Otherwise because the First World War was by no means over, andĪlthough the Russians had signed a treaty and stopped fighting, theīritish wanted to encourage the establishment of an Eastern Front toĮase pressure on the Western Front. The new regime and Britain would be beneficial. Sympathetic to the Bolshevik cause, and he thought that links between Undefined because the Russian Revolution had severed ties between the He was sent there in 1911 as a Vice-Council. Only aged 31 but he had already gained some experience of Russia when Suggesting that he might be useful to their cause.

It was there that Maxim Litvinov wrote a letter in graceful CyrillicĬharacters addressed to Citizen Trotsky introducing Lockhart, House in London four men met for lunch, two Russians and two British. Literature before becoming a career diplomat, he was a rubber The famous Motozovski team, and enjoyed art, the theatre, poetry and

He was also fond of fishing, played football in Moscow for Knowledge of six, including Malay and Russian, which he spoke withoutĪn accent. He had a great facility in learning languages, claiming Leaving the University of Cambridge, he went to Berlin to learn Stuck out, but he had no difficulty in attracting the ladies. Was certainly not a tall Scotsman, being 5-ft 7-in tall, and his ears Hove resident, Bernard Falk, was sent to Russia as a reporter inĪnd liked to boast that he did not posses a drop of English blood. (1929-1931) in the second Labour Government, who once lived in Was denied entry to Britain by Joseph Robert Clynes, Home Secretary

Litvinov all later lived at Hove as a further twist, Leon Trotsky Involved in the plot, his only son Robin Bruce Lockhart and Ivy To a turbulent time in history that Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, who was Planning for the Lockhart Plot at Hove, it is a fascinating footnote Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart lived in 1970. 6 Walsingham Road, the former nursing home where

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