[…] Links to other National, European and International archive resources, eg Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. Cold War International History Project http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm ‘CWIHP was established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC in 1991. The project supports the full and prompt release of historical materials by governments on all sides of […]
[…] is a good 1930s word which fits rather well. Britain as another US protectorate? (5) Garrison and Permindex again In an article in the American journal The Wilson Quarterly of Spring 2001, Max Holland reexamined Jim Garrison’s investigation of the assassination of JFK and concluded that he was at least in part inspired to […]
[…] sections of the book are inadequate. After 200 interviews Bower cannot decide if Brown is a labourist disguised as a neo-liberal or a politician who, like Harold Wilson in the famous Private Eye cartoon, faces both ways at once: to his party and the unions he comes on as a lefty, the inheritor of […]
[…] pieces titled ‘KKK, GOP and CIA’ and ‘An American Nazi and Ozark tourism’ that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and ‘Supermarket Tabloids and UFOs’. Number 6, Winter 1992, has an interview with Deborah Davis on Katherine Graham, Mary Meyer etc; ‘Was the Turin Shroud Buried?’, […]
[…] in the 50s, 60s and 70s, where there was no public triumphalism, and their role in the 1980s. ‘The Britain of Clement Attlee, Harold Macmillan and Harold Wilson did not need soldier heroes. This changed in the 1980s when the SAS found themselves enlisted as Thatcher’s Praetorian Guard, their exploits, both past and present, […]
[…] conservatism. Published the Empire Citizen. The BWL was secretly funded by Hannon’s BCU, the money laundered through another of Hannon’s creations, Comrades of the Great War. Havelock Wilson, founder of the Seaman’s Union, one of the union leaders bought by Hannon, was Vice President of the BWL. (1) Some of these operations were detected […]
[…] per cent of the GDP. The special circumstances of the oil crisis in 1973 led to a –4 per cent figure in 1974, but the ‘old Labour’ Wilson and Callaghan governments trans-formed this into a 0.5 per cent surplus by 1978. Thereafter the position became far more volatile, and by the end of the […]
[…] absolutely priceless illustration of the mind-boggling hypocrisy of so much US foreign policy. Copies are free on request from The Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 100 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington DC 20560. They are also on the project’s Website: http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/cwihp Flatland Flatland 14 contains 63 pages of […]
[…] today Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban, a leading U.S. expert on South Asia said here.’ ‘”I warned them that we were creating a monster”, Selig Harrison from the Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars said at the conference here last week on “Terrorism and Regional Security: Managing the Challenges in Asia”.’ ‘…….Harrison said: “The CIA made […]
[…] the 1918-1939 period. Robert Lansing was the uncle of John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles. It is not at all clear how much either Lansing or Woodrow Wilson knew about central and eastern Europe. The Lansing Declaration was made during the US mid-term Congressional Elections. In the last act of the cataclysm favoured by […]
