...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...
...quotation from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers: ‘Quiet, calm deliberation disentangles any knot.’ Calm, and a much-reported family atmosphere, would develop as key features of the new Prime Minister’s No....
...and entrepreneurs arrived to make their fortunes. Welsh, Irish and Germans emigrated to make new lives in the newly opened markets and the cities. The SS Minosa1 left Liverpool in...
...take on this new role. The Prime Minister was clear about the tasks and objectives; he wanted the new Unit to be his ‘eyes and ears in Whitehall’. [vii] Donoughue...
...the European endgame Sir Winston Churchill. Image by United Nations Information Office, New York [Public domain], via Wikimedia CommonsPrime Minster Winston Churchill and Commander in Chief Field Marshal Montgomery repeatedly...
...entered the war in October 1950. The South Korean regime, led by Syngman Rhee, was supported by the United States. The DPRK invasion precipitated a conflict that lasted until 1953...
...board HMS Prince of Wales [Licence: Creative Commons Attribution Wikimedia] ‘The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty’s Government in the...
...succumb to communist expansion, and that only the United States could prevent the extension of Soviet domination to Europe, the Middle East and Asia Bankruptcy and bad weather In the...
...a new currency for all of Germany. This did not suit the Soviets, who had been stripping assets from East Germany as war reparations. In March, the Soviets argued that...
...bomb was tested successfully in New Mexico. Its use, on 6 and 9 August, would lead to Japanese surrender and the final end to the global conflict. At Potsdam, Truman...