[…] 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 […]
[…] Eastern country to whom British companies could sells munitions. In The Times (27 April 1998), Gerald James said, ‘If the truth came out, Astra would make Matrix Churchill look like Sunday school outing.’ But the truth can no more come out, at least not officially, about Astra than it can about the Lockerbie bombing […]
[…] of s23 of the FOIA …… There are numerous dangers with having such a blanket exemption. One of the worst abuses came to light during the Matrix Churchill arms-to-Iraq case in 1992 when the government showed it was willing to see innocent people go to jail rather than disclose documents that proved it had […]
[…] standing on balconies taking the salute from wave upon wave of troops. It can also unite a nation in celebration: e.g. Britain’s Royal Family with Prime Minister Churchill on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the end of the Second World War. The Nativity play has the same intent. It has other PR ‘merits’, […]
[…] ‘of a widening of exchange parities (including introducing a floating rate)’.(4) One of the economists involved in this exercise was Donald MacDougall, previously adviser to the 1951-55 Churchill government, Economic Director of the NEDC from 1962-64 and then Director General of the Department for Economic Affairs. He later wrote that on 24 November he […]
[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 […]
