[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 […]
[PDF file]: […] not live up to the advertising. There is nothing about MI6’s role (if it had one). Hancock was acting ambassador during this period after most of the embassy staff were evacuated and it is that role which the book describes. There is a great deal about the day-to-day difficulties involved in maintaining the British […]
[PDF file]: […] were hardly criminal offences, even if carried out in 100 consecutive marginal 58 Summer 2010 constituencies. The role played by the Voice of America and the US Embassy in Rome in influencing the outcome of the 1948 Italian election is a matter of record. Can a similar process be seen at work in the […]
[PDF file]: […] MP. Two months after returning from Israel, Tony Blair was introduced to Michael Levy at a dinner party by Gideon Meir, the number two in the Israeli embassy in London.4 Levy was a retired businessman who had made his money creating and then selling a successful record company and had become a major fund-raiser […]
[PDF file]: PERFIDIOUS ALBION Britain and the Spanish Civil War Paul Preston London: The Clapton Press, 2024, £14.99, p/b. Simon Matthews This is the latest book from the Clapton Press, a small imprint specialising in Spain and Latin America. They have brought back into the public domain many important works, long out of print, particularly valuable eye-witness […]
[PDF file]: […] of Fight. Iran, we are told, has been waging war against the United States ‘for nearly forty years’, ‘has long supported al Qaeda’ and the 1998 US Embassy bombings in East Africa were ‘in large part Iranian operations’. The anti-American global alliance of which Iran is the lynchpin includes both ‘ISIS and al Qaeda’ […]
[PDF file]: […] 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]: […] been? Possibly that one of his brothers, Johannes, was a pro-German manager of the family estates in the Sudetenland, whilst another, Gerolf, was secretary at the Japanese embassy in Prague (until 1941) and would later serve on Field Marshall Ewald von Kleist’s staff on the eastern front. In the US he established a relationship […]
[…] by John Eatwell of the first two chapters, with notes, synopsis and some correspondence with the publisher.’ See item 9 at 6 He was in the Brussels embassy in 1966-68. He was not impressed. See his Goodbye to all that, (London: Macmillan, 1995) pp. 72-75. 7 Bryan Gould, Goodbye to all that p. 205. […]
[PDF file]: […] of the first two chapters, with notes, synopsis and some correspondence with the publisher.’ (emphasis added) See item 9 at . 5 He was in the Brussels embassy in 1966-68. He was not impressed. See his Goodbye to all that (London: Macmillan, 1995) pp. 72-75. 6 7 Gould (see note 6) p. 205. 3 […]
