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*'''3''' Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.</ref>
 
*'''3''' Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.<ref>Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.</ref>
 
*'''10''' Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.</ref>
 
*'''10''' Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.<ref>Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.</ref>
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*'''14''' [[Hugh Dalton]] appointed Minister of Economic Warfare in Britain.<ref name="Charman61">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.</ref>
  
 
==June==
 
==June==

Revision as of 21:28, 23 January 2012

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[3]
  • 13 B Herman criticises Lenin in Workers Age.[4]
  • 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.[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

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  • 4 Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.[18]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]
  • 19 Churchill authorises creation of SOE.
  • 25 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.[21]

Aug

  • 14 Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.[22]
  • 16 Rockefeller office created.[23]
  • 28 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting imminent end to war.[24]

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec

Notes

  1. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
  2. The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals, marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.
  3. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  4. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.128.
  5. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
  6. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.
  7. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
  8. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
  9. 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.
  10. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.25.
  11. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  12. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.17.
  13. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  14. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  15. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  16. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  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.134.
  19. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
  20. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
  21. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  22. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  23. Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
  24. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
  25. Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136.
  26. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.
  27. Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.