Lobster Issue 24 (December 1992) £££
[…] and representative of the National Interest, or of the consensus — or of sponsors of Political Action Committees. In reference to the Third World, a Leader. Another Hitler: Last year’s ‘moderate’, now threatening our interests. Public diplomacy: The Reagan era name given to a large-scale government propaganda operation, which included massive disinformation and intimidation […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] as paper exercises to keep staff officers employed on the outside chance that something like it might occur. There are indications that in the twenties and before Hitler came to power the Army was planning for a war against Russia on the North West Frontier and in Afghanistan, the Navy was planning for a […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] statute of the I C C and incorporated in the UK in the International Criminal Court Act of 2001.’ (p. 59) Whether Saddam Hussein was ‘worse than Hitler’, to quote George Bush Sr’s memorable 1990 tub-thumper, he was certainly a flawed, authoritarian leader who made incalculable errors. But he also stood as a central […]
Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££
[…] farmer and botanist J. E. Hosking; the poet and author Edmund Blunden; the historian Arthur Bryant, whose 1939 book Unfinished Victory was a paean of praise to Hitler (and can never, in my experience, be found alongside Bryant’s patriotic histories in second-hand bookshops); and Philip Mairet, editor of the New English Weekly, a periodical […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] Company, 1999), pp.18 and 71. The document was found on the PRO website at http://www.pro.gov.uk/docimages/KV/2_34a.gif . Haushofer’s list can be inferred from a memorandum Haushofer wrote to Hitler in the aftermath of the Hess flight to Britain. See pp. 27 and 28 of Eugene Bird, Rudolf Hess: the Loneliest Man in the World (London: […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] Destiny sounds like the name of one of his minor Super Heroes – ‘Here comes Captain Infinity and Destiny’ – and carries too many overtones of A. Hitler and his crew of dotty psychos. Kok’s contempt for democracy, all too characteristic of our European elites, evokes the same echoes to me. The two books […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] Union of Fascists in 1932 until possibly as late as 1950, and had been a prominent and vocal ‘fellow traveller of the Right’, advocating a settlement with Hitler in 1937-1940. He believed that Britain should have no strong commitments to Europe. Like David Stirling, Lord Lucan, Aspinall and ‘Tiny’ Rowland later, Lymington also had […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] schools. Thanks to a leg-up from the Thuringian Nazi Party in 1930 Gunther was appointed to the University of Jena with his inaugural lecture being attended by Hitler himself. Through his work, which set out to prove the racial superiority of the Aryan race both theoretically and physically – he had been involved in […]
Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] remarkable ability to motor forward on the belief of the participants long past the point when they should have collapsed; and the actions of ‘great men’, from Hitler to Bush, have precipitated changes that might otherwise not have happened for years or perhaps decades. Neither Carlyle nor Marx were wholly right: there are great […]
Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££
[…] to be characterised by a malignant and evil form of capitalism in which cartels and big business had too much power. Whether or not industrialists had helped Hitler into office they had become one of the props to his regime. So given that the pacification of Germany was central to international security after the […]
