...Western governments napping. But it should not have been such a surprise. Bevin was not the only one to foresee trouble. At the State Department, George Kennan also identified Korea...
...mutual suspicion underpinned the Potsdam discussions. Stalin feared the dominance of Western capitalism, while Britain and the US worried about communist influence in Europe. No peace treaty was signed at...
On 5th July 1948 the National Health Service was established in the United Kingdom. Britain was the first western country to offer free at the point of use medical care...
...brief Soviet campaign in Manchuria. Ever distrustful of the Western powers, he was on the alert for attempts to extend US hegemony, whether political or economic. That applied to the...
...a great deal more help would be needed from the US, not just for Britain but for Western Europe as well. The Financial Agreement of December 1945 was an early...
...Embassy Counsellor. Holman had arrived earlier in the month with the combination codes to the safes and 50,000 francs in cash. He took possession of the building from the Swiss...
...of international tensions that persist today: for example in relation to Britain’s imperial legacy, Russian suspicions of Western intentions and transatlantic differences over trade. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill on...
...venture outside the Western Hemisphere while in office was Woodrow Wilson in 1918. At the end of the Great War he crossed the Atlantic to lead his crusade for a...
...the Soviets, who wanted the western powers to leave Berlin. They also did not want Germany to be rebuilt. The final straw for the USSR came on Friday 18 June...
...Brigadier General E B Ashmore, and the transfer of some squadrons and better aircraft from the Western Front. Smuts submitted this first report little more than a week after his...