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capacity over the extraordinarily powerful British Intelligence
Service.
Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the London Times.
Lord Lothian, Governor of the National Bank of Scotland, a
determined advocate of refusing arms to the Spanish democratic
government while Hitler and Mussolini supplied Franco with
them.
Tom
Jones, adviser to former Premier Baldwin.
E. A. Fitzroy, Speaker of the
The Right Honorable
House
of
Commons.
The
Baroness
Mary Ravensdale,
sister-in-law of Sir
Oswald
Mosley, leader of the British fascist movement.
To understand the amazing game played by the Cliveden
house guests, in which nations and peoples have already been
shuffled about as pawns, one must remember that powerful Ger
man industrialists and financiers like the Krupps and the Thyssens supported Hitler primarily in order to crush the German
trade-union and political movements which were in the late
igao
s
The
threatening their wealth and power.
Astors are part of the same family in the United States.
Lady Nancy
Astor, born in Virginia, married into one of the
England. Her interests and the interests of
richest families in
Viscount Astor, her husband, stretch into banking, railroads, life
insurance and journalism. Half a dozen members of the family are
in Parliament: Lady Astor, her husband, their son, in the House
of Commons; and two relatives in the House of Lords. The Astor
family controls two of the most powerful and influential news
papers in the world, the London Times and the London Ob
server. In the past these papers, whose influence cannot be ex
aggerated, have been strong
Ministers.
enough
to
make and break Prime
Cliveden House, ruled by the intensely energetic and ambitious
American-born woman, had already left its mark upon current