Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] not live up to the advertising. There is nothing about MI6’s role (if it had one). Hancock was acting ambassador during this period after most of the embassy staff were evacuated and it is that role which the book describes. There is a great deal about the day-to-day difficulties involved in maintaining the British […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London.4 Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] been? Possibly that one of his brothers, Johannes, was a pro-German manager of the family estates in the Sudetenland, whilst another, Gerolf, was secretary at the Japanese embassy in Prague (until 1941) and would later serve on Field Marshall Ewald von Kleist’s staff on the eastern front. In the US he established a relationship […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] of Fight. Iran, we are told, has been waging war against the United States ‘for nearly forty years’, ‘has long supported al Qaeda’ and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa were ‘in large part Iranian operations’. The anti-American global alliance of which Iran is the lynchpin includes both ‘ISIS and al Qaeda’ […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] per cent . . . .’ (pp. 30/31) In retrospect it is obvious that any African leader in the Congo who didn’t swear allegiance to the American embassy and promise to let the US control the uranium was going to be disposed of. Patrice Lumumba, the nationalist Congolese leader at the time, didn’t understand […]
Lobster Issue 63 (Summer 2012)
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[PDF file]: […] of the first two chapters, with notes, synopsis and some correspondence with the publisher.’ (emphasis added) See item 9 at . 5 He was in the Brussels embassy in 1966-68. He was not impressed. See his Goodbye to all that (London: Macmillan, 1995) pp. 72-75. 6 7 Gould (see note 6) p. 205. 3 […]