Political Warfare Timeline 1940
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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
- 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), Socialdemocratische Organisation Neu Beginnen and the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK).[2]
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
- Brown informs Lovestone Homer Martin union defeated in Baltimore.[5]
- 1 May Day declaration of International Marxist Center.
- International Marxist Center May Day declaration published in Workers Age.[6]
- 3 Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.[7]
- 8 The state Department's Adolf Berle dismisses evidence given to the FBI by Dorothy Thompson about Soviet agent Otto Katz.[8]
- 10 Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.[9]
- 14 Hugh Dalton appointed Minister of Economic Warfare in Britain.[10]
June
- Death of Willi Münzenberg
- 2 Miller Group meets a home of Francis Pickens Miller.[11]
- 10 Vernon Kell dismissed as head of MI5.[12]
- 14 Nelson Rockefeller submits plan for Rockefeller Office.[13]
- 17 Lovestone writes Julian Gorkin. Morgan p.134.
- 22 Lovestone warns of consequences of Nazi victory.[14]
- 29 Lovestone warns against neutrality.[15]
Jul
- Lovestone facing ruin, debates war support with Bertram Wolfe.[16] Debates Fenner Brockway.[17] supports aid to England in letter to Bill Munger.[18]
- Special Operations Executive created.
- 4 Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.[19]
- 6 Lovestone calls for support for British war effort.[20]
- 12 Lovestone writes Wolfe challenging him over position on aid to Britain.[21]
- 16 Hugh Dalton given Ministerial responsibility for the Special Operations Executive.[10]
- 25 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.[22]
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
- David Dubinsky succeeds in securing the presidential nomination of the New York American Labor Party for Roosevelt in the face of Communist opposition.[28]
Oct
- 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.[29]
Nov
- 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?"[30]
Dec
- 5 Jack Carney writes Lovestone in favour of war.
- 28-29 Final convention of Independent Labor League of America winds up Lovestoneite movement.[31] Alexander p.132.[32]
- 29 Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.[33]
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Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
- ↑ The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals, marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.128.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
- ↑ Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenburg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals, Harper Collins, 1995, p.211.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.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.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.25.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.17.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.11
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
- ↑ John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.95.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.