Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. Robert Kennedy had been charged by his brother with overseeing the attempt to assassinate Castro. Alfred McCoy, A Question […]
Lobster Issue 18 (1989) £££
[…] a long account of, and attack on, Catholic groups which support the Nicaraguan government against the contras; issue Sept/Oct 1989 is entirely devoted to Austrian opposition to Hitler, and begins, ‘The Masonic peace of 1919’ (!) KOP is 4.00 per year, from 157 Vicarage road, London E10 5DU. KOP also has an interesting, if […]
Lobster Issue 38 (Winter 1999) £££
[…] more urgent. The Labour Party was in coalition with the Conservatives while the Communists remained apologists for Soviet foreign policy, even when Stalin had allied himself with Hitler. Orwell hoped that out of the unrest caused by hardship and defeat would emerge a new Socialist movement, uniting working class and middle class, in the […]
Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££
[…] if it is not going to be inflationary, then it is going to have to come at the expense of other government projects, including welfare. Even Adolf Hitler and General Tojo expected a decent long-term return on their otherwise economy-shattering short term adventurism and, in this, were little different, except in their brutal impatience, […]
Lobster Issue 37 (Summer 1999) £££
[…] to go back to the title, could these have changed the course of WWII? Why do we have to have a ‘what if’ version of history? If Hitler had been rational the rockets and jets would have appeared earlier….but if he had been rational he wouldn’t have declared war on the USA, or attacked […]
Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££
[…] a flesh-presser?) wants a return to the Gold standard; and Jesse Jackson’s ‘Rainbow Coalition’ is described as a “motley assortment of gays, lesbians, nuclear freezeniks, Qaddafi and Hitler admirers, ecology freaks, prototerrorists and other perverts …. a mass movement, modelled on the SA, the left wing of the Nazi movement, and their modern-day heirs, […]
Lobster Issue 81 (Summer 2021)
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[PDF file]: […] Poland: ‘I can even visualise our troops fighting side by side with the Germans to defeat the Bolshevist menace’5 and Moore had written widely in support of Hitler and Nazism, pre-1939.6 Alongside these, in the House of Lords, Griffiths notes the continued presence of Lord Brocket, the Duke of Buccleuch, the Earl of Darnley, […]
Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022)
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[PDF file]: […] 1938-1939. The events of Kristallnacht, a mediaeval-style pogrom with 91 murders, 638 suicides and 30,000 arrests, don’t evoke very much solidarity. Channon commented (15 November 1938): ‘ Hitler never helps us and always makes Chamberlain’s task more difficult. One cannot say so, but the sympathies of many people are not altogether with the unfortunate […]
Lobster Issue 73 (Summer 2017)
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[PDF file]: […] kind that has wrecked the careers of men as respectable as Hugh Trevor Roper and as devious as David Irving. The exposure of the bogus Sunday Times Hitler Diaries, and Irving’s recent humiliation in a London libel court (as recently retold in the film Denial), remind us what happens to a historian when the […]