LONDON: “We cannot admit this doctrine in any form,” the British secretary of state for the army said on July 8, 1920. “Frightfulness is not a remedy known to the British pharmacopoeia.” The House of Commons (the UK’s lower elected house) were debating th
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A WEEK ago, on July 1, Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, the commanding officer of the UK army`s Welsh Guards, ...
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FOR the family of Richard Phillips, the captain of the Maersk Alabama, his rescue by special forces was the best...
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LONDON When Lord Derby asked Sir Lewis Namier, the great historian of Georgian England, why he, as a Jew, didn`t...
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LONDON: When Lord Derby asked Sir Lewis Namier, the great historian of Georgian England, why he, as a Jew, didn’t...
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LONDON: Of all the dramatic changes history has witnessed since 1945 – the economic miracle in postwar western...
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LONDON Of all the dramatic changes history has witnessed since 1945 - the economic miracle in postwar western ...
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LONDON: If a week is a long time in politics, a year can seem an eternity. Last July, Gordon Brown basked in public...
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LONDON: If a week is a long time in politics, a year can seem an eternity. Last July, Gordon Brown basked in public...
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LONDON: ‘Quandary for the Democrats’, said the newsreader early on Wednesday morning on the World Service (the BBC...
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LONDON: At the time, there was little immediate sense that something utterly extraordinary had happened, or that ...
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