Pitt drew up his plans for the campaigning season of 1757 in which he hoped to reverse Britain's string of defeats during the wars opening years.

He is hiding in Switzerland in the guise of the Comte Balthazar de Bleuchamp, and Bond defeats his plans to destroy Britain's agricultural economy.

However, it is accepted that Hollweg was involved closely in the decisions that authorised plans to destabilise Britain's colonies, most notably the Hindu German Conspiracy.

Having heard of Abdullah's plans, Winston Churchill invited Abdullah to a famous " tea party " where he convinced Abdullah to stay put and not attack Britain's allies, the French.

He was now established as one of Britain's biggest stars and Korda announced plans to feature him in two films based on true stories, one about the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919 co-starring Denholm Elliot, and the other Clifton James, the double for Field Marshall Montgomery.

He wears a small badge in the design of the pound sterling symbol to signify his opposition to any plans for the Euro being adopted as Britain's national currency.

He had suggested that Britain's Secret Intelligence Service was monitoring Diana before her death and that her driver on the night she died, Henri Paul, may have been an MI6 informant, and that her death resembled plans he saw during 1992 for the assassination of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, using a bright light to cause a traffic accident.

The reorganisation of Britain's railways in 1923 led to the abandonment of the electrification plans by the successor company, the LNER.

Chossudovsky has argued that reports released in the British press regarding the plans for mass morgues due to H1N1 were " totally fabricated " and that " the British government is deliberately misleading the British public ", claiming that there were reports from Britain's Health Protection Agency that confirmed that the proposed vaccines would be more deadly than the disease.

Like the original Perdana, the Perdana V6 was not exported to Europe, although it was tested by Britain's Top Gear magazine in their April 1999 issue, as there were plans at the time to sell the V6 in Europe.

The British government's plans relied primarily on the stationing of a strong fleet at the Singapore Naval Base in the event of any enemy hostility, in order to defend both Britain's Far Eastern possessions and the route to Australia.

In January, 1947, fear of Soviet and American intentions led to a secret meeting of senior cabinet ministers, where it was decided to press ahead with the development of Britain's independent nuclear deterrent, an issue which later caused a split in the Labour Party.

Woodhouse, chief of the British intelligence station in Tehran, Britain's covert operations network had funneled roughly £ 10, 000 per month to the Rashidian brothers ( two of Iran's most influential royalists ) in the hope of buying off, according to CIA estimates, " the armed forces, the Majlis ( Iranian parliament ), religious leaders, the press, street gangs, politicians and other influential figures ".

Henman announced at a press conference on 23 August 2007 that he would retire from tennis after playing in the US Open and Britain's Davis Cup tie against Croatia in September 2007.

Why was the press — Britain's tabloids were jubilant — told lies about a huge car bomb being defused and about the three suspects having died in a gunfight?

Noted for being Britain's first expert in public relations, Elliot was brought in by Sir Herbert Walker after the bad press received following service delays and consolidation of the newly created company.

At first, some sectors of the US papers, especially those of the Hearst press empire, tried to claim that the telegram was a forgery by British intelligence in an attempt to persuade the US government to enter the war on Britain's side.

Launch on the Shuttle would have entitled a British National to fly as a Mission Specialist and a group of military pilots were presented to the press as candidates for ' Britain's first man in space '.

The related term press gang refers specifically to impressment practices in Great Britain's Royal Navy.

In his eulogy he rebuked both Britain's royal family and the press for their treatment of his sister.

In the modern era it has mostly been promoted as a supper dish instead of at breakfast, and has also been included in Britain's growing street food movement with food stall " What the Dickens " being featured in the national press for their devilled kidney recipe.

On June 3, 2008, the Parliament of Canada passed a motion ( 137 to 110 ) which recommended that the government immediately implement a program which would “ allow conscientious objectors … to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations … to … remain in Canada …” The motion gained international attention from the New York Times, Britain's BBC and the New Zealand press.

Their jangly indie pop was characterised by a fuzzy protopunk-influenced guitar sound, and saw them receive modest critical acclaim in Britain's music press as well as prompting disc jockey John Peel to recruit them to record a couple of sessions for his programme on BBC radio.

The series provoked such a press outcry at the time that the BBC banned its overseas sale, since it was deemed to have portrayed Britain's police and criminal justice system in such a wholly unfavourable light.

Set in London in the first years of the 21st century, the book revolves around two main topics: Britain's gutter press and Christian religion.

Pauline was a staple in the UK press during her time in EastEnders, representative of the symbiosis between Britain's soaps and tabloid newspapers.

Along with the rest of Britain's regional daily press, the Leicester Mercury has struggled in circulation terms over the past two decades.

The advantage of Britain's new colony in providing a non-Russian source of flax and hemp for naval supplies was referred to in an article in Lloyd ’ s Evening Post of 5 October 1787 which urged: “ It is undoubtedly the interest of Great-Britain to remain neutral in the present contest between the Russians and the Turks ” and observed, “ Should England cease to render her services to the Empress of Russia, in a war against the Turks, there can be little of nothing to fear from her ill-will.

The French Invasion of Hanover posed a threat to Britain's ally Prussia, who they would now be able to attack from the west as well as facing attack from Austria, Russia, Saxony and Sweden.

" Powell pointed out that Britain's nuclear weaponry " is negligible in comparison with that of Russia: if we could destroy 16 Russian cities she could destroy practically every vestige of life on these islands several times over.

At the beginning of World War I, Albert complied with a British demand that he not acquiesce to a German request to move troops through Belgium in order to attack Britain's ally, France, which Germany anticipated was about to declare war on Germany in support of Russia ; Britain was the guarantor of Belgian neutrality under an 1839 treaty.

Chamberlain saw the seizures by Germany and Russia not as part of military strategy, but as an attempt to encroach on Britain's Chinese market.

Curzon believed Russia to be the most likely threat to India, Britain's most valuable colony, from the 19th century through the early 20th century.

Sweden, Britain's ally in the Third Coalition, refused to comply with French demands and was invaded by Russia in February 1808.

A coalition of non-combatants including Prussia, Russia, Denmark, and Sweden joined to protect neutral shipping from Britain's blockade, resulting in Nelson's surprise attack on the Danish fleet in harbor at the Battle of Copenhagen.

Humiliated by the cession of Silesia, Austria worked to secure an alliance with France and Russia ( the " Diplomatic Revolution "), while Prussia drifted into Great Britain's camp forming the Anglo-Prussian Alliance.

The British believed that access to the Baltic was " vitally important to Britain " for trade as well as a major source of necessary raw materials for building and maintaining warships, and that it gave the Royal Navy access to help Britain's allies Sweden and ( before Tilsit ) Russia against France.

While Britain and Russia were skeptical of Germany's imperialistic motives, members of the Triple Alliance were in turn somewhat threatened by Britain's and Russia's aggressive foreign policy tactics and wealth derived from their colonies.

Britain's wartime ally was admired at the time, and his outspoken criticisms of Russia lessened Alexander's popularity.

When that moment arrives she will prefer the mercenary who is growing in strength, and will even have to make him stronger. A rapprochement between Germany and Russia would not have a decisive influence on Britain's attitude either in making a concession to France or in searching for an ally.

While Russia was at war with Britain's ally Prussia, the two countries remained at peace.

Secondly, that when the story was written, France and Czarist Russia – who were to become Britain's staunch allies in the First World War – were perceived as enemies.

The main threat of war came from Russia and there was concern that she would seize the Straits and Constantinople and threaten Britain's communication to India, something Britain had almost gone to war with Russia during the Great Eastern Crisis to prevent.

With rising German hostility and naval expansion, and the Dual Alliance between France and Russia the result was that Britain's politicians became more concerned with the international situation.

He turns 40 and, with Germany's invasion of Russia and Britain's subsequent alliance with the Soviet Union, feels the futility of the war.

The British feared that Russian control of Central Asia would create an ideal springboard for an invasion of Britain's territories in the subcontinent ( British India ), and were especially concerned about Russia gaining a warm water port.

Britain's Prime Minister, David Lloyd George, once a strong supporter of Imperial Russia, was now a Soviet sympathizer and authorized British sales of large quantities of armaments ( including modern tanks ) to fill urgent Soviet orders, at the same time blocking any British moves to aid Poland ( which he called a historical mistake ).