[…] 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. […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] of vignettes: 1998 — Blair’s photo in a local newspaper headlining Desert Fox, Iraq. An old man comments, ‘That Blair’s a big head. He thinks he’s Winston Churchill.’ 2004 — An interview on CNN as the Iraqi insurgency intensifies. The popular nationalist cleric al-Sadr gets mentioned: ‘Well of course he’s a fanatic,’ responds Blair […]
[…] prolonging World War Two. The latter point credits far too much influence to one individual. The fact was that the German peace plotters were not trusted by Churchill and Eden, let alone by people like Philby. The Canaris group, as Matthews shows, did not offer to stop the war against the USSR, and a […]
[…] of the political fringe. Nesta Webster was invited to expound her ideas to meetings of Army officers on several occasions and no less a figure than Winston Churchill stated in a newspaper article written in 1920 on the forces behind the Russian Revolution that: “This conspiracy against civilisation (dates) from the days of Weishaupt […]
[…] Keynes’s name ranks high in the list of those responsible for the creation of this post-war international order, alongside those of Harry S. Truman, George Marshall, Winston Churchill and Ernest Bevin.(5) All this represents a good, coherent narrative whose credibility has been enhanced by frequent repetition over the years. Whatever the official story, however, […]
[…] as the Communist Party to affiliate to the Labour Party in Britain. Herbert Morrison changed this after the Communist Party called for a coalition government under Winston Churchill in the 1945 election and supported candidates other than Labour in rural constituencies (Bornstein and Richardson, 1982; 123-141). Bibliography Barr, G and Chicken, H : Beyond […]
