[…] 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 […]
[…] known that was what was needed to get rid of him; of his days in the Communist Party when he acted as the courier who took the gold to Moscow, and about his subsequent anxious conversations with Harry Pollitt about Russian comrades who had disappeared since the last time he was over there – […]
[…] 25) was something of a bombshell. In the event it turned out to be a damp squib. However, Laurens Otter wrote to me: ‘Your comments on Moscow Gold seem basically right, but you don’t take them far enough. After Suez-Hungary, though in theory only a third of the membership resigned, it was the most […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] payments of £14,000 and £15,000 in 1978.’ In fact, as has been reported in these pages before, Falber’s role as the Soviets’ bagman was first revealed in Peter Wright’s Spycatcher in 1987. Falber’s role had been known by MI5 from the outset. MI5 for whatever reason chose to let the ‘Moscow gold’ continue.
[…] if not the extreme right. W. J. West would seem to fit into this mould. He has been heard to say that Lobster is funded with Moscow Gold. Although he is a very capable researcher whose books contain some fascinating titbits, West is incapable of putting together the material in a coherent fashion. Often […]
[…] in recommending to Attlee that he make a statement in parliament, the document reveals that MI5 were prepared to allow Attlee to mislead the country.’ () Moscow gold According to a recent piece in The Spectator, ‘…any mention of the word “oligarch” the average Russian reaching for a gun. That’s because much of the […]
