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Tango01 | 05 Sep 2017 9:23 p.m. PST |
… to Suppress Details of Nazi Plot. "In July of 1940, Nazi officials hatched a plan to kidnap Edward VIII, who had abdicated the British throne in 1936, and install him as a puppet ruler in England. It was a bit of a harebrained idea and it never came to fruition. But newly released documents from the National Archives reveal that Winston Churchill nevertheless worked furiously to suppress telegrams detailing the plot, as Alan Travis reports for the Guardian. Churchill's unseen letters belonged to a Cabinet file that was published on Thursday by the UK National Archives. According to Robert Hutton of Bloomberg News, the papers had been locked away in a "secret basement storeroom" with other documents deemed "too difficult, too sensitive" for the standard filing system. Among the recently published documents is a 1950s correspondence between the prime minister and U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, concerning captured Nazi telegrams that described the plot involving Edward VIII. Churchill had learned that the U.S. State Department was thinking about including copies of the telegrams in its official history of the war. In a memo to Eisenhower, Churchill expressed his desire to "destroy all traces" of the documents, according to Travis…" Main page link Amicalement Armand
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Giles the Zog | 06 Sep 2017 3:57 a.m. PST |
Yawn, nothing new, as any AVBCW'er knows. This secret basement…sounds like this ? "But the plans were on display . . ." "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them." "That's the display department." "With a torch." "Ah, well the lights had probably gone." "So had the stairs." "But look, you found the notice, didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard." |
ITALWARS | 06 Sep 2017 7:36 a.m. PST |
It's intersting that only documents "very politically correct" or confirming the official history.. pop out regularly..could it be that something else still has to be "found"?..i'm thinking for example at very obscure agreements between Mussolini and Churchill prior and during the Abyssinian Crisis and prior and during WW2…the only official visit for which there is not a pict and practically no officially released documents known to the public is the one by Chamberlain in Rome and, not only according to Pierre Milza books, it could also be very interesting if Foreign Office could release the files containing the probable very top secret acquired papers captured by partisans that SOE obtained in 1945 after the coward assassination of Mussolini in the hands of partisans , but ordered by British SOE, that could have revealed some kind of fish business between Churchill and Mussolini… |
Tango01 | 06 Sep 2017 10:27 a.m. PST |
Interesting points… (smile) Amicalement Armand
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Shagnasty | 06 Sep 2017 10:52 a.m. PST |
I don't think Churchill was in a position to make agreements prior to May, 1940. |
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