Political Warfare Timeline 1941 - Revision history

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 ==Sep==
+*'''18''' [[Adolf Berle]] wrote to [[Sumner Welles]] about the [[Office of the Coordinator of Information]]: "For your confidential information, the really active head of the intelligence section in [[William Donovan|Donovan's]] group is [[Dick Ellis|Mr Elliot]], who is assistant to [[William Stephenson|Mr Stevenson]] [sic]. In other words, Stevenson's assistant in The British intelligence is running Donovan's intelligence service." "Elliot" was in fact a covername for [[Dick Ellis]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception: British Covert Operations in the United States 1939-41, Brassey's, 1999, p.19.</ref>
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 ==Mar==
 *[[American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor]] formed during a US visit by the [[TUC]]'s Sir [[Walter Citrine]].<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.32.</ref>
 ==Apr==

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		+	*[[Union for Democratic Action]] founded.<ref>Arthur Meier Schlesinger, A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950, Hughton Mifflin, 2002, p.263.</ref>
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	*'''9''' [[Vincent Astor]] sends Roosevelt clipping of [[New York Herald Tribune]] call for intelligence co-ordinator.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.</ref>		*'''9''' [[Vincent Astor]] sends Roosevelt clipping of [[New York Herald Tribune]] call for intelligence co-ordinator.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.20.</ref>

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 ==Aug==
+*Nazis insist that [[Varian Fry]] of the [[International Rescue Committee]]  leave Vichy France.<ref>Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.16.</ref>
 ==Sep==

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 *'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref>
 *'''15''' [[George Meany]] negotiates no strike deal on behalf of [[AFL]] in a meeting between President Roosevelt and union leaders.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref>
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 *[[Sydney Morrell]] report on British front organisations in the United States.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, ''Desperate Deception'', Brassey's 1999, p.23.</ref>
 *'''19''' British business blacklist of German agents in agents proscribed under US law.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.18.</ref>.
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 ==June==
-*Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring [[Léon Jouhaux to London.<ref name "vanGoethem261">Geert van Goethem, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xEeyD0Q2O2YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945], Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.</ref>
+*Vichy secret service learns that British intelligence is attempting to bring [[Léon Jouhaux]] to London.<ref name "vanGoethem261">Geert van Goethem, [http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xEeyD0Q2O2YC&source=gbs_navlinks_s The Amsterdam International: the world of the International Federation of Trade Unions (IFTU), 1913-1945], Ashgate Publishing, 2006, p.261.</ref>
 *'''22''' - German invasion of Russia. Lovestone told new policy of [[Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies]] is to back aid to Russia while doing nothing to advance communism.<ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.137.</ref>

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 *'''23''' Last issue of Lovestoneite Workers Age announcing decision to go out of existence<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.32.</ref>
 *'''25''' Workers Age announces dissolution of [[Independent Labor League of America]].<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, pp.136.</ref><ref>Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.</ref>
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 ==December==
-*'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragfedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref>
+*'''7''' Japan bombs Pearl Harbour.<ref>Paul Buhle, Taking Care of Business: Samuel Gompers, George Meany, Lane Kirkland, and the Tragedy of American Labor, Monthly Review Press, 1999, p.122.</ref>
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