Strained Relations

Download or read book Strained Relations written by T. Ryle Dwyer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1988 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Strained Relations is a substantial account of Irish-USA relations during the Second World War. Much of the material is based on previously classified documents, and on personal interviews with the Americans sent to Ireland as spies. The author explores the suspicion and occasional hostility with which the USA and Great Britain viewed this neutral but strategically important country. He discusses the contingency plans for the seizure of Irish ports, the attempt to discredit de Valera, as well as the novel forms of intelligence work engaged in by American diplomats. Contents: Preface; Neutrals at Odds; America Goes to War; Gray Advised by Ghosts; Just in Case; Getting Behind the Green Curtain; The Absent Treatment; American Spies in Ireland; Convenient Fiction for Allied Airmen; Ireland's Phoney Neutrality; The Irish Threat to Postwar Stability; Military did not want Irish Bases; The Truth Behind the American Note; Diplomatic Manoeuvrings; Amid the Press Hysteria; What they Knew; Towards a Troubled End; In the Final Days; Notes; Bibliography; Index D

Download or read book Strained Relations written by Michael D. Bordo and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the twentieth century, foreign-exchange intervention was sometimes used in an attempt to solve the fundamental trilemma of international finance, which holds that countries cannot simultaneously pursue independent monetary policies, stabilize their exchange rates, and benefit from free cross-border financial flows. Drawing on a trove of previously confidential data, Strained Relations reveals the evolution of US policy regarding currency market intervention, and its interaction with monetary policy. The authors consider how foreign-exchange intervention was affected by changing economic and institutional circumstances—most notably the abandonment of the international gold standard—and how political and bureaucratic factors affected this aspect of public policy.

Download or read book Strained Relations written by Joseph Wearing and published by McClelland and Stewart. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Canadians, including political critics and commentators, assume that Canadian political parties ought to behave like parties in the U.S. or Britain. In Strained Relations, Professor Joseph Wearing puts our parties into a broader, comparative perspective and demonstrates convincingly howthey resemble parties of other Western nations, but also exhibit unique features. He examines the ideological and historical roots of Canadian politics, explains why we vote the way we do, presents the seamy side of our political life, reveals the internal operations of caucus, and shows how partyconventions work. Our system is now hugely influenced by the presence of the media. Today, elections are no longer simple contests to win voters through the logic of policy proposals. The game of politics is now a highly sophisticated and expensive contest between the parties and the media to seewho controls who. It is, as well, a wild scramble of pollsters and imagemakers seeking to determine the public's mood and then to mould and position their candidates to fit those perceptions.

Download or read book Strained Relations written by Bill Muehlenberg and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-03-22 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely, comprehensive and thoroughly documented volume, by veteran Australian family activist Bill Muehlenberg, deals with every aspect of the homosexual debate, including lengthy chapters on homosexual marriage and adoption rights. The book also examines the biblical and theological material on this subject, rebutting the wild theories of the theological revisionists. With over 700 footnotes, this is the most extensively researched and referenced volume on this topic available in Australia.

Download or read book A Strained Partnership? written by Thomas Robb and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first monograph-length study that charts the coercive diplomacy of the administrations of Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford as practised against their British ally in order to persuade Edward Heath's government to follow a more amenable course throughout the 'Year of Europe' and to convince Harold Wilson's governments to lessen the severity of proposed defence cuts. Such diplomacy proved effective against Heath but rather less so against Wilson. It is argued that relations between the two sides were often strained, indeed, to the extent that the most 'special' elements of the relationship, that of intelligence and nuclear co-operation, were suspended. Yet, the relationship also witnessed considerable co-operation. This book offers new perspectives on US and UK policy towards British membership of the European Economic Community; demonstrates how US détente policies created strain in the 'special relationship'; reveals the temporary shutdown of US-UK intelligence and nuclear co-operation; provides new insights in US-UK defence co-operation, and re-evaluates the US-UK relationship throughout the IMF Crisis.

Download or read book Understanding Relations - The Vedic Astrology Way written by ALKA VIJH and published by V&S Publishers. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about understanding equations of relationships with the help of Vedic Astrology. One cannot ignore the importance of relationships in life and always desires to be loved and respected by others. The book gives an approach for making relationships better if one understands the potential of planets in the birth chart. By understanding the weak and strong points in the chart one can mould himself accordingly and move in the right direction to get the desired result and improve his relationships and living.. In each chapter - the converse charts are taken to describe the events however it advisable that no prediction should be made by studying the charts on the surface only. All factors should be taken into consideration while predicting an event and the reading should be done by scientific approach only. A special chapter in the beginning is given for the reader to make him understand the terminology and its role in understanding the chart which will then enable him to understand and improve his relations via Vedic Astrology easily. Though the calculative part has been explicitly ignored to make reading easy, the combinations, the in depth analysis and use of simple tools, the use of converse charts and their analysis will stimulate the mind for deep study and make it interesting for all. Each chapter is supported with suitable examples. All cases taken are genuine and supported by real incidents. The book is a result of some authentic research done by the author over the years. #v&spublishers

Download or read book Dreaming in Cuban written by Cristina García and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,’ as rhythmic as the music of Beny Moré.”—Time Cristina García’s acclaimed book is the haunting, bittersweet story of a family experiencing a country’s revolution and the revelations that follow. The lives of Celia del Pino and her husband, daughters, and grandchildren mirror the magical realism of Cuba itself, a landscape of beauty and poverty, idealism and corruption. Dreaming in Cuban is “a work that possesses both the intimacy of a Chekov story and the hallucinatory magic of a novel by Gabriel García Márquez” (The New York Times). In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the novel’s original publication, this edition features a new introduction by the author. Praise for Dreaming in Cuban “Remarkable . . . an intricate weaving of dramatic events with the supernatural and the cosmic . . . evocative and lush.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Captures the pain, the distance, the frustrations and the dreams of these family dramas with a vivid, poetic prose.”—The Washington Post “Brilliant . . . With tremendous skill, passion and humor, García just may have written the definitive story of Cuban exiles and some of those they left behind.”—The Denver Post