Tidbit
1909 -1913 Lord Alfred Milner organizes the "Association of Helpers" into various Round Table Groups in the British dependencies and the United States. The Round Table - a periodical, first published by Milner's "Secret Society" for Britain's intellectual community. The writers, and those associated with the publication became known as the Round Table Group, and later, the Chatham House crowd.
Milner's association with Cecil Rhodes, a father of imperialist socialism, is a whole 'nother story. It would seem as if the EU likes Rhodes, Milner, Parkins vision of a "world-encircling group of related nations...united on a basis of equality and partnership,. . ", but socialists fail before they start when the sentence ends with ". . . and...by moral and spiritual bonds". Unless the spirit is the religion of the collective.
Socialists have been around for a long time. Too bad they don't learn from history. They just rewrite it and their manifestoes.
I suppose their latest attempt at the "Imperial Federation" is manifest in the EU but can't/won't be validated in a collective "European Union draft constitution".
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