Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££
[…] launched his attempted 1923 putsch. (64) Nevertheless, discussions with the Generals and with the Goerdeler group were resumed at the end of 1939, and continued, sometimes with Vatican mediation, sometimes in neutral cities, into the early spring of 1940.(65) The peace terms broadly acceptable to the British did not alter significantly throughout this period. […]
Lobster Issue 19 (1990) £££
A small section of this appeared in Lobster 12. Although this is incomplete and under researched, we thought it worth putting out now. The origins of IRD 1947 saw the creation of the Foreign Office’s Information Research Department (IRD). It is generally accepted that IRD was the brain-child of the then Labour M.P. Christopher Mayhew, […]
Lobster Issue 6 (1984) £££
[…] and Russian Orthodox believers. Its members refer to the New Mass as an “unspeakable abomination” and take violent exception to the “infidel marauders” who have corrupted the Vatican in recent years. The order’s former grand master, Col. Thourot Pichel, said the foundations of Christianity were “about ready to face destruction” from the “world menace […]
Lobster Issue 46 (Winter 2003) £££
[…] town in Middle America but for readers of this journal it won’t be of much interest. Sort of Greg Palast lite; Gore Vidal without the style. The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder and the Vatican Paul L. Williams Prometheus Books, New York, 2003 h/b, $27.00 www.prometheusbooks.com A short (200 pages, large print) and sharp history […]
Lobster Issue 4 (1984) £££
[…] because the Soviet state was afraid of the Pope’s influence in Poland. But there was another drama rumbling away parallel to the Solidarity story: the whole P2/Calvi/Ambrosiano/Gelli/ Vatican finances mess was just coming to the surface at the same time. Again, to her credit, Sterling doesn’t duck this entirely. On p. 142, for example, […]
Lobster Issue 40 (Winter 2000/1) £££
[…] the head when the United States swung round to the Soviet view. The scheme, or a similar one, continued a ghostly, post-war existence for a while. The Vatican supported it. There was an active branch of Intermarium in Rome and senior Vatican priests and bishops became officers of the organisation. Intermarium was one of […]
Lobster Issue 51 (Summer 2006) £££
[…] repetition of Francoist propaganda regarding the Spanish Civil War; and it contains the following statement regarding the war in the former Yugoslavia, on p. 201 ‘Naturally, the Vatican feared Serbia as a predominantly Muslim nation, its threat was far greater than “Christian” Croatia’ (emphasis added). Now the author is here discussing a theory […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] mutual acquaintance. Smith asked him in his role as General Counsel to the United States Jesuit Headquarters, if he could get access to the section of the Vatican library in Rome that would contain information about UFOs. Sheehan asked and the request was denied; and turned down again even when he explained to them […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] faith to be a private matter. Additionally, it may have endangered other indigenous faiths in some target countries, including large numbers of Christians, whom the otherwise ridiculous Vatican has striven to protect. The nakedly self-interested and vulgar manner in which the US and British administrations belatedly reached out to Muslims, is accelerating problems in […]
Lobster Issue 42 (Winter 2001/2) £££
[…] The Population Bomb (1970) saying there were too many people in the world, advocating a tax on children and the UN breaking off diplomatic relations with the Vatican because of its teachings on birth control. Extracts from this had – apparently – been serialised in the UK edition of Playboy, where they came to […]
