Ambassador MacVeagh Reports

Iatrides, John O.

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“…The United States revised its dismissive attitude to Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean matters once it came to view these through the lens of a looming geopolitical conflict. 9 The Mediterranean Sea emerged as an arena of competition over ideology and energy resources.…”

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The United States, Differentiation, and Balkan Cooperation during the Cold War

Pedaliu¹

2022

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To reject it in favour of a deliberately evasive and opaque geographical term like Southeastern Europe, could promote the stereotypes it intends to avoid as well as ahistorical approaches to the study of the region and in the long run, historical amnesia. 5 II.The Legacy of WWII Liberation found Balkan societies deeply divided and seeking divergent political futures.Total war, collaboration, resistance and survival had become intertwined with pre-existing disputes and regional competition. Nazi Germany's and Fascist Italy's conquests were accompanied by energetic occupations through the "puppet" governments of Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania and had created a combustible security environment. The Soviet Union's success in pushing Hitler' armies westward appealed to popular mood in the occupied Balkans more than the slower-moving Anglo-American strategy that aimed to divert Nazi Germany away from reinforcing the shores of France. 6 Allied "grand strategy" in the Balkans was experienced as a clamp that increased the ferocity of occupation, intensified disunity and bifurcated local resistance into communist and anti-communist groupings. It bred frustration and fostered suspicion. The cynicism evinced by the Stalin-Churchill percentages agreement in 1944 anticipated a future based on division. 7 It also revealed that American opposition to spheres of influence was flexible. In Athens, the December Events demonstrated that Britain, starved of the resources it needed to finance its postwar strategy, could resort to heavy-handedness to avert Communist takeovers. 8 In the Balkans, the shape of peace had

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The United States, Differentiation, and Balkan Cooperation during the Cold War

Pedaliu¹

2022

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“…All in all, the British often let the Greeks down, but force of circumstances seemed to force the two together sooner or later, and never more so than in 1940 when Greece's 'national intoxification' in repelling Italian invasion interacted with Britain's spirit of the blitz over the skies of southern England. 34 Not even the disasters of 1941, or the bitter matter of Cyprus in the 1950s, fully eradicated these Anglo-Hellenic residues and the affinity attached to them.…”

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Patterns of Anglo-Hellenism: A ‘Colonial’ Connection?

Holland¹

2008

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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The Mediterranean has recently been under-represented in the historiography of the British overseas experience. This contribution highlights the British engagement with the Greek-speaking world in that context. The interactions between the British Ionian Protectorate and the emergence of an 'independent' Greek state are evoked. It is seen that while the British encouraged the latter, they did so within strict limitations and with some regrets. The role of the Royal Navy and the character of the Hellenic monarchy receive special comment. Issues of language and understanding are identified as important sources of 'deception' in Anglo-Hellenic relations. Strategic pressures constraining both British and Greek choices nonetheless maintained the intimacy of the connection through revolutions and wars. The ambiguity of Britain's involvement in the island of Cyprus is shown to be crucial to the eventual erosion of Britain's leading position in the Mediterranean region, though two sovereign 'Special Base Areas' remain today on the island. Residues of the issues covered in this article continue to be discernible at many levels, not least within the contemporary European Union, with its own expanding Mediterranean dimension.For several decades the Mediterranean has been the poor cousin in British imperial historiography. It is generally under-represented, for example, in the Oxford History of the British Empire series. Passing mention in the volume on the eighteenth century is not surprising. Apart from Gibraltar, Minorca (with its successive occupations and re-occupations) and the curious experiment of Anglo-Corsican Union after 1794, the British presence in the Mediterranean up until the Battle of the Nile was in key respects receding. For later periods the sparse treatment is perhaps more striking, given the centrality of the region to the phenomenon encapsulated in the shorthand of Pax Britannica. A comparison may be made with the older Cambridge History of the British Empire, where Mediterranean themes found their place within the whole. One factor in this under-representation has been the modern reading

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Perceptions of Antiquity and Modernity. Greece in the Eyes of Her Allies, 1946–2018

Lialiouti

2019

Political and Cultural Aspects of Greek Exoticism

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Ambassador MacVeagh Reports

Cited by 7 publications

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The United States, Differentiation, and Balkan Cooperation during the Cold War

The United States, Differentiation, and Balkan Cooperation during the Cold War

Patterns of Anglo-Hellenism: A ‘Colonial’ Connection?

Perceptions of Antiquity and Modernity. Greece in the Eyes of Her Allies, 1946–2018

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