• Sir Basil Home Thomson, KCB (21 April 1861 – 26 March 1939) was a British colonial administrator and prison governor, who was head of Metropolitan Police...
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    David Lloyd George, Sir Basil Thomson was sacked, and the Home Intelligence Directorate was formally abolished. With Thomson out of the way, Special Branch...
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    At the outbreak of war he was able to work with Vernon Kell and Sir Basil Thomson of the Special Branch to arrest twenty-two German spies in England....
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  • fooled or lured. The 28th suggestion, inspired by a novel written by Basil Thomson, was titled "A Suggestion (not a very nice one)." This idea was the...
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    considered part of everyday life. Of the traditional religion in Fiji, Basil Thomson (1908:111) writes: "The religion of the Fijians was so closely interwoven...
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    Kingdom existed from April 1919 to December 1921 under the leadership of Basil Thomson as Director. John Carter was his assistant. They provided fortnightly...
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  • be found by the enemy. The following suggestion is used in a book by Basil Thomson: a corpse dressed as an airman, with despatches in his pockets, could...
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    arrested and taken to London, where she was interrogated at length by Sir Basil Thomson, assistant commissioner at New Scotland Yard in charge of counter-espionage...
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  • likely, that Basil Thomson knew Hardy quite well from the latter's extended stays in Dartmoor and other British prisons, and that Thomson had personally...
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  • one)", and continued: "The following suggestion is used in a book by Basil Thomson: a corpse dressed as an airman, with despatches in his pockets, could...
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