On 23/11/2011 08:59, charles wrote:
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Roger wrote:
On 23/11/2011 07:38, harry wrote:
On Nov 22, 9:15 pm, wrote:
On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 08:55:21 -0800 (PST),
wrote:

The whole thing was a commie plot organised and financed from Moscow.

Ah, Harold Wilson.

Well, he was suspectedby MI5 of being a commie/subversive taking
orders from Moscow, so maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Wilson#MI5_plots.3F

I had thought Wilson was supposed to be responsible for giving Rolls
Royce jet engines to the USSR but Wikipedia blames Stafford Cripps and
if the year was 1946 the date is probably too early for Wilson to have
been involved.

he was a senior civil servant at the end of WW2 at the Ministry of Fuel&
Power and he became President of the Board of Trade in 1947. No - it wasn't
too early for him to be involved.

Not exactly. He resigned as a civil servant in 1944 when selected as a
parliamentary candidate and occupied a university position until he
became an MP in July 1945. He was Parliamentary Secretary to the
Ministry of Works from then until July 1947 which doesn't seem to be a
position in which he could have had much influence over the decision to
give Stalin such a useful present.

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Roger Chapman