[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[…] 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 […]
[PDF file]: […] says nothing of note in his record of 24-28 May 1940, the period John Lukacs covers in Five Days in London: May 1940,3 and a moment when Churchill came close to having to allow peace talks with Germany via Italy. Finally, there is no mention at all here of what happened on 7 June […]
[PDF file]: […] – with a vengeance. Criticising Edward Heath for being only half-hearted in his attempt at dismantling Britain’s socialist economy in the 1970s, he conveniently forgets that Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas Home – all Tories – had held the office of Prime Minister throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s […]
[PDF file]: […] peace flight have taken John Harris and Richard Wilbourn close to British secrets that were beyond the ken of Stalin, Hitler, Roosevelt and quite possibly unknown to Churchill. The astounding events of 10 May 1941, when Hitler’s deputy crashed a fighter-bomber in Southern Scotland just six weeks before the German invasion of Russia, followed […]
