Lobster Issue 55 (Summer 2008) £££
[…] been allowed sufficient time. In late 1973 Goldsmith, fellow Clermont member, David Stirling, and ‘other businessmen’ met Peter Wright, an MI5 officer, at the suggestion of Victor Rothschild, a distant cousin of Goldsmith. Wright said that during the meeting Goldsmith stated that a large number of ‘significant UK business figures’ wanted the expected return […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] Anglo-American Corp. (the South African Oppenheimer monopoly), and Charter Consolidated (a big British mining finance company active in South Africa also). AMAX owns 11% of the French Rothschild mining conglomerate Imetal. which has extensive interests in Africa and elsewhere. The ownership of AMAX is complex and seems to have changed over the years. During […]
Lobster Issue 5 (1984) £££
Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Summary This article attempts to show that the present chairman of the National Coal Board, Ian MacGregor, is far more than the “right man for the job” imported from the U.S. by a Government set simply on technical efficiency. Macgregor’s … Read more
Lobster Issue 1 (1983) £££
[…] no-one seen any of this before? It’s not that the Round Table people have been unknown. The names Quigley gives – e.g. in the inner group: Rhodes, Rothschild, William Stead, Viscount Esher, Milner, Abe Bailey, Earl Grey, H.A.L.Fisher, Jan Smuts, Leopold Amery, the Astors – are well known. The Round Table group are conventionally […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
[…] merely the (demonstrable) use of conservation in Africa as cover for political games, such as supporting apartheid South Africa? Looking at the list of familiar names – Rothschild, Milner, Astor, Huxley – in the conservation movement’s early days. Dowling suspects there is more to it than that but can’t nail it down. The question […]
Lobster Issue 52 (Winter 2006/7) £££
Stephen Dorril London: Viking, 2006, £30 In his 1975 biography of Oswald Mosley, Robert (now Lord) Skidelsky very much celebrated the old fascist on his own terms, contributing, wittingly or not, to his attempted rehabilitation. Mosley, we were told in all seriousness, was always driven by his concern for ordinary people and a desire … Read more
Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££
[…] writes with Prospect‘s David Goodhart and attended a 2 November 2002 ‘informal group of businessmen and politicians’ initiated by Lord Weidenfeld which included Mandelson, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Micheal McLay, an early member of BAP, also in Hakluyt, who worked at LWT under John Birt and Mandelson. Sir Anthony Hammond, who conducted the […]
Lobster Issue 44 (Winter 2002/3) £££
[…] convinced that there were a large number of Soviet ‘moles’ in the British establishment (including Roger Hollis) and that the chief recruiter for them had been Victor Rothschild. Where did he get this idea? Was it a result of anti-Communist paranoia, as most thought at the time, or did the Swedes have something? A […]
Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££
[…] while researching my book on appeasement. (1) He said that his wartime activities presented no danger to national security and that he had been framed by Victor Rothschild and covert pro-Soviet influences in the establishment. (2) Certainly de Courcy did not seem to be a Fascist or anything like one. Equally he was not […]