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.
Contents
January
- 13 Lovestoneites attack Trotskiyites over support for Soviet invasion of Finland.[1]
Feb
- 2 KPD leader Walter Ulbricht publishes statement attacking western allies. he is subsequently condemned in a joint statement by four German underground groups; Revolutionare Sozialisten Osterreichs (RSO), Sozialistische Arbeiter Partei (SAP), Socialdemocratische Organisation Neu Beginnen and the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK).[2]
Mar
Apr
- Jay Lovestone sends letter to Socialist Party convention.
- 2 William Stephenson arrives in US on mission[3]
- 13 B Herman criticises Lenin in Workers Age.[4]
- 20 German Communist Opposition Message appears in Workers Age.
May
- Brown informs Lovestone Homer Martin union defeated in Baltimore.[5]
- 1 May Day declaration of International Marxist Center.
- International Marxist Center May Day declaration published in Workers Age.[6]
- 3 Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.[7]
- 10 Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.[8]
- 14 Hugh Dalton appointed Minister of Economic Warfare in Britain.[9]
June
- Death of Willi Münzenberg
- 2 Miller Group meets a home of Francis Pickens Miller.[10]
- 10 Vernon Kell dismissed as head of MI5.[11]
- 14 Nelson Rockefeller submits plan for Rockefeller Office.[12]
- 17 Lovestone writes Julian Gorkin. Morgan p.134.
- 22 Lovestone warns of consequences of Nazi victory.[13]
- 29 Lovestone warns against neutrality.[14]
Jul
- Lovestone facing ruin, debates war support with Bertram Wolfe.[15] Debates Fenner Brockway.[16] supports aid to England in letter to Bill Munger.[17]
- Special Operations Executive created.
- 4 Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.[18]
- 6 Lovestone calls for support for British war effort.[19]
- 12 Lovestone writes Wolfe challenging him over position on aid to Britain.[20]
- 16 Hugh Dalton given Ministerial responsibility for the Special Operations Executive.[9]
- 25 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.[21]
Aug
- Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) holds its first public function.[22]
- Varian Fry leaves for Vichy France as representative of ERC.[23]
- 14 Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.[24]
- 16 Rockefeller office created.[25]
- 28 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting imminent end to war.[26]
Sep
- David Dubinsky succeeds in securing the presidential nomination of the New York American Labor Party for Roosevelt in the face of Communist opposition.[27]
Oct
- William Green of the American Federation of Labor states: "Labor firmly believes that we should have no part in this European War. We have no part in its causes and can have no responsible part in its adjustment. We want policy best calculated to keep us free of European entanglements.[28]
Nov
Dec
- 5 Jack Carney writes Lovestone in favour of war.
- 28-29 Final convention of Independent Labor League of America winds up Lovestoneite movement.[29] Alexander p.132.[30]
- 29 Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.[31]
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Notes
- ↑ Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
- ↑ The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals, marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 Terry Charman, Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42 in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.
- ↑ Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.25.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.11
- ↑ Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
- ↑ American Federationist, October 1939, p.1051 quoted in Joel Siedman, American Labor from Defence to Reconversion, Universithy of Chicago Press, 1958, p.21.
- ↑ Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.
- ↑ 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.
