The Rhodes scholars that run America

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Below is an excerpt from a much longer article about Cecil Rhodes and the history of the Rhodes scholarship that can be found here:  https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/03/investigative-reports/the-rhodes-scholars-guiding-bidens-presidency/

Clinton Opens the Floodgates

With Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential victory, Rhodes Scholars like Strobe Talbott (Assistant Secretary of State and co-architect of Perestroika) and Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor), were joined by "Rhodies" Ira Magaziner, Derek Shearer (Senior Economic Advisors), Susan Rice (Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs), Kevin Thurme (Health and Human Services Chief of Staff), George Stephanopoulos (Communications Director), Richard Celeste (Ambassador to India) and dozens of other Rhodes Scholars. These individuals were funneled into positions of influence that aimed to oversee the "end of history", as celebrated by neocon thinker Francis Fukuyama, as the Soviet Union disintegrated.

While some Rhodies remained in positions of power during the period of the presidency of George W. Bush, the Rhodes Hives again enjoyed vast policy-shaping influence under the Obama-age where the architecture for global governance was being built on the wreckage of troublesome nation states like Libya, Syria and Ukraine.

Despite the set back caused by Trump, whose victory interfered with Hillary Clinton's coronation, Rhodies are stubborn creatures, if nothing else. It was later revealed in 2020 that both Talbott and Rice were at the heart of Russiagate.

While still serving as Brookings Institute President in 2015-17, it was Talbott who interfaced with MI6's Sir Richard Dearlove and Christopher Steele in the months before the elections by cooking up and circulating the "dodgy dossier". It was Rice who was revealed to be at the center of the "unmasking" entrapment operation that targeted Michael Flynn in January 2017.

It would be the height of folly to presume, as some commentators have done, that Talbott's role in this operation indicates an American guiding hand in the effort to undo the 2016 elections. Yet, the fact is that Talbott's entire life and world outlook have been shaped by British Imperial principles that are programmed into the minds of most Rhodes Scholars like himself.

As Jeremy Kuzmarov demonstrates in his recent essay published in Covert Action Magazine, both Talbott and his Oxford roommate Bill Clinton had likely been recruited to the CIA long before receiving their scholarships. Kuzmarov also demonstrates that Bill Clinton played a key role smuggling Khrushchev's memoir out of Russia during a "research" expedition to Moscow. Clinton's role in this operation gives new meaning to the role Talbott played in translating that memoir into English as part of a much larger Anglo-American intelligence operation designed to revise Soviet history.

It was also during his time at Oxford that young Talbott adopted a near-religious commitment to a post-nation state world order. 

Upon his return to America, Talbott was shepherded into a prominent role in the western propaganda bureau, serving as a leading editor of Time Magazine. It was during the end of this phase of his career that the soon-to-be Assistant Secretary of State outlined his manifesto for the New World Order in a July 20 1992 article entitled "The Birth of a Global Nation".

In that article, Talbott stated:  "All countries are basically social arrangements...No matter how permanent or even sacred they may seem at any one time, in fact they are all artificial and temporary...Perhaps national sovereignty wasn't such a great idea after all....But it has taken the events in our own wondrous and terrible century to clinch the case for world government."

Within his 1992 manifesto, Talbott describes NATO as "history's most ambitious, enduring and successful exercise in collective security" and then celebrates the International Monetary Fund. Talbott said "the free world formed multilateral financial institutions that depend on member states' willingness to give up a degree of national sovereignty. The International Monetary Fund can virtually dictate fiscal policies, even including how much tax a government should levy on its citizens."

Forecasting the Blair-Cheney "Responsibility to Protect" protocol which would soon justify the humanitarian bombings of Kosovo, Iraq, Libya and Syria, Talbott championed the destruction of national sovereignty made possible by the invasion of Kuwait in 1991, saying "the internal affairs of a nation used to be off limits to the world community. But the principle of 'humanitarian intervention is gaining acceptance."

During the entire Clinton Presidency, Talbott ensured that his utopian beliefs would not remain ink on paper, but be put swiftly into action, interfacing closely with Soros' Open Society Foundations and overseeing the Shock Therapy of Russia during the 1990s.

Revenge of Rice and the Rhodies

Among the top Rhodies guiding US President Joe Biden is none other than Susan Rice, who is now the director of Biden's Domestic Policy Council.

In 1990, Rice received her PhD in International Relations from New College, Oxford and, in 1992, received the first annual award from Chatham House for "the most distinguished dissertation in the UK in the field of International Studies" for her thesis "The Commonwealth Initiative in Zimbabwe 1979-80". In her thesis, Rice lauded the British peace keeping transition after the empire's 13 year war against Zimbabwe liberation.

Describing her love of Oxford, Rice delivered remarks at Rhodes House in 1999 saying:  "To be at Rhodes House tonight with so many friends, benefactors and mentors is a personal privilege. It is like a coming home for me for much of what I know about Africa was discovered within these walls, refined at this great university with generous support of the Rhodes Trust."

It is worth keeping in mind that as she spoke those words, Rice had recently demonstrated her imperial worldview by coordinating the destruction of a Sudanese pharmaceutical factory in 1998 and threatening South Africa with economic destruction unless it gave up its desire to produce generic and affordable AIDS medication that same year. While serving as special assistant to Bill Clinton and Senior Director of African Affairs at the National Security Council, Rice oversaw a well documented rogue CIA operation that ensured US support to the invasion of the Democratic Republic of Congo by Ugandan and Rwandan-sponsored rebels. A September 2009 New York Review of Books article by Howard French documented Rice's role in this genocidal operation:  "Museveni [of Uganda] and Kagame [of Rwanda] agree that the basic problem in the Great Lakes is the danger of a resurgence of genocide and they know how to deal with that. The only thing we have to do is look the other way."

During these operations that targeted Hutu refugees, it is estimated by UN officials that over 200,000 people were massacred simply because Rice demanded the USA "look the other way".

Rice worked to balkanize Sudan and to promote military intervention across the Arab and African worlds under the Responsibility to Protect doctrine (R2P) with the cooperation of supranational organizations like the International Criminal Court (ICC), which issued an arrest warrant for President Bashir. Her handiwork would have made Cecil Rhodes proud.

We should not forget that the Sudan-Libya-Egypt alliance under the combined leadership of Mubarak, Qadhafi and Bashir, had moved to establish a new gold-backed financial system outside of the IMF/World Bank to fund large scale development in Africa. Had this program not been undermined by a NATO-led destruction of Libya, the carving up of Sudan and regime change in Egypt, then the world would have seen the emergence of a major regional block of African states shaping their own destinies outside of the rigged game of Anglo-American controlled finance for the first time in history.

Following the Rhodes model of economic exploitation of colonized people, today's Anglo-American neocolonial models of finance have mastered the art of providing usurious loans with many strings attached and structural adjustment measures that would ensure those target populations never benefit or break free from the economic dominance of a masterclass that exploits their land and labor.

Beyond Rice, other Rhodes Scholars emerging into positions of control in the current Biden administration include National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, who graduated from Oxford's Magdalene College and worked under Strobe Talbott at the Brookings Institute's Center for the Study for Globalization at Yale in 2000. During this time, Rice had also come to work as Senior Fellow at Brookings, followed by a stint as UN Ambassador from 2009-2013 and Obama's National Security Advisor from 2013-2017, while Sullivan went on to become Biden's top security aid during the Obama years.

The Tale of Two Failed Mayors: Buttigieg and Garcetti

Due to an embarrassing series of scandals, Rhodes Scholar Eric Garcetti (former Mayor of LA) was pulled from Biden's early cabinet. But now, with a full year in the penalty box, Garcetti's rehabilitation was announced on July 2021 with his appointment as US ambassador to India. Acting as Chair of the C40 Cities (a network of 97 major cities around the world), and also the co-founder of Climate Mayors (representing 400 US mayors who have signed onto the Paris Climate Accords), Garcetti is a driving force of the Green New Deal, which is itself an integral part of the Great Reset.

Garcetti has made it known that his priorities in India will be to expand the "green cities" program deeper into India, work to combat Russia's relationship with the Indian military, and promote an anti-China outlook amongst the India elite.

Another Rhodes Scholar and former mayor, Pete Buttigieg, was more fortunate than Garcetti and was given the keys to the Transportation portfolio, although he had first been considered for the position of US Ambassador to China. Although conservatives are quick to paint Buttigieg and Democrats as stooges for "evil China", it was in fact Buttigieg who said in May 2020: "Beijing sees an opportunity to call into question the American project and liberal democracy itself. One thing they're banking on is four more years of Trump."

As I laid out in my previous reports, Soros himself has repeatedly labelled the two greatest threats to his "open society" as 1) Xi Jinping's China and 2) Trump's USA and even recently called for the overthrow of President Xi in defense of his preferred configuration of the global order.

Bruce Reed: Political Operative

Another Rhodie named Bruce Reed had originally entered Washington as part of the first 1992 Rhodes Scholar infusion as the Clinton-Gore campaign manager and later director of Clinton's Domestic Policy Council. Reed has since been tapped as the top tech advisor to Biden and has since openly called for cracking down on free speech online by cancelling Federal Internet law Section 230.

This law has kept website owners free from prosecution over content published on their sites. Its cancellation would crush what dwindling free speech still exists on social media. The argument advanced by Reed has been that Section 230 has been used by Russian and Chinese operatives to infiltrate the information ecosystem and manipulate Western elections. With its repeal, Facebook and other social media sites will be forced to censor all "illicit" thought crimes under fear of federal prosecution.

Reed had previously teamed up with Biden in drafting the infamous 1994 crime bill, which gave countless petty criminals longer-term sentences, benefiting the prison-cheap labor complex. During the Obama years, Reed worked as Biden's Chief of Staff and lead handler. He is currently also serving as the Deputy Chief of Staff to the White House and is commonly described as a "political operative".

Eric Lander: Rhodie, Geneticist and Science Czar

One particularly notable Rhodes Scholar who ran US science policy between June 2, 2021 and February 28, 2022 is geneticist Eric Lander. Although his systematic abuse of dozens of women on his staff resulted in his being forced out of his powerful position and replaced with his colleague Francis Collins, Lander's life's work, upon returning from his Oxford conditioning, has been devoted to imposing information theory (aka: mathematical systems analysis) onto biology and genetics.

After rising through the ranks of the Whitehead Institute and co-founding the Broad Institute with geneticist David Baltimore, Lander led the Human Genome Project from 1995-2002. Together Lander and Baltimore oversaw a major 2015 conference on the "new era of biomedical research" that unveiled a new gene modification technology known as CRISPR. CRISPR involves the use of enzymes and RNA found in bacteria, which were discovered to have the ability to target DNA sequences and induce various mutations. While it is obvious that this powerful technology may offer potential benefits to humanity as a tool to eliminate hereditary diseases, CRISPR's incredible power to fundamentally alter human DNA forever can do unimaginable harm if put into the wrong hands.

At the "historic" international summit on human gene editing in December 2015, conference chairman David Baltimore echoed the creepy words of Julian Huxley, former head of the British eugenics society and later UNESCO, during his keynote speech: "over the years, the unthinkable has become conceivable. We're on the cusp of a new era in human history." [4]

In January 2021, John Holdren congratulated Eric Lander for being appointed Joe Biden's Science "Czar" (Director of White House Science and Technology Policy)- the position formerly held by Holdren himself [5]. In this position, Lander oversaw the re-activation of every Obama-era behaviorist science policy as part of a technocratic overhaul of the US government that is fully aligned with the World Economic Forum's Great Reset Agenda.

For those who may not be aware, the Great Reset (sometimes termed "the Davos Agenda") is a blueprint which professes to use the two-fold catalyst of anthropogenic global warming and the Covid-19 pandemic to induce a reset of all aspects of civilization (political, economic, security and cultural), with the ultimate goal of in bringing about the sort of post-nation state world order that had been outlined by Strobe Talbott in his 1992 diatribe mentioned above.

Using the pretext of Covid-19 and resulting emergency legislation to bypass the FDA and advance gene therapy technologies by relabeling them "vaccines", a new social experiment has begun. CRISPR technology is already being hailed as the key to tackling mutating strains of Covid-19 and is being used as a "vaccine" for certain tropical diseases as of this writing. The obvious connection between eugenics organizations and the rise of modern mRNA operations associated with GAVI and Oxford's Astra Zeneca, as unveiled by investigative journalist Whitney Webb, should be kept firmly in mind.

Blinken, Malley and Soros

While Biden's pick for Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is not himself a Rhodes Scholar, he is a life-long friend and former classmate of Robert Malley. Malley is a Rhodes Scholar who formerly acted as Special Assistant to Obama and served as his "point man in the middle east" at the National Security Council. In January 2021, Malley was appointed US Special Envoy to Iran for the Biden administration.

Earlier, Malley had been special assistant to Bill Clinton on Arab Israeli Affairs and was always deeply enmeshed with George Soros' operations from the day he entered into politics. Between 2016-2021, Malley has acted as President and CEO of the International Crisis Group (ICG), founded by George Soros and Lord Malloch Brown in 1994 as a tool to promote global humanitarian wars under the guise of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). Joining Soros, Malloch-Brown and Malley at the ICG, we should not be surprised to find none other than Biden's current National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.

Additionally, Blinken's father Donald Blinken made a name for himself as Soros' point man in Hungary from 1994-1998, where he served as US Ambassador facilitating the growth of Soros' Open Society Foundation. He was later rewarded by the Hungarian speculator with a "Donald and Vera Blinken Open Society Archive" (OSA) at Budapest's Central European University. The Soros-funded university was created in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union and Blinken was instrumental in that operation.

President Viktor Orbán knew exactly what he was doing when he expelled this foreign operation from Hungary's borders in 2018. At the time, Central European University President Count Michael Ignatieff screamed "This is unprecedented. A U.S. institution has been driven out of a country that is a NATO ally."

A Segue on Count Ignatieff
It is noteworthy that Ignatieff is himself the son of Rhodes Scholar globalist George Ignatieff and great grandson of Count Nikolai Pavlovich Ignatiev (founder of the Russian Okhrana secret police), whose family was rewarded handsomely for services rendered during the overthrow of the Czarist system in Russia. This story is partially told in the article Cheney Revives Parvus' Permanent War Madness by Jeff Steinberg (2005).

As a sidenote, Michael Ignatieff's great grandfather on his maternal side is none other than George Parkin, the first controller of the Rhodes Trust from 1902-1922 and the man whose Oxford lectures and books inspired Cecil Rhodes and Milner to devote their lives to the cause of Empire. Michael is also a global board member of Soros' Open Society Foundations, which is headed by Mark Malloch Brown.

As I laid out in a recent report, not only did these two upper level managers come to light as figures central to the voter fraud claims that surround the 2020 US presidential election, but both have also pioneered the new age of regime change color revolutions that began with Marcos' 1986 ouster during the Peoples' Power revolution in the Philippines and have since ripped through the Balkans, Georgia, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus, Moldova, Bolivia, etc.

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Rhodes scholarships and the British network of agents in the world
For more than a hundred years, British elites have been implementing a project to recruit national elites in other countries of the world
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/07/rhodes-scholarships-and-the-british-network-of-agents-in-the-world/

Earlier I  wrote  about the session of the international public court, known as "Nuremberg 2″. A number of speeches made by prosecutors were devoted to revealing the plan of the British elite to establish their power in the world. Thanks to the mass "brainwashing "conducted by the media controlled by this elite, most citizens have a vague idea of ​​this conspiracy. Or even no idea at all.

The first sketches of this plan were made at the end of the 19th century by Cecil John Rhodes, a British entrepreneur who made more money mining diamonds and gold in South Africa (even during his lifetime, he received the unspoken title of "diamond king" ).

Paradoxically, the name Cecil Rhodes is known not only to a narrow circle of professional historians and high flying politicians, but also to many young people in different countries. For the reason that scholarships are named after him, which are the dream of many young people who want to make a career.

Briefly about Cecil Rhodes. He started his business in Africa with the Rothschilds' money, which they received from the opium trade. By the way, as an agent of the Rothschilds, Rhodes played an important role in unleashing the Anglo Boer war at the very end of the 19th century. The Boers, descendants of longstanding European colonists, had to be finally driven out of the lands where the gold and diamond deposits were located, so that they could continue to be mined on a larger scale.

Rhodes was also a politician, and a global and strategic thinker. He is rightly regarded as the ideologue of British imperialism and the organizer of British colonial expansion in South Africa. One of Rhodes' main motivations in politics and business was his strong belief that the Anglo Saxon race was " the first race in the world" (from an 1877 letter).

Even as a young man, he harboured the idea of ​​returning North America to the bosom of the British crown and creating an Anglo Saxon superpower. This, in his opinion, would be a guarantee of eternal peace on the planet. In 1877, at the age of 23, he wrote his first will, in which he expressed a desire to create a Secret Society.

Its true purpose, the will stated, "should be to spread British rule throughout the world". His imperialist ambitions are evidenced, for example, by the following statement: "I would annex the planets if I could."

Rhodes moved from words to deeds and in 1891 founded a secret society with his own money, called "Round Table" . At first it was British, then it became international, and "Round Table" groups were created in the US, Canada, Australia and other countries. It was very similar to Masonic organizations.

The City of London bankers were immediately involved in the society. First and foremost, Lord Rothschild, with whom Cecil Rhodes was intimately acquainted. The House of Rothschild, as I mentioned above, was a financial partner in a diamond and gold mining project in Africa. Another promising banker was Lord  Alfred Milner . After the death of Cecil Rhodes in 1902, he became a key figure in the "Round Table" society.

In addition to bankers, the society included politicians and professors. The detailed history of the "Round Table" is described in the books of Carroll Quigley  "Tragedy &  Hope: A History of the World in Our Time" (1966) and "The Anglo-American Establishment" (1981).

In the 20th century, many other secret organizations were created. But, according to serious researchers like Carroll Quigley, many of them came from different groups of the "Round Table". In the US, this is the Council on Foreign Relations  (CFR; 1921). In the UK – the Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA; 1920). Internationally – the Bilderberg Group (1954).

By the way, today the "Round Table" in its original form no longer exists. But its "children" in the form of the CFR, RIIA and the Bilderberg Group continue to exert their influence on world politics.

The invisible presence of Cecil Rhodes is felt not only in this. He has been remembered for 120 years in connection with scholarships named after him. As I have already noted, Rhodes died in 1902 before his 50th birthday. He had no family, and Lord Rothschild was probably the closest person to him.

It was to him that he had written off most of his inheritance. But he saved something for a charitable foundation, from which he bequeathed scholarships every year to students at Oxford University (where he once studied).

This was no ordinary charity. Scholarships were to be awarded only to those students who met certain criteria specified in the will. Rhodes really wanted them to be young people who were ready to go to any corner of the world after university in order to promote the plan for building a British superpower.

Lord Milner, Lord Rothschild, and several other "diamond king" associates were aware of these intentions and, at least in the early years, enforced strict controls to ensure that Rhodes scholarships were actually awarded to future empire builders.

Here the Canadian Matthew Ehret,  in his speech at the International Court of Justice "Nuremberg 2″ in early February this year, paid attention to the issue of scholarships from the Rhodes Foundation. He mentions the American diplomat Strobe Talbott  (born 1946).

This is a graduate of Yale University (1968), where he majored in Russian history and literature. He was a member of the Skull and Bones Society. Later (in the early 70s) he continued his studies at the University of Oxford, where he received a Rhodes scholarship for two years.

Matthew Ehret describes this diplomat (who was the US Deputy Secretary of State in 1994-2001) as a distinctly pro-British politician. It is noteworthy that Strobe Talbott was in Oxford at the same time as the future US President Bill Clinton . Even more notably, Clinton was also awarded a Rhodes Scholarship.

And according to Matthew Ehret, the Rhodes Foundation Scholarship Board was right. Followers of Cecil Rhodes were very happy to see their pet as President of the United States. The very country that needs to be drawn into the British Empire. And Bill Clinton did a lot to bring Washington closer to London.

Matthew Ehret notes that those Americans who once studied at Oxford and received scholarships from the Rhodes Foundation, as a rule, held high positions in the United States and were very well promoted. Among such Rhodes scholars, he names Dean Rusk , who served as US Secretary of State under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson.

There is also Walt Whitman Rostow , who served as National Security Adviser to the President of the United States in 1966-69 and was a Rhodes Scholar before the war, in 1936-1938.

It turns out that the famous American Senator James William Fulbright also received a Rhodes Scholarship before the war. By the way, this senator is primarily known by his own name. The Fulbright program was adopted in the United States in 1946. It provided for the issuance of grants from the State Department for training citizens of other countries in American programs.

As is stated in the documents, "to strengthen cultural and academic ties between citizens of the United States and other countries". It seems to me that Fulbright initiated this program because of his Rhodes scholarship.

Matthew Ehret also mentions the Rhodes Scholarship recipient and Canadian Escott Reid . He is also a pro-British politician who is considered an architect of NATO. He participated in the preparation of the 1945 conference on the establishment of the United Nations and did everything possible so that the organization being established was not of an interstate, but of a supranational character (such was the position of London).

By the way, in Canada, famous recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship were also the former (in 1967-1974) Governor-General of Canada Roland Michener  and former Prime Minister (1983)  John Turner . Matthew Ehret never tires of saying that all Canadian fellows for some reason consider it an honor to be subjects of the British crown. It is useless to look for supporters of Canadian independence among them.

Here are notable fellows from other countries: President of Pakistan Wasim Sajjad , Prime Minister of Jamaica Norman Manley , Prime Minister of Malta Dom Mintoff , as well as the Prime Ministers of Australia Tony Abbott ,  Bob Hawke  and Malcolm Turnbull .

The total number of people who received the Rhodes Scholarship reached almost 9,000 people. Up to100 scholarships were awarded annually. One could get a scholarship in a year or two. In rare cases – three years (master's or postgraduate studies).

From 1951 to 1997, 32% of American Rhodes Scholars had careers in education and academia, 20% in law, 15% in business, and 10% in medicine and science. (Schaeper, Thomas and Kathleen Schaeper. "Rhodes Scholars: Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite," New York, 2010).

By the beginning of this century, "distortions" were revealed in the program. Founder Cecil Rhodes hoped that the fellows would be involved in politics and social activities after university, and become civil servants. And, as it turned out, more and more fellows started to go into business.

Thus, according to a 2009 admission by the foundation's secretary, at least "half a dozen" Rhodes scholars became Goldman Sachs partners in the 1990s. Also, many ended up on the team of the private law corporation McKinsey, etc. (Schaeper, Thomas and Kathleen Schaeper. "Rhodes Scholars: Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite," New York, 2010).

The foundation covered tuition fees and provided cash for living expenses. Mr. Rhodes left about £3.3 million 120 years ago, which by the beginning of the last decade amounted to about £290 million, or $480 million.

The money from the original endowment (foundation) and its investments for more than a century was enough to finance the scholarship. But when the financial crisis of 2008 began, the foundation's income fell, and a certain crisis arose. The number of scholarships and their size have been reduced. They began to say that the project had reached its final stage.

But lo and behold, the project has a saviour. They became the Canadian entrepreneur John McCall MacBain . He had his own business, in particular, the company Trader Classified Media. And he went out of business in 2006, as is said, "in cash", only about $1 billion.

He earmarked part of the $120 million money for the Rhodes Fellowship program early in the last decade. The decision was timed to coincide with the program's centenary. John McCall McBain knows about this program firsthand. He studied in the early 1980s at Oxford and was a Rhodes Scholar.

He does not hide the fact that Oxford and a scholarship helped him a lot in life. And it's not even about academic knowledge or money, but the fact that Rhodes scholars are a special community. In a sense, they are the leaders of the future. And in the future, connections with members of this community can be very useful both in political careers and in business. By the way, in the United States there is even the Association of American Rhodes Scholars.

" The Rhodes scholarship also got me to meet other future potential leaders from other countries," noted  MacBain.

At the beginning of this century, the Rhodes foundation was able to grant scholarships to students from 14 countries. Of course, priority was given to English-speaking countries. The United States comes first, followed by Canada, Australia, etc. Other countries covered by the foundation included Germany. During his lifetime, Rhodes especially emphasized the priority of students from the United States and Canada.

Here are his  words : " Whereas I also desire to encourage and foster an appreciation of the advantages which I implicitly believe will result from the union of the English-speaking peoples throughout the world and to encourage in the students from the United States of North America who will benefit from the American Scholarships an attachment to the country from which they have sprung but without I hope withdrawing them or their sympathies from the land of their adoption or birth ."

John McCall MacBain, when allocating funds for the scholarship program, stated that he would like to expand the geography of the program. In particular, he noted that he would like to see students from Russia and China among the fellows. And since 2018, it has announced the introduction of two so-called global Rhodes scholarships, open to undergraduates and postgraduates from any country in the world. As far as we know, there has not been a single recipient from Russia so far.

In the first year of the program (1902), 58 scholarships were awarded, from which 32 were awarded to students from the United States (55%). And here  is the data  for 2022. 101 scholarships were awarded, including 32 to American students. But the number of scholarships for other countries: Canada – 11;  South Africa – 10; Australia – 9; India – 5; New Zealand – 3.

As we can see, the Cecil Rhodes Foundation tries to maintain the priorities outlined by its founder and contribute to the construction of a large British empire.

PS  On one of the forums on the Internet, I came across a discussion about the Cecil Rhodes scholarship program. One of the participants in the discussion   asks  a question: " Which comes first, the scholarship or the getting recruited by the CIA/MI6? ". The forum participants have no doubts that the British intelligence agency MI-6 is involved in the program.