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The Round Table movement, founded in 1909, was an association of organizations promoting closer union between Britain and its self-governing colonies. The movement began at a conference at Plas Newydd, Lord Anglesey's estate in Wales, over the weekend of 4-6 September.[1] The framework of the organisation was devised by Lionel Curtis, but the overall idea was due to Lord Milner. Former South Africa administrator Philip Kerr became secretary to the organisation.[2]
Contents
1 Organization 2 Society of the Elect 3 Similar organizations 4 Current organisation and membership 4.1 International Advisory Board 5 References 6 External links
Organization
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 1910, The Round Table Journal: A Quarterly Review of the Politics of the British Empire was founded by Lord Milner and members of Milner's Kindergarten (Lionel Curtis, Philip Kerr and Geoffrey Dawson) to unify the political thinking of the groups internationally. Other prominent non-Kindergarten members included F.S. Oliver, Professor Reginald Coupland, Leo Amery, Waldorf Astor, and Lord Robert Cecil. After World War II the journal was renamed The Round Table Journal: A Quarterly Review of British Commonwealth Affairs to reflect changing postwar realities. By 1915 Round Table groups existed in seven countries, including Britain, 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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Reginald Baliol Brett (Lord Esher); then a "Circle of Initiates", consisting of a number of notables including Cardinal Manning, Lord Arthur Balfour, Lord Albert Grey and Sir Harry Johnston; and outside of this was the "Association of Helpers", the broad mass of the Society. One of the puzzles surrounding this meeting is whether the "Society of the Elect" actually came into being. Carroll Quigley claims in Tragedy and Hope (1966) that Rhodes's "Society of the Elect" was not only "formally established" in 1891, although its first inception existed some ten years prior (1881), but that its "outer circle" known as the "Association of Helpers" was "later organised by Milner as the Round Table". [3] In several of his wills, Rhodes left money for the continuation of the project. However in his later wills, Rhodes abandoned the idea and instead concentrated on what became the Rhodes scholarships, which enabled American, German and English scholars to study for free at Oxford University. [3]
Similar organizations
Lionel Curtis founded the Royal Institute of International Affairs in June 1920. A year later its sister organisation, the Council on Foreign Relations, was formed in America. One of the founders of the sister organisation was another member of the roundtable groups, Walter Lippmann. [3]
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Godfrey Baldacchino Sir Zelman Cowen Gajaraj Dhanarajan Sir Henry Forde Brenda Gourley Cedric Grant Wang Gungwu Norman Hillmer Sir Kenneth Keith Wm. Roger Louis D. A. Low Don Markwell Ali A. Mazrui
Richard Nile M. Ohta Ato Quayson Mizanur Rahman Shelley Gowher Rizvi L. K. Sharma K. M. de Silva Farooq Sobhan Sir Roger Tomkys Bernard Wood Ngaire Woods Isaac McAfferty
References
1. ^ Historical Dictionary of the British Empire. 1996. ISBN 0313279179. 2. ^ J. Lee Thompson (2007). Forgotten Patriot: A Life of Alfred, Viscount Milner of St. James's And Cape Town, 1854-1925. ISBN 0838641210. 3. ^ a b c d Quigley, Carroll : Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time. G. S. G. & Associates, Incorporated (june 1975). ISBN 094500110X, ISBN 978-0945001102
External links
Will Banyan, "A short history of the round table", NEXUS Magazine, (Parts 1-4) (http://www.nexusmagazine.com/articles/Rhodes&SecretSocieties.html) The Round Table official web-site (http://www.moot.org.uk/) Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_Table_movement" Categories: 1909 establishments | Commonwealth of Nations | British Empire This page was last modified on 26 November 2010 at 19:28. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; additional terms may apply. See Terms of Use for details. Wikipedia is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.
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