[…] remarkable ability to motor forward on the belief of the participants long past the point when they should have collapsed; and the actions of ‘great men’, from Hitler to Bush, have precipitated changes that might otherwise not have happened for years or perhaps decades. Neither Carlyle nor Marx were wholly right: there are great […]
[…] a long account of, and attack on, Catholic groups which support the Nicaraguan government against the contras; issue Sept/Oct 1989 is entirely devoted to Austrian opposition to Hitler, and begins, ‘The Masonic peace of 1919’ (!) KOP is 4.00 per year, from 157 Vicarage road, London E10 5DU. KOP also has an interesting, if […]
[…] take over leadership of the ex-serviceman movement. By May 1921 the Royal British Legion was up and running. There would be no British Mussolini and no British Hitler. Beamish (a candidate for the latter) founded the Britons Society and moved to Rhodesia. This coincided with Pemberton-Billings’ exit from national politics. Although he lived until […]
[…] the Commonwealth were truly at war sixty years ago and apparently likely to lose, it was a morale boosting part of our arsenal: e.g. the ditty ‘ Hitler has only got one ball. The other is in the Albert Hall.’ This is one reason why, as others have pointed out, government and/or media-inspired ‘Fear […]
[…] more urgent. The Labour Party was in coalition with the Conservatives while the Communists remained apologists for Soviet foreign policy, even when Stalin had allied himself with Hitler. Orwell hoped that out of the unrest caused by hardship and defeat would emerge a new Socialist movement, uniting working class and middle class, in the […]
[…] ‘good’? He, along with the likes of Gordon Brown, Peter Hain, Hilary Benn and others, certainly cannot plead ignorance. Thomas Powers, Intelligence Wars: American Secret History From Hitler to Al-Qaeda (New York 2002) p. 189. Robert Kennedy had been charged by his brother with overseeing the attempt to assassinate Castro. Alfred McCoy, A Question […]
[…] a flesh-presser?) wants a return to the Gold standard; and Jesse Jackson’s ‘Rainbow Coalition’ is described as a “motley assortment of gays, lesbians, nuclear freezeniks, Qaddafi and Hitler admirers, ecology freaks, prototerrorists and other perverts …. a mass movement, modelled on the SA, the left wing of the Nazi movement, and their modern-day heirs, […]
[…] if it is not going to be inflationary, then it is going to have to come at the expense of other government projects, including welfare. Even Adolf Hitler and General Tojo expected a decent long-term return on their otherwise economy-shattering short term adventurism and, in this, were little different, except in their brutal impatience, […]
[…] to go back to the title, could these have changed the course of WWII? Why do we have to have a ‘what if’ version of history? If Hitler had been rational the rockets and jets would have appeared earlier….but if he had been rational he wouldn’t have declared war on the USA, or attacked […]
[…] with the surrounding circumstances.’ Brownshirt Windsors? Our own royal family occasionally flits through the pages of Jonathan Petropoulos’s exhaustive survey of the German aristocracy’s involvement with the Hitler Gang, Royals and the Reich: the Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006). In particular, Anthony Blunt’s post-war mission to Schloss Friedrichshof […]
