For the first time since 1815, Russia was denied control of the Polish capital. It was a signal triumph for the Central Powers. The Germans now set their long-term sights on Finland, Russia’s province...
For Churchill, the only way to halt the onward march of Nazism was for all the threatened nations to arm, and to join together under the collective security clauses of the Covenant of the League of Na...
Em 1º de outubro, o exército alemão preparou-se para ocupar Varsóvia. Antes, porém, exigiu doze reféns – dez cristãos e dois judeus – que responderiam com suas vidas por quaisquer distúrbios que ocorr...
Don’t imagine I am running away from the Dardanelles. I glory in it.’41 On
Churchill himself favoured full provincial autonomy for the Indians, with adequate safeguards for the minority rights of the Muslims and the Untouchables, and he urged a vigorous social reform and a m...
At the same time, in an attempt to calm Arab fears, he approved a proposal from Samuel that Jewish immigration would henceforth be limited by the ‘economic capacity’ of Palestine to absorb the newcome...
Assisti hoje a uma cena reveladora, acrescentava o oficial. Um cavalo foi atingido por uma bomba e caiu na rua. Quando, uma hora mais tarde, passei pelo mesmo lugar, restava apenas o esqueleto. A carn...
The State must play an ever-widening part; it must, for example, ‘increasingly and earnestly concern itself with the care of the sick and the aged, and, above all, of the children’.
I watched the daylight slowly creep in through the windows, and saw before me in mental gaze the vision of Death.
Ten thousand Soviet evacuees had been drowned off Tallinn, and twenty-three thousand Hungarian Jews murdered at Kamenets Podolsk, in the same three day period. But these were far from the only deaths...
The Times correspondent who reported on the battle commented: ‘The estimation of Austrian losses is somewhat difficult as many of the fallen were not discovered until the penetrating odour of decompos...
Such reconnaissance duties became a major feature of the war in the air. There were also new devices to be tested: on December 6 a metal arrow dropped from a French plane mortally wounded a German gen...
Due settimane dopo, il 30 maggio [1904],[...] criticò apertamente il più controverso tra i nuovi provvedimenti legislativi discussi in parlamento, il disegno di legge sugli stranieri. Il provvedimento...
Although the Government and the Air Ministry sought to weaken the impact of Churchill’s warnings by accusing him of exaggeration, within four years they were forced to recognize that the true situatio...