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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• David Holden

Titel

The Persian Gulf: After the British Raj

Ist Teil von

• Foreign Affairs, 1971

Erscheinungsjahr

1971

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Quelle

BSC - Ebsco (Business Source Ultimate)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• When Sir Alec Douglas-Home, the British Foreign Secretary, told the House of Commons in March that all permanent British forces in the Persian Gulf would be withdrawn by the beginning of 1972 he signaled the end of the last important vestige of the nineteenth century's Pax Britannica and opened the door to what could be a major, and possibly painful, reconstruction of the Middle Eastern map.