...bridge between East and West, to revive trade with Europe, and above all to keep on close terms with the US. The Anglo-American Financial Agreement must be seen in that...
...US and US sought ‘no aggrandizement’, or with expressing hopes for world peace and disarmament. But stating that the two countries desired ‘no territorial changes that do not accord with...
...cost: The question is asked – can we afford it? … Supposing the answer is “No”, what does that mean? It really means that the sum total of the goods...
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...developments and alleviate the burden upon them; and that could promote a better-coordinated government. This concept survived in various forms over the next hundred years. It remains relevant in government...
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...Exchange stating that ‘it is reported that his Hanoverian Majesty designs to visit his British dominions for three months in the spring’. The King claimed to be mystified by such...
...explained that their children also watched Western television and the most important thing that they could do for a child or a grandchild was take back a toy that was...
...that committed the three powers to establishing free elections and democratic governments. The fact that the Soviet Union failed to abide by its commitments does not diminish Churchill’s efforts to...
...It was agreed that there must shortly be an election, after the passage of the Reform Act the previous year, and his rival William Gladstone made sure of that by...
...impressive powers of oratory ensured that he would be the leading figure in what remained of the Conservative party. By the early 1850s he accepted that free trade could not...