[…] that Castro had signed a further option with Leyland to buy a thousand buses in a larger 20 million dollar deal. The newly-elected British prime minister, Harold Wilson, refused to give in to American pressure and block the Leyland deal. The US Commerce Secretary, Luther Hodges, declared publicly and ominously: ‘I don’t like it […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] is it ‘unimaginable’ not to support the US? It used not to be ‘unimaginable’. Edward Heath declined to support the US in the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. Harold Wilson refused to send troops to fight with the US in Vietnam. The US was going to war and fabricated a pretext, as it has done many […]
[…] thus an interesting new member of a very small category, the geopolitical conspiracy theory satire. (Only Report from Iron Mountain and the various books by Robert Anton Wilson spring to mind in this area.) For this reason alone it is worth getting. (How effective a piece of satire, and how good a piece of […]
[…] later. Participating in both and chairing the second was Lord Chalfont, the former Times defence correspondent Alun Gwynne Jones who was a defence minister in the 1964 Wilson government before becoming a fierce Cold War propagandist. Chalfont, a doughty defender of apartheid South Africa, became chairman of the UK wing of the Committee for […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] Internet looks increasingly like a major problem for Blair, Bush and their ilk. Notes 1 In his column in the Evening Standard 22 September 2003 the novelist A.N. Wilson comments on the ‘sickening’ news that the CIA in Iraq is recruiting former members of the Iraqi secret police to hunt for ‘the resistance’. Book cover
[…] army; including Jeremy Rail-ton, then head of Information Policy’. In fact Cudlipp was appointed as Chief Information Officer in Northern Ireland in 1975 by Prime Minister Harold Wilson to try and get political control over the propaganda apparatus, which was then being directed as much at Northern Ireland Secretary of State Merlyn Rees as […]
[…] Lattimore of the Institute of Pacific Relations was not.. The scale of this project is absolutely mind-boggling and these bulletins are free on request from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 1000 Jefferson Drive SW, Washington, DC 20560, USA. E-mail – Unclassified is the journal of the Association of National Security Alumni, […]
[…] the biggest British domestic political story for about 20 years, a story of how elements of the secret state and the Tory Right worked together against the Wilson and Callaghan governments of the 1970s, was spurned by messieurs Kinnock and Hattersley; and instead of talking to me about a campaign to uncover the truth […]
