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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]