Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
Louis Kilzer Presidio Press, U.S., 2000, £18.99 (1) Louis Kilzer has won two Pulitzer Prizes and is the chief investigative writer of the Denver Rocky Mountain News. A couple of chapters into this book it became clear why Kenneth de Courcy sold so many newsletters in the American Mid-West. A low point – or […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] ‘politically significant audio materials for scholars, teachers and students’. This collection, which will increase, includes recordings and transcripts of Lyndon Johnson, JFK, RFK, Khrushchev, Martin Luther King, Churchill, as well as 34 records in the Nixon database, including key White House recordings (the ‘smoking gun’ and ‘cancer on the presidency’ tapes). MILITARY/INTELLIGENCE Searchmil http://www.searchmil.com […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] evaluate them. K.P. In my opinion, the BIS can be considered the basic force behind this psychological warfare. It is well known the British Conservative leader Winston Churchill announced his views concerning the cold war in a speech given in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, but the British SIS did not end its subversive activities […]
Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££
[…] of opinion in favour of Jewish settlers. These were often portrayed as ‘dynamic and European’ in comparison to the rather indolent Arabs. As early as 1908, Winston Churchill MP came out in support of this and promoted the idea of a Jewish administered area in Palestine under the protection of the British Empire. During […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] the Americans taking over the funding. Donovan had little faith in Habsburg but was willing to support Count Coudenhove-Kalargi, a rival claimant with his own Pan-Europa project. Churchill supported the latter against the advice of the Foreign Office. The idea was actually broached to Molotov who opposed it as anti-Soviet, and it was formally […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] it was quite possible that unemployment would rise to three million. The present crisis was as grave as that of 1940 – but there was ‘no Winston Churchill waiting to take over’.(15)On 19 January King noted that ‘a further devaluation was expected; six days later Maurice Allen said that the ‘chances of…….devaluation in February […]
Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££
[…] 18). Adnan Khashoggi, interviewed by the Washington Times (March 19, 1987, p. 5B), said that when he met with Israeli Nir and Iranian go-between Ghorbanifar at the Churchill Hotel in London in the early period of the development of the Irangate deals of 1985 and 1986, Nir said that the deals were because “The […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] says nothing of note in his record of 24-28 May 1940, the period John Lukacs covers in Five Days in London: May 1940,3 and a moment when Churchill came close to having to allow peace talks with Germany via Italy. Finally, there is no mention at all here of what happened on 7 June […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] – with a vengeance. Criticising Edward Heath for being only half-hearted in his attempt at dismantling Britain’s socialist economy in the 1970s, he conveniently forgets that Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas Home – all Tories – had held the office of Prime Minister throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s […]
Lobster Issue 79 (Summer 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, followed […]