You are a generous man in private life. How can you even contemplate something as politically immoral as provoking a war against a harmless country that has the same right to a navy as you do? If you wish to compete with Germany, then work harder.”
Lord Balfour: ”That would mean a reduction in our standard of living. Perhaps a war would be better for us.”
White: ”I am shocked that you, of all people, would express such views.”
Lord Balfour: ”Is it really a question of right or wrong? Perhaps it is a question of maintaining our position of power.”
That same year, the banker Jacob Schiff, a close associate of the Rothschilds, delivered a speech at the New York Chamber of Commerce in which he warned:
”Unless we have a central bank with adequate control over credit, this country is going to undergo the most severe and far-reaching financial panic in its history.”
In his brilliant book None Dare Call It Conspiracy, journalist and author Gary Allen wrote:
”To demonstrate to the public that a central banking system was needed, the international bankers created a series of financial panics to serve as a warning to the other banks about what would happen if they failed to fall into line. The man chosen to conduct these lessons was the powerful financier J. Pierpont Morgan, educated in Germany and England. Morgan has been described by many, including Congressman Louis McFadden (a banker who for several years chaired the House Banking and Currency Committee), as the chief American agent of the English Rothschilds.”
Senator Robert Owen testified before a Congressional committee that the bank he owned had, as early as 1893, received letters from the National Bankers Association stating that he must immediately withdraw one-third of the money in circulation and call in half of all outstanding loans, after which a financial crisis was triggered.
Bankers in Minneapolis likewise claimed that the Panic of 1907 resulted from manipulation by the banking establishment:
”If the Knickerbocker Trust Company were allowed to fail, Congress and the public would lose confidence in all trust companies, and the banks would profit from it, the bankers reasoned.”
Knickerbocker’s chairman, Thorne, later testified before a Congressional committee that his bank had experienced only moderate withdrawals, had not sought assistance, and that Morgan had caused the panic. The major bankers had now laid the groundwork for a central bank in the United States.
http://www.lust-for-life.org/Lust-For-Life/NoneDareCallItConspiracy/none-dare.html
Norman Dodd of the American Reece Committee revealed in a sensational interview shortly before his death that the Carnegie Foundation had been working to bring about war ever since 1909. The question was: how could the United States be drawn into a war?
In 1909, the powerful London banker Ernest Cassel and the Armenian entrepreneur Gulbenkian visited Turkey, and shortly thereafter the Turkish National Bank was established, with, among others, Baring of London Bank serving on its board. The governor of the Bank of England was Lord Cromer, and together these men formed the Turkish Petroleum Company, in which Gulbenkian—who later became one of the richest men in the world—held a 40 percent stake. The successful revolt of the Young Turks during the Revolution of 1908–1909 triggered a series of uprisings in the Balkan provinces, supported by British intelligence.
The Balkan War of 1912 led to the collapse of the Turkish Empire. Serbia regained control of Kosovo, and only a small territory around Constantinople remained. The British helped instigate revolts against the rulers in Constantinople, and the Germans were relatively weak in the Balkans, which constituted an important link between Berlin and Baghdad. After the 1913 peace treaty, the victorious powers disagreed over the division of the spoils, and the Second Balkan War broke out. The result was that Serbia doubled its territory, which was perceived as a threat by Austria-Hungary.
At the same time, another British-controlled company, Anglo-Persian Oil, was working to expand its position in the region. The only other company involved, apart from the Anglo-Dutch Shell, was German. Britain’s dominant position forced the Germans to compromise, and between 1912 and 1914 the Turkish oil company was reorganized so that half of it went to Anglo-Persian Oil, which was secretly owned by the British government, whose interests aligned closely with those of the bankers.
U.S. Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan aptly remarked:
”The great bankers were deeply interested in a world war because of the enormous opportunities for financial profit.”
Documents from Serbian diplomats in London, discovered and deciphered in 1914, also show that the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand—which triggered the First World War—was planned with the knowledge of British intelligence, according to the French diplomat Henry Gozzi’s book La Guerre Revient (War Returns).
http://www.hic.hr/books/blackhand/petrovic.htm
In the years leading up to it, a Russian revolutionary traveled around Europe raising funds to introduce communism in Russia. He would soon be richly rewarded by the bankers.
Michael Delvante, How the Oligarchs Deceive the Masses – Part 6
