...everyone else. Their Western allies – Great Britain, France and the United States – had also been committed since 1952 to ‘a reunified Germany enjoying a liberal constitution, like that...
...Atkins, White House Photographer @Wikimedia Commons Forty years ago, on the evening of Thursday, 8 August 1974, the 37th President of the United States addressed the nation in a television...
...in Europe and the United States, the announcement by the Labour government headed by Harold Wilson administered a severe shock to international confidence and to domestic opinion in the UK....
...a major triumph for Pitt, which saw the United Kingdom of Britain and Ireland come into being on 1 January 1801. ‘Oh my country! How I leave my country!’ Pitt...
...and Jordan, a show of force intended to deter Nasser from becoming closer to Moscow. Meanwhile, the UK Government under Harold Macmillan was preoccupied with unsuccessful efforts to promote a...
...peace. Woodrow Wilson, photo by Pach Brothers The speech When he declared war on Germany in April 1917 Wilson did so stating that the United States was an ‘associated power’...
...She saw it as ‘an unwelcome element of super-power bilateralism, conducted over the heads of the Europeans’. She herself was determined to take the lead amongst Western nations in supporting...
...overall codename for the Allied invasion of occupied north-western Europe. After months of detailed planning, involving much discussion, a certain amount of friction between Allied military and civilian authorities, and...
...that symbolised their service to the war (Figures 3 and 4); a code of conduct (although this was not uniform across the counties), and faced disciplinary action for misdemeanours.[12] Whilst...
...Using a German code which he knew had been broken by the British, he transmitted the message ‘The British are now running France’. Unsurprisingly, the French intercepted it. In spring...