Re-Writing History

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke critiques a thesis which believes America’s new National Policy is following in the footsteps of the British policies that foreshadowed World War Two.

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Fri 3 Sep 199921:00

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Fri 3 Sep 199921:00
BBC Radio 4

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