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...that the Soviets intended to call a major conference of their satellites after De Gaulle leaves, in order to plan a joint diplomatic offensive against Western Europe. Obviously the Russians would like to use De Gaulle's abiding fear of a resurgent Germany and his desire to banish Anglo-Saxon influence from the Continent to achieve the old goals of Soviet policy: 1) a settlement in Central Europe along lines of a neutralized, disarmed Germany, and 2) withdrawal of the U.S. from Europe. Complains Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "The United States believes for some reason or other that...
...hero and called him Childe Harold; it directly inspired Sir Walter Scott to produce his greatest works, the Waverly novels. And even today Udolpho commands deference as the first successful thriller in the language and the proximate cause of the grand tradition of the grotesque that runs through Anglo-American letters from Wuthering Heights to Yoknapatawpha County. Reason enough to exhume the hoary old horror and reissue its haunting license. But there are still better reasons. In the game of suspense, Mistress Radcliffe can tease with the best of them, and in the art of natural description she can pile...
...tons of oil, Britain has reinforced her sanctions against Ian Smith's regime. The British drew on a resolution passed by the Security Council to put an "armed party" on the Manuela. Had the tanker reached Beira, the oil would have flowed through a pipeline controlled by the Anglo-Portuguese Lonrho Company to the Rhodesian refinery in Umtali...
...stubbornly to his position throughout the war, but his wishes were never made known or they went unheeded. At Yalta, when the Big Three formally accepted the British plan, Roosevelt was too ill and dispirited to continue the fight. No one protested that provision had not been made for Anglo-American access to ruined Berlin. Stalin didn't complain, either...
...Japan brought us up against the realities of power politics. Then we began to realize, for almost the first time, that the power structure of East Asian politics had been held together by the British navy in the nineteenth century, and by the British and Japanese navies under the Anglo-Japanese Alliance from...