1st Edition
European Recovery and the Search for Western Security, 1946-1948 Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Volume XI
594 Pages
by
Routledge
594 Pages
by
Routledge
594 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume documents the British Government’s response from mid-1946 to early 1948 to the twin challenges of economic recovery and the search for a meaningful Western security framework in the face of the increasing polarisation of Europe into Eastern and Western spheres of influence. Although relations between the wartime Big Three allies, the UK, US and USSR, had begun to fracture even... Read more
Preface
I. Peacemaking and Policy-Making: 7 May 1946 – 2 January 1947
II. Dollar Drain and Truman Doctrine: 5 January – 3 June 1947
III. The Marshall Plan: Phase I: 5 June – 22 September 1947
IV. The Marshall Plan: Phase II: 25 September 1947 – 21 February 1948
V: The Corfu Channel Dispute: 15 May 1946 – 5 March 1947
Biography
Gill Bennett was Chief Historian of the FCO 1995-2005 and now works with various government departments on research projects, specialising in intelligence history. Her most recent book is Six Moments of Crisis: Inside British Foreign Policy (2013).
Patrick Salmon is Chief Historian at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
