[PDF file]: THE STORY OF BRITISH PROPAGANDA FILM Scott Anthony London: British Film Institute, 2024, £22.49, p/b Simon Matthews Scott Anthony is Deputy Head of Research at the UK Science Museum. He has written several books, including studies of the documentary film units run by the GPO and Shell. The Story of British Propaganda Film is his […]
[PDF file]: […] to support the illegal exports. Michael Heseltine, Geoffrey Howe, Willie Whitelaw, Francis Pym and PM Thatcher all gave the secret project government blessing. During the 1992 Matrix Churchill trial ex-Minister Alan Clark let the cat out of the bag revealing that ‘the interests of the West were best served by Iran and Iraq fighting […]
[PDF file]: […] of civil society. In the infantile jargon of the British political system, it was an attempt to ‘bounce’ the proposals through Cabinet, having already primed prime minister Churchill (who, like many other prime ministers, knew little about economics).5 But after an intense struggle, described in detail by one ofthe participants, Donald Macdougall, the Robot […]
[PDF file]: […] appeasers – either in Britain or in the Nazi regime. It is quite plausible that the flight offered a long odds attempt to reach conciliation with anti- Churchill elements and allow a month for German forces on the Western front to be relocated and participate in the coming planned assault on the Soviet Union.1 […]
[PDF file]: […] again. Into this domestic anti-communist climate came the USA’s loans – and the people and ideas, the strings attached to the money. From the first request from Churchill for clandestine assistance before America had officially entered the war, the U.S. ‘aid’ had come with strings attached. Despite his famous remark that he had not […]
[PDF file]: […] of this journal. Speculation about what was really behind it goes back to the Second World War itself. Successive British administrations from the time of the 1940-45 Churchill Coalition have maintained that Hess flew to the UK in May 1941 in an unprovoked solo attempt to make peace between London and Berlin. It is […]
[PDF file]: […] being played out so as to buy time, thus staving off an invasion, or there was a genuine coup under way. A coup designed simply to unseat Churchill. That is why Hess flew to Scotland. Had he wished to have made a peace with Churchill, there were a host of convenient airfields in and […]
[PDF file]: […] money had been spent on equipment that was in place, there would be a weaker argument for disbanding SOE and replacing it with a purely SIS–staffed version. Churchill himself may not have been a supporter of the campaign to keep SOE alive but like much of Whitehall, as soon as the eventual defeat of […]
[PDF file]: […] merchants and soldiers often acquired an astonishing knowledge of Muslim culture and Islamic learning, along with a deep understanding of the societies where they were based.’ Winston Churchill was one of that knowing assembly. As a newly elected Conservative MP, Churchill stood out against his party and most of the country by attacking the […]
[PDF file]: […] unfair. The trial judge will not allow the use of PII if the effect is to render the trial process unfair to the defendant. In the Matrix Churchill trial of 1992, Judge Brian Smedley QC, needed much persuasion before ordering the disclosure of the documents suppressed by the PII certificates and Mr Rupert Allason […]
