Historical Notes

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[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 […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

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[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 […]

Well, how did we get here?

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[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 […]

Rudolf Hess: Truth at last: The untold story of the Deputy Fuhrer’s flight to Scotland in 1941 by John Harris and Richard Wilbourn

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[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 […]

The Hotel Tacloban by Douglas Valentine

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[PDF file]: […] one of the more notorious catastrophes of the long class war. The unrepentant patriots and royalists treat this as a kind of bloodbath for national identity. Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister while Douglas Sr. was wasting away on Leyte, was largely responsible for the political decision to attack Turkey on these insurmountable slopes. Churchill’s […]

More on Hess

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[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 […]

The Western Union Clandestine Committee: Britain and the ‘Gladio’ networks

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[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 […]

The Fate of Abraham: Why the West is Wrong about Islam by Peter Oborne

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[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 […]

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