[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] role. He failed. When Austria fell under German control he moved to Switzerland and acquired French citizenship. In March 1938 he was back in the UK, meeting Churchill. Events in Europe were now pointing toward war and, at Chatham House a month later, the case for European unity was put again, this time by […]
[PDF file]: […] daring 900-mile flight on Saturday, 10 May 1941,1 part of a failed coup d’état by certain well-known high Tories, attempting a ceasefire with Nazi Germany by removing Churchill as war leader? The facts about May 10, just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, remain so uncertain that professional historians have tended to […]
[PDF file]: […] theories.(27) By 1972 politicians on the Tory right had begun to speak publicly of the need for Army involvement in civil affairs on the UK mainland. Winston Churchill MP, a member of the right-wing Monday Club, called for the use of troops to break the (first) miners’ strike, (28) and fellow Monday Clubber John […]
[PDF file]: […] law in occupied and foreign states.2 Hess’s subsequent conduct was entirely consistent with him wanting to privately meet with King George VI, in the hope of getting Churchill dislodged as UK Prime Minister. He raised the question of his access to the King on 11 and 14 May (with the Duke of Hamilton), 20 […]
[PDF file]: […] sideshow, some more serious than others, with the ‘Bondi’ episode being particularly jocular. A somewhat more serious approach is taken by Peter Padfield in Hess, Hitler and Churchill (2013) which accurately records (p. 63) that Bonde (the correct spelling) ‘a diplomat serving in the Swedish Legation, in the Swiss capital Berne’, approached the UK […]
[…] sideshow, some more serious than others, with the ‘Bondi’ episode being particularly jocular. A somewhat more serious approach is taken by Peter Padfield in Hess, Hitler and Churchill (2013) which accurately records (p. 63) that Bonde (the correct spelling) ‘a diplomat serving in the Swedish Legation, in the Swiss capital Berne’, approached the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] of the long and miserable Vietnam War and the loss of 3.3 million lives. Eden’s alternative was surely better than this. A shoo-in as Prime Minister after Churchill quit in April 1955, Eden, having tried novel diplomatic approaches in Europe and the Far East, made a speech on 9 November saying that Israel should […]
[…] show, some more serious than others, with the ‘Bondi’ episode being particularly jocular. A somewhat more serious approach is taken by Peter Padfield in Hess, Hitler, and Churchill (2013) which accurately records (p. 63) that Bonde (the correct spelling) ‘a diplomat serving in the Swedish Legation in the Swiss capital Berne’ approached the UK […]
[PDF file]: […] Liverpool being run by Conservative councils. The key political figures in this arrangement, and the first group of ministers from whom HRH took advice, were Sir Winston Churchill (Prime Minister, and a former Liberal), Sir Anthony Eden (Foreign Secretary and, by virtue of his being MP for Leamington Spa, the leading member of the […]
