Anglo-American Establishment

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continues to exist to this day. To be sure, this secret society is not a childish thing like the

Ku Klux Klan, and it does not have any secret robes, secret handclasps, or secret

passwords. It does not need any of these, since its members know each other intimately.

It probably has no oaths of secrecy nor any formal procedure of initiation. It does,

however, exist and holds secret meetings, over which the senior member present presides.

At various times since 1891, these meetings have been presided over by Rhodes, Lord

Milner, Lord Selborne, Sir Patrick Duncan, Field Marshal Jan Smuts, Lord Lothian, and

Lord Brand. They have been held in all the British Dominions, starting in South Africa

about 1903; in various places in London, chiefly 175 Piccadilly; at various colleges at

Oxford, chiefly All Souls; and at many English country houses such as Tring Park,

Blickling Hall, Cliveden, and others.

This society has been known at various times as Milner's Kindergarten, as the Round