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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"Foreign Office"”.
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The Foreign Office and international sport: 1918-1948
This thesis examines the Foreign Office's involvement in international sport from the end of the First World War to 1948, with an introductory survey of earlier incidents. The evolution of political intervention in the cultural area of sport is traced in an attempt to give historical perspective to …
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Armed Peace: the Foreign Office and the Soviet Union, 1945-1953
… role of the Northern Department of the British Foreign Office and its perception of, and attitude towards, the Soviet Union between 1945 and 1953. In these formative years after World War II many assumptions and policies were shaped that proved decisive for years to come. The Northern Department …
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Shaping the future of the world : Eden, the Foreign Office and British foreign policy 1941-1943
… the same, the under-examination of British foreign policy during the war. The history that has been written has struggled to break from the picture Churchill painted in ‘The Second World War’, presenting the inevitability of the Anglo-American special relationship and minimising the …
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The Foreign Office and policy-making in China, 1945-1950 : Anglo-American relations and the recognition of Communist China
… of the Cold War. In particular it focuses on the Foreign Office attitude towards the course of the Chinese Civil War, and ultimately the establishment of a Communist government in China between 1945 and 1950. It is a revisionist interpretation of cold war history drawn from a study of …
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Our brothers across the ocean? : Unionist diplomacy, the Lansdown Foreign Office, and the Anglo-American 'special relationship', 1900-1905
… which the Marquis of Lansdowne presided at the Foreign Office. Without doubt, this was a critical time in the readjustment (both in substance and style) of Anglo-American diplomatic relations, initiating the amicable 'special relationship' which, broadly speaking, has endured to the present day. …
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Shades of Grey : Anglo-German Diplomacy and Eyre Crowe, 1905-1914
In January of 1907, British Foreign Official Eyre Crowe wrote a memorandum detailing the present relations between Great Britain, France and Germany. In this memorandum, Crowe argued that war between Britain and Germany could not be avoided for long. This study examines Eyre Crowe's influence in …
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Art and Foreign Cultural Policy in Weimar Germany, 1917-1933
… propaganda and then ‘mobilised’ as a form of foreign cultural policy in Weimar Germany from 1917 until 1933. It questions how, why and with what intentions the German Federal Foreign Office pursued an official representation of the new Republic abroad through art, at a time when the visual …
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Anglo-Austrian Diplomatic Backchannels from the Juliputsch to the Anschluss, 1934-38
… multiple, conflicting cohorts within the British Foreign Office contending to shape policy towards Austria in the 1930s. In so doing, I illustrate how the pro-Austria camp, which was comprised mainly of diplomats stationed in Vienna, resorted to innovative, covert means to wage their battle beyond …
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John Buchan (1875-1940) and the First World War: A Scot's Career in Imperial Britain
… and Strachey papers at the House of Lords Record Office, London, and in the Liddle Hart Collection at King's College, London. Documents concerning Buchan's association with the War Cabinet, the Foreign Office, and the Department of Information are among those preserved at the Public Record Office, …
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British influence on the Antarctic treaty system 1959-64
… Roberts (Head of Polar Regions Section in the Foreign Office from 1943 to 1975) serve as the primary source for this study, along with official Foreign Office documents from the period and secondary sources from Britain and around the world. The negotiations are traced with regard to -: 1. The …
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The apple of discord : the impact of the Levant on Anglo-French relations during 1943
… policies, the mounting tensions between the Foreign Office and its principal representative in the Levant and between Churchill and de Gaulle are explored. The influence of deteriorating AngloFrench relations in the Levant on the Churchill-de Gaulle relationship is considered as are the …
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Britain, France and the Rearmament of the Federal Republic of Germany 1947 - 1954: Cooperation and Discord
… Western allies the breakdown of the Council of Foreign Ministers in 1947 and the onset of the cold war precipitated the controversy over Germany's future and established perceptions of the Soviet threat. Through the investigation of British and French diplomatic archives, the aim of this thesis …
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The struggle over, and impact of, media portrayals of Northern Ireland
… in the conflict, from the Northern Ireland Office, Royal Ulster Constabulary, Foreign Office and Army to Sinn Fén and the Irish Republican Army, via the Ulster Defence Association, other political parties, Civil liberties and human rights organisations and many others. It reveals the …
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The German naval menace: the relationship between the press and diplomacy in the Dreadnought Era 1904-1914, an era of misperception?
… their pages which caused a misperception of foreign and naval policy. Moreover, British attempts to secure its trade routes across the globe had the unintentional effect of making Germany less secure. The thesis provides a chronological account of the Anglo-German arms race. Topics discussed …
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The policies and position of the British Council from the outbreak of war to 1950
… have been placed in the wider context of British foreign policy. The thesis is based mainly on unpublished and largely untapped primary sources, in particular the archives of the British Council and those Foreign Office Departments that dealt with its work. As this is a pioneering work, much …
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Multinational Teams: The Relationship Between Work Values and Productivity and the Moderating Effect of Degree of Operational Integration
… degree of operational integration between firms‟ foreign affiliate offices and their U.S. based headquarters. Additionally, analyses were conducted to assess the relationship between team productivity and psychic distance, which is a measure of country-level cultural differences. Work values were …
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Beset By Secrecy And Beleaguered By Rivals: The Special Operations Executive and Military Operations In Western Europe 1940-1942 With Special Reference to Operation Frankton
… it established with Churchill, the Cabinet Office, the Chiefs of Staff, the Foreign Office, the Admiralty and Army, the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and Combined Operations. It will examine how these organisations succeeded or failed to work towards a common wartime objective. The focus …
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