Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, KCB, DSO, MC was a British soldier, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during World War II. 'Mason-Mac' served in World War I, gaining the Military Cross. He served as Britain's military attaché to Berlin prior to World War II, proposing the assassination of Hitler, as well as to Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark and as Head of the British Military Mission in Moscow 1941-2.

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  • Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, KCB, DSO, MC was a British soldier, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during World War II. 'Mason-Mac' served in World War I, gaining the Military Cross. He served as Britain's military attaché to Berlin prior to World War II, proposing the assassination of Hitler, as well as to Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark and as Head of the British Military Mission in Moscow 1941-2. He was Governor of Gibraltar from 31 May, 1942 to 14 February, 1944, and witnessed the air crash there on July 4, 1943 which took the life of his friend Polish Prime Minister Władysław Sikorski. There is however a theory by Dariusz Baliszewski based on many contradictory testimonies of witnesses, many documents and the 'cui bono' assumption, which suggests that 'Mason-Mac' played a significant role in supervising the coup to eliminate Polish Prime Minister. Reason of the action was to stop disseminating Katyn files under Soviet threat of breaking the war coalition and to weaken Polish voice in further negotiations with Stalin . The access to the Special Operations files in the British War Archives is still forbidden, so there is some problem to falsify such a claim. He later served as Chief Commissioner of the Allied Control Commission for Italy in 1944, effectively head of the government. In the 1945 general election, Mason-Macfarlane was elected as a Labour Member of Parliament for Paddington North, defeating Churchill's close ally, Brendan Bracken. He resigned in 1946. His papers and correspondence are archived at the Imperial War Museum Department of Documents.
  • Файл:Mason MacFarlane and Churchill in Gib ht. jpg Макфарлан и Черчилль. 1942. Фрэнк Ноэль Мэйсон-Макфарлан — британский генерал-лейтенант.
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  • Lieutenant-General Sir Frank Noel Mason-Macfarlane, KCB, DSO, MC was a British soldier, administrator and politician who served as Governor of Gibraltar during World War II. 'Mason-Mac' served in World War I, gaining the Military Cross. He served as Britain's military attaché to Berlin prior to World War II, proposing the assassination of Hitler, as well as to Hungary, Austria, Switzerland and Denmark and as Head of the British Military Mission in Moscow 1941-2.
  • Файл:Mason MacFarlane and Churchill in Gib ht. jpg Макфарлан и Черчилль. 1942. Фрэнк Ноэль Мэйсон-Макфарлан — британский генерал-лейтенант.
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  • Noel Mason-Macfarlane
  • Мэйсон-Макфарлан, Фрэнк Ноэль
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