[PDF file]: […] on the promotion of cultural, economic and military connections between the two countries, including visits to Israel by Parliamentary delegations. Both liaise with staff at the Israeli Embassy in London and campaign against ‘anti-semitism’. The definition of this term, once taken to mean prejudice against Jewish people and Judaism, has now been stretched by […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] in the wartime bombing of London), travelled to Russia. He wanted to see how socialism was working. While in Moscow they attended several functions at the American embassy and Dr Johnson got to know Lieut-Colonel Philip Faymonville (1888-1962) and Tyler Kent (1911-1988) who both worked there. Faymonville was the first US military attaché to […]
[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] 12 3 Some of the activities of the Labour and Conservative Friends of Israel, for example, are public.13 On the other hand, their liaison with the Israeli embassy in London is not. ‘Blair and Brown’ Yes, I sat and watched all five episodes of the BBC programmes about the two Bs. Both men did […]
[…] 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 […]
[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 […]
[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 […]
[…] riots, when in fact he had taken concrete steps to increase their severity’; of how ‘Starmer’s CPS was singularly responsible for seven year confinement in the Ecuadorian Embassy’; of how, in the Ian Tomlinson case,5 Starmer was guilty of ‘dragging his heels over the investigations, finding arbitrary reasons to forego prosecution, refusing to challenge […]
[PDF file]: […] In this context note that that Archibald James, Conservative MP for Wellingborough 1931-1945, was a friend of R. A. Butler, and served as Honorary First Secretary, British Embassy in Madrid 1940-1941, whilst still an MP. In other words, Hoare, Butler and others had a trusted link to Madrid during a period when the chances […]
