Oo let 'em in?

Churchill arrived on the scene at 11:50 am to observe the incident at first hand; he later reported that he thought the crowd were unwelcoming to him, as he heard people asking "Oo let 'em in?", in reference to the Liberal Party's immigration policy that had allowed the influx from Russia.

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The siege was captured by Pathé News cameras—one of their earliest stories and the first siege to be captured on film—and it included footage of Churchill. When the newsreels were screened in cinemas, Churchill was booed with shouts of "shoot him" from audiences.

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Jacob Peters returned to Russia, rose to be deputy head of the Cheka, the Soviet secret police, and was executed in Joseph Stalin's 1938 purge. награда нашла героя

- Siege of Sidney Street

also very enlightening @spartacus-educational.com, especially sections Winston Churchill and the Siege of Sidney Street, Backlash against the Jewish Population, and The Death of Yakov Peters.

и жена французского посла

вернее жена американского "дипломата" - внятное объяснение того, что происходит в великой британии в связи этим эпизодом:

жена американского "дипломата" выехала с военной авиабазы в сельском Норхемптошире, поехала не по той стороне дороги, сбила мотоциклиста, мотоциклист потом умер, а жена сперва пообещала полиции остаться в стране, а потом улетела в США.

там много полезных ссылок, а также характеристика The Guardian в частности и британской прессы в целом.

British influence

. How Britain tried to influence the US election in 1940
. The fake news that pushed US into World War II
. Our Man in New York: The British Plot to Bring America into the Second World War by Henry Hemming [amazon]

also somewhat related Misrepresentations of American & Soviet Roles in WW II and the Cold War by Eric Zuesse / see at amazon (the guy seems to be a bit deranged, but he's very knowledgeable, tons of links and references)

Правительство Его Величества

Правительство Его Величества не имеет намерений поощрять любые действия или меры, препятствующие достижению японскими вооруженными силами упомянутых выше целей.

- Совместное заявление правительств Великобритании и Японии («Соглашение Арота — Крейги») 24 июля 1939 г.

via Накануне МолотогоРиббентропа

see also corridors of power

это BBC, детка

swallows wedding ring my ass...

это на BBC front page, рядом с Brexit Talks и Saudi Oil Attacks.

Devolved Parliament

Auction for Banksy artwork depicting MPs as chimpanzees

Alex Branczik, Sotheby’s European head of contemporary art, said Banksy was a modern-day Voltaire.
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The artist painted Devolved Parliament in 2009, when the word Brexit would have baffled people.

via

British politics

British tradition and stock

Margaret Thatcher proclaimed that the Falklanders were ‘of British tradition and stock’ and sent a task force to get back the islands, 8,000 miles away. - Daily Mail, June 2015

plenty of stuff on this all over the net, but here is a really good piece: Thatcher 'threatened to nuke Argentina'

Mr Mitterrand - who once described Mrs Thatcher as "the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe" - went on: "One cannot win against the insular syndrome of an unbridled Englishwoman. Provoke a nuclear war for a few islands inhabited by three sheep as hairy as they are freezing! But it's a good job I gave way. Otherwise, I assure you, the Lady's metallic finger would have hit the button."

см. также Война за Фолклендские (Мальвинские) острова
also Belgrano Inquiry: Is Maggie Thatcher a War Criminal? and British Use of Nuclear Weapons

The British empire may be dead, but a nagging desire to rule the world, or at least tell it how to behave, is embedded in the genes of every British politician. - Only Britain can beg for scraps from China and tell them how to behave by Simon Jenkins

corridors of power

Nor was the Nazi regime, in a time before its concentration camps and wartime atrocities, seen in such a monstrous light. It commanded sympathy within the corridors of power in Britain and in the United States, which was even more aggressively trying to avoid Europe's simmering maelstrom than the British under Chamberlain. - In defense of Neville Chamberlain

this is The Washington Post

It commanded sympathy within the corridors of power in Britain and in the United States - this is in 1938, after The Nuremberg Laws were introduced in 1935

see also @ prof-yura

also here:

At the beginning of 1938, most English people sympathised with German grievances, however much they disliked Hitler’s way of voicing them. The Sudeten Germans had a good case: they did not possess national equality, or anything like it.

Cato Street Conspiracy

The Cato Street Conspiracy was an attempt to murder all the British cabinet ministers and Prime Minister Lord Liverpool in 1820. ... After the bodies had hung for half an hour, they were lowered one at a time and an unidentified individual in a black mask decapitated them against an angled block with a small knife. Each beheading was accompanied by shouts, booing and hissing from the crowd and each head was displayed it to the assembled spectators, declaring it to be the head of a traitor, before placing it in the coffin with the remainder of the body.

это в просвещенной Британии в 1820-м

ср. с дикой самодержавной Россией в 1825-м

see also Peterloo Massacre (1819):

The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England on Monday 16 August 1819 when cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000–80,000 who had gathered to demand the reform of parliamentary representation. ... The exact number of those killed and injured at Peterloo has never been established with certainty.[65] Sources claim 11–15 killed and 400–700 injured.

also Gordon Riots

pinnacle of deceit

The violation of these terms when defenseless Germany was in the chains of the armistice amounted to a pinnacle of deceit on the part of the United States and the European Western Allies which could hardly be surpassed.

- The Forced War [pdf] by David Hoggan

The British ability to rationalize an essentially immoral foreign policy and to moralize about it has always been unlimited. -pg 60

Это смутно мне напоминает Индо-пакистанский инцидент.

see also @ amazon

also see The Forced War in Ex Libris

also

The Freeman’s Journal insisted that Chamberlain’s ultimatum to Kruger had been “modeled on the methods of the blackmailer,” and alleged that the British Cabinet “want war to satisfy revenge and the greed for gold.”

The paper professed amazement at the British ability to rationalize the country’s motives and conduct in the Transvaal, scoffing,“They are a wonderful people the English. There is a magnificent unconscious self-sufficiency about them which enables them to do the most unjust and the meanest things without the least loss of self-respect.”

- "To Hold the World in Contempt": The British Empire, War, and the Irish and Indian Nationalist Press, 1899-1914

schoolboy enthusiasm

Jameson took to the task of organising a coup with schoolboy enthusiasm. Though a rank amateur in military matters, he was supremely confident of his own abilities. - Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa, by Martin Meredith, pg 323

и далее, весь первый абзац главы 31, Jameson's Raid - очень забавно.

в целом главы о самой войне 1899-1902 годов оставляют ясное впечатление: Британия начала войну с целью свержения законного правительства суверенного государства для расширения имперских владений. what else is new? nothing. просто нужно иметь в виду, что Первая мировая началась через 15 лет, Вторяя - через 38, советско-финская - через 40, и нечего британцам было большие глаза делать в 1938-м. ну или скажем В 1925 году Великобритания официально объявила Кипр своей коронной колонией. - это как?

see also comical tendency

см. также правь британия

pre-eminence

Если бы Британии пришлось выбирать между миром с одной стороны и потерей своего выдающегося международного значения с другой - должен твердо заявить, мир такой ценой будет унижением, нетерпимым для такой великой нации, как наша. - Ллойд Джордж

If Britain were forced to choose between peace on the one hand and the surrender of her international pre-eminence on the other, then i say emphatically that peace at that price would be a humiliation intolerable for a great nation like ours to endure. - David Lloyd George as quoted in Sleepwalkers

comical tendency

First there is Crowe’s almost comical tendency to view the wars, protectorates, occupations and annexations of imperial Britain as a natural and desirable state of affairs, and the comparatively ineffectual manoeuvres of the Germans as gratuitous and outrageous breaches of the peace. How impossible of the Germans to pester Britain on the Samoa question when London was on the point of "submitting" its quarrel with the Transvaal "to the arbitrament of war"! - The Sleepwalkers, as quoted here

оборона Британии в Афганистане

британский министр обороны сказал, что войска находятся в Афганистане ради безопасности Британии, а не для "проведения политики образования в broken стране XIII века." - BBC News

He had said troops were there for UK security not for "the education policy in a broken 13th-century country".