Political Warfare Timeline 1937
Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
Contents
January
February
- Bukharin arrested
- Wolfe visits Spain.
March
April
- Lovestone people in place for anti-communist push in UAW.[3]
- 7 - Lovestone arranges for purge of Flint local including Victor Reuther.
May
- 3 - May events in Barcelona
- 16 - Irving Brown beaten up trying unionise Ford plant in Chicago.[4]
June
- 16 - Arrest of POUM leaders.
July
- 5 Lovestone rejects official version of Stalin's show trial.[5]
- ICO statement against arrest of German oppositionists in Spain.
August
- 23 UAW convention opens. Splits into Pro and Anti-Martin factions.[6]
- 27 ILGWU's Julius Hochman to travel to Paris according to SIS report.
September
- 15 - ICO seeks rapprochement with London Buro.
October
- 5 - Roosevelt quarantine speech against agressor nations.[7]
- 7 - Lovestone urges fair Poum trial.[8]
November
- August Thalheimer warns of crisis in Soviet revolution.[9]
December
- '6 Security Service reports understanding between Willi Muenzenberg and Heinrich Brandler.
- 16 Roosevelt agrees to military talks at meeting with British ambassador.
Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.60.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.121.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.125.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.125.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.124.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.126.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.4.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.123.
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.152.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.4.
