[…] of Dark Fantasy” in the Daily Telegraph 16 March 1985. In a bizarre attack on ‘conspiracy theorists’ Johnson equates Marx, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Hitler, Kennedy assassination buffs and Tam Dalyell MP. “Conspiracy theory is a modern superstition, a poor substitute for angels and devils.” Like others of his ilk, Johnson […]
[…] but during WW2 he had been against what he called the ‘war crimes business’ (Times 16 March 1985) – in this case referring to the assassination of Hitler and Heydrich. Perhaps MI6 were on their own with this one. The SAS plan seems never to have got off the ground, even though they had […]
[…] 1930s and Roosevelt’s attempts to address it through state intervention in the economy created enormous anxiety in sections of the business community. Famously the establishment media praised Hitler and Mussolini in the most fulsome terms. This admiration was widely shared by business leaders. A small group of industrialists even plotted a coup against Roosevelt […]
[…] band, Offensive Weapons, before ever he joined the UDA in 1989; and McDonald and Cusack add that Rathcoole UDA commander John Gregg was an admirer of Adolf Hitler. See Jim Cusack and Henry McDonald, UDA: Inside the Heart of Loyalist Terror (Penguin, 2004). UVF members have also been involved in race attacks on Sandy […]
[…] allowed to take up this position.(1) The Right Club In March 1940 Kent showed some of his cables to Captain Ramsay MP – the foremost admirer of Hitler in the House of Commons – and to Anna Wolkoff, a member of Ramsay’s cranky Right Club. Ramsay said he wanted to show the material to […]
[…] was then) and the Duke of Hamilton. But second on the list was the Round Table (named as such). (14) Haushoffer, the German intellectual and mentor of Hitler, who prepared the list, evidently had a better understanding of the actual nature of Britain’s ruling elites than did Claud Cockburn, who, despite having worked at […]
[…] believe? These are not questions the left should avoid, but Open Eye flashes the avoidance sign when some of Nexus‘ footnotes refer to Willis Carto and Adolf Hitler. In proper measure, such references are the hammers and tongs of paradigm reconstruction. But again, even if these paradigms shift along a fascistic line, can the […]
[…] leaflet ‘The HIDDEN truth about NEXUS magazine’, distributed in London by Open Eye, the charges against Nexus are: ‘Nexus printed a four part history of banking where Hitler and Mussolini were named as the last men who could have stopped the ‘usurious’ Jewish bankers. (Notes beneath recommended racist far Right books like White America […]
[…] account yet of the so-called ‘peace plots’, the attempts by Lord Halifax, R. A. B. Butler and others to reach an accommodation with Germany (if not with Hitler) during – and after – the ‘phoney war’. Some sense of the new synthesis Newton has achieved is conveyed by this paragraph on p. 74: ‘Outside […]
[…] thought. The name comes from Leo Strauss, who is someone very few of us had heard of until recently. He was a Jewish refugee who fled from Hitler to the USA in the 1930s, taught political theory mainly at the University of Chicago, and died in 1973. His speciality was the ancient (Greek and […]
