Willy Brandt: the “Good German”

Lobster Issue 22 (1991) £££

[…] Europe.’ There are obvious parallels here with Wilson’s support of increasing trade with the Soviet bloc. This had been encouraged by the then Conservative Prime Minister, Winston Churchill — but Wilson was attacked for it, not Churchill. Prittie (1979) pp. 168/9. Hohne and Zolling pp. 265-79. Ibid. p. 250. Ibid. p. 264. Ibid., p. […]

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Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] been one of the two greatest loves of Shaw’s life (the other being William Formyduval with whom he lived). Sir Michael introduced Shaw to London society, to Churchill, and may even have introduced him to Peter MONTGOMERY, Anthony Blunt’s lover. As to Sir Michael’s two addresses, Vaynol was his country estate near the town […]

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Historical Notes (De Courcy, Pilcher and Hess; The 1949 sterling crisis)

Lobster Issue 41 (Summer 2001) £££

[…] me. This was that when the Hess affair blew up Pilcher found out what had happened and made no secret of his disgust at the way the Churchill Coalition had handled the peace offer. As a result of his indiscretion he was court-martialled and whisked off to a remote house in Scotland where he […]

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In a Common Cause: the Anti-Communist Crusade in Britain 1945-60

Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££

[…] aims: to undertake long-term planning as part of a ‘Post-War New Deal’ and to provide an platform for debate on war aims as a loyal opposition to Churchill. Probably because the Committee included a wide spectrum of political figures, including left-wingers like Michael Foot and Konni Zilliacus, a myth has grown that Hulton was […]

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Philby naming names

Lobster Issue 16 (1988) £££

[…] evaluate them. K.P. In my opinion, the BIS can be considered the basic force behind this psychological warfare. It is well known the British Conservative leader Winston Churchill announced his views concerning the cold war in a speech given in Fulton, Missouri, in 1946, but the British SIS did not end its subversive activities […]

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SISies: MI6: Fifty Years of Special Operations and A Life: A. J. Ayer

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Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££

[…] the Americans taking over the funding. Donovan had little faith in Habsburg but was willing to support Count Coudenhove-Kalargi, a rival claimant with his own Pan-Europa project. Churchill supported the latter against the advice of the Foreign Office. The idea was actually broached to Molotov who opposed it as anti-Soviet, and it was formally […]

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America, Israel and the Israel lobby

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Lobster Issue 57 (Summer 2009) £££

[…] of opinion in favour of Jewish settlers. These were often portrayed as ‘dynamic and European’ in comparison to the rather indolent Arabs. As early as 1908, Winston Churchill MP came out in support of this and promoted the idea of a Jewish administered area in Palestine under the protection of the British Empire. During […]

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Harold Wilson, the Bank of England and the Cecil King ‘coup’ of May 1968

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9) £££

[…] it was quite possible that unemployment would rise to three million. The present crisis was as grave as that of 1940 – but there was ‘no Winston Churchill waiting to take over’.(15)On 19 January King noted that ‘a further devaluation was expected; six days later Maurice Allen said that the ‘chances of…….devaluation in February […]

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Irangate and Secret Arms-for-Hostage Deal

Lobster Issue 14 (1987) £££

[…] 18). Adnan Khashoggi, interviewed by the Washington Times (March 19, 1987, p. 5B), said that when he met with Israeli Nir and Iranian go-between Ghorbanifar at the Churchill Hotel in London in the early period of the development of the Irangate deals of 1985 and 1986, Nir said that the deals were because “The […]

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Fifth Column

Lobster Issue 53 (Summer 2007) £££

[…] ways but one that will not be publicly admitted for political reasons is that the ‘project’ can be safeguarded much more effectively from a position where, like Churchill between the wars, a senior and respected figure can ‘constructively criticise’ any deviation from policy by the Prime Minister from the benches than he could from […]

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