Events, Verisoph

1885 Morgan brokers the Corsair Compact railroad treaty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The newspapers lionized the author of this Great Railroad Treaty of 1885, also known as the Corsair Compact.23 Pierpont had pulled off such a masterly feat that even Junius—so stingy with compliments—... ●●

1885 Penjdeh crisis threatens Anglo-Russian war ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russian forces defeat Afghan troops at Penjdeh, precipitating serious diplomatic crisis over Central Asian boundaries. Natty Rothschild negotiates with Russian ambassador to achieve peaceful compromise. ●●

1885 Methodist schism sparks persecution in Tonga ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Schism with Conference loyalists resulted, and between 1885 and 1887 there followed a brutal persecution of Methodists by Methodists, until the British High Commissioner intervened ●●

1885 Duke signs Bonsack cigarette machine contract ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Even before he had signed the contract with James Bonsack in June 1885 to use his machine to make all his cigarettes, expensive as well as cheap, he began to set up selling and distributing offices in the leading American commercial centers ●●

1885 Mannesmann steel company founded in the Ruhr ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Mannesmann steel firm, one of the most important companies in Germany's Ruhr industrial region, was founded and later came under a chairman Nkrumah notes was a former Nazi party member. ●●

1886 Diamonds and gold discovered in South Africa ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The discovery of diamonds in 1869 and of gold in 1886 in South Africa, especially in the Boer Transvaal, intensified the imperial scramble for the region. ●●

1886 Heyday of English financial capitalism under Montagu Norman ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The heyday of English financial capitalism is associated with Montagu Norman's governorship of the Bank of England (1920-1944), but Quigley dates its start to the 1886 promotion of Guinness, Ltd., by Barings. ●●

1886 Smithsonian removes Adena burial mound contents in 1886 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto says that in 1886 the Smithsonian took the contents of two ancient Adena burial mounds in Monongahela to Washington. ●●

1886 Unionists defeat Gladstone's Home Rule Bill ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Conservatives and Liberal Unionists decisively defeat Gladstone's Home Rule Bill, with 394 Unionist seats versus 276 Nationalist MPs. The Rothschild-Conservative alliance proves decisive in British electoral politics. ●●

1886 Romanes proposes physiological selection theory ai_extracted 1 cit. no story G. J. Romanes published an article proposing physiological selection (reproductive barriers) as an alternative to Darwin's natural selection as the mechanism for species formation. ●●

1886 Compagnie du Congo founded under Leopold II ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Compagnie du Congo pour le Commerce et l'Industrie was constituted as Leopold II built his personal empire in the Congo, one of the founding vehicles of the colonial exploitation Nkrumah traces into modern Union Miniere. ●●

1887 Colonial Conferences of the Cecil Bloc era (1887-1907) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first four Colonial Conferences of 1887, 1897, 1902 and 1907 were, Quigley says, largely dominated by the Cecil Bloc. The 1907 meeting reshaped the system into the Imperial Conference. ●●

1887 G. Stanley Hall opens the Johns Hopkins psychology lab, 1887 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that Wundt's assistant G. Stanley Hall organized the psychology laboratory at Johns Hopkins in 1887 and founded the American Journal of Psychology. ●●

1887 Austria and Italy conclude Mediterranean Agreement ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Finally, in 1887, Bismarck encouraged his two allies, Austria and Italy, to conclude the so-called Mediterranean Agr ●●

1887 Alexander III declines to renew Three Emperors' League ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In this atmosphere, Alexander refused to renew the Three Emperors’ League in 1887. Bismarck, however, was not ready to give up on his Russian option. ●●

1887 Japan establishes civil service examinations ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The examination system was established in 1887 and strengthened in 1893 to put strong emphasis on jurisprudence and law. ●●

1887 West End Street Railway consolidates Boston transit ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Boston, for example, the West End Street Railway Company in 1887 merged seven out of the eight street railways in Boston to form a single transport ●●

1887 Sayce delivers Hibbert Lectures on Babylonia ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Oxford professor A. H. Sayce delivered the first of six Hibbert Lectures presenting revised chronology of ancient Babylonia, pushing dates of Sargon of Accad back to approximately 3750 BCE based on recent archaeological discoveries. ●●

1888 Rhodes gives £10,000 to Parnell's Irish cause ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says Rhodes embraced imperial federation based on Home Rule. In pursuit of that idea Rhodes contributed £10,000 to the Irish leader Parnell in 1888. ●●

1888 Lugard leads an expedition against slave-traders on Lake Nyasa ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Frederick Lugard, later a colonial governor and theorist of indirect rule, led a successful expedition against slave-traders on Lake Nyasa in 1888. He then worked for chartered companies opening the African interior. ●●

1888 Senate committee calls education a cause of labor discontent ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes the 1888 Report of the Senate Committee on Education, which stated that education was one of the principal causes of discontent among the laboring classes. ●●

1888 Morgan buys his first literary manuscript ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Before Junius’s death, Pierpont’s collections were modest; in 1888, he had bought his first literary manuscript, a Thackeray. Now he embarked on a buying spree that would eventually produce the world’... ●●

1888 Birth of John Foster Dulles ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John Foster Dulles was born in Washington, D.C., son of Edith Foster and Reverend Allen Macy Dulles. He would become Secretary of State. ●●

1888 Pasteur Institute founded in Paris ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With a rush of emotion, Gates drafted a strongly worded memo to Rockefeller, advocating the establishment of such an institute and citing European precedents, including the Pasteur Institute in Paris (founded in 1888) and the Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin (1891), both of which greatly elevated the prestige of European medicine. ●●

1888 New York senate committee investigates Standard Oil ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When a New York senate committee investigated Standard Oil in 1888, it learned just how elusive he could be. When a process server came to 26 Broadway, he was told that Mr. ●●

1888 Kaiser Wilhelm I dies; Frederick III succeeds ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kaiser Wilhelm I died in March 1888. His successor Frederick III, already dying of throat cancer, reigned only three months and communicated by written notes. ●●

1888 Emperor William I dies; Frederick III's brief reign ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Emperor William I died in 1888, his son, Frederick (whose liberalism had so worried Bismarck), governed for a mere ninety-eight days before succu ●●

1888 McCulloch presents 'Tribe of Ishmael' degeneration study ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1888, Reverend Oscar McCulloch presented a paper entitled Tribe of Ishmael: A Study of Social Degeneration to the Fifteenth National Conference of Charities and Correction, attributing poverty and criminality to heredity rather than social conditions. ●●

1888 Lambeth Conference condemns polygamy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His fellow bishops worldwide were not going to agree with a heretical troublemaker, and the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops (with the agreement of Samuel Ajayi Crowther, the one African present and on the relevant committee) condemned polygamy ●●

1888 Printers' Ink founded as advertising journal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then in 1888 Printers’ Ink was established as a journal for advertising managers and firms ●●

1888 American Cereal Company formed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1888 after a brief attempt at a cartel, Crowell, Schumaker, and a third large mass producer of oatmeal, Robert Stuart, formed the American Cereal C ●●

1888 New Jersey eases law for holding companies ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In its session of 1888–1889, that body modified the state’s general incorporation law to permit manufacturing companies to purchase and to hold stock in other enterprises within and without the state, and to pay for property owned outside the state with stock issued for that purpose ●●

1889 Meiji Constitution drawn up (1889) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues the Meiji oligarchy drew up the 1889 constitution, based on Imperial Germany's, to assure and conceal its own political domination rather than to grant popular sovereignty. ●●

1889 First Japanese Diet marked by intimidation (1889) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts that in the first Diet of 1889 gangsters employed by the oligarchy barred opposition members and at least twenty-eight were bribed to shift their votes. ●●

1889 Second (Socialist) International founded ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Second International, the Socialist International, was founded in 1889. It grew increasingly conservative and was disrupted by the Communists during World War I. ●●

1889 Japanese constitution modeled on Bismarck's ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley notes the 1889 Japanese constitution was copied from Bismarck's German constitution, explaining how a parliamentary facade concealed real power held by an alliance of army, landlords, and industry. ●●

1889 British South Africa Company chartered; Grey a founding director ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The British South Africa Company was set up by royal charter in 1889. Albert Grey, introduced to Rhodes by Stead, became one of its original directors. ●●

1889 Rhodes and Stead meet for the first time ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rhodes long regarded Stead as a mentor but did not meet him until 4 April 1889. Quigley quotes Stead's excited letter home describing Rhodes's secret scheme and a gift of £20,000. ●●

1889 William Torrey Harris serves as U.S. Commissioner of Education ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto presents William Torrey Harris as the most influential schoolman of his era, serving as U.S. Commissioner of Education from 1889 to 1906. He argues Harris both standardized and Germanized American schools. ●●

1889 Meiji oligarchy gains full control of Japan ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book, following Quigley, says a shadowy Meiji oligarchy had won complete domination of Japan by 1889 while ruling in the emperor's name. It presents this as an example of hidden power behind a public figurehead. ●●

1889 Meiji oligarchy drafts the Japanese constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book says the Meiji oligarchy drew up a constitution in 1889 designed to assure and conceal its domination of Japan. It presents the elected House of Representatives as essentially meaningless under oligarchic control. ●●

1889 Railroad chiefs plan Interstate Commerce Railway Association ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A similar gathering took place at Pierpont’s “black library” in January 1889. This one yielded plans for a huge centralized group to regulate the entire rail system—the Interstate Commerce Railway Ass... ●●

1889 John Sherman introduces his antitrust bill ai_extracted 1 cit. no story From Standard Oil’s viewpoint, the most threatening bill was introduced in December 1889 by Ohio senator John Sherman, brother of General William Tecumseh Sherman. A few years earlier, Rockefeller ... ●●

1889 Goschen converts consols to lower interest rates ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Chancellor Goschen reduces interest payments on £500 million of national debt through conversion from 3 percent to 2.5 percent consols. This operation demonstrates Britain's credit strength and Rothschild banking expertise. ●●

1889 Rothschilds found the Exploration Company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Rothschilds establish the Exploration Company as a joint-stock venture to promote mining companies on the London exchange. Between 1889 and 1903 the company finances £20.7 million in mining flotations. ●●

1889 Siegmund Warburg dies at Baden-Baden ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Siegmund Warburg, the powerful patriarch of the Alsterufer branch, died of a heart attack in Baden-Baden at age 54. He was buried in the eternal cemetery he had secured from Bismarck. ●●

1889 Edison Electric formed by consolidation ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Edison Electric, formed in 1889, was a consolidation of the three manufacturing companies, a patent company owned by the Edison interests, and the Spr ●●

1890 Bismarck retires, leaving an unstable balance ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1890, when he retired, Bismarck had built an unstable balance of forces within Germany that only a genius could manage. He was followed by no genius. ●●

1890 Flora Shaw made head of The Times Colonial Department ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Flora Shaw, an agent and friend of Stead and Rhodes, was made head of the Colonial Department of The Times in 1890. Quigley uses her hiring to illustrate the group's concealed methods. ●●

1890 Rockefeller founds the University of Chicago under Harper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that William Rainey Harper left Chautauqua to become John D. Rockefeller's choice to lead a new German-style research university. Rockefeller brought the University of Chicago into being in 1890. ●●

1890 Roosevelt's antitrust suit against Northern Securities ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Roosevelt directed the Justice Department to pursue an antitrust suit charging the Northern Securities Company with violating the 1890 Sherman Antitrust Act, which prohibits... ●●

1890 President Harrison signs the Sherman Antitrust Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On July 2, 1890, President Harrison signed the Sherman Antitrust Act, which outlawed trusts and combinations in restraint of trade and subjected violators to fines of up to $5,000 or a year’s impri... ●●

1890 Egyptian debt conversion loans cut interest burden ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Conversion loans issued in 1890 and 1893 reduced interest payments on Egyptian foreign debt while financing infrastructure like railways and the Aswan Dam. British overseer Baring gradually stabilized Egyptian finances. ●●

1890 Rothschild intervention averts Barings Bank crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Barings Bank nearly fails with £21 million in losses due to Argentine debt defaults. Natty Rothschild's intervention with government and banking consortium prevents systemic financial collapse. ●●

1890 Bishop Crowther forced to resign ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Crowther was induced to resign in 1890, and died a couple of years later ●●

1890 Bank of England faces 1890 speculation crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1890, the Bank of England once again faced crisis, again the result of widespread and excessive speculation in foreign securities, particularly Ame ●●

1890 American Tobacco Company formed in Duke merger ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The desire to control this competition caused Duke and his four competitors to merge in 1890, forming the American Tobacco Company ●●

1890 Sherman Antitrust Act passed ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Most important were, on the one hand, the protests against the trade associations and trusts that culminated in 1890 in the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and, on the other, the efforts of the manufacturers that led to the New Jersey general incorporation law for holding companies ●●

1890 Hollerith's machines tabulate the 1890 census ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Herman Hollerith's electric tabulating machines process the 1890 U.S. census in a fraction of the time manual counting took. ●●

1891 Quigley asserts a secret society has met since 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the preface Quigley asserts that Rhodes and Milner created a secret society that still meets in secret. He claims its meetings have been presided over by a succession of leaders since 1891. ●●

1891 Quigley dates the secret society's founding to February 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley opens his account by asserting that in February 1891 three men met in London to organize a secret society. He names them as Cecil Rhodes, W. T. Stead, and Reginald Baliol Brett. ●●

1891 The secret society takes form in 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says the society took shape in 1891, the year of Rhodes's fourth will. Stead was made a trustee alongside Lord Rothschild, with Stead directing how the funds were used. ●●

1891 The society divided into an inner and outer circle ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In February 1891 Stead and Rhodes organized the society into two circles. The inner 'Society of the Elect' and the outer 'Association of Helpers' became Quigley's framework for the whole group. ●●

1891 Francis Amasa Walker declares 'racial suicide' in 1891 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that in 1891 MIT president Francis Amasa Walker declared that Anglo-Saxons were committing 'racial suicide,' launching a decades-long scientific racism campaign. ●●

1891 Cecil Rhodes founds his secret society ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book asserts, following Quigley, that Cecil Rhodes founded a secret society in 1891 that continues to operate through later 'instruments.' It presents this society as the origin of the Network. ●●

1891 Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases founded in Berlin ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With a rush of emotion, Gates drafted a strongly worded memo to Rockefeller, advocating the establishment of such an institute and citing European precedents, including the Pasteur Institute in Paris (founded in 1888) and the Koch Institute for Infectious Diseases in Berlin (1891), both of which greatly elevated the prestige of European medicine. ●●

1891 Rockefeller gains control of the Lima oil field ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “This latest deal shows that it has started to crush out the producers of the crude oil and obtain control of their property.” 17 By 1891, Rockefeller had gained control of a majority of the Lima f... ●●

1892 Indian Councils Act of 1892 pushed through by Curzon ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Indian Councils Act of 1892 was carried through the Commons by George Curzon, then Under Secretary and protege of Lord Salisbury. Quigley says it introduced representative and communal principles into Indian government. ●●

1892 Munsterberg becomes Harvard psychology professor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto identifies Hugo Munsterberg as an early architect of mass schooling who arrived from Wilhelm Wundt's Leipzig laboratory. In 1892 he became a Harvard professor of psychology and taught his students to treat schools as social laboratories. ●●

1892 Homestead steel strike breaks craft union power ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that skilled-worker craft unions regulated factory work up to the Homestead steel strike of 1892, after which such unions were rendered ineffective except for the United Mine Workers. ●●

1892 Bankruptcy of the Panama Canal Company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1892 the Panama Canal Company collapsed, and some 800,000 French investors lost $200 million. The scandal exposed deep corruption in France's political and financial elite. ●●

1892 Hamburg cholera epidemic kills 8,000 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A virulent cholera epidemic swept Hamburg, killing 8,000 residents through contaminated Elbe water. Max Warburg fearlessly ran the bank during the plague, working midnight shifts. ●●

1892 General Electric incorporated through merger ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The General Electric Company, incorporated in November 1892, was a merger of two of these three large electrical equipment manufacturers ●●

1893 Birth of Mao Tse-tung, 1893 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley gives Mao's origins: born in 1893 in Hunan Province, the son of a domineering, miserly peasant who had grown modestly wealthy through moneylending. ●●

1893 NEA reports reverse the Committee of Ten report of 1893 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto follows Frances Fitzgerald in noting that the blue-ribbon Committee of Ten report of 1893 laid down a rigorous academic program for all children. He says later NEA reports of 1911 and 1918 reversed it. ●●

1893 Pinkertons and the Homestead steel strike ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto refers to the Homestead steel strike, when Pinkerton detectives were sent to do Andrew Carnegie's work against strikers. He dates the strike to 1893. ●●

1893 Panic of 1893 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A severe financial panic struck the United States in 1893. It fueled debtor unrest and gave rise to the Bryan free-silver campaigns. ●●

1893 Planters stage overthrow of Hawaii's monarchy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A few dozen sugar planters and descendants of missionaries, led by the firebrand lawyer Lorrin Thurston (left), staged Hawaii’s modest “revolution” in (1893) ●●

1893 Overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story American diplomat John L. Stevens and local conspirators orchestrated the overthrow of Hawaii's Queen Liliuokalani. This operation was the first time the U.S. government explicitly planned and executed the overthrow of a foreign government, beginning a century-long pattern of American regime change. ●●

1893 Anthony Drexel dies at Karlsbad ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In June 1893, Tony Drexel died while visiting the Austro-Hungarian health resort of Karlsbad, leaving an estate said to be worth between $25 and $30 million. While giving Pierpont managerial control i... ●●

1893 Birth of Allen Welsh Dulles ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Allen Welsh Dulles was born on April 7, 1893, five years after his brother John Foster. He would become director of the Central Intelligence Agency. ●●

1893 Dahomey soldiers revolt in German Cameroon ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Consider the following vignette from German-controlled Cameroon, where the “imperial chancellor of the protectorate, Leist, had the wives of Dahomey soldiers whipped in the presence of their husbands, which resulted in December 1893 in a revolt of the soldiers. ●●

1893 Ohio Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil trust ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One reason was that the trust was dissolved in 1893 after it was declared illegal by the Ohio Supreme Court ●●

23 June 1894 Founding of the International Olympic Committee 0 cit. no story Pierre de Coubertin's congress at the Sorbonne votes to revive the Olympic Games and creates the International Olympic Committee, leading to the first modern Games in Athens in 1896. culture / diplomacy / society ●●●

1894 Franco-Russian Dual Alliance formed (1894) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Isolated by Germany's refusal to renew the Reinsurance Treaty, Russia and France moved together to form the Dual Alliance of 1894, a military convention that became the base of the Triple Entente. ●●

1894 Imperialist aggressions of 1894-1899 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley argues the late-19th-century cult of violence formed the background for imperialist aggressions begun by Japan, Italy, and Britain in China, Ethiopia, and South Africa in 1894-1899. ●●

1894 Cattell founds The Psychological Review, 1894 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that James McKeen Cattell, the first titled professor of psychology, founded The Psychological Review in 1894 and trained hundreds of doctoral candidates. ●●

1894 Greenbackers stage the first March on Washington ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1894 the Greenbackers, who wanted the dollar detached from gold to fund job creation, invented the idea of the March on Washington. The tactic became lasting in US political history. ●●

1894 French President Sadi Carnot assassinated ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His future medical agenda was defined in 1894 when President Sadi Carnot of France was stabbed by an assassin and died from the hemorrhaging of a severed blood vessel. ●●

1894 Alfred Dreyfus falsely convicted of espionage ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alfred Dreyfus, a Jewish officer, was falsely accused of espionage in 1894, court-martialled on forged evidence, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The scandal deeply polarized France and damaged the standing of the entire Jewish community. ●●

1894 Japan defeats China, enabling Russian expansion ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Japanese military victory over China enables Russian expansion in East Asia through control of Liaotung and railway concessions. Rothschild and Hansemann respond by proposing Anglo-German cooperation in China. ●●

1894 French Rothschilds resume underwriting Russian loans ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After years of refusing Russian loans on human rights grounds, the French Rothschilds agree to underwrite a major loan. Political considerations override concerns about Tsarist anti-Semitism. ●●

1894 Alan Turing is born in London ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alan Mathison Turing was born at Warrington Lodge, London, on June 23, 1912, to Julius Mathison Turing, who worked for the Indian Civil Service, and E ●●

December 1895 to October 1896 First Italo-Ethiopian War 0 cit. no story Ethiopia under Menelik II destroys an invading Italian army at Adwa in 1896. It is the most decisive African victory over a European colonial power in the nineteenth century. war ●●●

24 February 1895 to August 1898 Cuban War of Independence 0 cit. no story Cuban rebels fight Spain in a brutal war marked by Spanish reconcentration camps. The conflict draws in the United States in 1898 and ends Spanish rule in Cuba. politics / war ●●●

1895 Bubonic plague reaches Bombay, 1895 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Bubonic plague was introduced to Bombay from China in 1895 and killed about two million people over the following six years. ●●

1895 Quigley credits the group with the Jameson Raid and the Boer War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley claims the secret group was behind major imperial events. Among these he lists the 1895 Jameson Raid and the 1899-1902 Boer War, along with control of the Rhodes Trust. ●●

1895 Brassey made Governor of Victoria ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley counts Thomas Brassey among those drawn into the Rhodes secret society. Brassey was appointed Governor of Victoria in 1895 and helped create the Commonwealth of Australia in 1900. ●●

1895 Jameson's raid into the Transvaal ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Leander Starr Jameson led a raid into the Transvaal with Rhodesian police in 1895. Quigley calls it one of the chief events leading up to the Boer War. ●●

1895 The Times prints the fraudulent 'women and children' letter ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says The Times published a fraudulent 'women and children' letter dated 20 December 1895 to justify the Jameson Raid. He states Jameson himself concocted it a month earlier and sent it to Flora Shaw. ●●