...wartime, the intelligence community had a hard time against the new Soviet threat. In March 1946, the JIC even admitted its reports were speculative given the ‘limited evidence’ on Soviet...
...and the India Office. By the time Scott was building his reputation as a geographer and explorer in the early twentieth century, the ‘Scramble for Africa’ and continuing naval dominance...
...safe to reassure him.’ There was also discussion as to the new name: Overseas Department, Office of External Affairs, Office for Overseas Relations were all in the mix - someone...
...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
...a boon for supporters of the supersonic project. ‘An ungainly goose’ Although the crowd was excited, the reaction in the media was unflattering. The New York Times dismissed Concorde as...
...example in Afghanistan. Yet when we look round the world in 2019, other regions loom large on the global security landscape: for example, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia-Pacific including...
...again Britain, led by Prime Minister David Lloyd George: to punish Germany, as per the mandate on which the new government had been elected, but also wanted Germany to be...
Seventy-five years ago today, on 13 September 1944, a Dakota aircraft, with an escort of 45 Spitfires, flew across the English Channel towards Paris. The plane carried the new British...
...he joined the Allied Relief Commission to Poland. In May 1919, he travelled to the Baltic as part of the mission there. The newly formed Baltic states’ independence was under...
...fuel and shelter. The new ‘world organisation’, the United Nations, was planned but not up and running. Peacemaking machinery, including the new Council of Foreign Ministers, soon exposed dangerous cracks...