...Day. His selected guests would attend free, paid for out of civil funds, with anyone else who attended having to pay. The price was beyond most ex-servicemen and women were...
...and supervised the first free elections in February 1980. Few at the time anticipated the sweeping nature of Mugabe’s election victory or the ruthlessness with which he would exercise his...
...invisible prisoner had become a symbol of South African oppression. During the 1980s ‘Free Nelson Mandela’ became a worldwide campaign. His release was an act of political courage by the...
...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...
...‘Financial Dunkirk’ since March 1945, led the negotiating team to Washington in early September. Keynes and his team were seeking a grant in aid or at least an interest-free loan,...
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...
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...Soviet bloc countries to travel freely to the West. They were followed by the special trains which took East Germans through their own country from Prague to the Federal Republic,...
...Europe. Less specific but nevertheless important was Churchill’s tough stance in defence of freedom and the rule of law, for example in the drafting of the Declaration on Liberated Europe...
...political office after many failures. Opinions differ about his achievements, principles and legacy. Benjamin Disraeli Disraeli’s father was a free-thinking gentleman-scholar in London. His abandonment of the family’s Jewish religion...