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does not give a fair portrait of him as a man because there were many other sides to him, even if in life one only glimpsed them rarely. In the film called The Happy Road (1957), directed by Gene Kelly in the mid–1950s, he performs a kind of daft, idiotic, British general at NATO headquarters in Paris. It is very funny and there is a sense of play, in the double meaning of the word, which I do associate
complex task of dealing with the Soviets in the implementation of the Yalta Agreement, and the conclusion of the war in the Pacific. After the war, this emerging interventionist and anti-Soviet stance was given a policy mooring in President Truman’s 12 March 1947 speech to Congress: the Truman Doctrine. The argument runs that the subsequent division and remilitarisation of Germany, the expansion of overseas military bases and establishment of NATO, the testing of larger atomic weapons and, subsequently, a series of foreign covert interventions led by the CIA, were not
, cutting infantry strength and so forth, but we still have ‘lily-pad’ island bases all over the world. We have 700–1,000 foreign bases, and are ringing Russia with NATO. As to China, with a new assortment of allies, treaties and bases, we have declared a new ‘Asia pivot,’ which brings us right back to World War Two days, Korea, Vietnam –we’re still there, never gave up an inch. We are developing a new generation of drones, all kinds of intelligence and cyberwarfare capabilities. We have used these against Iran. We act like the underdog, as if China is overwhelming us