[PDF file]: […] effect. Not since George Wallace, the segregationist governor of Alabama, ran for the Presidency in 1968 had ‘a presidential candidate spoken in this way. Not since Woodrow Wilson had such an outspoken racist occupied the White House’. (p. 87) And on top of that he appealed to the notion of masculinity that had gripped […]
[…] by revealing (minor) state secrets. Today we have Cameron and Clegg, imitations of Tony Blair, Thatcher’s successor, who hardly matter. Then, influenced by research on the ‘ Wilson plots’, the secret state seemed important and powerful. These days it doesn’t seem so significant. Would the average MP today be more afraid of the Daily […]
[PDF file]: […] the Realm (London: Allen Lane, 2009) writes about it on p. 403 without dating it. From the context it is the early 1950s. 22 5 about Harold Wilson seriously enough to try to get the Cabinet Secretary to investigate him. And so we had the whole ‘private armies’ episode in 1973-5 – militias being […]
[PDF file]: […] split apparent in the aftermath of the World War One between ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ internationalists, then all largely based on the East Coast. As followers of Woodrow Wilson, the liberals believed in the US as a global hegemon, bringing peace and democracy, through its leading role in the League of Nations. The ‘conservative internationalists’, […]
[PDF file]: […] my copy. Apart from other subtle changes, specifically, the intelligence section was removed. It was too late, I had the genuine copy, verified by Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, formerly on the political staff at NATO headquarters in Brussels, he had examined and verified the authenticity of the CIA report. He was a senior British […]
[PDF file]: […] those individuals as “Communists”, undermined their authority within their respective organisations and they were replaced by hardline militants. It is likely that those anti-Communist activities also helped to colour the population’s attitude to the incoming Labour Government, led by Harold Wilson, in February 1974, and hampered that Government’s political initiatives.’ 8 No such party existed.
[PDF file]: […] on the other’ that were opening up in the 1960s, one other sign of which was the secret and treacherous right-wing plotting that went on against Harold Wilson at this time. (Not that there’s any evidence that he was involved in that.) So far as Aden and the rest of the Empire were concerned, […]
[PDF file]: […] my copy. Apart from other subtle changes, specifically, the intelligence section was removed. It was too late, I had the genuine copy, verified by Colonel John Hughes- Wilson, formerly on the political staff at NATO headquarters in Brussels, he had examined and verified the authenticity of the CIA report. He was a senior British […]
[PDF file]: Scott Newton The Lost Peace How the West Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War Richard Sakwa New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2023 Sovereign Internationalism Lobster readers may already be familiar with the work of Richard Sakwa, whose Frontline Ukraine was reviewed in the summer of 2019.1 That book discussed the growing tensions […]
[PDF file]: […] Hence the scandals and suspicions of scandals – ‘conspiracy theories’ – that plagued them in the inter-war years, from the ‘Cambridge Five’ fiasco to the alleged ‘ Wilson Plot’. One hopes they’ve learned their lesson by now. Our lives may depend upon it. Secrecy is also, of course, the enemy of the historian. It […]
