...and democratic capitalism was the prescribed prophylactic. In March, Marshall had told Bevin that ‘The United States were ready to pay a high price for the Unity of Europe’[1] and...
...United Kingdom’s air services. At the time the military air arm of the UK was divided between the Royal Naval Air Service, which was, as the name suggests, part of...
...crew unloaded a C-54 Skymaster in a record time of 5 minutes 45 seconds. British and United States air crew take a tea break outside a maintenance hangar, probably at...
...civilian population. For the Central Powers, there was no hope of a powerful, previously uncommitted ally joining their side with fresh supplies of men and materiel equivalent to the United...
...of the Poor Law. Three pandemic waves: weekly combined influenza and pneumonia mortality, United Kingdom, 1918 to 1919 Reference: PD-USGOV-HHS-CDC. Although the death rate in Britain over the course of...
...the integral, united, Armenian state. A major concern for the British Government was reviving the economy and returning men to production. There were logistical challenges about how many men could...
...Twitter @FCOHistorians [i] Foreign Relations of the United States, 1947, Vol. VIII. [ii] Documents on British Policy Overseas (DBPO), Series I, Vol. X, No. 27. [iii] DBPO, Series I, Vol....
...1940 about 11,000 children were privately funded to travel overseas, many to the United States. Between July and September 1940, a further 3000 were sponsored by the government to travel...
...United States, promoting free trade and convertible currencies, certainly preferred a European bloc, including Britain, to a collection of awkward independent countries. During negotiations for the implementation of the Marshall...
...met at Torgau in Germany, the San Francisco Conference opened to establish the United Nations Organisation. Anthony Eden wondered whether it was worth attending when ‘Anglo-American relations with Russia are...