Anglo-American Establishment полностью

can be seen by glancing at the list of Chancellors of the University during the century: (7)

Salisbury, 1869-1903

Lord Goschen, 1903-1907

Lord Curzon, 1907-1925

Lord Milner, 1925Lord George Cave, 1925-1928

Lord Grey of Fallodon, 1928-1933

Lord Halifax, 1933-

The influence of the Milner Group at Oxford was sufficient to enable it to get control

of the Dictionary of National Biography after this work was given to the university in

1917. This control was exercised by H. W. C. Davis and his protege J. R. H. Weaver

during the period before 1938. The former had been brought into the gifted circle because

he was a Fellow of All Souls and later a Fellow of Balliol (1895-1921). In this connection

he was naturally acquainted with Weaver (who was a Fellow of Trinity from 1913 to

1938) and brought him into the War Trade Intelligence Department when Davis

organized this under Cecil-Milner auspices in 1915. Davis became editor of the

Dictionary of National Biography under the same auspices in 1921 and soon asked

Weaver to join him. They jointly produced the Dictionary supplement for 1912-1921.

After Davis's death in 1928, Weaver became editor and brought out the supplement for

1922-1930. (8) He continued as editor until shortly before he was made President of

Trinity College in 1938. Weaver wrote the sketch of Davis in the Dictionary and also a

larger work called Henry William Carless Davis, a Memoir and a Selection of His

Historical Papers, published in 1933.

This control of the Dictionary of National Biography will explain how the Milner

Group controlled the writing of the biographies of its own members so completely in that

valuable work. This fact will already have been observed in the present work. The only

instance, apparently, where a member of the Milner Group or the Cecil Bloc did not have

his biographical sketch written by another member of these groups is to be found in the

case of Lord Phillimore, whose sketch was written by Lord Sankey, who was not a

member of the groups in question. Phillimore is also the only member of these groups

whose sketch is not wholeheartedly adulatory.

The influence of the Milner Group in academic circles is by no means exhausted by

the brief examination just made of Oxford. At Oxford itself, the Group has been

increasingly influential in Nuffield College, while outside of Oxford it apparently

controls (or greatly influences) the Stevenson Professorship of International Relations at

London; the Rhodes Professorship of Imperial History at London; Birkbeck College at

London; the George V Professorship of History in Cape Town University; and the

Wilson Professorship of International Politics at University College of Wales,

Aberystwyth. Some of these are controlled completely, while others are influenced in

varying degrees. In Canada the influence of the Group is substantial, if not decisive, at

the University of Toronto and at Upper Canada College. At Toronto the Glazebrook-

Massey influence is very considerable, while at present the Principal of Upper Canada

College is W. L. Grant, son-in-law of George Parkin and former Beit Lecturer at Oxford.

Vincent Massey is a governor of the institution.

Chapter 6—TheTimes

Beyond the academic field, the Milner Group engaged in journalistic activities that

sought to influence public opinion in directions which the Group desired. One of the

earliest examples of this, and one of the few occasions on which the Group appeared as a

group in the public eye, was in 1905, the year in which Milner returned from Africa. At

that time the Group published a volume, The Empire and the Century, consisting of fifty

articles on various aspects of the imperial problem. The majority of these articles were

written by members of the Milner Group, in spite of the fact that so many of the most

important members were still in Africa with Lord Selborne. The volume was issued under

the general editorship of Charles S. Goldman, a friend of John Buchan and author of With

General French and the Cavalry in SouthAfrica. Among those who wrote articles were

W. F. Monypenny, Bernard Holland, John Buchan, Henry Birchenough, R. B. Haldane,

Bishop Lang, L. S. Amery, Evelyn Cecil, George Parkin, Edmund Garrett, Geoffrey

Dawson, E. B. Sargant (one of the Kindergarten), Lionel Phillips, Valentine Chirol, and

Sir Frederick and Lady Lugard.

This volume has many significant articles, several of which have already been

mentioned. It was followed by a sequel volume, called The Empire and the Future, in

1916. The latter consisted of a series of lectures delivered at King's College, University

of London, in 1915, under the sponsorship of the Royal Colonial Institute. The lectures

were by members of the Milner Group who included A. L. Smith, H. A. L. Fisher, Philip