Lord Milner co-founder of Rhodes scholarship

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner, (1854-1925) was a controversial German-born British statesman and colonial administrator. He was noted for Milner's Kindergarten, a group of young men he mentored and who in some cases became important figures in running the British Empire and for his key influence on South African history, through the pursuit of British hegemony.

Milner graduated from Oxford in 1876. At first he worked in the private sector as a journalist and then editor. From there he transitioned into public affairs, as secretary for George Goschen, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

In February 1897 he was appointed High Commissioner for South Africa and Governor of the Cape Colony. It was now that Milner’s true beliefs and talents were able to be expressed and put into action – to the detriment of the people of South Africa; and a windfall for Rhodes and those connected to him.

Besides diamonds, Rhodes was also involved in the gold mining business, founding Gold Fields of South Africa. Thousands of prospectors looking to strike it rich flocked to the Transvaal region of South Africa. This hoard of profit seeking individuals had no respect for the indigenous people of the region who they looked down upon as an inferior race, wreaking great harm and desolation to their land and way of life.

Milner himself was one of the worst of the bunch, a true racist at heart, he viewed the Afrikaners as subjects of the superior British White Anglo-Saxon race. The friction between the two groups kept escalating.

Milner was of the opinion that the only solution to the problem was British hegemony, to be had by armed conflict and the complete subjugation of the Afrikaners – in other words war.

Previous to this flare up between the Brits and the Afrikaners, Rhodes had organized an attack on the Transvaal in 1895 - the infamously bloody Jameson Raid. It was a disaster and a disgrace, forcing Rhodes to resign as Prime Minister of the Cape.

Under Milner’s instigation full scale war broke out in 1899. By 1901 the two Boer states had been annexed as property of the British Empire. Milner was assigned the administration of the two states, causing him to resign the governorship of the Cape Colony, while still retaining the post of high commissioner.

During the war Lord Milner constructed concentration camps that incarerated 30,000 Boer women and children. Some records report more than 14,000 black South Africans died while imprisoned in his camps. He knew not the the chords of mercy.

Unfortunately for the South Africans, whose homes and lands were being taken from them by imperial minded terrorists – the great white Aryan Race of Brits won the war and had their way, at least for the time being. They have yet to pay the true cost that Charon will exact for their crossing. The ferryman’s oblus is the final toll.

Milner was an imperialist, a racist, and an elitist – his delusional mind unfettered by any semblance of love for his fellow man, unless of course the individual was of the superior race. He believed in a pre-arranged design for society, a socialistic state controlled by the elite few who retained the understanding of scientific intelligence.

His own words describe himself best:

“I am a Nationalist and not a cosmopolitan .... I am a British (indeed primarily an English) Nationalist. If I am also an Imperialist, it is because the destiny of the English race, owing to its insular position and long supremacy at sea, has been to strike roots in different parts of the world. I am an Imperialist and not a Little Englander because I am a British Race Patriot ... The British State must follow the race, must comprehand it, wherever it settles in appreciable numbers as an independent community. If the swarms constantly being thrown off by the parent hive are lost to the State, the State is irreparably weakened. We cannot afford to part with so much of our best blood. We have already parted with much of it, to form the millions of another separate but fortunately friendly State. We cannot suffer a repetition of the process.”

According to Tragedy and Hope, in 1901 Milner "had refused a fabulous offer, worth up to 100,000 a year, to become one of the three partners of the Morgan Bank in London, in succession to the younger J.P. Morgan who moved from London to join his father in New York (eventually the vacancy went to E.C. Grenfell, so that the London affiliate of Morgan became known as Morgan, Grenfell, and Company).

Instead, Milner became director of a number of public banks, chiefly the London Joint Stock Bank, corporate precursor of the Midland Bank. He became one of the greatest political and financial powers in England, with his disciples strategically placed throughout England in significant places, such as the editorship of The Times, the editorship of The Observer, the managing directorship of Lazard Brothers, various administrative posts, and even Cabinet positions."

Milner’s Kindergarten

The Kindergarten was composed of graduates from Oxford, all cut from the same swath of cloth, all forged from the same imperialistic, racist, elitist vision of Britain’s dominance of the world. Following their leaders, Rhodes and Milner, they all set up shop in South Africa, helping Milner to spread British Rule: what they called an Imperial Federation of the British Empire.

Some of the most notable members included J. F. Perry, Geoffrey Dawson, Philip Kerr, Lionel Hichens, Robert H. Brand, Leo Amery, and Lionel Curtis.

It was Curtis that was most obsessed with not only British imperialism, and white Aryan race superiority – he also envisioned a one world government, run by the elite chosen few. Curtis was the ideological keystone and driving force behind the order – a warped and delusional intelligence, but a visionary nonetheless. Rhodes was the doer – Curtis the thinker.