SPECIAL SERIES: Hidden History – The secret Origins of the First World War

The history of the First World War is a deliberately concocted lie. Not the sacrifice, the heroism, the horrendous waste of life or the misery that followed. No, these were very real, but the truth of how it all began and how it was unnecessarily and deliberately prolonged beyond 1915, has been successfully covered-up for a century.

by Gerry Docherty and Jim Macgregor

published here in cooperation with the authors

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Editor’s note:
The world will be remembering the ‘outbreak’ of the First World War this year in August. We will republish here posts from the authors’ blog. They will also be available in sequence on the page ‘First World War’.

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Hidden History of the First World War

The history of the First World War is a deliberately concocted lie. Not the sacrifice, the heroism, the horrendous waste of life or the misery that followed. No, these were very real, but the truth of how it all began and how it was unnecessarily and deliberately prolonged beyond 1915, has been successfully covered-up for a century. A carefully falsified history was created to conceal the fact that Great Britain, not Germany, was responsible for the war. Had the truth become widely known the consequences for the British Establishment would have been cataclysmic. A secret society of immensely rich and powerful men – we term them the Secret Elite – was established in London in 1891 with the long-term aim of taking control of the entire world. The elites deliberately fomented the Boer War of 1899-1902 in order to grab the Transvaal’s gold mines and this became their template for the First World War. Their ambition overrode humanity and the consequences of their actions have been minimised, ignored or denied in official histories. The horror of the British concentration camps in South Africa where twenty thousand children died is conveniently glossed over; the devastating loss of a generation in a world war for which these men were deliberately responsible, has been glorified by the lie that millions died for ‘freedom and civilisation’.

Carefully falsified history? A secret society taking control of the world? Britain responsible for the First World War? Lest you jump immediately to the conclusion that the blogs comprise some madcap ‘conspiracy theory’, you should, amongst other evidence, consider the work of Carroll Quigley, one of twentieth century’s most highly respected historians. Professor Quigley’s greatest contribution to our understanding of modern history was presented in his books, The Anglo-American Establishment, and Tragedy and Hope. The former was written in 1949, but only released after his death in 1981. Its disclosures placed him in such potential danger from an Establishment backlash that he would not allow it to be published in his lifetime. It contained explosive proof that a secret society of international bankers and other powerful, unelected men controlled the levers of power and finance in Great Britain and the United States of America, and had done so throughout the twentieth century.

Through Quigley’s investigations we know that Cecil Rhodes, the South African diamond millionaire, formed the secret society in London during the last decade of the 19th century. Its aims included renewal of the blood-bond between Great Britain and the United States and the spread of all they considered to be good in English ruling class values and traditions. Their ultimate goal was to bring all habitable portions of the world under their influence and control. The individuals involved had a powerful common bond; a fear, a deep and bitter fear, that unless something radical was done, their wealth, power and influence would be eroded and overtaken by foreigners, foreign interests, foreign business, foreign customs and foreign laws. They believed that white men of Anglo-Saxon descent rightly sat at the top of a racial hierarchy; a hierarchy built on its predominance in trade, industry and the exploitation of other races. To their minds the choice was stark, either take drastic steps to protect and further develop the British Empire, or accept that countries like Germany would reduce them to bit-players on the world’s stage. These Secret Elite knew for sure that Germany was rapidly beginning to overtake Britain in all areas of technology, science, industry and commerce. They considered Germany to be a cuckoo in the Empire’s nest and were deeply concerned about its growing power and influence. They set out to ditch the cuckoo.

Members of the secret society were influenced by the philosophy of the nineteenth century Oxford Professor, John Ruskin whose concept of social order was to be built on the superiority and authority of the English ruling-classes acting in the best interests of their inferiors. And they professed that what they intended was for the good of mankind; for civilisation. For a ‘civilisation’ they would control, approve, manage and make profitable. For that, they were prepared to do what was necessary. They would make war for civilisation; slaughter millions in the name of civilisation. Wrapped in the great banner called civilisation, this became a secret society like no other before it. Not only did it have the backing of British royalty, privilege and wealth but was protected from criticism and hidden beneath a shroud of altruism. They would take over the world for its own good. Save the world from itself.

What’s more, they had the power to control history, to turn history from enlightenment to deception. These Secret Elites literally dictated the writing and teaching of history, from the ivory towers of academia down to the smallest of schools. They carefully controlled the publication of official government papers, the selection of documents, the Official History of the First World War and refused access to any evidence that might betray their covert existence. Incriminating documents were burned, removed from official records, shredded, falsified or deliberately rewritten, so what remained for genuine researchers and historians was carefully selected material. Carroll Quigley’s histories have themselves been subject to suppression. The Anglo-American Establishment was removed from the shelves by unknown persons and Tragedy and Hope was withdrawn from sale soon after its release. Its original plates were unaccountably destroyed by his publisher, the Macmillan Company, who then lied to him for six years that it would be reprinted. Why? What pressures obligated a major publishing house to take such extreme action? Quigley claimed that powerful people had suppressed the book because it exposed matters that they did not want known.

To this day, researchers are denied access to certain First World War documents because the Secret Elite have much to fear from the truth. They thus ensure that we learn only those ‘facts’ that support their version of history. It is worse than deception. They were determined to wipe out all traces that lead back to them, and have taken every possible step to ensure that it would remain exceedingly difficult to unmask their crimes.

Our analysis of the First World War uses Professor Quigley’s academic research as one of many foundation stones, but goes far deeper than his initial revelations. It is not a fictional story conjured on whim. Despite the desperate attempt to remove every trace of Secret Elite complicity, the detailed evidence we present blog by blog reveals a tragic trail of misinformation, deceit, secret double-dealings and lies that left the world devastated and bankrupt. This is conspiracy fact, not theory.

The reader has to grasp a tantalisingly difficult challenge. These immensely rich and powerful men acted behind the scenes, shielded by the innermost core of the Establishment, by a controlled media and by a carefully vetted history. We clearly show that the official versions of history as taught for more than a century, are fatally flawed; soaked in lies and half-truths. Those lies have penetrated so deeply into the psyche that your first reaction may be to discount evidence because it is not what you learned at school or university, and challenges your assumptions. The Secret Elite and their agents still seek to control our understanding of what really happened, and why. We ask only that you accept the challenge and examine the evidence we lay before you. Let your open-mindedness be the judge.

The book is available at leading bookshops and can also be purchased on the internet at Amazon, Alibris, etc.

About the authors:
Gerry Docherty was born in 1948.  He graduated from Edinburgh University in 1971 and was a secondary school teacher by profession.  He taught economics and modern studies, developed a keen interest in the theatre and has written a number of plays with a historical theme including Czechmate in 1982, Montrose in 1993, and Lie of the Land in 2008.  The last of these plays was the powerful story of two cousins from his home town of Tillicoultry who were both awarded the Victoria Cross at the Battle of Loos in 1915.  Energised by the research he had undertaken to write this play, he was intrigued by Jim Macgregor’s work on the First World War, and their mutual interest developed into a passion to discover the truth amongst the lies and deceptions that the official records contained.
Jim Macgregor was born in Glasgow in 1947 and raised in a cottage in the grounds of Erskine Hospital for war disabled.  He witnessed there the aftermath of war on a daily basis and, profoundly affected by what he saw, developed a life-long interest in war and the origins of global conflict.  Leaving school at fifteen he worked in jobs as diverse as farm labourer, animal husbandry and medical research before graduating as a medical doctor in 1978.  Jim left medical practice in 2001 to devote his energies full-time to researching the political failures in averting war.  His numerous articles have been published on subjects such as miscarriages of justice, the Iraq War, global poverty, and the rise of fascism in the United States.  His powerful anti-war novel The Iboga Visions was published to critical acclaim in 2009.

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