Political Warfare Timeline 1940

Notes towards a chronology of the modern history of covert action with particular reference to the role of the Lovestoneite movement.
==January==
*13 Lovestoneites attack Trotskiyites over support for Soviet invasion of Finland.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.104.
==Feb==
*2 KPD leader Walter Ulbricht publishes statement attacking western allies. he is subsequently condemned in a joint statement by four German underground groups; Revolutionare Sozialisten Osterreichs (RSO), Sozialistische Arbeiter Partei (SAP), Socialdemocratische Organisation Neu Beginnen and the Internationaler Sozialistischer Kampfbund (ISK).The KPD and the Solidarity of the Illegals, marxists.org, accessed 17 January 2012.
==Mar==
==Apr==
*Jay Lovestone sends letter to Socialist Party convention.
*2 William Stephenson arrives in US on missionThomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
*13 B Herman criticises Lenin in Workers Age.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.128.
*20 German Communist Opposition Message appears in Workers Age.
==May==
*Brown informs Lovestone Homer Martin union defeated in Baltimore.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.131.
*1 May Day declaration of International Marxist Center.
*International Marxist Center May Day declaration published in Workers Age.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.294.
*3 Wolfe publishes Luxemburg's critique of Russian Revolution in Workers Age.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.127.
*8 The state Department's Adolf Berle dismisses evidence given to the FBI by Dorothy Thompson about Soviet agent Otto Katz.Stephen Koch, Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Munzenburg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals, Harper Collins, 1995, p.211.
*10 Churchill becomes British Prime Minister. Mahl p.10.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.10.
*14 Hugh Dalton appointed Minister of Economic Warfare in Britain.Terry Charman, Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42 in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.
==June==
*Death of Willi Münzenberg
*2 Miller Group meets a home of Francis Pickens Miller.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.25.
*10 Vernon Kell dismissed as head of MI5.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
*14 Nelson Rockefeller submits plan for Rockefeller Office.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.17.
*17 Lovestone writes Julian Gorkin. Morgan p.134.
*22 Lovestone warns of consequences of Nazi victory.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
*29 Lovestone warns against neutrality.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
==Jul==
*Lovestone facing ruin, debates war support with Bertram Wolfe.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134. Debates Fenner Brockway.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135. supports aid to England in letter to Bill Munger.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
*Special Operations Executive created.
*4 Wolfe writes Lovestone conceding he no longer represents majority on war question.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
*6 Lovestone calls for support for British war effort.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.70.
*12 Lovestone writes Wolfe challenging him over position on aid to Britain.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.134.
*16 Hugh Dalton given Ministerial responsibility for the Special Operations Executive.Terry Charman, Hugh Dalton, SOE and Poland 1940-42 in Mark Seaman (ed.), Special Operations Executive: a new instrument of war, Routledge, 2006, p.61.
*25 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting war stalemate.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
==Aug==
*Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC) holds its first public function.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.11
*Varian Fry leaves for Vichy France as representative of ERC.Eric Thomas Chester, Covert Network: Progressives, the International Rescue Committee and the CIA, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p.15 
*14 Lovestone writes Brockway against American appeasement of Hitler.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135. 
*16 Rockefeller office created.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's 1999, p.11.
*28 Brockway writes Lovestone expecting imminent end to war.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.135.
==Sep==
*David Dubinsky succeeds in securing the presidential nomination of the New York American Labor Party for Roosevelt in the face of Communist opposition.John E. Vargo, End of the Line for the New York Liberal Party?, liberalparty.org, accessed 25 January 2012.
==Oct==
*18 - Francis Henson writes to Ernest Cuneo, asking him to have Walter Winchell plug the campaign against isolationist Congressman Hamilton Fish in his column and on the radio.Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.110.
==Nov==
*19 Francis Henson interviews William R. Castle, a former diplomat and member of the isolationist America First Committee. Castle said after the interview, "So you are not a spy of the White Committee", to which Henson replied "If I am, I am a very open spy, don't you think?"Thomas E. Mahl, Desperate Deception, Brassey's, 1999, p.95.
==Dec==
*5 Jack Carney writes Lovestone in favour of war.
*28-29 Final convention of Independent Labor League of America winds up Lovestoneite movement.Ted Morgan, A Covert Life - Jay Lovestone: Communist, Anti-Communist and Spymaster, Random House, 1999, p.136. Alexander p.132.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.132.
*29 Lovestoneite resolution on war policy at final convention. Alexander p.72.Robert J. Alexander, The Right Opposition: The Lovestoneites and the International Communist Opposition of the 1930s, Greenwood Press, 1981, p.72.
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