[…] wrecked. The only action Britain could take in these circumstances would be to implement Operation Brutus, with its controls, which would mean opting out of the post-war liberal international trade and payments system and returning to a 1940s-style siege economy. It was this prospect which led the Bank to favour a sterling float, in […]
[…] a vastly expanded CIA station at Miami, JM/WAVE, under Theodore Shackley, is glossed over far too rapidly. (3) The President is depicted as a milk and water liberal even though both he and his brother Bobby were known for staunch anti-communism. At the same time Garrison is seen as a determined enemy of Mob […]
[…] formal requirement of entry, that there will be no short-cuts for sterling, was reaffirmed by Wim Duesenberg, Head of the European Central Bank in January.(6) In ‘ liberal economics’ a stable relationship with the euro will be accomplished by using the interest rate. If the value of the pound falls beneath the agreed level […]
[…] BRITISH INTELLIGENCE BY IZVESTIYA (LE MONDE 22.12.68) *RELATED TO LORD BIRKENHEAD (FREDERICK WINSTON FURNEAUX SMITH) MARRIED TO HON SHEILA BERRY BESSELL, PETER JOSEPH B 24.8.21 REFORM, NATIONAL LIBERAL 1943-45 LECTURER TO HM FORCES MINISTRY OF INFORMATION 1956-60 LIBERAL EXEC. CONTESTED ELECTIONS 1964 LIBERAL MP 1967 PARLIAMENTARY COMMISSION TO S VIETNAM 1967-68 NATIONAL PRES BROTHERHOOD […]
The view from the bridge Bilderberg and the EU The Diaries of former Liberal-Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown, (volume one 1988-1997, London: Allen Lane, Penguin, 2000) is a pretty uninteresting read with a couple of striking sections. Pages 42-46 contain his account of attending a Bilderberg meeting – by far the longest and most detailed account […]
“The anomaly of going to war in your own country was not lost on Harry.” (Harry’s Game, Gerald Seymour, Fontana, London 1975) Airey Neave was killed in March 1979 by a bomb planted beneath his car just outside the Houses of Parliament. The then little known Irish National Liberation Army (INLA) soon claimed responsibility. The … Read more
[…] rational attempt by the Chamberlain wing of the Tory Party to rejig the post-Versailles world in a way which would keep Germany a member of the international, liberal (economically liberal) world. ‘Between 1921 and 1940 the dominant alliance in Britain was founded on a coalition between a ruling élite centred on the Treasury, the […]
[…] shadow), and in response to the alien value-system of communism, American involvement in the reorganisation and stabilisation of West European socioeconomic affairs meant ‘not so much preserving liberal procedures as re-establishing the overlapping hierarchies of power, wealth, and status that can loosely be termed capitalist.'(13) Frances Saunders (see note 6) skates over this political […]
[…] Party and the IRA. And here is the core of my complaint: it wasn’t just a plot against Wilson; it was a plot against the Labour and Liberal parties and the Heath wing of the Tories. And it wasn’t just MI5 doing it, either.(1) It did contain two significant new pieces of information. The […]
Peter Gill Frank Cass, London, 1993 Academia’s a swine. Writing an essay on International Relations (the ideological version of Foreign Office ‘realism’) for my Politics MA, I managed to smuggle in a few references to actual politics — European Nuclear Nuclear Disarmament, the SNP, and ‘independence within Europe’, that kind of thing. Flushed with success, … Read more
