Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
[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 69 (Summer 2015)
[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 […]