Word: continente
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Before Australia was Australia it was the antipodes, the opposite pole to civilization, an obscure and unimaginable place that was, literally, the end of the world. And before it became a nation, this orphan continent on which European history had left no mark at all became the site of a...
West Europeans believe that an Iranscam-style scandal is unlikely in their countries for institutional and psychological reasons. In Britain, for example, there is no government equivalent of the National Security Council, only a benign advisory appendage to 10 Downing Street known as the Cabinet Office. Insists Field Marshal Lord...
Macmillan gradually began reversing Churchill's famous adage, "I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire." Macmillan's policy of accelerating independence for Britain's colonies was embodied in what was perhaps his most influential speech. "The wind...
It could be that the American people fear such zealots because they have been history's worst monsters, the ones who wouldn't stop until they had rolled over a whole continent, the ones who couldn't be bought off.
The crisis intensified Europe's growing feeling that it must join together to assert its strategic interests in superpower negotiations. Since the summit at Reykjavik, where the Europeans were horrified to see Reagan come close to abolishing their nuclear umbrella, calls for greater European security cooperation have been increasing. The...