The Rhodes Scholar: None Dare...Pp. 49-51

Finally, about halfway through the book, and we get a proper introduction to our main villain. WWI has ended and the world is at peace--for now. We know how this story ends. As Allen claimed that Lord Cuzon commented, "It is not a peace treaty, it is simply a break in hostilities." 

Now, I'm going to be charitable and not fact-check the Cuzon quote. We know that the way in which the Great War ended directly led to the next war. It was so apparent that in 1945, the goal in treating the Japanese surrender was to not create a situation in which we would have Japanese Hitler stepping into the void left by the Emperor. The enormous debt that was levied against the Kaiser and Germany for the war is probably the cause that most people are familiar with, but there were others. WWI is so fascinating in both its beginning and end because of all the little pieces that worked together (and didn't). 

So it's pretty insulting that Allen is going to wipe all of that away and put everything on the shoulders of secret societies. So let's dive in, because the only thing separating people like Gary Allen from David Icke is that Allen isn't going to claim aliens. 

The funny thing about this book, and other books like it, is that they usually have the right villains but for the wrong reasons. They hate international banks because of the power they hold. Ok, I'm with you, but they don't have the correct grasp on economics to understand where that power comes from so they hate it for silly reasons, like the fear that Goldman Sachs is going to repossess an ICBM or the Whitehouse if the president doesn't play ball. That is the best-case scenario because usually, they hate international bankers for their Jewishness. Here, the target is Cecil Rhodes, of the Rhodes Scholarship. 

Rhodes was about as bad as they come. He owned a diamond business in African in the 19th century and behaved every bit as bad as a diamond cartel can, only he wasn't hampered by 20th-century morality at the time (and I'm aware of the meaning of that statement). He believed that the white race was the superior race, and that every piece of land not owned by his race represented a loss to the lesser races. This is a guy so bad that Mark Twain wrote, "I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time comes I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake." 

So hating Cecil Rhodes isn't bad, but Allen's dislike of Rhodes is centered on the use of Rhodes' money on causes that he doesn't agree with. The claim is that Rhodes wanted a one-world government, which is kind of true. Rhodes wanted English domination of the planet but not because of the nefarious need to be the puppet master of history, but because he thought all other races were inferior and that the world would be a better place if only the white people were in charge of everything. 

Allen believes that Rhodes was trying to set up a secret society, but the important thing to understand is that in the past secret society just meant a club for people where the membership wasn't published. When Rhodes, in his first will (written when he was a college freshman), desired to set up a society to extend British influence throughout the world--he's openly declaring it. Allen's charge here doesn't add up. Rhodes isn't being sneaky, he's just saying a group like that of the "Romish church" (quoting Rhodes' will), would just not declare who the members were. 

Rhodes himself says, "To forward such a scheme what a splendid help a secret society would be a society not openly acknowledged but who would work in secret for such an object."

Ultimately Rhodes wanted, again, from his own confessions, for England to reassimilate the U.S. Rhodes is no friend, but Allen hates him for all the wrong reasons. 

Buried in his ranting about Rhodes is the Illuminati, and I don't know what to do with this information. After that, is more Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) bullshit. Now, this is unfair to me and I'm starting to take it personally. If Allen wasn't dead, I would write him a sternly worded letter with all kind of triangle watermarks on it just to mess with him. 

Burying the Illuminati claim inside the Rhodes claims is a dirty trick. We are talking about Rhodes and this Illuminati claim is going to require its own post so I have to bypass it for now. The problem is that it's such an aside that cutting it out would make no difference. It only exists to unify other conspiracists who may agree with Allen's central thesis. Then they can say, "Oh good the Illuminati gets mentioned, this Allen guy and I agree." 

Rhodes is alleged to have helped with the establishment of the CFR through his will. I can find two mentions of the CFR in Allen's source "The American Rhodes Scholarships" by Frank Aydelotte. Neither of them are about establishing the CFR but merely mention that Rhodes Scholars sometimes have worked with the CFR. A smoking gun, this is not. Allen also mentions that Rhodes established the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIAA). I have not come across this group in a long time. Essentially, they are the British CFR having been established at roughly the same time for the same purpose. They feature heavy in David Icke's lizard alien book "The Biggest Secret" for much the same reason--an evil secret society of elites that run the world. 

This book is interesting in that it claims that the CFR and the RIAA are both arms of the same conspiracy group--the Round Table...which Allen bases on Quigley's work. Quigley, who publicly claimed that Allen didn't understand his work nor the world around us. So...at least the conspiracy hierarchy is being formed here. These groups are all based on the Jesuit model which is the model that the Illuminati followed, thus also the COMMUNISTS. This means that we have to deal with his Illuminati claim and that is for next week's post.