Prologue
ANC Research Blogposts201301. Prologue02. Mr Chamberlain03. Mr Churchill04. Anglo-German Banking Fellowship05. Göring's Peace06. Warmongers & Newspapers07. Wartime Stockholm 201408. Dining with Mr...
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Mr Churchill & Mr Baruch
Mr Churchill & Mr Baruch by William ShepherdOn 13th December 1931, the day after his arrival in New York from London, Winston Churchill looked the wrong way crossing the road and ended up in...
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Tony Blair on Neville Chamberlain
As I write [1] now, looking back, I sense in the speeches and meetings an anxiety that something was missing, some dimension barely glimpsed, let alone understood, but important, crucial even. Now, of...
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Anglo-German Banking Fellowship
Anglo-German Banking Fellowship [1] On 31st December 1931, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, Louis T. McFadden, introduced bills to impeach Governors & Officials of the Federal...
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Göring’s Peace Mission
Göring’s Peace Mission [1] In the summer of 1939, after Germany's Anschluss with Austria and the annexation of the German-speaking regions of Czechoslovakia [2], Britain and France gave a guarantee to...
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Warmongers & Newspapers
Warmongers, Newspapers and the Ruling Class (1891-1914) [1] People's actions are influenced by what they know. People act on their beliefs and perceptions. You can manipulate a person's actions by...
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Wartime Stockholm
Once the Second World War had started, representatives of German resistance groups passed messages to and through neutral countries, though meetings became rarer after the Venlo Incident. [1]...
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Dining with Mr Hitler
On 11 November 1939 I drove to Berlin. [1] I was dissatisfied with the outcome of the Venlo Incident[2] three weeks previously and still felt it would have been better if I could have continued the...
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Finland's Winter War
The Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 [1] was Stalin's first real test as a military leader since the Russian civil war. During the Spanish civil war Stalin had supervised Moscow's aid to the Republican...
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German-Soviet Pact
When Hitler invaded Poland in September 1939 he did so secure in the knowledge that while he might face war with Britain and France in the west his eastern flank was safeguarded by Soviet Neutrality...
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Mr Schellenberg
In the first week of May 1945 Stockholm was suffused with an air of expectation. As war drew to a close in the rest of Europe there was little indication that intrigues as contorted as the streets...
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Mr Edward Wood
Anthony Eden resigned as Foreign Secretary on 20th February 1938 and was replaced by Lord Halifax, [1] who had met with Hitler in Germany on 19 November 1937. Neville Chamberlain met with Adolf Hitler...
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Mr Hess
Ever since a German parachutist landed in Scotland on the night of May 10th, 1941, claiming to be Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, in search of peace with England, the man and his case have remained...
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Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War lasted from July 1936 to April 1939, when the Fascist army led by General Franco, finally captured Madrid and deposed the legitimate, democratically elected, left-wing government....
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It was a routine speech we got during our first day of basic training, delivered by a wiry little lieutenant: "Men, up to now you've been good, clean, American boys with an American's love for...
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The House of Krupp
"It may be that the real evil done at Versailles was not the treaty itself...as these things go, it was no Diktat; the Germans' own settlement with the Russians at Brest-Litovsk had been far...
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King Edward VIII
extract from Chapter 17 of the Summer of '39 by Thomas Ericsson During the last weekend of August 1939, [1] the heads of the aristocratic families of the House of Wettin gathered at Veste Coburg, on a...
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The Cunning of Stalin Stalin was appointed general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee in 1922. After Lenin's death in January 1924, Stalin consolidated power by suppressing...
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General Patton
It was in 1945 that the Second World War started to unwind. But the war was not to end as quickly as it could. The Japanese attempted to end the war on 14th February 1945 when the American government...
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Lord Darlington
In Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel The Remains of the Day, Lord Darlington is modeled on Lord Londonderry. Below is a note on the life and career of the real Lord Darlington. The 7th Marquess of...
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21. Bernard Baruch
Against the background of the setting up of the United Nations Organisation in 1945...to attack the sovereignty of nations...the figure of Bernard Baruch first emerges from advisory shadows into full...
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The Coronation of General Eisenhower by Douglas Reed [1] Like that of a chancellor at a royal birth, the shadow of Zionism fell over the selection, nomination and election of General Eisenhower. His...
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