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Using hitherto unavailable archival documents, this paper reveals the so-called ‘Soviet side’ of the Warsaw Uprising, 1944. These documents reveal that the Poles had repeatedly attempted to stage similar uprisings in other towns and cities when the Red Army was approaching. Polish rebels also actively resisted Soviet domination after the Red Army had liberated these cities. Moreover, Moscow knew well that Western Allied forces secretly participated in this ultimately anti-Soviet action. The British and the US governments trained the leaders of the Warsaw and other uprisings in military bases located in their own territories, although most of the training bases were located in the US. The British also parachuted these leaders into Warsaw shortly before the uprising. These and other facts presented in my work help us understand the perverted logic of the Kremlin's decision-making process with regard to the Warsaw Uprising, which functioned in more complex ways than is usually attributed to the power-thirsty Uncle Joe. These documents also reveal attitudes on the part of the Soviet and Western governments that eventually paved the way for the Cold War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines the international community's response to Indonesia's 1975 invasion of East Timor in light of recently declassified documents from the US, United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. It argues that anti-Communist and geopolitical concerns at the end of the Vietnam War were not the only, and perhaps not even the most important explanations of Western support for Indonesia's takeover of East Timor. Rather, this article suggests that beliefs that East Timor was too small and too primitive to merit self-governance reinforced the perceived imperative of maintaining friendly relations with the Suharto regime, whose growing importance in the regional political economy overshadowed its defiance of international law. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Two years after the British government's ignominious reverse at Suez, the Cuban revolution triumphed in a sphere of prime importance to the United States. Fidel Castro's regime embarked on a radically nationalist path, and, like Britain's earlier experience in Egypt, Washington faced a serious challenge to its traditional ascendency as Cuba set about reducing US economic and political influence. As this article demonstrates, the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations attempted to enlist the wholehearted cooperation of their main Cold War ally. While Macmillan's British government did accede in most cases, it was both mindful of recent events at Suez and averse to Washington's economic blockade of Cuba. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This article calls into question the conventional narrative about international meddling in British Guiana, which argues that US intervention against the Leftist government of Premier Cheddi Jagan was the proximate cause for the colony's racial violence as it moved to independence. The authors focus on the violent pro-government sugar workers' strike of 1964 and in particular the role of Jagan's wife, Janet, presenting evidence from retired Cuban intelligence agents that Cuba countered US aid to the opposition by providing paramilitary training to Guianese cadres and laundering financial aid to Jagan's government. This outside intervention turned British Guiana into a Cold War sideshow. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

At the height of the Vietnam War, Communist China repeatedly lodged diplomatic protests with the British government about US naval visits to Hong Kong. Believing that the Chinese protests were nothing but propaganda and were as much about the Sino-Soviet split as about Sino-American and Sino-British relations per se, British officials decided that the visits of US servicemen for rest and recreation should continue, albeit within the framework of new Anglo-American guidelines. By examining the British handling of the question of US naval visits, this article reveals the interactions of the four Cold War powers concerned as well as a broader global phenomenon in the mid-1960s - the growth of anti-Americanism. The case of Hong Kong suggests that the 'Vietnam War tourists', who were well disciplined and economically valuable, were not 'ugly Americans' but 'beautiful imperialists'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Explores the U.S. policy towards Cyprus over a period of 20 years, including the most crucial years of the mid-1960s. Formulation of solution to the Cypriot troubles; Development of conspiracy plans with Greece, Britain and Turkey against Cyprus; Reasons that prevented the Great Britain and the U.S. from executing their extreme plans.

Traces the efforts of France to secure an Anglo-American continental commitment. Examination of how France succeeded in late 1954 in persuading the U.S. and Britain to make long-term political and military guarantees to the European continent; Impact of the creation of a Soviet atomic weapon and the outbreak of war in Korea on East-West tensions.

Focuses on the policy of the British government towards the Vietnam War in the years when U.S. involvement was escalated by the administration of then U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Reasons given by Great Britain for supporting U.S. policy despite doubts about the direction that President Johnson took; Ways in which England helped the U.S. while rejecting direct involvement on the ground; British efforts to arbitrate an end to the war.

Analyzes the arguments of Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador in Washington, against the military cooperation between the U.S. and Great Britain during the Korean War. Historical perspective; Examination of the centrality of Anglo-American relations; Basis for his arguments.