Collapse of stout party: Eden, Suez and America

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] to make it more amenable to the US, got under way.4 This took the form of Harold MacMillan having a series of private meetings at the US embassy and Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop of Canterbury, publicly promoting the need to address the ‘moral crisis’ facing the nation. Throughout this Eden’s ill-health, with a long-standing […]

The meaning of subservience to America

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010)

[PDF file]: […] to believe happened.’ ‘I was suddenly accused of issuing visas in return for sex, stealing money from the post account, of being an alcoholic, of driving an embassy vehicle down a flight of stairs, which is extraordinary because I can’t drive. I’ve never driven in my life. I don’t have a driving license. My […]

The View from the Bridge

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[…] new documents were made public, with more to come, settled any debate about whose information was reliable. Emphasise apparent. The caller said something like ‘Ring the American embassy in London for some big news’, not ‘JFK’s going to be killed in Dallas.’ See . 35 36 stated that those who doubted Warren’s conclusion were […]

Maggie’s guilty secret

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] overthrown by a revolution. Despite this US support, the populist Islamic revolution got out of US control, with the result that on 4 November 1979 the US Embassy in Tehran was invaded by militant students, taking 52 embassy staff hostage. The Carter administration tried to negotiate their return, but Khomenei was intent on humiliating […]

To the halls of Montezuma, from the shores of Tripoli: Donald Trump as ‘anti-Wilson’

Lobster Issue 74 (Winter 2017)

[PDF file]: […] an old joke on the Left about the US regime: ‘Why has there never been a coup in Washington D.C.?’ The answer: ‘Because there is no U.S. Embassy in Washington D.C.’ In a conversation the son of a Honduran tobacco plantation owner told this author that in the nation’s capital, Tegucigalpa, the three most […]

Contamination, the Labour Party, nationalism and the Blairites

Lobster Issue 33 (Summer 1997)

[PDF file]: […] one of Labour’s economic advisers, written by Brian Milton for the London Financial News 16 June 1996. 13 office official whose previous posting was in the British embassy in Washington.51 Chris Smith, now Heritage Minister, was a Kennedy Scholar in the USA (as were David Miliband and Ed Balls).52 Patrician Hewitt works for the […]

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[…] of the SBU headquarters for the use of CIA employees. Nalyvaichenko was alleged to have begun work for the CIA during a diplomatic posting to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. The source for these assertions had been SBU chief during the Yanukovich presidency, and his remarks were made to Russian media in 2014, […]

The View from the Bridge

Lobster Issue 65 (Summer 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the idea. Of course it is possible, not using chemicals or drugs, which were discussed, but electromagnetic radiation (EMR). (Was anyone monitoring EMR around Chavez?) The US embassy in Moscow was irradiated in the 1960s by the Soviet regime, resulting in the death of at least one member of the staff, and kickingoff the […]

part 1 best copy

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[…] of the SBU headquarters for the use of CIA employees. Nalyvaichenko was alleged to have begun work for the CIA during a diplomatic posting to the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington DC. The source for these assertions had been SBU chief during the Yanukovich presidency, and his remarks were made to Russian media in 2014, […]

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