[…] allowed to take up this position.(1) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to Captain Ramsay MP – the foremost admirer of Hitler in the House of Commons – and to Anna Wolkoff, a member of Ramsay’s cranky Right Club. Ramsay said he wanted to show the material to […]
[…] at its peak – and during its subsequent decline – and a participant in a number of that paper’s more famous (and infamous) episodes, including Thalidomide, the Hitler diaries (in which he was blameless, I hasten to add), and, most famous of all, the investigation of Philby. His work for the Insight team on […]
[…] believe? These are not questions the left should avoid, but Open Eye flashes the avoidance sign when some of Nexus‘ footnotes refer to Willis Carto and Adolf Hitler. In proper measure, such references are the hammers and tongs of paradigm reconstruction. But again, even if these paradigms shift along a fascistic line, can the […]
[…] was then) and the Duke of Hamilton. But second on the list was the Round Table (named as such). (14) Haushoffer, the German intellectual and mentor of Hitler, who prepared the list, evidently had a better understanding of the actual nature of Britain’s ruling elites than did Claud Cockburn, who, despite having worked at […]
[…] leaflet ‘The HIDDEN truth about NEXUS magazine’, distributed in London by Open Eye, the charges against Nexus are: ‘Nexus printed a four part history of banking where Hitler and Mussolini were named as the last men who could have stopped the ‘usurious’ Jewish bankers. (Notes beneath recommended racist far Right books like White America […]
[…] thought. The name comes from Leo Strauss, who is someone very few of us had heard of until recently. He was a Jewish refugee who fled from Hitler to the USA in the 1930s, taught political theory mainly at the University of Chicago, and died in 1973. His speciality was the ancient (Greek and […]
[…] account yet of the so-called ‘peace plots’, the attempts by Lord Halifax, R. A. B. Butler and others to reach an accommodation with Germany (if not with Hitler) during – and after – the ‘phoney war’. Some sense of the new synthesis Newton has achieved is conveyed by this paragraph on p. 74: ‘Outside […]
[…] sharp history of the Catholic church’s greatest scandals. Wearing his philosophy PhD and MA in divinity lightly, Williams conducts the reader through the church’s enrichment by the Hitler and Mussolini regimes in exchange for its support; the church’s wartime role supporting the genocidal Croat regime; its post-war role in helping Nazis flee Europe; the […]
[…] — and the secret state — was very much more ramshackle in the 1920s than it is now; and fascism then did not carry the overtones of Hitler and Holocaust. Hope notes that some of the ‘radical right’ were anti-semitic but also notes that ‘tariff reform, a united Empire and patriotic nationalism served as […]
[…] firstly by not recognising that it had a PR strategy; secondly by using dated Second World War/Cold War PR to combat it, the demonisation/personalisation of a figurehead: Hitler, Stalin and now, bin Laden. Which is to say, while al-Qaida has been running a multi-track, cutting-edge PR programme – sophisticated PR is not an exclusively […]
