The Pilgrims Society
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The Pilgrims Society is a British-American deep state milieu dining club established 1902. In so far as the general public are aware of its existence at all, that awareness is, in all probability confined to its established custom of holding dinners to welcome into office each successive U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom and each new British Ambassador to the United States. There is a lot more however to the The Pilgrims Society than simply hosting the odd old-boys dinner party.
"The Pilgrims Society" has only a minor entry at Wikipedia - 400 words as of August 2016.[1] This may be a testament to the influence of established power centers and a certain reluctance to upsetting their wish for privacy. The patron of the society was Elizabeth Windsor.
Contents
Introduction
At the turn of 20th century a number of influential persons were interested in bringing the establishments of the United States and Great Britain closer together. The St. George's Society in New York, the American Society in London, and the growing network of Anglo-American League branches in England (founded by a good number of later Pilgrims Society members), were seen as inadequate, so the idea arose to form a new, elitist society with branches in both London and New York. This became the Pilgrims Society, which organized regular meetings in such prestigious hotels as the Victoria, the Waldorf Astoria, the Carlton Ritz, and the Savoy.
The idea of setting up what ultimately became the Pilgrims Society was first discussed by a number of Americans working in London. One of them was Lindsay Russell, a well-connected lawyer from New York, who regularly visited London in these days to set up his law firm Alexander and Colby. It was Russell who got together with General Joseph Wheeler (on a visit in London), General Lord Roberts, and Sir Harry Brittain. Together they organized the original meeting of the Pilgrims of Great Britain at the Carlton Hotel on July 11, 1902. The meeting was a success and two weeks later Lord Roberts was elected president of the Pilgrims; Lord Grenfell and Admiral Hedworth Lambton became vice presidents. Two other vice presidents were Americans: Senator Chauncey M. Depew (Yale Skull & Bones 1856; lawyer to Cornelius Vanderbilt; member of J.P. Morgan's elite Corsair Club, together with William Rockefeller) and General Joseph Wheeler. Sir Harry Brittain became secretary and the Archdeacon of London, William MacDonald Sinclair, was elected chairman of the executive committee [2]
Pilgrims Society USA
- Full article: Pilgrims Society/USA
- Full article: Pilgrims Society/USA
The first meeting of the Pilgrims of the United States was at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York on 13 January 1903. The Pilgrims of Great Britain and the Pilgrims of the United States have reciprocal membership.
Exposure
In 1940, John T Whiteford wrote:
"There are several curious things about these Pilgrims functions. In the first place there is present at these dinners an array of notables such as it would be difficult to bring together under one roof for any other purpose and by any other society... Among the guests were John D. Rockefeller and J. P. Morgan, Thomas W. Lamont and other members of the House of Morgan... We are entitled to know what the Pilgrim Society is, what it stands for, and who these powerful Pilgrims are that can call out the great to hear a British Ambassador expound to Americans the virtues of a united democratic front." [3]
Professor Carroll Quigley's seminal 1966 Tragedy and Hope provided a lot more context and exposed the Anglo-American Establishment to an unprecedented extent, but stopped short of naming the The Pilgrim Society. Nevertheless, the following brief passage has been cited as a good precis of The Pilgrims and their objectives:
"[The aim of the international bankers was] nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent private meetings and conferences."[4]
In 1971, Gary Allen wrote in Nixon, The Man Behind The Mask that "[Elmer] Bobst is listed as a member of the highly secret Pilgrim Society, which is even closer to the inner circle of the conspiracy than the CFR."[5]
The most comprehensive study to date
Most of the internet references to The Pilgrim Society are recent (ie post 2000) and owe much to a seminal study by Joel Van der Reijden originally posted on his ISGP web site. In particular the brief Wikipedia (November 2010) article relegates The Pilgrims to the category of "Dining Clubs" and is restricted to anodyne mention of the ambassadors' dinners custom plus a similarly anodyne claim about its objectives by an American Diplomat. [6]
The ISGP study can be found in the following locations:
- ISGP - The Pilgrims Society - A study of the Anglo-American Establishment.
- ISGP - Pilgrims membership list and sources.
Both are highly recommended for anyone seeking to understand Quigley's "Anglo-American Establishment".
Members
As of 2008, not complete[7].
Known members
97 of the 487 of the members already have pages here:
| Member | Description |
|---|---|
| Nelson Aldrich | US Deep state operative, member of The Money Trust, attended the 1910 Jekyll Island meeting |
| David Astor | The Observer Editor for over 25 years, attended 2 Bilderbergs in the 1950s |
| John Jacob Astor | The first multi-millionaire in the US, who "seemed to be backed by “friendly forces” and in the right places |
| William Waldorf Astor | Member of the Astor family |
| Clement Attlee | UK Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951 |
| George Fisher Baker | The "Dean of American Banking", 3rd richest US citizen at his death |
| James Baker | US DSO, many deep state connections from the Atlantic Council to the US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce |
| George Ball | US deep politician who attended all 40 Bilderberg meetings up to his death, he helped make key decisions about post-WW2 Europe. |
| Elliott Bell | Financial writer for The New York Times, Superintendent of Banks. Attended the 1960 and 1962 Bilderbergs |
| Elmer Bobst | American businessman and deep state actor who worked in the pharmaceutical industry. VIPaedophile. |
| Reginald Brett | A member of the Milner Group/Society of the Elect. |
| Kingman Brewster | Attended the 1965 Bilderberg as President of Yale University. US Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1977-81 |
| Harry Brittain | British journalist, Conservative politician, and one of the founders of the Pilgrims Society. |
| James Bryce | President of the Pilgrims Society 1915 - 1917 |
| Hugh Bullock | President of the US Pilgrims Society for 41 years, no Wikipedia entry as of 2015. |
| Warren Burger | Chief Justice of the United States 1969-1986 |
| Nicholas Murray Butler | Lifelong friend of Elihu Root, President of the Pilgrims Society for 18 years, President of the Carnegie Endowment for 20 years, President of Columbia University for 43 years. Supported the Briand-Kellogg Pact. |
| Andrew Carnegie | Robber Baron steel magnate |
| Peter Carrington | UK Deep politician. Bilderberg chairman. President of the Pilgrims Society. Secretary General of NATO. Chairman of the UK Conservative Party. Busy guy. |
| Neville Chamberlain | UK PM 1937-1940 |
| Winston Churchill | UK PM who founded The Other Club with F. E. Smith. |
| Lammot du Pont Copeland | Part of the influential DuPont chemical family, activist for population control |
| George Curzon | Countries are "pieces on a chessboard, upon which is being played out a game for the domination of the world” |
| Charles G. Dawes | US Vice President 1925-1929 |
| Arthur Dean | Chairman and senior partner of Sullivan & Cromwell, where he worked closely with John Foster Dulles |
| Lewis Douglas | US diplomat |
| Allen Dulles | Dulles served the longest ever term as Director of Central Intelligence and dominated American intelligence for a generation. He personified a cadre of Ivy League pragmatic elitists in high echelons of the government who greatly admired Germany’s scientific achievements.<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> Dulles was fired by JFK after the Bay of Pigs and bore a grudge against him thereafter. |
| John Foster Dulles | US lawyer turned deep politician, brother of Allen Dulles |
| Hugh Foot | British colonial administrator and Permanent Representative to the United Nations. |
| Steve Forbes | Billionaire editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. |
| Leon Fraser | President of the Bank of International Settlements 1933-35. Shot himself in April 1945. |
| Louise Fréchette | Canadian politician who attended the 2000 Bilderberg as United Nations Deputy Secretary-General |
| Robert Gascoyne-Cecil | Bilderberg, Le Cercle, The Other Club, Ditchley Governor |
| Hamar Greenwood | Canadian-born British lawyer and politician who was President of the Pilgrims Society |
| Edward Grey | |
| Charles Guthrie | UK Army's Chief of the General Staff 1994-1997 |
| Alfred Harmsworth | British deep state press baron. Pilgrims Society. Removed from all control of his empire by Zionists in 1922 with alleged insanity. |
| W. Averell Harriman | Senior US deep state operative? |
| Gabriel Hauge | Early member of the Bilderberg Steering committee, CFR. "The expert who tells [President Eisenhower] what to think" |
| William Hewitt | John Deere's sixth president. Attended 3 Bilderbergs in the early 1960s |
| Paul Hoffman | led the implementation of the Marshall Plan from 1948–1950, and was then president of the Ford Foundation. Five time early Bilderberger. |
| Richard Holbrooke | Bilderberg/Steering committee, deep state operative |
| Esmé Howard | An integral member of the small group of men who made and implemented British foreign policy (the Milner group?) |
| Charles Evans Hughes | Chief Justice of the United States. |
| William S. Farish III | "The Bush family money man". |
| Peter Inge | President of the Pilgrims Society, senior UK soldier |
| Rufus Isaacs | British Liberal politician and judge, who became Lord Chief Justice of England, Viceroy of India, and Foreign Secretary. |
| John D. Rockefeller Jr | Only son of Standard Oil co-founder John D. Rockefeller. |
| Arthur Schlesinger Jr. | In the Office of Strategic Services from 1943-1945. |
| Otto Kahn | |
| ... further results | |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Pilgrims Society Address 2002 | speech | 28 November 2002 | Richard Boucher | Full of platitudes and the obligatory quotations from politicians past to bolster and confirm the essential righteousness of the Pilgrims present. Probably a fairly typical address to The London Pilgrims by a US Embassy Official, but hard to read without squirming at the delusional sanctimonious arrogance it exudes. |
| File:Pilgrims.pdf | essay | December 2004 | Charles Savoie | "The Pilgrims Society is a cluster of intermarried old-line rich, royals and robber barons who created the world’s financial structure." |
References
- ↑ Wikipedia entry for "The Pilgrims Society", August 2016
- ↑ ISBN 1-86197-290-3 'The Pilgrims of Great Britain - A Centennial History' - Anne Pimlott Baker, 2002, p. 13
- ↑ "Sir Uncle Sam: Knight of the British Empire". 1940 pamphlet by John T Whiteford
- ↑ ISBN 0-945001-10-X Tragedy and Hope, Carroll Quigley
- ↑ Nixon, The Man Behind The Mask, p.223
- ↑ The Pilgrims Society - Wikipedia page
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20080214062927/http://www.pehi.eu/organisations/Pilgrims_Society_members_list.htm
