Titlebook: World Crisis and British Decline, 1929-56; Roy Douglas Book 1986 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1986 crisi

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Strains of Empire,alth and the United States — had given massive support to the allied cause, and without that support eventual victory would have been impossible. On the other side of the medal Britain had found it necessary to mobilise many of her scarce resources in defence of places in Africa which came under Ger

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Uneasy Peace,ding civilian and merchant navy casualties, were about 400 000: around half the number she had lost in the 1914 conflict, about one-fiftieth the number of dead the Soviet Union had just sustained. The scale of destruction in her cities bore no comparison with Germany. She was still acknowledged one

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1947, greater importance than most contemporaries contemplated: decisions which would determine in outline the future of Britain and of a very large part of the world from that day to this. These decisions bore on Britain’s economic position; on her role as an imperial power; on her mandatory duties; and

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The Lines are Drawn, the end of 1947 Europe was arrayed in two sharply-defined camps, there still appeared some possibility that Soviet military domination and a western-type democracy might persist indefinitely in Czechoslovakia. This was not to be. On 20 February 1948 most of the non-communist Ministers tendered thei

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The Deepest Danger,f these problems had considerable ‘Cold War’ overtones, but many of them were difficult for either side to evaluate in simple and familiar ‘Cold War’ terms. The emerging regimes of Asia presented many problems for the formulators of policy in western countries. Traditionally the United States had fa

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Withdrawal from Empire, and towards other places where British influence was strong. Some of the more spectacular changes have already been considered, but many other developments were taking place at the same time. They do not all follow a consistent pattern — partly because of the diversity of the Empire, partly because

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A Calmer World,eneral Election of October 1951 replaced the tiny Labour majority by a Conservative majority not much larger. Yet — with Winston Churchill again at the helm, and with Anthony Eden — a prestigious figure in those days — again at the Foreign Office, would Britain somehow reassert her former authority?

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