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− | + | '''Sir Alec Douglas-Home''', Baron Home of the Hirsel, was a UK [[Conservative Party]] politician who was [[UK Prime Minister]] from October 1963 (the month before [[JFK]] was [[JFKA|assassinated]]) to October 1964. | |
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+ | ==Foreign Secretary== | ||
+ | Douglas-Home's first term as [[Foreign Secretary]] under Prime Minister [[Harold Macmillan]] from 27 July 1960 to 18 October 1963 straddled the death in mysterious circumstances of UN Secretary-General [[Dag Hammarskjöld]] in September 1961.<ref>''[https://gosint.wordpress.com/2016/11/05/the-boris-project-how-the-nsa-fooled-the-world-with-the-help-of-a-swedish-genius/ “It will be Necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short”]'' (Harold Macmillan — UK Prime Minister – 13 September 1961)</ref> | ||
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+ | And his second stint as [[UK/Foreign Secretary|Foreign Secretary]] under [[Edward Heath]] from 20 June 1970 to 4 March 1974 saw Britain's entry to the [[EEC]] in 1973.<ref>''[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/1/newsid_2459000/2459167.stm "1973: Britain joins the EEC"]''</ref> | ||
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==Bilderberg== | ==Bilderberg== | ||
− | + | Lord Douglas-Home was the second chairman of the [[Bilderberg]] conferences from 1977 to 1980.<ref>''"Twenty-fifth Bilderberg meeting held in St Joseph MO"''. Facts on File World News Digest. 14 May 1977.</ref> He was succeeded in this role by [[Walter Scheel]]. | |
{{SMWDocs}} | {{SMWDocs}} | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Alec Douglas-Home (politician, deep politician) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home 1903-07-02 28 South Street, Mayfair, London, England | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1995-10-09 (Age 92) Coldstream, Berwickshire, Scotland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | UK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Alma mater | Christ Church (Oxford) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Religion | Scottish Episcopal Church | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Parents | • Charles Douglas-Home • 13th Earl of Home • Lady Lillian Lambton | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Children | • Caroline Meriel • Diana • David | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse | Elizabeth Alington | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of | Bilderberg/Steering committee, The Other Club | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Party | Conservative | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
UK Prime Minister. Bilderberg chairman. Member of the Other Club
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Sir Alec Douglas-Home, Baron Home of the Hirsel, was a UK Conservative Party politician who was UK Prime Minister from October 1963 (the month before JFK was assassinated) to October 1964.
Foreign Secretary
Douglas-Home's first term as Foreign Secretary under Prime Minister Harold Macmillan from 27 July 1960 to 18 October 1963 straddled the death in mysterious circumstances of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961.[1]
And his second stint as Foreign Secretary under Edward Heath from 20 June 1970 to 4 March 1974 saw Britain's entry to the EEC in 1973.[2]
Bilderberg
Lord Douglas-Home was the second chairman of the Bilderberg conferences from 1977 to 1980.[3] He was succeeded in this role by Walter Scheel.
Events Participated in
Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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Bilderberg/1977 | 22 April 1977 | 24 April 1977 | United Kingdom Imperial Hotel Torquay | The 25th Bilderberg, held in Torquay, England. |
Bilderberg/1978 | 21 April 1978 | 23 April 1978 | US New Jersey Princeton University | The 26th Bilderberg, held in the US |
Bilderberg/1979 | 27 April 1979 | 29 April 1979 | Austria Baden Clubhotel Schloss Weikersdorf | 27th Bilderberg, 95 guests, Austria |
Bilderberg/1980 | 18 April 1980 | 20 April 1980 | Germany Aachen | The 28th Bilderberg, held in West Germany, unusually exposed by the Daily Mirror |
Bilderberg/1986 | 25 April 1986 | 27 April 1986 | Scotland Gleneagles Hotel | The 34th Bilderberg, 109 participants |
Related Document
Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
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Document:The Rossing File:The Inside Story of Britain's Secret Contract for Namibian Uranium | pamphlet | 1980 | Alun Roberts | Scandal in the 1970s and 1980s of collusion by successive British governments with the mining conglomerate Rio Tinto to import yellowcake from the Rössing Uranium Mine in Namibia (illegally occupied by apartheid South Africa) in defiance of international law, and leading to the targeting of UN Commissioner for Namibia Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988. |
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References
- ↑ “It will be Necessary to find some way of pulling Hammarskjold up short” (Harold Macmillan — UK Prime Minister – 13 September 1961)
- ↑ "1973: Britain joins the EEC"
- ↑ "Twenty-fifth Bilderberg meeting held in St Joseph MO". Facts on File World News Digest. 14 May 1977.