[…] the Simonstown Agreement. Arms exports were good for the balance of payments and domestic employment; and guaranteed the security of the sea lanes around the Cape. The Wilson governments of 1964-70 had inherited the agreement from the Conservatives but had never been happy about it and by the time Labour left office exports of […]
[…] rise of the SDP, Ian Bradley said Thomson was the politician ‘who laid the groundwork for Britain’s application to join the EEC at the tail-end of the Wilson Government.'(3) Thomson, a Foreign Office minister later criticised by the Bingham inquiry into Rhodesian sanctions busting,(4) became shadow defence spokesman in opposition and after a spell […]
[…] War allegations also lay behind the highly publicised claims of the former officer Peter Wright that the Service had plotted to undermine the former Prime Minister Harold Wilson. A vigorous internal enquiry failed to produce any evidence to substantiate these claims, and Wright himself subsequently admitted that they were false.’ This is a nice […]
[…] by a personal dispute with the service over his pension rights. Not long before his death, he admitted on national television that he had made up the Wilson Plot. By then, though, it was too late because the authorities had naïvely tried to ban the book rather than hold an independent inquiry, which would […]
[…] of.’ This could cause problems. Stiff tells how the firm’s activities in North Yemen were compromised. ‘In 1969 two members of the firm, Knocker Parsons and Falcon Wilson, were killed in that area of operation while leading a band of guerillas and their bodies captured. There was an enormous fuss made at the United […]
[…] effect can be unintentionally comic: ‘Roy wants a coalition government and expects to see one in the first half of this year….Roy said he wouldn’t mind whether Wilson or Callaghan led the new government but made it clear he would expect to succeed whichever of them took it on.’ (January 1 1975, p.184) When […]
[…] March 13 conveyed the seriousness as well accuracy of the coup plot allegations. On that day The Guardian’s new political editor Patrick Wintour gave us nothing on Wilson, but a full page on the former leader of the Socialist Republic of South Yorkshire under the headline: ‘I should have been a Trappist monk.’ Ah, […]
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[…] historical account of British nuclear forces. Milan Rai, Tactical Trident, the Rifkind Doctrine and the Third World, Drava Papers, London, 1994. Rai references the quotations fully. Andrew Wilson, ‘Deadline Midnight’, The Observer, 11 April 1992 Quoted in a paper by William M Arkin and Andrew Burrows, British Nuclear Weapons in the Falklands, published by […]
[…] German anti-Nazi figures what they would gain by going along with the American proposal. After all, the intrusion of the US into Europe in 1919 under Woodrow Wilson had been seen by many as the cause of the difficulties that led to such chronic instability on the continent.() Once the Soviet Union had a […]
