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

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

  • 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  • 4 Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.[15]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

Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.[23]

Notes

  1. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
  2. ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  3. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.128.
  4. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  5. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.
  6. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
  7. ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  8. ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  9. ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.17.
  10. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  11. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  12. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  13. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  14. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  15. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  16. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  17. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  18. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  19. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  20. ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  21. ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  22. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.
  23. ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.
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