#Palestine had been a necessary imperial target of acquisition for consolidation of the Empire for more than half a century before Sykes-Picot agreements, dating back to the 1830s and the efforts of Lord Shaftsbury and Lord Palmerston, master of cultural and political warfare.
Shaftsbury was a Christian Zionist & British Israelite, who believed that Jews must return to Zion before there could be the second coming of Christ. He opposed Jewish civil emancipation in England, was anti-Semitic but believed it was Britain’s destiny to establish Zion.
Palmerston offered Sultan of Turkey British help in putting down an 1838 Arab revolt in Greater Syria. In return, Britain was given the right to establish a vice-consulate in Jerusalem — beachhead for the Empire. British decided to use a fledgling Zionist movement as their proxy.
One of Britain’s motives in starting WWI was to finally secure Palestine with Sykes-Picot and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire. No longer would the British have to entreat the Turks to accept the Jewish immigrants, which in British eyes were only surrogates for their empire.
Amery’s vision was that of Rhodes. The British plan to dismember the US in Civil War had failed bitterly. Rhodes, a rabid British race imperialist, had amassed his fortune through the exploration and mining of gold in Africa.
Rhodes wanted the “establishment, promotion & development of a Secret Society, the true aim & object whereof shall be for extension of British rule throughout the world, perfecting of a system of emigration from the UK, and of colonisation by British subjects of all lands...
...and especially the entire continent of Africa, Holy Land, Valley of Euphrates, the whole of South America, Islands of the Pacific not heretofore possessed by Great Britain, seaboard of China & Japan, ultimate recovery of the USA as an integral part of the British Empire.”
Rhodes’ secret society & how it operated are detailed in Carroll Quigley’s Anglo-American Establishment. Quigley describes British power elite at turn of century. They combined press, created political institutions & used financial power to affect policy.
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Elite consisted of Venetian Cecil family; political & financial trustees of Rhodes’ Trust; various banking institutions + British royal family. Quigley describes a small inner core of collaborators from Britain’s aristocracy and financial elite.
They had 1 major enemy: American System of Political Economy. It threatened existence of British Empire, which depended on mercantilist system of securing cheap raw materials from colonized, backward parts of world, shipped to England for industrial production and military use.
At the turn of the century, there were two powers in the world that represented the American system: the United States of America, and Germany, which had built its economy on the model of America’s great economist Henry C. Carey.
Following stipulations of Rhodes’ Will, his collaborators sparked WWI to dismantle a threatening Germany, carve up Europe, secure + expand colonial holdings by acquiring much of Ottoman Empire, giving them its oil holdings + secure Palestine as military buffer to Suez Canal.
In order to accomplish these goals, they also worked non-stop to trap the United States into collaborating with their warring schemes and sought to diminish America’s industrial economy from within.
Lord Milner, British High Commissioner for Africa, had won Boer War, united South Africa as one political entity under British rule giving Britain looting rights for most important raw materials in Africa. He derived much power from these accomplishments.
“This concept of Empire was much more than a political programme. It was an ideology that constituted a coherent system of thought to which every issue, political, economic, social, cultural, and even moral could be related. More than that, it was a faith.”
“This faith would sustain [Leo Amery] throughout his entire life.” In LeoAmery’s own words, this faith and concept of Empire, with its responsibility for “civilizing other cultures,” was mandated by God.
Amery was recruited by Milner in South Africa while reporting on Boer War & was known as Milner’s mouthpiece. A few years before Cecil Rhodes’ death in 1902, Rhodes discussed with Amery Rhodes Trust & scholarship fund to recruit young men to attend a special program at Oxford.
Scholarships would be awarded to select students from British Dominions, Germany, & the US, with the proportion heavily weighted to US recipients. The overt purpose was to recruit American support for the British Empire. Amery ran Rhodes’ Trust from 1933 until his death in 1955.
Their intent was to create a Brains Trust that would make government policy. Amery’s area of expertise was the military. He presented the reorganization plans for the Army that would allow the British to fight World War I.
Secret agreement to move war to eastern front would give Britain control over #Palestine, providing military buffer to #SuezCanal. Palestine would also provide a deepwater port (#Haifa) on Mediterranean for export of oil. Milner needed Americans on his side for plan to succeed.
“What I especially stand for is closest possible union between States under British Crown... there must never be another serious quarrel between States & England. I believe greatest disaster in human history was split which separated American colonies from home country.” — Milner
“I am sure that those in the United States who are familiar with the facts of British Government in India, would never wish to see that Government replaced by a Government of Junkers. I was ultra-British—an out and out British Imperialist” — Milner
“There is a vivid movement, guided by Milner & served by Amery, to prepare for another war, to complete the ruin of Germany & domination of British Empire. This gang of Power worshippers are running down Russian revolution & minimising entry of US as one of the belligerents.”
“They are bent on maintaining a ruling caste of a ruling race: they fear & despise democracy. Any aspirations towards self-government among British subjects, who do not already possess it, is sedition to be put down by machine guns and plentiful hangings.”
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Milner: Apostle of Empire: A life of Alfred George, the Right Honourable Viscount Milner of St James’s and Cape Town, KG, GCB, GCMG, 1854-1925
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Amery’s view was similar: “South Africa must develop as a white man’s country under the guidance of white men, and not as a bastard country like most of South America”
“In five hundred years’ time I expect the South African white man will contain a strong dark blend, and the end of all things may be a brown South African race. There should not be too quick a mixture now or for the next few centuries.” — Amery
When Milner became Secretary of State for Colonies in 1919, Amery was posted as his Under-Secretary. In 1922, he joined Privy Council & was appointed First Lord of Admiralty. In 1925 he was given post of Dominions Secretary in charge of #Palestine Mandate, held until 1929.
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