Only 10 days after Trump took office in 2017, FOREIGN POLICY magazine literally called for a "military coup" against him. --Richard Poe
The CFR rose from the British Round Table Movement.
British statesman Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902) left a fortune to promote "British rule throughout the world" and "the ultimate recovery of the United States of America as an integral part of the British Empire..."
Full federation proved to be a hard sell.
Britain's English-speaking colonies wanted independence.
So the Round Tablers proposed a compromise.
They offered "Dominion" status or partial independence.
Canada was to be the model.
It had gained Dominion status in 1867.
This meant Canada governed itself internally, while Britain ran its foreign policy.
The Round Tablers had to work quickly.
War with Germany was expected.
Britain needed to mollify the Dominions with self-rule, so they'd agree to provide troops in the coming war.
Australia became a Dominion in 1901; New Zealand in 1907; and South Africa in 1910.
Beginning in the 1890s, the British waged a public relations blitz called "The Great Rapprochement," promoting Anglo-American unity.
Scottish-born steel magnate Andrew Carnegie called openly for a "British-American Union," in 1893.
He expressly advocated America's return to the British Empire.
From the British standpoint, the Great Rapprochement was a flop.
When Britain declared war on Germany in 1914, troops poured in from every corner of the Empire.
But not from America.
The US sent troops only in April 1917, after 2 1/2 years of hard British lobbying.
To the British, the delay was intolerable.
It proved that Americans could not be trusted to make important decisions.
The Milner Group sought a "Canadian" solution — manipulating the US into a Dominion-like arrangement, with Britain controlling our foreign policy.
