French farmers [...] did not like the idea of untrammelled competition from imported milk, cheese, and wine
In 1950 the European Union was officially born in the form of a German-dominated coal and steel cartel, run of course by a cross-border French dominated administration located in Brussels. Its name? The European Coal and Steel Community.
a conference convened by Americans to reach the so-called London Debt Agreement [...] Nations and private creditors owed money by the German state and by German corporations were persuaded to write off more than 70per cent of the money they were due.
The Truman Doctrine, announced by President Truman on 12 March 1947, focused on winning Greece for the West but, more importantly, constituted the president's unofficial declaration of the cold war.
Greece's sordid 1946-9 civil war, which left every Greek family I know indelibly marked
