Economic Relationship between Italy and Lebanon in the Fifties

2014 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-112
Author(s):  
Giampaolo Conte
Keyword(s):  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Western Country ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
World War ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Mediterranean Countries ◽  
Economic Relationship ◽  
Second World

Italy and Lebanon signed the first friendship agreement between an Arab and a Western country after the Second World War. Both countries profited from this agreement: Italy could use it as a model for future agreements with other Arab countries and Lebanon with other Western countries. The uniqueness of this agreement is the fair-trade which was unusual in international agreements signed between Western countries and Arab countries. As one of the defeated countries, it was very important for Italy to build a new relationship with the Mediterranean countries. Therefore the first step had to be a political agreement and then an economic and trade agreement. The United Kingdom and France did not want Italy to start a new relation with Lebanon, particularly France which was jealous of her ex-mandate. Nevertheless, Italy succeeded in setting a very good relationship with Lebanon along the Fifties.

A ‘Sound Investment’? British Cultural Diplomacy and Overseas Students: The British Council's Students Committee, 1935–1939

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-283
Author(s):  
Alice Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Overseas Students ◽  
British Council ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
Run Up ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Second World

This article explores the UK government's first foray into cultural diplomacy by focusing on the activities of the British Council's Students Committee in the run-up to the Second World War. Students were placed at the heart of British cultural diplomacy, which drew on foreign models as well as the experience of intra-empire exchanges. While employing cultural internationalist discourse, the drive to attract more overseas students to the United Kingdom was intended to bring economic and political advantages to the host country. The British Council pursued its policy in cooperation with non-state actors but ultimately was guided by the Foreign Office, which led it to target key strategic regions, principally in Europe and the Mediterranean Basin.

Roman Inscriptions in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

1976 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 28-43
Author(s):  
J. J. Wilkes
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Small Collection ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

The nineteen stones described below form a small collection of Latin inscriptions now housed in the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. They have been acquired since the Second World War from older collections assembled at various places in the United Kingdom. With the exception of two, all are recorded as found in Rome and sixteen have been published in volume VI of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL). The findspot of one (no. 6) is not recorded, while that of another (no. 13), although not attested, was almost certainly Rome. The publications in CIL were based in most cases on manuscript copies made between the fifteenth and ninetenth centuries; in the case of eight stones this republication (nos. 2, 3, 5, 9, 11, 12, 17 and 18) provides corrections or amendments to the relevant entries in CIL. All measurements are metric.

scholarly journals Agency and Analogy in African History: the Contribution of Extra-Mural Studies in Ghana

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 273-296 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Skinner
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
African History ◽  
World War ◽  
Significant Extent ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Autobiographical Texts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Second World

As the pioneering generation of postwar British academics retired, some produced autobiographical texts which revealed the personal circumstances and intellectual influences that brought them to the study of Africa. Edited volumes have also provided broader reflections on the academic disciplines, methodologies, and institutions through which these scholars engaged with the continent. In one such text, Christopher Clapham and Richard Hodder-Williams noted the special relationship between extramural studies (also known as university adult education) and the academic study of Africa's mass nationalist movements:The impetus for this study came to a remarkable degree from a tiny group of men and women who pioneered university extra-mural studies in the Gold Coast immediately after the [Second World War], and to a significant extent established the parameters for subsequent study of the subject [African politics]. Gathered together under the aegis of Thomas Hodgkin […], they were led by David Kimble […], and included among the tutors Dennis Austin, Lalage Bown and Bill Tordoff, all of whom were to play a major role in African studies in the United Kingdom over the next forty years.

7. The ingathering

2021 ◽  
pp. 70-80
Author(s):  
Ilan Stavans
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Clarice Lispector ◽  
Nadine Gordimer ◽  
Jewish Literature ◽  
World War ◽  
Harold Pinter ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Elias Canetti ◽  
Second World

“The ingathering” surveys modern Jewish literature after the Second World War beyond Israel and the United States and meditates on the multilingual aspect of Jewish literature. This includes the work of Alberto Gerchunoff and Jacobo Timerman in Argentina, Clarice Lispector and Moacyr Scliar in Brazil, Elias Canetti in Bulgaria, Dan Jacobson and Nadine Gordimer in South Africa, and Harold Pinter and Howard Jacobson in the United Kingdom. Jewish writers are simultaneously insiders and outsiders, a position that allows them a unique perspective full of nuance. Therefore, modern Jewish literature is truly global, in regard to not only its authors but also its multifaceted audiences.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
Second World War ◽  
British Association ◽  
Paediatric Surgery ◽  
World War ◽  
Surgical Specialty ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second World

Paediatric surgery is the surgical care of children from fetus to adolescent. It is a comparatively new surgical specialty, only formally recognized after the Second World War. This chapter provides a history and overview of the specialty, including the associations related to paediatric surgery, and biographies of famous surgeons who contributed to the field throughout their careers. The main organization in the United Kingdom is the British Association of Paediatric Surgeons (BAPS) founded in 1953 with Sir Denis Browne as the first president. Though based in London, it now has many international contacts and, through its conferences and symposia inside and outside the United Kingdom, is a leading educational provider in the specialty.

George Riddoch and Ludwig Guttmann: Wartime correspondence 1940–1947

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-107
Author(s):  
Marie-France Weiner ◽  
John Russell Silver
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
World War ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Second World

Recently discovered primary sources in the form of letters, memoranda and private communications between George Riddoch and Ludwig Guttmann provide much information on the setting up of spinal units in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. The two men developed a close relationship and in Guttmann, Riddoch found a man who had the knowledge, the ability and the energy to implement this shared vision.

Presbyterianism, unionism, and the Second World War in Northern Ireland: the career of James Little, 1939–46

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (164) ◽  
pp. 252-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Houston
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Religious Support ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
World War ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Moral Standards ◽  
Theological Language ◽  
Second World

AbstractThis article examines the career of the Irish Presbyterian minister and member of the Westminster parliament, James Little, as a case study of Presbyterian clerical responses to the Second World War in Northern Ireland. Establishing a more detailed narrative of contemporary interpretations of the conflict improves our understanding of the functions of religious institutions during the period. It demonstrates that Presbyterian church leaders were largely enthusiastic supporters of the war, employing theological language while promoting the agenda of unionist politics. By juxtaposing clerical politico-religious support for the war with their commitment to conservative moral standards, the article assesses the strength with which these views were held, thereby adding to our knowledge of Presbyterianism in the 1940s. The article also situates the Northern Ireland Presbyterian view of the war within the context of the United Kingdom.

Human Rights: Have the Public Benefited?

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lord Woolf
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Second World War ◽  
European Convention ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Second World

This lecture discusses the European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR), which was established due to the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the Second World War. It looks at the scale of the changes that occurred in constitutional arrangements, and considers the fact that these changes have been achieved without damaging the underlying constitutional arrangements and traditions of the United Kingdom. The lecture also considers whether these changes would benefit the public, and studies some of the arguments that are both in favour of and against the ECHR in becoming a part of the country's law.

SOVIET-AFGHANIAN NEGOTIATIONS ABOUT THE PASTURE CONVENTION IN THE CONTEXT OF THE “GREAT GAME” IN CENTRAL ASIA ON THE EVE OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1935–1939)

2018 ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Yuriy Nikolayevich TIKHONOV
Keyword(s):  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World Politics ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
World War ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
History Of ◽  
Speed Up ◽  
Great Game ◽  
Second World

The results of the study of the new declassified documents of Russian archives lead to the conclusion that under the influence of “world politics” there were all directions of Afghanistan’s foreign policy. The history of Soviet-Afghan relations on the eve of the Second World War convincingly proves the fact that in the relations of Afghanistan with the Great Powers of that time there were no spheres of cooperation that would not be used by foreign states in the struggle for the “Afghan bridgehead”. A striking proof of this is the attempt of the Soviet government in the 1930s to coordinate the issue of grazing of Afghan herds on Turkmen pastures with a whole range of measures aimed at strengthening the positions of Germany and Japan in Afghanistan. Soviet diplomacy repeatedly asked Kabul about the pastoral convention to speed up the signing of the necessary Soviet treaties with Afghanistan. In 1936 the question of concluding a grazing convention was repeatedly raised during the negotiations on the extension of the Kabul Pact of 1931 (the Neutrality and Mutual Non-Aggression Treaty of 1931) and the conclusion of a general trade agreement with Afghanistan, through which the USSR sought to economically supplant German and Japanese goods from the market of Northern Afghanistan.

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