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The Cliveden Set were a 1930s, upper class group of prominent individuals politically influential in pre-World War II Britain, who were in the circle of Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor. The name comes from Cliveden, the stately home in Buckinghamshire, which was then Astor's country residence. The "Cliveden Set" tag was coined by Claud Cockburn in his journalism for the Communist newspaper ''The Week''. It has long been widely accepted that this aristocratic Germanophile social network was in favour of friendly relations with Germany. John L. Spivak, writing in 1939, devotes a chapter to the Set.〔Secret Armies, (New York, Modern Age Books, 1939)〕 Norman Rose's 2000 account of the group proposes that, when gathered at Cliveden, it functioned more like a ''think-tank'' than a ''cabal''. Ironically, according to Carroll Quigley, the Cliveden Set had been strongly anti-German before and during World War I. The actual beliefs and influence of the Cliveden Set are matters of some dispute, and in the late 20th century some historians of the period came to consider the Cliveden Set allegations to be exaggerated. For instance, Christopher Sykes, in a sympathetic 1972 biography of Nancy Astor, argues that the entire story about the so-called Cliveden Set was an ideologically motivated fabrication by Claud Cockburn that came to be generally accepted by a public looking for scapegoats for British pre-war appeasement of Adolf Hitler. There are also academic arguments that while Cockburn's account may have not have been entirely accurate, his main allegations cannot be easily dismissed.〔(A Reevaluation of Cockburn's Cliveden Set ) at userwww.sfsu.edu〕 ==Prominent members== *Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor *Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the London ''Times'' newspaper *Philip Kerr (Lord Lothian), author and politician *Edward Wood (Lord Halifax), politician *William Montagu, 9th Duke of Manchester, politician *Robert Brand 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cliveden set」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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