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*'''2''' [[KPD]] leader [[Walter Ulbricht]] publishes statement attacking western allies. he is subsequently condemned in a joint statement by four German underground groups; [[Revolutionare Sozialisten Osterreichs]] (RSO), [[Sozialistische Arbeiter Partei]] (SAP), [[Neu Beginnen|Socialdemocratische Organisation Neu Beginnen]] and the [[Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund]] (ISK).<ref>[http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/revhist/backiss/vol3/no4/kpdsol.html The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals], marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.</ref>
  
 
==Mar==
 
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*International Marxist Center May Day declaration published in Workers Age.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.</ref>
 
*International Marxist Center May Day declaration published in Workers Age.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.</ref>
 
*'''3''' Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.</ref>
 
*'''3''' Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.</ref>
*'''10'''Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.</ref>
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*'''8''' The state Department's [[Adolf Berle]] dismisses evidence given to the [[FBI]] by [[Dorothy Thompson]] about Soviet agent [[Otto Katz]].<ref>Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenburg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals, Harper Collins, 1995, p.211.</ref>
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*'''10''' Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.</ref>
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*'''14''' [[Hugh Dalton]] appointed Minister of Economic Warfare in Britain.<ref name="Charman61">Terry Charman, ''Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42'' in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.</ref>
  
 
==June==
 
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*Death of [[Willi Münzenberg]]
 
*'''2''' [[Miller Group]] meets a home of [[Francis Pickens Miller]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.25.</ref>
 
*'''2''' [[Miller Group]] meets a home of [[Francis Pickens Miller]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.25.</ref>
 
*'''10''' [[Vernon Kell]] dismissed as head of [[MI5]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.</ref>
 
*'''10''' [[Vernon Kell]] dismissed as head of [[MI5]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.</ref>
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*'''4''' Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.</ref>
 
*'''4''' Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.</ref>
 
*'''6''' Lovestone calls for support for British war effort.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.</ref>
 
*'''6''' Lovestone calls for support for British war effort.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.</ref>
*'''12'''Lovestone writes Wolfe challenging him over position on aid to Britain.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.</ref>
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*'''12''' Lovestone writes Wolfe challenging him over position on aid to Britain.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.</ref>
*'''19''' Churchill authorises creation of SOE.
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*'''16''' [[Hugh Dalton]] given Ministerial responsibility for the [[Special Operations Executive]].<ref name="Charman61">Terry Charman, ''Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42'' in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.</ref>
 
*'''25''' Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref>
 
*'''25''' Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref>
  
 
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==Aug==
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*[[Emergency Rescue Committee]] (ERC) holds its first public function.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.11</ref>
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*[[Varian Fry]] leaves for Vichy France as representative of ERC.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15</ref>
 
*'''14''' Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref>   
 
*'''14''' Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref>   
 
*'''16''' Rockefeller office created.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.</ref>
 
*'''16''' Rockefeller office created.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.</ref>
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*[[David Dubinsky]] succeeds in securing the presidential nomination of the New York [[American Labor Party]] for Roosevelt in the face of Communist opposition.<ref name="Vargo">John E. Vargo, [http://www.liberalparty.org/vargoarticlep1.html End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?], liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.</ref>
  
 
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*'''18''' - [[Francis Henson]] writes to [[Ernest Cuneo]], asking him to have [[Walter Winchell]] plug the campaign against isolationist Congressman [[Hamilton Fish]] in his column and on the radio.<ref name="Mahl110">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.</ref>
  
 
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*'''19'''  [[Francis Henson]] interviews [[William R. Castle]], a former diplomat and member of the isolationist [[America First Committee]]. Castle said after the interview, "So you are not a spy of the [[White Committee]]", to which Henson replied "If I am, I am a very open spy, don't you think?"<ref name="Mahl94">Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.95.</ref>
  
 
==Dec==
 
==Dec==
 
*'''5''' [[Jack Carney]] writes Lovestone in favour of war.
 
*'''5''' [[Jack Carney]] writes Lovestone in favour of war.
*'''26''' [[American Federation of Labor]] forms [[American Labor Committee to Aid British Labour]].
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*'''28-29''' Final convention of [[Independent Labor League of America]] winds up Lovestoneite movement.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.</ref> Alexander p.132.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.</ref>
*'''28-29''' Final convention of [[Independent Labor League of America]] winds up Lovestoneite movement.ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.</ref> Alexander p.132.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.</ref>
 
 
*'''29''' Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.</ref>
 
*'''29''' Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.</ref>
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==

Latest revision as of 15:29, 28 April 2012

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.

January

  • 13 Lovestoneites attack Trotskiyites over support for Soviet invasion of Finland.[1]

Feb

Mar

Apr

  • Jay Lovestone sends letter to Socialist Party convention.
  • 2 William Stephenson arrives in US on mission[3]
  • 13 B Herman criticises Lenin in Workers Age.[4]
  • 20 German Communist Opposition Message appears in Workers Age.

May

June

Jul

Aug

  • Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) holds its first public function.[23]
  • Varian Fry leaves for Vichy France as representative of ERC.[24]
  • 14 Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.[25]
  • 16 Rockefeller office created.[26]
  • 28 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting imminent end to war.[27]

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

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Notes

  1. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
  2. The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals, marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.
  3. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  4. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.128.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  6. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.
  7. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
  8. Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenburg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals, Harper Collins, 1995, p.211.
  9. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  10. 10.0 10.1 Terry Charman, Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42 in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.
  11. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.25.
  12. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  13. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.17.
  14. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  15. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  16. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  17. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  18. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  19. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  20. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  21. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  22. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  23. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.11
  24. Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15
  25. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  26. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  27. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  28. John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
  29. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.
  30. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.95.
  31. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.
  32. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.
  33. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.