A WEEKLY COMMENTARY
Year Twenty-Nine ... Number Twenty-Three ... June 11, 1982
TO TRAIN TOMORROW'S NEW
WORLD ORDER BUREAUCRATS
Cecil Rhodes was never in doubt as to what he wanted to accomplish. Enthralled by the charismatic eloquence of Professor of Arts John Ruskin while still an undergraduate at Oxford University, the twenty-four-year-old Rhodes wrote the first of his seven wills. The first will provided that his fortune be used for "The extension of British rule throughout the world ... the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of a British Empire .. and finally the foundation of so great a power as to hereafter render wars impossible and promote the best interests of humanity." To accomplish these aims, Rhodes would have his vast personal fortune plus the financial support of Lord Rothschild and a number of the merchant bankers in "The City." The problem was not how to finance such a project or how to obtain helpers for its accomplishment. Rather, the problem was: what kind of a program should be adopted to achieve the goal? By the time Rhodes had written his fourth will, he believed that a secret society would be necessary, as well as a scholarship program that would complement the secret society, and provide young, new members for it. Historian Carroll Quigley observed:
"The secret society, after much preliminary talk, took form in 1891, the same year in which Rhodes drew up his fouth will and made (W.T.) Stead as well as Lord Rothschild the trustee of his fortune .. About the same time, in February 1891, Stead and Rhodes had another long discussion about the secret society. First they discussed their goals and agreed that, if necessary to achieve Anglo-American unity, Britain should join the United States. Then they discussed the organization of the secret society and divided it into two circles: an inner cicle, 'The Society of the Elect', and an outer circle to include 'The Association of Helpers'." It should be noted that this secret society was not to include formal initiations, oaths, secret signs of recognition, etc, as did, for example, the Order of the Illuminati. To these members of "The Society of the Elect," secret signs and oaths were neither necessary nor desirable, for the inititaes knew each other intimately and had implicit trust in each other. Thus, to again quote Quigley: "The melodrama envisioned by Rhodes was watered down (after his death - Ed) without in any way reducing the seriousness with which the initiates determined to use their own personal influence and Rhode's wealth and power to achieve the consolidation of the British Empire." Thus, this "Society of the Elect" later came to be known as the "Round Table" while the outer circle, the "Association of Helpers" helped stock the administrative posts in the Royal Institute for International Affairs and other internationalist groups. This "outer circle" was supplied to a great extent by selected Rhodes scholars. These were young graduates of colleges and universities who had been chosen to receive Rhodes Scholarships and thus be subjected to special indoctrination at one of the colleges at Oxford University. Each year, some 170 are selected from the former British colonies and Commonwealth Nations, the United States and Germany. Again quoting Quigley: "These scholarships were merely 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." It should be observed that these scholars usually find important positions awaiting them in Internationalist, Eastern Establishment, and/or political circles. Much of the control has shifted to the Rockefeller group, although the Rothschild influence also remains. Which brings us to the principal theme of this Report.
When self-appointed saviors of humanity set about their task of trying to change the world to meet their desires, they usually find that schools are essential to their program. Karl Marx was certainly right when he called for universal and compulsory education in state-controlled schools. Following much the same pattern, when Cecil Rhodes desired to train recruits for his secret society and for the promotion of his global program, he chose the eminently respected Oxford University as his training center. When the founders of the Fabian Society sought to convert Britain -- and later the United States as well -- from a capitalist to a socialist economy, they induced capitalists to finance the building of the London School of Economics, where Jack Kennedy, David Rockefeller and many other so-called capitalists obtained a part of their training. When the Eastern Establishment began the business of creating their New World Order, they established tax-exempt foundations. These foundations -- notably Carnegie, Rockefeller and Ford -- gave grants to colleges and universities for the promotion of programs commensurate to their standards. Every college and university accepting such grants became a kind of training ground for that Eastern Establishment. Following the same pattern, social action theologians and promoters of what we might call Humanistic Christianity established new seminaries or took over the old ones. Teachers colleges ditto. And so on down the lines of the pages of history.
Now we have a new enthusaist, a world government devotee who wants to train a set of multi-racial, multi-religious, multi-cultured youths to become world leaders. Reserving comment except some underlining to emphasize some passages, we quote the following from the May 5, 1982 issue of the Los Angeles Times. The Times being the west coast twin to the Washington Post, it is obvious that the Times approves of what is contained in this article:
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"World" College in New Mexico
INDUSTRIALIST BRINGS ROYAL
DREAM TO AMERICAN WEST
By Anne Roark, Times Education Writer
Montezuma, N.M. -- At the end of a rutted dirt road on the edge of the Pecos wilderness, miles beyond the lonely two-lane highways and the last broken fences of the desert ranchlands, sits a lavish Queen Anne-style castle built in the 1870s as a resort and health spa by the Santa Fe Railroad. Once abandoned, the grand and isolated site will be transformed over the next five months into an unusual half-high school, half-college by the future king of England and one of America's most powerful capitalists. It is extraordinary that anyone would think of establishing a school at this time. Serious economic difficulties have left most ordinary educational institutions barely able to make ends meet. But the men responsible for creating the college are hardly ordinary. Lord Mountbatten, the Earl of Burma, who was murdered by Irish Republican Army terrorists in 1979, conceived the idea of the school. His nephew, His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, will oversee it. And Armand Hammer, chairman of the board of Occidental Petroleum Corp., will finance it.
The story of their unusual collaboration began early in 1979 when, as Hammer remembers it, Prince Charles invited the 83-year-old Los Angeles business magnate to Buckingham Palace to meet the prince's favorite uncle. The three gentlemen fell into conversation about a project dear to Lord Mountbatten's heart -- the creation of a network of new two-year schools to educate selected students, ages 16 to 19, from around the world. The first such school -- the United World College of the Atlantic -- had been designed in the early 1960s in Wales by a group of Englishmen, including Kurt Hahn, who had started the Outward Bound program. Students who attend the Wales school were selected from over 60 countries, including many poor and developing nations. The rigorous two-year program, Lord Mountbatten explained, emphasized physical development and community service as well as intellectual growth. It prepared to students to compete, through standardized exams, for the intellectual baccalaureate certificate, an internationally recognized degree that is equivalent to the last two years of high school in Europe or the senior year of high school and the freshman year of college in the United States. Under the direction of an international council, which Lord Mountbatten then headed, and with government assistance and private donations, three other campuses had been built in Singapore, Canada and Swaziland. At least three more were planned in Italy, Venezuela and India.
But Lord Mountbatten said his real dream had been to establish a United World College in the United States. Upon hearing this, Prince Charles turned to his uncle and said, "If anyone can do it, Dr. Hammer can. Why not give him the job?" Hammer, a philanthropist interested in international causes as well as one of the world's most powerful capitalists, took to the idea of a "world" college immediately. Besides, Hammer had lent a helping hand to world leaders before in a variety of circumstances, and such actions had never hurt the fortunes of Occidental Petroleum. Hammer flew to Vancouver, B.C. with his wife and Prince Charles to visit the Lester Pearson (World) College of the Pacific. Hammer said that what he saw there -- 200 capable students from more than 40 countries learning not only to tolerate the cultural and political differences of others, but to appreciate them -- so impressed him that he immediately instructed his newly appointed assistant, James Z. Pugash, vice president of Occidental, and a small army of real estate agents to find a site for an American campus. The task was not easy. They looked, Pugash said, at close to 100 places -- existing institutions that had extra facilities, schools that had gone out of business, resorts that were no longer operating. "We had to find something that was just right," said Theodore D. Lockwood, the 57-year-old retired president of Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., who was then serving as an adviser to the planning committee and is now the college's first director.
... When the planners saw Montezuma in the rugged lands of the American West, they knew they had found their spot. The people were friendly and they represented the span of cultures, Spanish, Indian and American, that had settled the American frontier. "I took one look at the place and I said, 'This is it'." Hammer said in a telephone interview. 'It's so typically American.' Indeed, even before the campus -- which is to be called The United World College of the American West -- is opened, the farmers and shopkeepers in Montezuma and nearly Las Vegas, N.M. are giving it an old-fashioned reception ...
Hammer is having his way in getting the kind of students he wants. When Prince Charles expressed his disappointment that the Soviet Union had not been participating in the program, Hammer simply spoke to his old friend Soviet Premier Leonid I. Brezhnev about the matter the next time he visited the Kremlin. As a result of that discussion, which is perhaps typical of the man who is said to have more influence over world leaders than many U.S. Presidents have had, two Russians will join 73 other foreign students and 25 Americans when the college opens Sept. 9.
The American selection process, which is now being completed for the fall, follows that of the other world colleges in allowing each country to choose a predetermined number of candidates, either through special selection committees or by the governments themselves. "These are extraordinary students," said Jack Matthews, director of the world college in Canada and adviser to the U.S. college. "They are more than just academically talented. They have friends, they are on spots teams, they are student leaders. If you are willing to give all that up and leave your home and family, you have to be pretty adventurous." Much the same can be said for the dozen or so faculty and staff who will open the college this fall. Most are experienced educators, including Lockwod and William McGill, former president of Columbia University, who is chairman of the board. Many of their academic credentials are as impressive as the financial portfolios of the board of directors, which includes Anna Bing Arnold, a major Los Angeles educational philanthropist; Gilford Glazer, a California real estate developer; John Kluge, president and chairman of the board of Metro Media Inc., and Abigail van Buren ("Dear Abby")...
Wtether the curriculum and the unusual collection of people will combine to make a successful educational enterprise is yet to be determined ... Because it does not fit into the traditional system of American education, the North Central Assn. of Colleges and Schools, which officially evaluates most educational institutions in the region .. has yet to decide whether it can be called a secondary school .. Some educators also are concerned that because of his generous financial support, Hammer may exert too much control over the operation of the school. While Prince Charles (who will travel to New Mexico in October for the official opening of the American college) is thought to be as devoted to the idea as his uncle was, some have speculated that Hammer's motives may be more cynical. Some skeptics argue that Hammer is simply currying favor with the future king of England to keep open Occidental's vast oil interests in the North Sea.
Hammer firmly denies that there are any business interests whatsoever associated with his involvement in the college. He views the college as a place to train the future leaders of the world: "Arabs and Israelis, blacks and whites -- people from various cultures -- (who) can get along with each other." Hammer does not deny that the United World College of the Americas is something of a memorial to himself. Not only was the $1-million property bought with Armand Hammer money, the Armand Hammer Foundation and the Occidental Petroleum Corp. will pay another $5-million or so by the end of the year to renovate the campus, pay faculty and staff salaries and provide scholarships for those students who cannot afford to pay the $8,500 tuition the first year and the $9,400 tuition the second. Moreover, Hammer said, whatever other expenses the college incurs, he will cover, too -- not just this year but as long as he lives. After his death, the college will be preserved for in his will.
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Syntheses: Rhodes sought to unite the United States with the British Empire, or vice versa. As a means to that end he provided scholarships for students he hoped would become future leaders of the world. 80 years later Hammer seeks to unite the United States with the Soviet Union, or vice versa. As a means to that end he endows colleges and provides scholarships for his future leaders of the world.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ARMAND HAMMER -- Washington Mayor Marion Barry sang happy birthday and designated May 24th "Armand Hammer Day." Armand Hammer, whose father founded the U.S. Communist Party. Armand Hammer, who has done business with every Communist dictator starting with Lenin, and has just signed deals with Red China and Polish military boss Jaruzelski. Nice going, Mayor Barry. Happy elections to you. (Courtesy, Globescan)
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ABOUT AMY CARTER'S APPOINTMENT as a Senate page. Yes, it took considerable political influence to accomplish the trick. But, then, that's true of all such appointments. The jobs are pure patronage. Amy will be paid $174 a week; not a bad salary for a 14-year-old. However, there's some discrimination involved which is said to be causing a bit of a juvenile bureaucratic brouhaha: the Secret Service will continue to provide round-the-clock protection for Amy. This is a privilege not provided for the other 29 Senate and 51 House pages.
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