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Hace 3 días · The armed rebellion of the Mau Mau was the culminating response to colonial rule. [25] [26] Although there had been previous instances of violent resistance to colonialism, the Mau Mau revolt was the most prolonged and violent anti-colonial warfare in the British Kenya colony.
Hace 3 días · At this time, de Gaulle was leader of the Fighting French in exile in London. The Americans wanted General Giraud to lead a new French authority, but Macmillan was instrumental in persuading President Roosevelt, as well as Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to accept de Gaulle as a potential leader.
Hace 2 días · Prime Minister Harold Macmillan gave the famous "Wind of Change" speech in South Africa in February 1960, where he spoke of "the wind of change blowing through this continent". Macmillan urgently wanted to avoid the same kind of colonial war that France was fighting in Algeria.
Hace 3 días · It is, indeed, a constant threat running from the conditionality of Harold Macmillan’s first ill-fated EC application in 1961 right up to present-day debates over the potential shape of ‘Brexit’.
Hace 3 días · In early 1947 Butler, Oliver Stanley, Oliver Lyttelton, Harold Macmillan, and David Maxwell-Fyfe toured the country – each taking responsibility for a geographic region – to discuss the plans with leading Conservative businessmen and trade unionists.
Hace 1 día · ‘Events, dear boy, events’, the British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan was supposed to have answered when he was asked what the greatest challenge for a statesman was. The same goes for the werdegang (development process) the EU now has to undergo to think and act as a superpower, in the interest of securing freedom and prosperity in Europe.
Hace 5 días · Macmillan offered the first substantive consideration of a government role in the economy, a consideration that would become important after the Labour victory of 1945 made it clear Conservatives would need to retool their responses to a new electoral and industrial era.
