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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 · 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 5 días · 31 May 2024. PDF. Split View. Cite. Permissions. Share. Issue Section: Review. British politics in recent years has been chaotic and confusing. The 2007–8 financial crisis elicited an outpouring of analysis and discussion.
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 2 días · From the very beginning of the book, the reader gets a sense of the profound political and economic challenges Britain faced at the time: the balance of payments fell from a £1 billion surplus in 1971 to a £3.3 billion deficit in 1974, the stock exchange had at one point lost 73 per cent of its value, and inflation peaked at almost 25 per cent i...
Hace 12 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.
