Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
[PDF file]: […] Yale University Press, 2001 – the definitive account of Churchill becoming PM. 2 Kenneth de Courcy to sound out Germany for peace terms via US Ambassador Joseph Kennedy. Nor of 17 June 1940, when Butler met Prytz, the Swedish trade envoy, and discussed the generalities of a peace deal. As Butler’s PPS it is […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)
[PDF file]: […] in a highly secret government archive at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire. They had been deliberately concealed in order to fool future historians. Some were even forged. Sir Kennedy Trevaskis, British High Commissioner in South Arabia just before Mitchell’s arrival there, was one of the chief offenders here, doctoring documents before they were deposited. Some […]
Lobster Issue 61 (Summer 2011)
[PDF file]: […] the need for secret clubs. And as we have seen, if people like Gordon Brown feel the need to get advice from the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy on when to hold a general election in the UK, he can just pick up the phone. Colin Challen writes at like the bursting of the […]
Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)
[PDF file]: […] the London Financial News 16 June 1996. 13 office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.51 Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).52 Patrician Hewitt works for the US company Anderson Consulting. Tessa Blackstone, now an education minister, […]
Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021)
[PDF file]: […] the contest between the Soviet Union and the United States”. Bissell believed that “from today’s perspective, many episodes might be considered distasteful, but during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years the Soviet danger seemed real and all actions were aimed at thwarting it”’. (p. 511) ‘The Soviet danger seemed real’ is the lie. And as […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
[PDF file]: […] New York. Such connections and his success as a lawyer enabled him to overcome the WASP barriers, which an Irish Catholic would generally face until one John Kennedy was elected to the White House. Donovan was not only a lawyer and politician in Roosevelt’s home state, he was part of that community of corporate […]