Political Warfare Timeline 1940
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[2]
- 13 B Herman criticises Lenin in Workers Age.[3]
- 20 German Communist Opposition Message appears in Workers Age.
May
- Brown informs Lovestone Homer Martin union defeated in Baltimore.[4]
- 1 May Day declaration of International Marxist Center.
- International Marxist Center May Day declaration published in Workers Age.[5]
- 3 Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.[6]
- 10Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.[7]
June
- 10 Vernon Kell dismissed as head of MI5.[8]
- 14 Nelson Rockefeller submits plan for Rockefeller Office.[9]
- 17 Lovestone writes Julian Gorkin. Morgan p.134.
- 22 Lovestone warns of consequences of Nazi victory.[10]
- 29 Lovestone warns against neutrality.[11]
Jul
- Lovestone facing ruin, debates war support with Bertram Wolfe.[12] Debates Fenner Brockway.[13] supports aid to England in letter to Bill Munger.[14]
- Special Operations Executive created.
- 4 Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.[15]
- 6 Lovestone calls for support for British war effort.[16]
- 12Lovestone writes Wolfe challenging him over position on aid to Britain.[17]
- 19 Churchill authorises creation of SOE.
- 25 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.[18]
Aug
- 14 Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.[19]
- 16 Rockefeller office created.[20]
- 28 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting imminent end to war.[21]
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
- 5 Jack Carney writes Lovestone in favour of war.
- 26 American Federation of Labor forms American Labor Committee to Aid British Labour.
- 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.[22]
- 29 Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.[23]
Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 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.
