...to the Dominions, particularly to Canada, Australia and New Zealand, before the risk from torpedo attack at sea was deemed too great. This comparatively short-lived and voluntary scheme was one...
...been less welcome if the British Government knew how strong his connections were to Hermann Göring, President of the German Parliament. Hermann Göring in Nazi Party uniform wearing the order...
...Declaration of Independence (UDI) in 1965, and ushered in the newly independent state of Zimbabwe. The Lancaster House Agreement represented an early diplomatic success for the new Conservative government of...
...support, was corrupt and creaking, and distracted by rigged elections leading to a new Assembly meeting on 19 June. South Korea was vulnerable: so, combined with the threat from the...
...Bay, off Newfoundland. On 14 August 1941 they signed the Atlantic Charter, a joint declaration of principles drawn up when Britain was engaged in deadly conflict with the Axis powers,...
...China was desirable if it could be achieved without conceding too much ground. Westpolitik and Ostpolitik In July 1969 a speech by Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko indicated a new openness...
...subsequent decisions to replace or renew atomic weapons systems. Such decisions are always controversial and difficult, but they are also impossible not to take.[2] The decision in January 1947 formalised...