[…] me. This was that when the Hess affair blew up Pilcher found out what had happened and made no secret of his disgust at the way the Churchill Coalition had handled the peace offer. As a result of his indiscretion he was court-martialled and whisked off to a remote house in Scotland where he […]
[…] aims: to undertake long-term planning as part of a ‘Post-War New Deal’ and to provide an platform for debate on war aims as a loyal opposition to Churchill. Probably because the Committee included a wide spectrum of political figures, including left-wingers like Michael Foot and Konni Zilliacus, a myth has grown that Hulton was […]
[…] peace plans…… which he continued to push until July and August 1940.(11) It all came to nothing. Following the debacle in Norway (which Wolkoff aimed to create) Churchill became Prime Minister. Ramsay, Mosley and most of their followers were arrested and interned from May 23rd 1940 onward. How do we deal with this and […]
[…] leanings, met with Lord Lloyd, a former High Commissioner in Egypt, and Sir Robert Vansittart, a career diplomat who actually had little influence with Chamberlain, and Winston Churchill. Churchill told Lord Halifax of the intentions of the German conspirators. Halifax relayed this to Chamberlain. Other anti-Hitler figures who came to the UK in 1938-1939 […]
[…] facets can be obscured by his meticulous concern for evidence. That same evidence may well bury rather than inspire the campaign for reforms he espouses. The Matrix Churchill affair, I think will prove to be a case in point of this very same process. Yet — and yet, there is for the avid buff […]
Brian Crozier HarperCollins, London, 1993 This is a very interesting book which greatly adds to our knowledge of the clandestine shaping of British politics in the 1970s and 80s. It is also a book which, like Chapman Pincher’s Inside Story, will repay repeated re-reading. But amidst all the new material a surprising amount of these […]
[…] The scale of the Nazi relocation from Buenos Aires to Cairo, and its triumphant anti-British orientation, was denounced in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in May 1953. Bandung The notion that there could be a non-aligned movement, a world grouping linked neither to capitalism nor communism, was not necessarily a […]
[…] Germany, knew Prytz, probably as a result of his activities on behalf of Stewart Menzies, Chief of SIS. As is well known the talks were stopped by Churchill who threatened to lock up both Halifax and Butler. De Courcy himself had to lie low and found himself under suspicion again when the Hess affair […]
[…] University Press, 1993) pp. 59-70; Mark Curtis, The Ambiguities of Power (London:, Zed Books, 1995) pp. 10-28. 3 Hugo Young, This Blessed Plot: Britain and Europe from Churchill to Blair (London: Macmillan, 1998, p. 140) 4 Richard Kisch, The Private Life of Public Relations (London: MacGibbon and Kee, 1964) p. 163 5 Ibid. 6 […]
[…] Clutterbuck, Riot and Revolution in Singapore and Malaya, London 1973, pp. 112-121. 9 Frank Kitson, Low Intensity Operations, London 1971, pp. 24-25. 10 For COINTELPRO see Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall, Agents of Repression: The FBI’s Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, Boston MA, 1990. 11 Kitson, […]
