Brown presents compelling evidence that the Society was virtually a ‘shadow cabinet’ in Britain throughout that period, its members invariably super-wealthy and extremely powerful, many of them British nobility just as many of them homosexuals like Rhodes, or known pederasts and pedophiles, while others were aesthetes with an almost religious, Jesuit-like self-discipline and unshakeable commitment to fostering world peace and a New World Order… a moniker first used by Lord Milner over a century ago.Īll the Usual Suspects reckoned by the conspiracy theorists to have been pulling the strings worldwide are there, all right, from the Rothschilds to the Rockefellers, to George Bernard Shaw and a host of others, but it was Rhodes, General Gordon, Leander Starr Jameson, Milner, W.T.
However, during the period of roughly a century under study, myriad ‘big names’ of the time crop up as either being directly involved in the Society, or supporting it, or crossing swords with it. It was published in 2015, so is very much up-to-date on the latest attitudes towards Rhodes, and goes into great depth on both Rhodes’ public and personal life, and his long-suspected sexual preferences.īrown collates the work of many other, eminent historians, and expounds on much newly discovered documentation dealing with the doings of the Secret Society established by Rhodes, then taken forward by Lord Alfred Milner, and later ‘watered down’ by his successor Leopold Amery, to the seemingly innocuous Round Table organization of today, which advertises itself as a place to ‘have fun and meet people’ while doing charitable works… rather like some other, infinitely more secretive organizations claiming to do the same. ‘The Secret Society… Cecil John Rhodes’s Plan for a New World Order’ by renowned author and documentary producer Robin Brown provides not just a wealth of grist for the conspiracy theorist mills, but is also in itself a scholarly tome on the intricacies of the state of the British Empire from the time of the discovery of diamonds and gold in South Africa in the latter half of the 1800’s, up to t he decade after the 2nd World War.