...Wall in 1961 gave concrete form to ideological, political and military competition between East and West. Berlin problems were a useful stick with which to beat the other side, and...
...Far East as much as to Europe. For that reason, Stalin continued to hedge his bets in the bitter struggle in China between Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government - signatory of...
'We must base our foreign policy on the principle of co-operation between the three World Powers.' (Memo. by Sir Orme Sargent, 11 July 1945)[1] Prime Minister Churchill, President Truman and...
...office, he did not use it to enrich himself) and served as one of Walpole’s senior lieutenants in the House of Commons. Following Walpole’s fall in 1742, Pelham became leader...
Maurice Hankey (1877-1963) deserves to be far better known than he is today as the principal architect of the Cabinet Office in modern British government. It would be wrong to...
...and motivating large numbers of men, experience which he put to good use in his new post. He inherited an organisation, the General Register Office (GRO), designed by his predecessor,...
...Licences. Walpole was able to dominate government policymaking. He did so partly because of his political skills and because he held a position that Prime Ministers generally ceased to occupy...
...speech... Rather, he gave it in the House of Commons, beginning at 3.40 pm and sitting down at 4.14. By contrast with some later occasions – notably his ‘finest hour’...
...Redwood used so effectively? The Policy Unit The Policy Unit was established by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in March 1974. Wilson ’felt that he needed more political and policy advice...
...keep Labour out. But on 21 January 1924 Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin announced his resignation in the House, and ‘Thank God for that!’ rose from the Labour benches. The following...