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Hace 2 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 · 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 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 5 días · To lend a sense of continuity throughout the book, we are introduced to a rotating cast of characters—such as Barbara Castle, Michael Foot, Harold Macmillan and Keith Joseph—who exemplify different ideas and ideologies, with direct links and parallels between these figures weaving through the three case studies.
Hace 5 días · Finally, discussions of Anthony Eden’s Another World: 1897–1917 and the first volume of Harold Macmillan’s Winds of Change, 1914–1939, like those of Carrington’s 1965, Chapman’s 1975 and Reith’s 1966 memoirs, further highlight the complex nature of the war’s ‘end’ in the minds of servicemen, providing Bond with ...
Hace 1 día · Five years later, Harold Wilson attempted to float the idea of a head-to-head debate with Harold Macmillan and would claim that Macmillan had accepted.
Hace 13 horas · ‘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.
