...she were defeated she would not surrender her fleet but would send it to South Africa, Australia, Canada and other parts of the Empire. If this were done, American intervention...
...were success stories. In South Africa, apartheid was unravelling and British diplomats were giving their support to the reform efforts of President F.W. de Klerk. Nelson Mandela was released from...
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...
...(Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images) For the 1966 World Cup, FIFA allocated just one place at the tournament for a team from either Africa, Asia and Oceania. The man in charge...
...our publications, social media, seminars, conferences and visits to university departments The job is nothing if not varied. We are currently working on DBPO volumes covering relations with South Africa...
...Cabinet despatched the Minister of Food to Washington to plead for extra wheat supplies, to avert famine in South Africa and India, and starvation in the British Zone of Germany....
...key FCO diplomats: Robin Renwick (later Ambassador to South Africa at the time of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison) Charles Powell (later an influential foreign policy adviser to Margaret Thatcher)...
...the refusal of the Dominions of Canada and South Africa to countenance a naval arms race with the US - hesitated to commit the resources. A decade later the building...
...century as a critic of the British war in South Africa – a stance which had earned him the enmity of Tory imperialists. According to one legend, he had been...
On her 21st birthday in 1947 Princess Elizabeth broadcast from Cape Town in South Africa: I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short,...