...Egyptian leader would not work with the West or promote an Arab-Israeli settlement, and Britain should realign its policy accordingly. Britain’s oil supplies and trade routes to the southern hemisphere...
...China was about to be born, much to the dismay of the United States. In the Middle East, the newly formed state of Israel, having inflicted a series of defeats...
...Polish Signals Bureau sent a coded message to his French counterpart on 30 June that ‘there is a new development’. This was not a cryptologic breakthrough, but a willingness to...
...November 1967, the aftermath of the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967 (including the closure of the Suez canal) and a growing US balance of payments deficit exacerbated by the costs...
...of the size of the White and non-White populations. People were classified according to whether they were born in: the Old Commonwealth (Australia, Canada and New Zealand) the New Commonwealth...
...War: The Irony of Interdependence (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) Kathleen Burk, Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America (London: Little Brown, 2007) James Ellison, The United States,...
...HarperCollins, 1995) Jonathan Schell, ‘Reflexions on the Nixon Years’, 6 articles in the New Yorker, 1975; cited here, http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1975/06/30/the-time-of-illusion-v-the-script-and-the-players Keep tabs on the past. Sign up for our email alerts....
...made a confused statement about new regulations allowing citizens to travel to the West, which he said would come into effect ‘immediately’. Journalists took him at his word, the message...
On New Year’s Day 1814, the British Foreign Secretary, Lord Castlereagh, set sail from Harwich for Holland with a challenging brief: to build a coalition with Russia, Prussia, Austria, and...
...source: newworldencyclopedia.org Before the October Revolution in 1917 that put the Bolsheviks in power in Russia, their long-exiled leader, Lenin, had insisted publicly that in a proletarian dictatorship there would...