#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.

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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.

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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

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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”

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