To this day, those on the Far Left are convinced that Wilson was ousted from 10 Downing Street by an establishment campaign of smears and threats.
When a Select Committee issued its final report, it absolved Lloyd George, Godfrey Isaacs and Herbert Samuel of any wrongdoing. At the time, many pointed to the Select Committee’s composition. The Chairman was a Liberal MP and six committee members were also Liberals.
Mass immigration from the British Empire was created by the passage of the British Nationality Act of 1948.
We must learn once again to be vigilant against infiltration by agents of hostile powers.
Bombs exploded in Tottenham Court Road, in Oxford Street, inside Harrods in Knightsbridge and at the London home of Edward Heath. Every person and every place was a “legitimate target” for this gang.
Powell was unique and transfixed Fleet Street’s imagination. Each speech comprised an element of his message to the country and radically departed from the Butskellite post-war consensus.
On 23rd December 1971, a fictional motion picture was released that became a box office smash. It was a populist trailblazer that set the scene for Nixon’s landslide re-election in 1972.
Conservative voters are sick of voting for a party that “talks Right, but governs Left”. In order, to get our voters back from Reform we should lay out a reasoned and comprehensive manifesto of distinctly Conservative policies. Time is running out.
The story highlights the necessity for increased vigilance when making appointments for all positions of influence within the ranks of the Civil Service, the Spads and Party employees.
Lloyd George hugely damaged his reputation by expressing sympathy with the Nazi regime. Worse still, his standing aloof from Churchill’s wartime government led to speculation that he was lining himself up to play the role of a British Marshall Petain if Operation Sealion was successful.
Having a very pacifist mindset a Labour victory would have sabotaged rearmament and arguably would have led to Britain becoming a vassal state of the Third Reich. WWII administered a strong dose of reality to Labour leadership, who successfully embarked upon secretly developing Britain’s first atomic weapons after 1945.
The allegations of Soviet links to Trump are said to date back to 1977 and initially involved the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic’s intelligence service, the StB.
Today, the Okhrana is somewhat overlooked and forgotten. However, in these troubling times it is worth remembering that Russian espionage predates the K.G.B. and Putin’s F.S.B. It is in the DNA of the Russian state.
Despite arguably being the architect of McCarthy’s downfall, Cohn extricated himself from this and for he next thirty years enjoyed an infamous and richly rewarded career as New York’s most brutal Attorney.