...will undoubtedly be maintained by our successors over the next hundred years.’ Patrick Salmon making his speech The full story of how the Foreign Office has used and promoted history,...
...his programme of free socialist development, toleration of dissent and the secret ballot would not affect external policy, the Prague Spring appeared an unacceptable threat to Communist solidarity. But the...
...Day. His selected guests would attend free, paid for out of civil funds, with anyone else who attended having to pay. The price was beyond most ex-servicemen and women were...
...publishing 2 eyewitness accounts of the Lancaster House conference. The first is a republication of a witness seminar held in 2005 which brought together many of the leading participants at...
...to co-operation in humanitarian and other fields: freer movement of people; human contacts; freedom of information; and cultural and educational exchanges. Principle VII and Basket III together became known as...
...‘Financial Dunkirk’ since March 1945, led the negotiating team to Washington in early September. Keynes and his team were seeking a grant in aid or at least an interest-free loan,...
...the freely expressed wishes of the peoples concerned’, and respected ‘the right of all peoples to choose the form of government under which they will live’ was clearly a threat...
On 5th July 1948 the National Health Service was established in the United Kingdom. Britain was the first western country to offer free at the point of use medical care...
...to the Spring, with the Summer months left free for politicians to pursue their other interests. This frequently meant travelling back to estates outside the capital, so the townhouses in...
...help in beating Japan, and was prepared to pay for it by conceding Stalin’s demands, whether to independent membership of the UN for the Soviet Republics of Ukraine and Byelorussia,...