Rhodes-milner Round Table Groups

The Rhodes-Milner Round Table Groups, originally called the Society Of The Elect , were founded in London , England in the late 1800s by South Africa n 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 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).

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