[…] of the agency.) Charles Colson saw the CIA file on Watergate and made some notes on its contents which included a reference to a CIA operation smuggling gold bullion to S.E. Asia. Recently there was a reference (Times 20 March 1985) to Nixon and an episode in 1964 when he apparently went to Vietnam […]
[…] in Santo Domingo. (NACLA is the North American Conference on Latin America.) ‘Echols takes dead aim on laugh’, San Diego Union, June 12 1986, p. 11. Guyana Gold, by Wellesley A. Baird, Three Continents Press, Washington, 1982, pp. 164-181. The quotation is from an Afterword by Kathleen A. Adams. Ms. Adams wrote her doctoral […]
[…] Hannon and the British Commonwealth Union to create an industrial group of MPs in the House of Commons, to the climactic struggle over the reimposition of the Gold Standard and subsequent recession and depression of the 1930s – the conflict was between the interests of the financial and overseas sectors and its instruments in […]
[…] always work in the same direction — in the interests of the City, not the manufacturing economy — and have done so since the restoration of the gold standard. Nothing was more certain, for example, than that Britain would join the ERM at too high a sterling value for the manufacturing sector. ‘Twas ever […]
[…] with busts of Luther and Calvin and one of Dennis Parry. A powerful influence on Paisley’s youthful preaching had been Teddy Sherwood on his soapbox swinging his gold boxer’s belt on the sands of Barry Island, but the made-to-measure-martyr Dennis Parry had actually shared Paisley’s bedroom at the Barry School of Evangelism and a […]
[…] its way through the US legal system. Why the refusal? As Michael Phayer makes clear, in his fascinating new book, the Vatican bank still holds the Ustasa gold looted by the Croatian fascists during the Second World War.(1) Ante Pavelic’s Ustasa regime was responsible for the deaths of some 50,000 Jews and between 300 […]
[…] invasion of Canada) overseas. Now, Bloom does trace the linkages between activists across the waters – much of it due to exile or transportation – but the gold miners’ struggle in Ballarat in Australia, while very interesting and while some of the participants were former Chartists, was not a struggle for a British republic. […]
[…] throughout his life. Thomas Pakenham The Boer War, (New York, Random House, 1979). This book disclosed for the first time conclusive evidence of Milners collusion with the gold mining corporations during the Boer War to ensure adequate supplies of native labour for the mines. This collusion had long been suspected, but had been systematically […]
[…] R. Wrone’s The Assassination of John F. Kennedy: A Comprehensive Historical and Legal Bibliography 1963- 1979 (Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1980): a volume worth its weight in gold and one that badly needs updating. Guth and Wrone also detail every relevant article in The New York Times relating to the Garrison inquiry. For more […]
[…] a well-regarded Marxist author, trusted associate of Trotsky and key mediator between the Kaiser and the Bolsheviks who arranged, starting in 1915, for the flow of German gold into Russia that funded the propaganda campaign of Lenin’s little band of anti-war Marxists. Some Russian revolutionaries grew to distrust this erratic and ‘Falstaffian’ figure, with […]
