Oxford
English university city; intellectual seat of the Milner Group
Also known as: Oxford
English university city and intellectual seat of the The Milner Group — the All Souls / Rhodes Trust / Round Table node from which the Group's strategic culture radiated (T&H 143).
Quigley's Framing
Oxford is, in The Anglo-American Establishment, the central physical setting of the Milner Group's institutional life. The All Souls fellowship, the Rhodes House and Rhodes Scholarship apparatus, the editorial offices of the Round Table journal, and the colleges (Balliol especially) that produced successive generations of Group members are all clustered within a few square miles of the medieval city. Quigley's chapters on the Group's formation make Oxford the natural counterpart to London: London as the operational center, Oxford as the recruitment and ideological center.
Strategic Role
The strategic role of Oxford in Quigley's analysis is as the talent pipeline for the Anglo-American Establishment. The Rhodes Scholarship in particular — designed by Cecil Rhodes explicitly to bring American (and German, and Commonwealth) young men into the Oxford culture and from there into the imperial governance system — is treated as one of the most successful institutional projects in twentieth-century elite formation, and as a key node in the transatlantic linkage with the Council on Foreign Relations and its analogues.
Cited in
- anglo-american-establishment Quigley
The All Souls fellowship and the Rhodes House apparatus made Oxford the Milner Group's recruitment and ideological center.
- tragedy-and-hope · p. 143 Quigley
The Rhodes Scholarship was one of the most successful institutional projects in twentieth-century elite formation.