Anglo-American Establishment полностью

on Milner, Hickens, Lord Lothian, A. J. Glazebrook, Sir Thomas Bavin, Sir Patrick

Duncan, Sir Abe Bailey, etc. See also the references in the published works of Lionel

Curtis, John Buchan (Lord Tweedsmuir), John Dove, etc. Quotations to this effect from

John Buchan and from Lord Asquith will be found at the end of Chapter 3 below. The

best published reference to the Milner Group is in M. S. Geen, The Making of the Union

of South Africa (London, 1946), 150-152. The best account originating in the Group itself

is in the article "Twenty-five Years' in The Round Table for September 1935, XV, 653-

659.

Chapter 3

1. This section is based on W. T. Stead, The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John

Rhodes (London, 1902); Sir Francis Wylie's three articles in the American Oxonian

(April 1944), XXXI, 65-69; July 1944), XXXI, 129-138; and January 1945), XXXII, 1-

11; F. Aydelotte, The American Rhodes Scholars (Princeton, 1946); and the biographies

and memoirs of the men mentioned.

2. No such claim is made by Sir Francis Wylie, from whose articles Dr. Aydelotte

derived most of the material for his first chapter. Sir Francis merely mentions the secret

society in connection with the early wills and then drops the whole subject.

3. W. T. Stead, The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes (London, 1902),

110-111. The statement of 1896 to Brett is in Journals and Letters of Reginald, Viscount

Esher (4 vols., London, 1934-1938), 1, 197.

4. Dr. Aydelotte quotes at length from a letter which Rhodes sent to Stead in 1891, but

he does not quote the statements which Stead made about it when he published it in 1902.

In this letter he spoke about the project of federal union with the United States and said,

"The only feasible [way] to carry this idea out is a secret one (society) gradually

absorbing the wealth of the world to be devoted to such an object." At the end of this

document Stead wrote: "Mr. Rhodes has never to my knowledge said a word nor has he

ever written a syllable, that justifies the suggestion that he surrendered the aspirations

which were expressed in this letter of 1891. So far from this being the case, in the long

discussions which took place between us in the last years of his life, he reaffirmed as

emphatically as at first his unshaken conviction as to the dream—if you like to call it

so—a vision, which had ever been the guiding star of his life." See W. T. Stead, The Last

Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes (London, 1902), 73-77.

5. Sir John Willison, Sir George Parkin (London, 1929), 234.

6. This paragraph and the two preceding it are from Sir Frederick Whyte, The Life of

W. T. Stead (2 vols., Boston 1925), 270-272 and 39.

7. See Journals and Letters of Reginald, Viscount Esher (4 vols., London, 1938), 1,

149-150. It should be noted that the excision in the entry for 3 February marked by three

points (. . .) was made by Lord Esher's son when he edited the journals for publication.

8. See F. Whyte, Life of W. T. Stead (2 vols., Boston, 1925), 199-212.

9. No mention of the secret society is to be found in either Sir Harry Johnston, The

Story of MyLife (London, 1923), or in Alex. Johnston, Life and Letters of Sir Harry

Johnston (London, 1929). The former work does contain an account of Johnston's break

with Rhodes on page 497. More details are on pages 145-148 of the later work, including

a record of Rhodes's saying, "I will smash you Johnston, for this." Johnston was

convinced that it was a result of this enmity that Milner rather than he was chosen to be

High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. See pages 338-339.

10. Rhodes's reason for eliminating him (given in the January 1901 codicil to his will)

was"on account of the extraordinary eccentricity of Mr. Stead, though having always a

great respect for him, but feeling the objects of my Will would be embarrassed by his

views." Milner's reasons (given in the "Stead Memorial" number of The Review of

Reviews, May 1912) were his "lack of balance," which was "his Achilles heel.' See also

the letter of 12 April 1902 from Edmund Garrett to Stead, quoted below, from F. Whyte,

The Life of W. T. Stead (2 vols., Boston, 1925), 211.

11. The quotation is from the sketch of Lord Esher in the Dictionary of National

Biography. The other quotations from Brett are from The Journals and Letters of

Reginald, Viscount Esher (4 vols., London, 1934-1938).

12. E. T. Cook, Edmund Garrett (London, 1909), 158. The excision in this letter