Historical notes on the four freedoms

Lobster Issue 88 (2024)

[PDF file]: […] in January 1941. Although the USA was not then a belligerent, Roosevelt was keen to help the struggle of British Commonwealth and Empire and Allied forces against Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, notwithstanding the existence of pro-neutrality legislation which limited what his administration could do to help. Already, in 1940 the US had provided […]

MR GIBBS AND MR GOERING firstperson

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[…] Gibbs) came to see me and tell me of his discussions in Holland with the German General Wenninger about possible peace terms. The General said that the Nazi Party felt themselves hemmed in and would welcome a face-saving peace. Colville was private secretary to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, to whom Dunglass was Parliamentary Private […]

The President and the Provocateur: The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald by Alex Cox

Lobster Issue 68 (Winter 2014)

[PDF file]: […] feel like just another synthesis of the extant material. Cox’s narrative structure and his frequently unusual choices from the mountains of available data – the America neo- nazi and segregationist right get more attention than usual, for example – make it feel fresh. And because he is discussing events leading up to the shootings, […]

GArrick Timmi text

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Garrick Alder His name is Olaf Neitsch, and he was born on 18 November 1961, in the former East Germany (GDR).1 As an adult, he achieved his youthful ambition of serving as an officer in the communist regime’s secret police, the Stasi.2 Neitsch’s office defeated and silenced prominent local opponents of the GDR. The office’s […]

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[…] paid a heavier price than most”. The fact he had no such contacts was clear to me in 1981, when Searchlight obtained evidence of a planned neo- Nazi bomb attack on the Notting Hill carnival in London, and Gerry and I had to use a convoluted route through a friendly journalist to get the […]

A tale of two Islingtons: How Blair opened the door for Corbyn

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019)

[PDF file]: […] BBC from 1970, he reported for and then produced Panorama. He hit his stride in 1981 with Blind Eye to Murder: Britain, America and the Purging of Nazi Germany, an account of how, post-1945, various German war criminals were allowed to remain in situ and even flourish with the connivance of the UK and […]

British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013)

[PDF file]: […] the West was ‘a lesser evil’ that he was prepared to help fight the Russians. This was the same stance that he had taken with regard to Nazi Germany. Whereas in Animal Farm, the Soviet Union is shown as being as bad as the West, by Nineteen Eighty Four, the totalitarian danger has become […]

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