[…] Anglo-American Corp. (the South African Oppenheimer monopoly), and Charter Consolidated (a big British mining finance company active in South Africa also). AMAX owns 11% of the French Rothschild mining conglomerate Imetal. which has extensive interests in Africa and elsewhere. The ownership of AMAX is complex and seems to have changed over the years. During […]
[…] merely the (demonstrable) use of conservation in Africa as cover for political games, such as supporting apartheid South Africa? Looking at the list of familiar names – Rothschild, Milner, Astor, Huxley – in the conservation movement’s early days. Dowling suspects there is more to it than that but can’t nail it down. The question […]
Ian Macgregor, Lazards, Pearsons, and Amax PART 1 See also Part 2 in Lobster 6 Summary This article attempts to show that the present chairman of the National Coal Board, Ian MacGregor, is far more than the “right man for the job” imported from the U.S. by a Government set simply on technical efficiency. Macgregor’s … Read more
Stephen Dorril London: Viking, 2006, £30 In his 1975 biography of Oswald Mosley, Robert (now Lord) Skidelsky very much celebrated the old fascist on his own terms, contributing, wittingly or not, to his attempted rehabilitation. Mosley, we were told in all seriousness, was always driven by his concern for ordinary people and a desire … Read more
[…] no-one seen any of this before? It’s not that the Round Table people have been unknown. The names Quigley gives – e.g. in the inner group: Rhodes, Rothschild, William Stead, Viscount Esher, Milner, Abe Bailey, Earl Grey, H.A.L.Fisher, Jan Smuts, Leopold Amery, the Astors – are well known. The Round Table group are conventionally […]
[…] writes with Prospect‘s David Goodhart and attended a 2 November 2002 ‘informal group of businessmen and politicians’ initiated by Lord Weidenfeld which included Mandelson, Sir Evelyn de Rothschild and Micheal McLay, an early member of BAP, also in Hakluyt, who worked at LWT under John Birt and Mandelson. Sir Anthony Hammond, who conducted the […]
[…] convinced that there were a large number of Soviet ‘moles’ in the British establishment (including Roger Hollis) and that the chief recruiter for them had been Victor Rothschild. Where did he get this idea? Was it a result of anti-Communist paranoia, as most thought at the time, or did the Swedes have something? A […]
[…] while researching my book on appeasement. (1) He said that his wartime activities presented no danger to national security and that he had been framed by Victor Rothschild and covert pro-Soviet influences in the establishment. (2) Certainly de Courcy did not seem to be a Fascist or anything like one. Equally he was not […]
[…] and that William Armstrong, who had been moved from the Treasury about three years before to be Permanent Secretary of the Civil Service Department, and (Lord) Victor Rothschild, Head of the “Think Tank” (Central Policy Review Staff) set up by Heath were also going. When we arrived, Ted started by asking William – who […]
[…] Laurence Martin, former director of Chatham House and former vice-chancellor of Newcastle University; Professor Jack Spence; Dennis Stevenson, chairman of the SRU Group, and director of J Rothschild Assurance; Sir Stephen Waley-Cohen, managing director of Victoria Palace theatre, chairman Thorndike Holdings and Policy portfolio, and Peter Williams, chairman and chief executive of Oxford Instruments. […]
