...to co-operation in humanitarian and other fields: freer movement of people; human contacts; freedom of information; and cultural and educational exchanges. Principle VII and Basket III together became known as...
...of 1942. Their co-habitation lasted until Attlee broke up the coalition following the defeat of Germany in May 1945. The Great War prime ministers do not appear, at first sight,...
...helping over 200 Allied servicemen escape to England. At her trial she confessed freely to doing this. Many others, mostly Belgian, had been arrested with her, of whom 26 were...
...operation was underway, engaging with West Germany’s Ostpolitik and proposing a European security conference, while tightening the Soviet grip on East Germany, rejecting any idea of unification and engaging in...
...million men from the Indian subcontinent volunteered for service, producing the largest volunteer army in history. At the beginning of the war, in 1939 and 1940, there were Indian mule...
...issues like reparations, French security and military control of Germany was elusive. Lack of such agreement made the protection of British interests in the Middle, Near and Far East more...
...Goltz, some of the German forces that had cleared Riga continued into Estonia rather than leaving Latvia. Von der Goltz felt strongly that Germany had not lost the war on...
...Battle of the Marne. Many French historians regard this battle as the turning point in the war. For Germany, it came at the same time as a burgeoning domestic crisis,...
...was a problem. The radio signal needed to be strong enough to look like it came from Germany. To create such a strong signal, the radio transmitter had to be...
...they were, the Preamble stated, determined to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilisation of their peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law....