friends of freedom, do not despair

Those in the West — Great Britain, France, West Germany, and the United States — who were supposed to be the defenders of freedom against totalitarianism neither knew what they were defending nor had any willingness to put up the needed resistance to defeat the intellectual..

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re-reflections on the start of world war ii

In fact, it was West, especially Britain, that nurtured and encouraged Hitler, in the hope that he would use Germany's military might to destroy Soviet Union, much as Germany had destroyed Russia in World War. ... Neville Henderson, Britain's to Germany, let the cat out of the..

committee for a workers' international

These international meetings of the then G5 capitalist nations (the US, West Germany, Britain, France and Japan) demanded that Japan reflate its currency, allowing the dollar to depreciate against it to restore US competitiveness, thereby reducing its chronic trade deficit. ..

change of thrones in japan

The restoration, or Meiji (enlightened rule) from 1868 to 1912, saw a drive to modernization, catching up with the West, with a focus on Britain (children going to school in sailor uniforms is one of the consequences) and Germany (more accurately, Prussia, with the onus put on military..

table of contents - march 10, 2016

When Britain Saved the West: The Story of 1940 . y Jean-David Morvan and Séverine Tréfouël, with drawings by Dominique Bertail, photographs by Robert Capa, and text by Bernard Lebrun, translated from the French by Edward Gauvin . . ..

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