Lehre und Wehre St. Louis, Missouri — Oktober 1916, Seite 469

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originator of the infamous Jameson-Raid and the war of conquest
against the South African Republics, made in the first draft of his.
will provisions for the following purpose: To and for the establish-
ment, promotion, and development of aà secret society, the true aim
of which and object whereof shall be the extension of British rule
throughout the world ... and especially the ultimate recovery 0f
the United States of America as an integrate part of the British
Empire.““ Diesem Zwecke sollen die bekannten „Rhodes Scholarships“
dienen, wie auch in Oxford offen zugegeben wird. In der Februar⸗
nummer 1905 schrieb z. B. die Educational Revieuh mit Bezug auf diese
scholarships: They [Oxford] consider it a misfortune that the
Rhodes' Scholarship Trust is diverted from the education of English-
men, Welshmen, and Scotsmen, and possibly Irishmen as well, to
a missionary enterprise for converting Germans, Americans, and
Oolonials into good Anglo-Saxons. They would certainly have
dropped the Germans if they could have had their way; for they
do not believe that the students nominated from the palace in Berlin
will ever be good Anglo-Saxons. Some of them say outright that the
Rhodes' Scholarship Trust will enable the German Emperor to give
candidates for the diplomatic service a good training in English
studieès without expense; and that, when they leave Oxford, they will
be more uncompromising Germans than ever. The Americans are
regarded as more hopeful subjects of Anglo-Saxon missionary effort
than the Germans“ (denen Rhodes 1899, ebenfalls im Interesse seines
britischen Weltherrschaftsgedankens, fünf scholarships zugewandt hatte).
Was sodann Carnegie betrifft, so lesen wir bei Cronau: The great
danger to the freedom of the United States from this institution
[Rhodes Scholarship] becomes clear when it is shown to us that
Rhodes' idea of à World Empire under control of Great Britain is
endorsed and Tarthered by Andrew Carnegie and many other men
of great influence. An article, published over Carnegie's signature
in the NVort= American Renre of June, 1893, under the heading,
A Look Ahead, contains the following passage: Let men say what
they will, I say that as surely as the sun in the heavens once shone
upon Britain and America uniteéd, so surely is it one morning to
rise, shine upon, and gréet again the Reunited States, the British
American Union“ The purpose of this union Carnegie set forth in
the same article as follows: The advantages of a race confederation
are so numerous and so obvious that one scarcely knows how to
begin their enumeration. Consider its defensive power. A reunion
of the Anglo-Americans, consisting to-day of one hundreéd and eight
millions, which fifty vears hence will number more than two hundred
millions, would be unassailable upon land by any power or com-
bination of powers that it is Possible to ereate. We néed not, there-
foré, take into account attacks upon the land; as for the water, the

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