The British American Project for the Successor Generation - Revision history

Crosbie Smith: linked Laurence Stern fellowship

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linked Laurence Stern fellowship

David at 06:38, 2 April 2009

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Eveline at 12:36, 14 May 2007

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Eveline at 12:35, 14 May 2007

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Eveline at 12:15, 14 May 2007

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Eveline at 12:13, 14 May 2007

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Eveline at 12:12, 14 May 2007

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David: /* BAP people */

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 Readers who have followed this catalogue of careers and connections thus far might ask why they have read and heard nothing of the Successor Generation network in the media - after all, it has been in existence since 1985 and some quite important figures have taken part in its deliberations.
-One reason might be that the network contains lots of journalists, a group who are often less willing to disclose their own activities than those of others. Of the most familiar names [[James Naughtie]], the co-presenter of Radio Four's daily current affairs programme Today, is probably least surprising to find on the BAP's list of alumni.  Naughtie's postgraduate studies were in New York at Syracuse and in 1981 he was awarded the Laurence M Stern Fellowship to spend a summer working on the Washington Post. A review of his radio documentary output makes it clear that transatlantic relations are a key field of interest.
+One reason might be that the network contains lots of journalists, a group who are often less willing to disclose their own activities than those of others. Of the most familiar names [[James Naughtie]], the co-presenter of Radio Four's daily current affairs programme Today, is probably least surprising to find on the BAP's list of alumni.  Naughtie's postgraduate studies were in New York at Syracuse and in 1981 he was awarded the [[Laurence Stern fellowship|Laurence M Stern Fellowship]] to spend a summer working on the Washington Post. A review of his radio documentary output makes it clear that transatlantic relations are a key field of interest.
 [[Jeremy Paxman]], Newsnight interviewer was a BAP participant in 1990, along with BBC current affairs producer [[Margaret Hill]]. [[Christopher Cragg]] of the Financial Times, kept them company, as did [[George Brock]], the foreign editor of the Times.

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	A decade after calling on his visiting White House multi-millionaires to help create a reliable 'successor generation', a fitter Ronald Reagan might today have cause for a chuckle. The Labour administration his successor [[Bill Clinton]] came to smile upon in May seems safely in the hands of an elite well-groomed in the ways of Atlantic cooperation.		A decade after calling on his visiting White House multi-millionaires to help create a reliable 'successor generation', a fitter Ronald Reagan might today have cause for a chuckle. The Labour administration his successor [[Bill Clinton]] came to smile upon in May seems safely in the hands of an elite well-groomed in the ways of Atlantic cooperation.
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	Issue 33 – 1997, Summer. Retrievable for subscribers from [http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-02.htm www.lobster-magazine.co.uk ]		Issue 33 – 1997, Summer. Retrievable for subscribers from [http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-02.htm www.lobster-magazine.co.uk ]
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-Retrievable for subscribers from [[www.lobster-magazine.co.uk http://www.lobster-magazine.co.uk/online/issue33/lob33-02.htm]]
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-*[[George Robertson]] One of the Britons chosen for the delicate task of selecting participants for the Successor Generation project was George Robertson MP, the former Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland who, to the surprise of some, was made Defence Secretary in the new Blair government. Why there should have been any shock in this move is in itself surprising because Robertson has been a pillar of the Anglo-American/NATO establishment from the time he left the service of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (as it then was called) in 1978 to become Labour MP for Hamilton.
+*[[George Robertson]] One of the Britons chosen for the delicate task of selecting participants for the Successor Generation project was George Robertson MP, the former Shadow Secretary of State for Scotland who, to the surprise of some, was made Defence Secretary in the new Blair government. Why there should have been any shock in this move is in itself surprising because Robertson has been a pillar of the Anglo-American/NATO establishment from the time he left the service of the General and Municipal Workers' Union (as it then was called) in 1978 to become Labour MP for Hamilton. A former secretary of the right-wing Labour Manifesto group (most of whose members defected to the Social Democratic party in 1981), Robertson joined the government-funded [[British Atlantic Committee]] in the same year that it was publicly attacking the Labour party's non-nuclear defence policy. He was on the Council of the [[Royal Institute for International Affairs]] (Chatham House) from 1984 to 1991 and on the steering committee of the annual Konigswinter conference for much of that time. He has been a governor of the [[Ditchley Foundation]] since 1989 and was vice-chairman of the [[Westminster Foundation for Democracy]] from 1992 to 1994.  A man more likely to be given the defence brief and less likely to include the possession of nuclear weapons in the Blair government's newly announced defence review can scarcely be imagined.
 *[[David Lipsey]] Robertson was helped in the task of selecting promising transatlantic talent for the early years of the BAP by David Lipsey, a man who also started life as a researcher with the GMWU. After Oxford Lipsey got to know and admire [[Anthony Crosland]], the Gaitskellite MP, author of The Future of Socialism and one-time consultant to the CIA-funded [[Congress for Cultural Freedom]].  Crosland became Lipsey's mentor, hiring him as adviser at the Department for Environment and then at the Foreign Office.  After Crosland's death in 1977, Lipsey  moved to the office of Prime Minister [[James Callaghan]].  With the defeat of Labour in 1979 Lipsey switched to journalism, first at New Society and then the Sunday Times before returning as editor of New Society in 1986.
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 *[[Alan Lee Williams]] Williams was Labour party national youth officer under [[Hugh Gaitskell]]'s leadership before becoming an MP. He was parliamentary private secretary when [[Roy Mason]] was Defence Secretary and he followed when Mason became Northern Ireland Secretary.  Defence was a constant interest of Williams, chairing the Parliamentary Labour Party's Defence Committee and, after losing his Hornchurch seat in 1979, chairing Peace Through NATO. In addition to work for the [[European Movement]] - he was treasurer from 1972 to 1979 - he has strong US links. He is currently director of the [[Atlantic Council of the United Kingdom|Atlantic Council]]. He became one of [[David Rockefeller]]'s [[Trilateral Commission]] members in 1976 and has chaired the European working group of the right-wing [[Centre for Strategic and International Studies]] in Washington since 1987. In 1981, Williams was one of the founding members of the [[Social Democratic party]] and subsequently of the Liberal Democratic alliance.
-*[[Richard Holme]]Lord Holme of Cheltenham came to that alliance via the Liberal party of which he was president in the year the SDP was launched. After Oxford and Harvard, Richard Holme became active in the Liberal party and stood for them unsuccessfully on several occasions. A director of RTZ-CRA, which now helps fund the Successor Generation project, Holme is a central figure in 'centre' politics. He has directed the Campaign for Electoral Reform; chaired the Constitutional Reform Centre; remains a director of Political Quarterly, as well as vice-chairman of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government and, in addition,  chairs [[Threadneedle Publishing]], a major publisher of political reference works.
+*[[Richard Holme]] Lord Holme of Cheltenham came to that alliance via the Liberal party of which he was president in the year the SDP was launched. After Oxford and Harvard, Richard Holme became active in the Liberal party and stood for them unsuccessfully on several occasions. A director of RTZ-CRA, which now helps fund the Successor Generation project, Holme is a central figure in 'centre' politics. He has directed the Campaign for Electoral Reform; chaired the Constitutional Reform Centre; remains a director of Political Quarterly, as well as vice-chairman of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government and, in addition,  chairs [[Threadneedle Publishing]], a major publisher of political reference works.
 He has been chairman of Brassey's, the defence publishers once owned by [[Robert Maxwell]] with a US subsidiary chaired by the late Senator [[John Tower]], (President George Bush's unsuccessful nomination for Defence Secretary).  He took over the chairmanship of the consultancy firm [[Prima Europe]] from [[Dick Taverne]], the former Labour MP turned Social Democrat. Until his election as policy adviser to the Blair government, Prima also employed [[Roger Liddle]], the former SDP candidate who jointly authored The Blair Revolution with [[Peter Mandelson]].