Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] after Churchill supposedly ended any such activities – Butler asked Kenneth de Courcy to sound out possible peace terms with Germany, and to use US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy to establish them. While this was being pursued, Butler carried on his quest to end the UK’s involvement in the war. On 17 June 1940, the […]
Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] currently working on a book about the defence, foreign and colonial policies of past Labour governments. And if you haven’t already read them, let me recommend two of Hersh’s other books, his account of Jack Kennedy, The Dark Side of Camelot, and his account of Henry Kissinger’s life and crimes, The Price of Power. 2
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] left of centre MP for Stockton-on-Tees 1924-1929 and 1929-1945, he dallied with Oswald Mosley circa 1930. With an American mother, and related by marriage to John F Kennedy, he was the US candidate to replace Eden after Suez. He initiated the first significant UK spending cuts (in defence and transport) and oversaw a very […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] New York: Berkley Publishing, 1976 (paperback reprint). I’m surprised it hasn’t been reprinted more recently. 1 Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, New York: Macmillan, 1980. 2 This was the work done by the firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman (BBN) that examined the Dallas police tapes and […]
Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020)
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[PDF file]: […] 161-166, and Joachim Fest, Hitler (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1974 ) pp. 655-657. 2 The Committee claimed 800,000 members. Prominent supporters included future Presidents John F Kennedy and Gerald Ford and the movement’s best known spokesperson was Charles Lindbergh. 3 That Germany declared war on the US, rather than the US declaring war […]
Lobster Issue 69 (Summer 2015)
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[PDF file]: […] operations against the new government in Havana. The embargo and the preparations that led to CIA’s aborted Bay of Pigs invasion in the first months of the Kennedy administration, have set the tone of US–Cuba relations since then. Officially the embargo was decreed because the new government of Fidel Castro nationalised assets claimed by […]
Lobster Issue 75 (Summer 2018)
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[PDF file]: […] Emperor in more fulsome terms. Washington DC was, he told his audience, looked on by the whole world as ‘a shining city on a hill’. He praised Kennedy for putting a man on the moon and Reagan for winning the Cold War. America was truly ‘the indispensable nation’. After 9/11 the British people had […]