... this by reducing defense spending, which in turn reduced taxes. Due to economic problems, the Conservatives lost the election and Churchill was out of the office yet again. Churchill once said of his many political defeats and comebacks that, "Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times ... than this. Everyone, man or woman, has done their best. Everyone has tried. Neither the long years, nor the dangers, nor the fierce attacks of the enemy, have in any way weakened the independence resolve of the British n...

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... all His Majesty's subjects in whatever part of the world they live." With this comes the idea that the British Empire colonised its territories in order to teach them of freedom and eventual self-governance, perhaps with the western values of civilisation but while this may be a sensible argument, the alternative still remains, in which Austin offers: "Like their European counterparts, it can be argued, the British quite underestimated the ... guerrilla force. The ignorance of the majority on the Right of the cabinet saw great optimism in the Dutch military and the elimination of the Re...

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... causes from a different perspective. The following historians wrote in different decades and approached the causes of WWI from different directions. In his article "Domestic Causes of the First World War", Arno Mayer detached his analysis from the usual multi-factor explanatory model, and focused instead on the role of domestic policies in igniting the war. Mayer thus points to a pre-revolutionary state of affairs in all of ... evidence to that effect. Ultimately, these explanatory models do not present a clear view as to the cause of the war, as much as they elaborate on individual fac...

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... ZAPU. A massive airlift was mounted by various Western nations but the situation was really only save some months later in April 1980 when Zimbabwe became independent. Although Kaunda was then able to take Zambia off a war footing, all those years of sacrifice, fears of armed intervention, saboteurs and spies had left their mark. The economy was on the brink of collapse, foreign exchange reserves were almost ... larger missions. From the suggestions of the content put forward to the Board, it was quite clear that the broadcasting experiment was in keeping with the spirit of the Plymouth...

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... the exotic world they evoke: the bejeweled splendor of the Mogul courts; dusty, teeming streets; and all the dilemmas confronting the imperial British as they sought to bring Western ideas of order to one of the wildest and most complex lands on Earth. Behind all the glamour and the glory, however, lies one of history's mischievous ironies. For the raj, which did not begin until 1858 when the British government officially took over India from ... , they found the Dutch far from eager to share their profits. The British therefore turned back to India's west coast, dropping anchor near Sur...

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