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A Tale of Two Factions: The US Power Structure Since World War II by Joseph P. Raso

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[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’, […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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[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 […]

Hugh who? (Hugh Mooney)

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[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.

Mad Mitch’s Tribal Law: Aden and the end of Empire by Aaron Edwards

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[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, […]

Olivia Jayne Frank, 1956-2023

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The Lost Peace by Richard Sakwa

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[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 […]

Newton on Keynes

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[…] These were baseless See Scott Newton, The Reinvention of Britain 1960-2016. A Political and Economic History (London: Routledge, 2017). 33 See Stephen Dorril and Robin Ramsay, Smear! Wilson and the Secret state (London: 4th Estate, 1991); Newton, The Reinvention of Britain (see note 33) ch. 4; and ‘Historical Notes on Tom Nairn and the […]

Lobster review: Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003

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A review of Lobster in the Sunday Herald, 17 August 2003.

[PDF file]: […] early credibility received a big boost in 1987 when Peter Wright’s Spycatcher was published and confirmed that elements within British Intelligence had been trying to destabilise the Wilson government in the Seventies. Lobster had been banging on about this for months, but it was only when a crusty old spook confirmed the accuracy of […]

The Story of British Propaganda Film by Scott Anthony

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[PDF file]: […] Opus, made for the Expo 67 World Exhibition. A magnificent celebration of architecture, dance, art, drama and music, and very much the image of the UK the Wilson government wanted to project, is it ‘propaganda’? And doesn’t everyone make promotional films like this?1 The Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD) is discussed in passing. […]

The crisis: an historical perspective

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[PDF file]: The crisis: an historical perspective Scott Newton Introduction A s a student at Cambridge in the mid-1970s I was fortunate enough to be taught by a great medieval historian – Walter Ullman. Ullman liked to say that the task of the historian was to explain ‘how and why we came to be where we are […]