Round table groups

From The Book of THoTH (Leaves of Wisdom)

The Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups, originally called the Society of the Elect, were founded in London, England in the late 1800s by South African diamond baron Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes, who was connected to the Freemasons, and founded and financed the groups in his seven wills as a way of advancing Imperial Federation worldwide. According to Rhodes' wills the groups were to be modeled after the Society of Jesus and the Freemasons.

The groups are a collection of small discussion and lobbying groups in every major capital city of the world coordinated by a headquarters in London. In 1910 the The Round Table Journal:A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire was founded by Lord Milner and members of Milner's Kindergarten (Lionel Curtis, Philip Kerr and Geoffrey Dawson) to unify the political thinking of the groups internationally. After World War II the journal was renamed The Round Table Journal:A Quarterly Review of British Commonwealth Affairs to reflect changing post war realities.

By 1915 Round Table groups existed in seven countries, including England, South Africa, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, and a rather loosely organized group in the United States (George Louis Beer, Walter Lippmann, Frank Aydelotte, Whitney Shepardson, Thomas W. Lamont, Erwin D. Canham and others).

--Angel 18:07, 29 May 2006 (CDT)