The Birthplace of the Establishment

The great historian Carrol Quigley identified the birth of the Establishment as occurring in 1891 in England, and initially consisted of a quasi-secret conspiracy led by Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of the Cape Colony, with the purpose of re-integrating the various part of the British Empire, including especially the United States of America and South Africa.

Initially this core group, whom Quigley documents thoroughly, were mostly Oxford graduates and were heavy with politicians within the Cape Colony itself. The quasi-secret is used here because although the existence, membership and minutes of the society were secret, its goals, as well as the fellowship of its members were not concealed but were open.

In the view of these of the followers of Rhodes, the new British-led cooperative group of nations would be ruled in benevolent wisdom for humanity by an elite educated and skilled class centered in England  which had the prerequisite access to the refined background and training to be to lead and manage such an enterprise in a beneficial way.

After World War I, in which the British Empire was preserved but greatly damaged in many ways, this Rhodes-influenced group moved increasingly to the center of British politics, wielding great influence upon policy. They did this without holding office directly by the creation of extra-political "round table" groups were pitched as composed of wise insiders who could offer counsel to governments of both parties without the disruptions of party politics itself.

By the time of World War II, the Establishment had accomplished a great deal towards achievement of its program of reintegrating the spheres of influence among the powerful people in Britain and America. By the end of the war, the Anglo-American cooperative would accepted by people on both sides of the Atlantic as a matter of faith in foreign policy.

Because of the result of the Second World War, in which British Empire was further greatly damaged, and the resources of the home islands greatly exhausted, the original group of British Establishment insiders had largely gotten what they wanted (integration of the British and Army military and political structures) and was superseded by the group of American insiders who brought a new vision of the purpose of the Establishment itself,

These new insiders came largely from members of the upper class of Americans who acted as diplomats and envoys between the Anglo- and American- sides of the Atlantic. This group enjoyed great initial political stability because of the war and the long duration of the Presidency of Franklin Roosevelt.

Around this new group of American insiders would form the nucleus of the new Post-War Establishment, with new expanded goals for America and the world at large.

During the War, starting in 1943, this new group of American "wise" insiders came together in most unlikely place---Moscow.