Richard Melson

August 2004

The senior diplomat of the UK government is Sir Jeremy Greenstock, formerly UK Ambassador to the UN.

He left the UN Post and was selected to head up the highly prestigious Ditchley Foundations of the UK, which is at the pinnacle of influence as a think tank with several Prime Ministers at its disposal such as John Manor, Callghan, etc. and many senior offcials such as Douglas Hurd, Carrington, Robertson, the Nato Chief, and so on.    American Ditchley has Scowcroft, Weinberger, etc. as principal participants (see names below).

Greenstock was suddenly sent to Iraq as England’s main man at the Coaliition Provisional Authority and advised Bremer.

What is Greenstock’s dilemma?

The answer is that Greenstock realizes that without a Palestinian settlement there can never be a stable and peaceful Middle East and that there can also never be a sane Anglo-American possibility.

Since Washington is absolutely under the thumb, influence and spell of the neo-con/Zionist grouping, this means that top establishment figures like Greenstock are making up policies that have no foundation in sanity or reality.   Greenstock is acutely aware of this insanity.

Take a look at the immediate Ditchley calendar of events and you will immediately spot the source of the paralysis:

Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi, scheduled, as you see above,  for a Ditchley presentation for September 17, 2004, was the top UN diplomat in Iraq who recently organized the phase-out of Bremer and the installation of the current government.   An Algerian diplomat, he has repeatedly stated that Israel is the source of chaos and instability in the Middle East and an obstacle to any settlement of the problems there.

But Greenstock, who knows all this is paralyzed by the neo-con/Zionist hold on Washington.  Confronting Sharon and the neo-cons could lead to a rift with Bush, the Congress, the media, etc, and Blair/Greenstock are committed to "staying engaged" whatever the cost.

The names associated with Ditchley follow:

As at 25 July 2003

Honorary Life President: LADY WILLS JP

Vice Chairman: LORD WINDLESHAM, CVO, PC

SIR MICHAEL ANGUS, DL

ANTHONY LOEHNIS, CMG

RT HON VIRGINIA BOTTOMLEY MP

HE THOMAS MATUSSEK

LORD BUTLER OF BROCKWELL, KG, GCB, CVO

SIR RICHARD MOTTRAM, KCB

BARONESS CHALKER OF WALLASEY, PC

THE RT HON SIR PATRICK NAIRNE, GCB, MC

ROBERT CONWAY

BARONESS O'NEILL OF BENGARVE, CBE, FBA

HE THE HONORABLE WILLIAM S FARISH

SIR CRISPIN TICKELL, GCMG, KCVO

PROFESSOR MALCOLM GRANT, CBE, MA LLD

JOHN WESTON, CBE

ANDREW KNIGHT

BARONESS WILLIAMS OF CROSBY, PC

DR CATHERINE WILLS

The Director: SIR NIGEL BROOMFIELD, KCMG

Deputy Director and Secretary: ASHISH BHATT

Bursar: BRIGADIER CHRISTOPHER GALLOWAY

e-mail: mail@ditchley.co.uk

URL: www.ditchley.co.uk

Bankers:

BARCLAYS BANK PLC, Oxford City Centre Group, P.O. Box No. 333, Oxford OX1 3HS

Legal Advisers:

HERBERT MALLAM GOWERS & CO, 126 High Street, Oxford OX1 4DG

Auditors:

CRITCHLEYS, Boswell House, 1-5 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3AW

SIR ANTONY ACLAND, KG, GCMG, GCVO

Formerly British Ambassador to the United States

and Chairman, The Ditchley Foundation

DR ANDREW ADONIS

Head of Policy, Prime Minister’s Policy Unit

HE SIGNOR LUIGI AMADUZZI

Ambassador of Italy to the Court of St James’s

SENATORE GIULIANO AMATO

Formerly Prime Minister of Italy

SIR MICHAEL ANGUS, DL

Formerly Chairman, The Boots Company plc

Chairman, The Leverhulme Trust

DR JOHN ASHWORTH

Director, Granada PLC

Formerly Chairman, The British Library and

Director, London School of Economics

ROBERT AYLING

Advisory Director, Next Inc.

PROFESSOR DR KURT BIEDENKOPF

Formerly Minister-President of Saxony

DR CLEMENS BÖRSIG

Chief Financial Officer, Deutsche Bank AG

THE RT HON VIRGINIA BOTTOMLEY JP, MP

Formerly Secretary of State for Health

and for National Heritage

THE HON JOHN BRADEMAS

Chairman, The American Ditchley Foundation

President Emeritus, New York University

SIR RODRIC BRAITHWAITE, GCMG

Senior Advisor, Deutsche Bank AG London

Formerly British Ambassador to Russia

THE RT HON THE LORD BRITTAN

OF SPENNITHORNE, QC

Vice Chairman, UBS Warburg

Formerly Vice-President, European Commission

GEORGE BROCK

Managing Editor, The Times

THE HON JOHN BRUTON TD

Formerly Prime Minister of the Republic of Ireland

LORD BUTLER OF BROCKWELL, GCB, CVO

Master, University College, Oxford

Formerly Secretary of the Cabinet

SIR DAVID CALCUTT, QC

Formerly Chairman, City Panel

on Takeovers and Mergers

THE RT HON MENZIES CAMPBELL, CBE, QC, MP

Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament for Fife North East

HE MEL CAPPE

High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom

Formerly Secretary of State

for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

and Secretary-General of NATO

BARONESS CHALKER OF WALLASEY, PC

Formerly Minister for Overseas Development

SIR JOHN COLES, GCMG

Formerly Head of the Diplomatic Service

ROBERT CONWAY

Senior Director, Goldman Sachs International.

Formerly Leader of the House of Commons

and Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

ROBERT COOPER, CMG, MVO

Council of the European Union

LORD DAHRENDORF, KBE, FBA

Formerly Non-executive Director,

Bankgesellschaft, Berlin

BARONESS DEAN OF THORNTON-LE-FYLDE, PC

Formerly General Secretary, Society of Graphical &

Allied Trades

HE GÉRARD ERRERA

Ambassador of France to the Court of St. James’s

HE THE HONORABLE WILLIAM S FARISH

United States Ambassador to the Court of St James’s

TIMOTHY GARTON ASH, CMG

Director, European Studies Centre,

St Antony’s College, Oxford

SIR NICHOLAS GOODISON

Formerly Deputy Chairman, Lloyds TSB Group plc

NIK GOWING

Main presenter/anchor, international TV news service,

BBC World

SIR JOHN GRAHAM, Bt, GCMG

Formerly UK Permanent Representative to NATO

and Director, The Ditchley Foundation

PROFESSOR MALCOLM GRANT

Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Cambridge

DAMIAN GREEN, MP

Conservative Member of Parliament for Ashford

PROFESSOR CHRISTOPHER GREENWOOD,

QC, CMG

Professor of Law, London School of Economics

and Political Science

SIR NICHOLAS HENDERSON, GCMG, KCVO

Formerly British Ambassador to the United States

PROFESSOR PETER HENNESSY

Professor of Contemporary History

Queen Mary and Westfield College

University of London

DR MIGUEL HERRERO DE MIÑÓN

Lawyer

SIR CHRISTOPHER HOGG

Chairman, Reuters Group

THE EARL OF HOME, CVO, CBE

Chairman, Coutts & Co

SIR ROBERT HORTON

Formerly Chairman, Railtrack

PROFESSOR SIR MICHAEL HOWARD,

CBE, MC, FBA

Emeritus Professor of Modern History,

University of Oxford

Formerly Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

LORD HUNT OF TANWORTH, GCB

THE HONORABLE ROBERT HUNTER

Senior Policy Analyst, RAND

CH, CBE, PC

Formerly Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

WILL HUTTON

Chief Executive, The Work Foundation

THE HON PETER JAY

Formerly British Ambassador

to the United States

SIR MICHAEL JAY, KCMG

Permanent Under Secretary of State,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

SIR JOHN KEMP-WELCH

Formerly Chairman, London Stock Exchange

SIR ANTHONY KENNY, FBA

Formerly Warden, Rhodes House, Oxford

SIR JOHN KERR, KCMG

Formerly Head of the Diplomatic Service

SIR JOHN KINGMAN, FRS

Director, Isaac Newton Institute,

Formely Vice-Chancellor,

University of Bristol

ANDREW KNIGHT

Director, The News Corporation

FRANÇOIS LAGRANGE

Chairman, National Commission

for Privatisation

and President of the Patent Office, France

SIR RICHARD LLOYD, Bt

President, The British Heart Foundation

Formerly Chairman, Vickers plc

ANTHONY LOEHNIS, CMG

Director, St James’s Place Capital plc

Adviser, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi

THE RT HON THE LORD LUCE, GCVO, DL

Lord Chamberlain to the Queen’s Household

Formerly Governor of Gibraltar

MS BRONWEN MADDOX

Foreign Editor, The Times

BRYAN MAGEE

Formerly Member of Parliament for Leyton

SIR CHRISTOPHER MALLABY, GCMG, GCVO

Managing Director, UBS Warburg

Formerly British Ambassador to France

THE RT HON PETER MANDELSON, MP

Formerly Secretary of State for Northern Ireland

PROFESSOR SIR LAURENCE MARTIN, DL

Formerly Director, Royal Institute of

International Affairs

HE DR THOMAS MATUSSEK

Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany

to the Court of St. James’s

SIR PETER MIDDLETON, GCB

Group Chairman, Barclays Bank plc

Formerly Permanent Secretary, HM Treasury

MR DAVID MILIBAND, MP

Labour Member of Parliament for South Shields

and Minister of State,

Department of Education and Skills

JOHN MONKS

Formerly General Secretary, Trades Union Congress

GLEN R MORENO

Director, Fidelity Investments

SIR JEREMY MORSE, KCMG

Chancellor, University of Bristol

Formerly Chairman, Lloyds Bank plc

SIR RICHARD MOTTRAM, KCB

Permanent Secretary,

Department for Work and Pensions

DR GEOFF MULGAN

Head of the Forward Strategy Unit,

Prime Minister’s Office

THE RT HON SIR PATRICK NAIRNE, GCB, MC

Formerly Permanent Secretary,

Department of Health and Social Security

and Master, St. Catherine’s College, Oxford

DAME PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES DCMG

Governor, British Broadcasting Corporation

Formerly Political Director,

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

MARTIN O’NEILL, MP

Labour Member of Parliament for Ochil

BARONESS O’NEILL OF BENGARVE

Principal, Newnham College, Cambridge

HE MASAKI ORITA

Ambassador of Japan to the Court of St. James’s

Judgeship of the International Court of Justice

Formerly Permanent Representative of Japan

to the United Nations

THE RT HON SIR MICHAEL PALLISER, GCMG

Formerly Head of the Diplomatic Service

BARONESS PARK OF MONMOUTH,

CMG, OBE

Formerly Principal, Somerville College, Oxford

SIR ASHLEY PONSONBY, Bt, KCVO, MC

Formerly Lord Lieutenant of Oxfordshire

SIR MICHAEL QUINLAN GCB

Formerly Director of The Ditchley Foundation

and Permanent Under Secretary of State,

Ministry of Defence

THE HON SIR PETER RAMSBOTHAM, GCMG, GCVO, DL

Formerly British Ambassador to the United States

LORD RENWICK OF CLIFTON, KCMG

Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, J P Morgan plc

Formerly British Ambassador to the United States

GRANT L REUBER, OC, FRSC

President, The Canadian Ditchley Foundation

LORD RICHARDSON OF DUNTISBOURNE,

KG, MBE, TD, PC, DL

Formerly Governor, Bank of England

BARON HERMANN VON RICHTHOFEN, GCVO

Formerly Ambassador of Germany

to the Court of St. James’s

DR MATTHEW RIDLEY

Freelance journalist and author

Deputy Chairman, Northern Rock plc

THE RT HON SIR MALCOLM RIFKIND, KCMG, QC

Formerly Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

RONALD S RITCHIE

Chairman, The Canadian Ditchley Foundation

Formerly Director and Senior Vice President,

Imperial Oil Limited

PROFESSOR SIR ADAM ROBERTS, KCMG, FBA

Montague Burton Professor of International Relations

and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford

Secretary General, NATO

DR FRIEDRICH SCHMITZ

Global Head of Asset Management

Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt

THE HON RAYMOND SEITZ

Vice Chairman, Lehman Brothers Europe Limited

Formerly United States Ambassador to the

Court of St. James’s

Secretary of State for

Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs

THE HON EDWARD J STREATOR

Formerly Minister, United States Embassy in London

and former Ambassador to O.E.C.D.

HE THE MARQUÉS DE TAMARÓN

Ambassador of Spain to the Court of St James’s

MRS BARBARA THOMAS

Deputy Chairman, Friends Provident

SIR CRISPIN TICKELL, GCMG, KCVO

Chancellor, University of Kent at Canterbury

Formerly UK Permanent Representative to the UN

LORD TUGENDHAT

Chairman – Europe, Lehman Brothers

Formerly Vice-President, European Commission

SIR ANDREW TURNBULL

Cabinet Secretary

and Head of the Home Civil Service

FIELD MARSHAL THE LORD VINCENT

OF COLESHILL GBE, KCB, DSO

Formerly UK Chief of the Defence Staff and

Chairman, NATO Military Committee

DR DIANA WALFORD

Principal, Mansfield College, Oxford

Formerly Director,

Public Health Laboratory Service, London

BARONESS WARNOCK, DBE

Formerly Mistress of Girton College, Cambridge

SIR JOHN WESTON, KCMG

Formerly UK Permanent Representative

to the United Nations

JOHN WESTON, CBE

Formerly Chief Executive, BAE SYSTEMS

DAME MARGARET WESTON, DBE

Formerly Director, Science Museum

BARONESS WILLIAMS OF CROSBY, PC

Director, Project Liberty, Harvard University

Formerly Secretary of State for Education and Science

DR CATHERINE WILLS

LADY WILLS JP

LORD WILSON OF TILLYORN KT, GCMG

Master, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Formerly Governor and Commander-in-Chief, Hong Kong

LORD WILSON OF DINTON, GCB

Master, Emmanuel College, Cambridge

Formerly Secretary of the Cabinet

LORD WINDLESHAM, CVO, PC

Formerly Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford

Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords

DR NGAIRE WOODS

Fellow in Politics and International Relations,

University College, Oxford

ROBERT M WORCESTER

Chairman, Market & Opinion Research International

LORD WRIGHT OF RICHMOND, GCMG

Formerly Head of the Diplomatic Service

Board of Directors

Chairman: THE HON JOHN BRADEMAS

President Emeritus, New York University

President: STEPHEN STAMAS

Chairman, The American Assembly

Vice President: : THE HON RICHARD N GARDNER

Formerly United States Ambassador to Italy and to Spain

Treasurer: ROBERT CONWAY

Senior Director, Goldman Sachs

Secretary: GEORGE M NEWCOMBE

Partner, Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett

SIR NIGEL BROOMFIELD, KCMG

Director, The Ditchley Foundation

THE HON PHILIP M KAISER

Formerly United States Ambassador to Austria

THE HON JOSEPH A CALIFANO, JR

Chairman and President, The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University

JAY MAZUR

President Emeritus, UNITE, Union of Needletrades,

Industrial and Textile Employees

FRANCIS FINLAY

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Clay Finlay Inc

THE HON DONALD F McHENRY

Research Professor of Diplomacy & International Affairs,

Georgetown University

ELLEN V FUTTER

President, The American Museum of Natural History

SIR MICHAEL QUINLAN, GCB

Formerly Director of The Ditchley Foundation

and Permanent Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence

DR DAVID A HAMBURG

President Emeritus,

Carnegie Corporation of New York

DR JOHN E RIELLY

Formerly President,

Chicago Council on Foreign Relations

DR RITA E HAUSER

President, The Hauser Foundation

Of Counsel, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan

CHARLES A SANDERS, MD

Retired Chairman and CEO, Glaxo, Inc.

JOHN G HEIMANN

Senior Advisor, Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc.

ROBERT SILVERS

Editor, The New York Review of Books

JAMES F HOGE, JR

Editor, Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations

THE HON FRANK SULLIVAN, JR

Justice of the State of Indiana Supreme Court

PROFESSOR A E DICK HOWARD

White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and

Public Affairs, University of Virginia School of Law

DR CATHERINE WILLS

LORD WINDLESHAM, CVO, PC

Formerly Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford

Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords

Honorary Director:

MRS DRUE HEINZ, DBE

Publisher; Director, Hawthornden Literary Retreat

Executive Director: JOHN J O’CONNOR

Telephone: 212 541 3791 Fax 212 541 3751 e-mail AmericanDitchley@aol.com

Chairman: JAMES F HOGE, JR

Editor, Foreign Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations

THE HON DAVID AARON

Senior International Advisor,

Dorsey & Whitney, LLP

SARWAR KASHMERI

Publisher and CEO, ebizChronicle.com,Inc

H BRANDT AYERS

Publisher and Chairman of the Board,

The Anniston Star

DR HENRY KAUFMAN

President, Henry Kaufman Company, Inc.

DR WILLIAM B BADER

President, American Foreign Policy Council

ARTHUR LLOYD KELLY

Managing Partner, KEL Enterprises LP

THE HON RICK BARTON

Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies

JAMES V KIMSEY

Founding CEO and Chairman Emeritus,

America Online, Inc

DAVID A BERENSON

CEO, Comfidex Corporation

CARY A KOPLIN

Managing Director, Neuberger Berman LLC

DR LEWIS M BRANSCOMB

Professor Emeritus,

JFK School of Government, Harvard University

DR RICHARD C LEONE

President, The Century Foundation,

Formerly The Twentieth Century Fund, Inc.

JAMES CHACE

Professor of Government and Public Law

Bard College

MRS WENDY W LUERS

President, The Foundation for a Civil Society

VICE ADMIRAL JOHN W CRAINE, JR,USN (Ret.)

Founding President, The Levin Institute,

The State University of New York

MRS EUGENE M McDERMOTT

LLOYD N CUTLER

Senior Counsel, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering

Formerly Counsel to the President

WILLIAM J McDONOUGH

President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

THE HON CHARLES B DeWITT

Co-owner, Lafayette Group, Inc., Washington

MRS MARGARET OSMER McQUADE

President, Qualitas International

THE HON JEFFREY E GARTEN

Professor, Yale School of Management, Yale University

PROFESSOR THEODORE R MARMOR

Yale School of Management

ROBERT D HORMATS

Director, Goldman Sachs International Corporation

DR JESSICA TUCHMAN MATHEWS

President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

DON HOWARTH

Partner, Howarth & Smith,

Attorneys at Law, Los Angeles

HENRY W MEERS

Managing Director, Merrill Lynch

DR ALICE ILCHMAN

Formerly President, Sarah Lawrence College

CHARLES W MULLER, OBE

President, Murden and Company

ROBERT G KAISER

Associate Editor and Senior Correspondent The Washington Post

DR RODNEY W NICHOLS

Formerly CEO, The New York Academy of Sciences

Of Counsel, Fried, Frank, Harris, Schriver

& Jacobsen

NANCY PELZ-PAGET

Director, Aspen Program on Education

AMBASSADOR THOMAS PICKERING

Senior Vice President, The Boeing Company

MARK SHEPHERD JR

General Director, Texas Instruments, Inc

GEORGE S PILLSBURY

Director Emeritus, Sargent Management Company

DR GARY G SICK

Visiting Scholar, Research Institute

on International Change, Columbia University

PHILIP H POWER

Chairman, Home Town Communications Corporation

SUZELLE M SMITH

Partner, Howarth & Smith,

Attorneys at Law, Los Angeles

GEORGE A RANNEY, JR

Counsel, Mayer, Brown & Platt

THE HON HELMUT SONNENFELDT

Guest Scholar, The Brookings Institution

DONALD B RICE

President and CEO, URO Agensys

PROFESSOR SEYMOUR TOPPING

Professor, Columbia University

DAVID R RIEMER

State Finance Director,

State of Wisconsin

PROFESSOR RICHARD H. ULLMAN

Bruce Professor of International Affairs,

Princeton University,

Chairman, World Peace Foundation

DANIEL ROSE

President, Rose Associates, Inc.

THE HON JOHN WARNER

United States Senator, Virginia

PROFESSOR ELSPETH D ROSTOW

Lyndon B Johnson School of Public Affairs,

University of Texas

DAVID WEBSTER

Chairman, Trans-Atlantic Dialogue on

Broadcasting and I.S.

DR MICHAEL J SANDEL

Department of Government, Harvard University

Chairman, Forbes

Formerly Secretary of Defense

President, The Forum for International Policy

STANLEY A WEISS

Chairman, Business Executives

for National Security, Inc.

DR ELEANOR B SHELDON Formerly President, Social Science Research Council