...support, was corrupt and creaking, and distracted by rigged elections leading to a new Assembly meeting on 19 June. South Korea was vulnerable: so, combined with the threat from the...
...Bay, off Newfoundland. On 14 August 1941 they signed the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration of principles drawn up when Britain was engaged in deadly conflict with the Axis powers,...
...China was desirable if it could be achieved without conceding too much ground. Westpolitik and Ostpolitik In July 1969 a speech by Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko indicated a new openness...
...and Briand for their efforts on Locarno. The previous year it had been shared between Chamberlain for his promotion of the treaty and the American Charles Dawes for his work...
...within the ministry and George III’s promotion of John Stuart, Earl of Bute , led first to Pitt’s and then Newcastle’s resignation. Newcastle returned briefly to office as Lord Privy...
...King turned as his new premier when Grafton resigned as Prime Minister (a term North never used of himself) in January 1770. Exceptionally conscientious North was an exceptionally conscientious first...
...full flow, he simply said ‘No’. Clement Attlee (The National Archives reference INF 14/19) It is difficult to envisage a twenty-first century politician passing up the opportunity to promote their...
...its Prime Ministerial occupants over the centuries. Features range widely over personalities and private lives, domestic and international politics, and challenges and successes, providing new insights into how the central...
...for over a quarter of a century. The idea of a woman presiding over Number 10, however, was something entirely new. How would she cope with power, with all the...
...to bring order to the Cabinet itself, in his new, peacetime role as the first Cabinet Secretary. A strong Cabinet Office organisation was built up, meetings were properly recorded and...