On 23rd July 1959 British Home Secretary R.A. Butler made an important announcement to the House of Commons concerning the controversy about the obscene diaries attributed to Roger Casement. Besides admitting their existence for the first time, Butler briefly described the diaries and commented on how and when they had come into police possession. He … Continue reading The Casement Diaries: Fake Truth – The Case Of Mr. Germain
Basil Thomson
Basil Thomson And Distant Peoples And Their Languages
Last month I began a brief investigation of Basil Thomson, head of Scotland Yard and Roger Casement’s main interrogator in 1916, and a man who is closely connected with the Diaries. Thomson was anything but a narrow-focussed policeman. He was an agent of the British Empire with years of service in exotic South Seas … Continue reading Basil Thomson And Distant Peoples And Their Languages
Basil Thomson the Writer
Angela Clifford, writing in January’s Irish Political Review, focused attention on the remarkable man who was Roger Casement’s main interrogator. Sir Basil Thomson is well worth looking at closely. He can never be entirely ignored by anyone telling the Casement story, but he may be—and normally is—marginalised. He always seems to get less notice than he deserves. It has … Continue reading Basil Thomson the Writer
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