Karen Gershon , born Kaethe Loewenthal 1923 &ndash 1993 was a Germany German born United Kingdom British writer and poet. She escaped to Britain in December 1938. Her book We came as Children A Collective Autobiography uses a number of testimonies of kindertransport to construct a single account. ref J. M. Ritchie, work cited, page 4 ref One of her best known poems, I was not there , describes her feelings of guilt at not being there when her parents were murdered by the Nazi s. Works UK Poetry THE RELENTLESS YEAR New Poets 1959, Eyre & Spottiswoode 1960 SELECTED POEMS Gollancz 1966 LEGACIES AND ENCOUNTERS Gollancz 1972 MY DAUGHTERS, MY SISTERS Gollancz 1975 COMING BACK FROM BABYLON Gollancz 1979 COLLECTED POEMS Macmillan, Papermac 1990 GRACE NOTES with drawings by Stella Tripp , Happy Dragons Press, 2002 Non Fiction WE CAME AS CHILDREN London, Gollancz 1966, republished Macmillan, Papermac 1989 POSTSCRIPT A Collective Account of the Lives of Jews in West Germany Since the Second World War Gollancz 1969 A LESSER CHILD Autobiography, Vol.1 Peter Owen 1993 Fiction BURN HELEN Harvester Press 1980 THE BREAD OF EXILE Gollancz 1985 THE FIFTH GENERATION Gollancz 1987 U.S.A. WE CAME AS CHILDREN Harcourt Brace & World 1967 SELECTED POEMS Harcourt Brace & World 1967 A TEMPERED WIND Autobiography, Vol.2, 1938 1943 Northwestern University Press 2009 Germany WIR KAMEN ALS KINDER Alibaba Verlag 1988 DIE F NFTE GENERATION Alibaba Verlag 1988 DAS UNTERKIND Rowohlt 1992 MICH NUR ZU TR STEN BESTIMMT Karin Fischer, Edition Roter Stein 2000 External links Shmuel Huppert, http jwa.org encyclopedia article gershon karen Biography of Karen Gershon , Jewish Women s Archive http www.stella.tripp.btinternet.co.uk sj tripp.html Website of Stella Tripp , daughter of Karen Gershon, executor of literary estate of Karen Gershon http www.naomis books.com Website of Naomi Shmuel , daughter of Karen Gershon, site contains further information about Karen Gershon Sources Peter Lawson 2006 Anglo Jewish ... more details
Operation TOUCAN was a KGB DGI public relations and disinformation campaign directed at the military government of Chile led by Augusto Pinochet . According to former KGB officer Vasili Mitrokhin , the plot was originally conceived by Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov . The plot s twofold task was to organize sympathetic human rights activists to pressure the United Nations and generate negative press for the Pinochet regime. In 1976 , the start of TOUCAN, the New York Times published 66 articles on Chile s human rights record and four on Cambodia s Khmer Rouge and only 3 such articles on the human rights situation in Cuba. As part of operation TOUCAN, the KGB also forged a letter tying the CIA to an assassination campaign by Chile s Direcci n de Inteligencia Nacional DINA and many journalists, including columnist Jack Anderson columnist Jack Anderson of the New York Times , used this information in their news stories as evidence of the CIA s involvement in the more nefarious parts of Operation Condor . References Andrew, Christopher Mitrokhin, Vasili. The World Was Going Our Way The KGB and the Battle for the Third World . Basic Books 2005 Horne, Alistair. Small Earthquake in Chile A Visit to Allende s South America . Papermac 1990 Billingsley, Lloyd. http www.frontpagemag.com Articles ReadArticle.asp?ID 21008 Chili con Commies . Frontpage Magazine 24 January 2006 . Category Cold War Toucan, Operation Category Operation Condor Category History of Chile Toucan, Operation Category History of South America Toucan, Operation Category Soviet Union intelligence operations Category Cuba Soviet Union relations es Operaci n Tuc n KGB ... more details
Sir Richard Valentine Nind Hopkins , Order of the Bath GCB , Her Majesty s Most Honourable Privy Council PC 1880 1955 was a British civil servant . Born in 1880 to businessman Alfred Nind Hopkins and Eliza Mary Castle, Hopkins was educated at King Edward s School, Birmingham and Emmanuel College, Cambridge . ref Venn id HPKS899RV name Hopkins, Richard Valentine Nind ref First serving with the Board of Inland Revenue , Hoppy was appointed chairman in 1922. In 1927 Hopkins was transferred to the Treasury, where he became the Permanent Secretary to the Treasury in 1942 and served in that position until 1945. He is credited with the re introduction of economist John Maynard Keynes in the Treasury during the Second World War , whose influence proved to be essential in many economic policy decisions Middleton 2004 . References reflist div class references small Roger Middleton, Hopkins, Sir Richard Valentine Nind 1880 1955 , Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004 online edn, Jan 2008 nowiki http www.oxforddnb.com view article 33979 nowiki , accessed 24 Feb 2008 John Maynard Keynes Fighting for Britain 1937 1946 published in the United States as Fighting for Freedom , Robert Skidelsky, Papermac, 2001, ISBN 0 333 77971 1 US Edition ISBN 0 14 200167 8 div Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Hopkins, Sir Richard ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH 1880 PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH 1955 PLACE OF DEATH DEFAULTSORT Hopkins, Sir Richard Category 1880 births Category 1955 deaths Category Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Category Permanent Secretaries of HM Treasury Category Chairmen of the Board of Inland Revenue UK gov bio stub ... more details
Infobox Book name Seeds of Change author Henry Hobhouse author Henry Hobhouse country United Kingdom language English language English subject Human history, Plants publisher Sidgwick & Jackson 1st edition , Papermac 2nd edition release date 1985 1st edition , 1999 2nd edition media type Paperback pages 381 pages 2nd edition, paperback isbn ISBN 0 333 73628 1 2nd edition, paperback oclc 40753070 Seeds of Change Five plants that transformed mankind is a 1985 book by Henry Hobhouse, formerly a journalist for The Economist , News Chronicle , Daily Express , and the Wall Street Journal , consultant to the Quincentenary of Columbus Exhibition , Smithsonian Institution , Washington DC , and Chairman of the Rerstmoceux Science Centre . Seeds of change attempts to give an insight on how mankind s discovery, usage and trade of sugar , tea , cotton , the potato , and quinine have influenced history to make the world that we know. In the second edition of the book, Seeds of Change Six plants that transformed mankind , he adds the coca plant to the list. External links http www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov pmc articles PMC1139966 Seeds of change. Five plants that transformed mankind References Preface to the book Category 1985 books Category Theories of history Category History of agriculture Category Eurasian history Category Books about economic history Category Popular science books Category World history Category Agriculture books Category History books about agriculture Category Books about the history of science Category 20th century history books ... more details
File Frith Street London on a July morning.jpg thumb Frith Street facing south early on a July morning Image Ronnie.scott.london.arp.jpg thumb Ronnie Scott s Jazz Club at 47 Frith Street. Frith Street is in the Soho area of London , England. To the north is Soho Square and to the south is Shaftesbury Avenue . The street crosses Old Compton Street , Bateman Street and Romilly Street. History Frith Street was built in the years around 1680, and was apparently named after a wealthy builder named Richard Frith. ref name TLE cite book last Weinreb first Ben authorlink last2 Hibbert first2 Christopher author2 link Christopher Hibbert title The London Encyclopaedia publisher Papermac location London date 1993 edition revised pages 303 304 isbn 0 333 57688 8 ref In the 18th and early 19th centuries many artistic and literary people came to live in Soho and several settled in this street. The painter s Gresse, John Alexander DNB00 John Alexander Gresse was here in 1784, the year of his death. John Horne Tooke , philologist and politician, lived here in about 1804 John Constable lived here 1810 11 John Bell sculptor John Bell , the sculptor, in 1832 33 and William Hazlitt wrote his last essays while he was lodging at No. 6 Frith Street prior to his death there in 1830. ref name TLE Samuel Romilly , the legal reformer, was born at No. 18 in 1757, and the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lodged at No. 20 with his father and sister in 1764 65. In 1816 the actor William Charles Macready was living at No. 64, and over a hundred years later, from 1924 to 1926 John Logie Baird lived at No. 22 where on 26 January 1926 he demonstrated television to members of the Royal Institution . ref name TLE Today The coffee shop Bar Italia occupies No. 22 and there is a blue plaque over the door to commemorate Baird s TV experiments. Ronnie Scott s Jazz Club has been at No. 47 since 1965. References Reflist External links http www.londontown.com LondonStreets frith ... more details
Mary Ann Buzz Goodbody 1946 &ndash 1975 ref name Uglow Jennifer Uglow, et al The Macmillan Dictionary of Women s Biography , London Macmillan Papermac, 1999, p.232 ref was an English people English theatre director . She was educated at Roedean School Roedean and the University of Sussex . A product of the political and cultural upheavals of the 1960s, Goodbody regarded herself as a radical and a revolutionary who was involved in the feminist movement. Citation needed date July 2009 She was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain . ref name Uglow Very early in her theatrical career, she adapted and staged Dostoyevsky s Notes from Underground Notes from the Underground . This production won an award at the National Student Drama Festival and eventually transferred to the West End. Citation needed date July 2009 As a result of her success, she was offered a position with the Royal Shakespeare Company , where she signed up as an associate director. She thus became the first ever female director to work at the RSC. ref Sheila Rowbotham A Century of Women , p.408 ref Her productions in Stratford upon Avon Stratford The Life and Death of King John King John , Trevor Griffiths Occupations were noted for their radical content. In 1974, Goodbody played an instrumental role in establishing The Other Place theatre The Other Place , a small studio theatre in Stratford. It was put forth as an alternative to the traditional Royal Shakespeare Theatre and became highly regarded for its challenging versions of canonical plays. At The Other Place theatre The Other Place , Goodbody staged King Lear 1974 and Hamlet 1975 . Of the latter, The Times theatre critic Irving Wardle wrote an astounding revelation of the most excavated play in the world, ranking with Peter Brook s A Midsummer Night s Dream as the key classical production of the decade . Citation needed date July 2009 Goodbody was also associated with the Women s Movement and was a founder member of the Women s Street T ... more details
of France, 3rd edition Papermac 1986 ref Six centuries later, the field next to the abbey was bought ... and vineyards of France, 3rd edition Papermac 1986 ref ref name Johnson pg 269 270 H. Johnson Vintage ... more details
The Septemberprogramm German language German for September program was a plan drafted by Mattias Erzberger by 2 September and published by the German Empire German Chancellor of Germany German Reich Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg on 9 September 1914, five weeks into the First World War . It detailed Germany s specific war aims, and the conditions that Germany sought to force upon the Allies of World War I Allied Powers . On 4 September the Allies had signed and published the Pact of London , in which they engaged not to conclude peace separately during the present war . The Septemberprogramm was in part a reply to this, as it seemed that the Pact forced Germany to fight to the limit of endurance , with no possibility for a negotiated peace. ref Barbara Tuchman , August 1914 Papermac, London 1983, p.314. ref At the time, the Allies were being pushed back on all fronts, having been defeated in the Battle of the Frontiers on the Western Front World War I Western Front and the Battle of Tannenberg 1914 Battle of Tannenberg in the Eastern Front World War I East . Consequently, the German leadership expected imminent victory, and the territorial and economic demands made in the Septemberprogramm indicate this. However, as he was making his announcement, the First Battle of the Marne was hanging in the balance ultimately, Third French Republic France and the United Kingdom would halt the German advance at the Marne, and turn the tide of the war, preventing Bethmann Hollweg s plans from coming to fruition. War goals The proposed war aims included The annexation of Luxembourg . Disabling of France. A crippling war indemnity of 10 billion Reichsmarks for France, with further payments to cover veterans funds and to pay off all Germany s existing national debt. The ceding of some northern territory such as steel producing Briey , and a coastal strip running from Dunkirk to Boulogne sur Mer . The French economy will be dependent on Germany and all trade with the Britis ... more details
Sir James Frazer , The Golden Bough , p620, Papermac Edition, 1987, ISBN 0 333 43430 7 ref Often ... Sir James Frazer , The Golden Bough , p702, Papermac Edition, 1987, ISBN 0 333 43430 7 ref Rowan s alleged ... more details
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