...expanded into new areas of work, the biggest relating to the economic blockade of Germany. This developed in February 1916 into the Ministry of Blockade, nominally under the control of...
...Mexican Government. It indicated that the new policy on submarine warfare might bring Germany and the USA into conflict, and asked if, in such an event, Mexico would be willing...
When governments communicate, the medium can be as valuable as the message. In the modern age of instant news and response through social media, it is often easy to lose...
...wartime, the intelligence community had a hard time against the new Soviet threat. In March 1946, the JIC even admitted its reports were speculative given the ‘limited evidence’ on Soviet...
...according to historian Max Jones, became ‘the new orthodoxy’, and attacking him was ‘something of a national pastime since Huntford’s intervention’. Reputation restored Lord Curzon and Roland Huntford both had...
...safe to reassure him.’ There was also discussion as to the new name: Overseas Department, Office of External Affairs, Office for Overseas Relations were all in the mix - someone...
...fuel and shelter. The new ‘world organisation’, the United Nations, was planned but not up and running. Peacemaking machinery, including the new Council of Foreign Ministers, soon exposed dangerous cracks...
...a boon for supporters of the supersonic project. ‘An ungainly goose’ Although the crowd was excited, the reaction in the media was unflattering. The New York Times dismissed Concorde as...
...London in September 1948 foreshadowed a new role for emerging states in a changing world, making references to Africa in the NATO discussions ultimately anachronistic. Asia-Pacific All prospective NATO members...
...again Britain, led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George: to punish Germany, as per the mandate on which the new government had been elected, but also wanted Germany to be...