We call upon the Government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all the Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith...
...if Japan did not surrender.4 A proclamation was issued on 26 July 1945 calling on Japan to surrender. Though the Japanese Supreme War Council sought Russian mediation, this was rejected...
75 years ago today, on 15 February 1942, British forces surrendered the ‘impregnable fortress’ of Singapore to the Japanese army. Defeat had come swiftly after the landing of Japanese forces...
...Germany, for a ‘World Organisation’ to ensure peace (the UN), for bringing the war in Japan to a successful conclusion and for the future of Eastern Europe, have been instrumental...
...by Hitler’s march into Prague, struggled to get Congressional approval for the amendment of isolationist legislation. The military party in Japan accused Britain of supporting China in the Sino-Japanese war...
...entered an agreement with Japan and in 1904 established the Entente Cordiale with France. From the British perspective, the Anglo-Japanese Alliance was created partly with the aim of preventing Russian...
...but in the final analysis Mussolini was bound to support Hitler. Japan Japan was also allied to Germany and Italy, and had been engaged on a brutal and destructive war...
...1949: signature of the North Atlantic Treaty Today, NATO is 70, its membership at 29. In recent years NATO’s remit and solidarity has been adapted, confirmed, extended and questioned, but...
...today, the term remains in use as shorthand for Russian security and intelligence officers. The Cheka’s symbols were the shield and sword, the first to defend the revolution and the...
...non-intervention had failed. The Far Eastern Context The outbreak of the Sino-Japanese war in July 1937 threatened British interests, particularly in China. Japanese policy was to dominate mainland China before...