In response to Cypriot fears that the Jews would never leave ( since they lacked a state or documentation ) the British later allowed the refugees to enter Palestine at a rate of 750 per month.

On 23 April 1939 the Turkish Foreign Minister Şükrü Saracoğlu told the British Ambassador of his nation's fears of Italian claims of the Mediterranean as Mare Nostrum and German control of the Balkans, and suggested an Anglo-Soviet-Turkish alliance as the best way of countering the Axis.

These fears produced the British 1914 The German Spy Peril, centred on a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament, and 1913's O. H. M. S., standing for ' Our Helpless Millions Saved ' as well as On His Majesty's Service ( and introducing for the first time a strong female character who helps the hero ).

The British fears proved to be well founded.

In late 1941, Hitler ordered all of the capital ships of the Kriegsmarine to Norway because of his fears of a British invasion, and because after the sinking of the Bismarck, it was judged too risky to send out capital ships as raiders.

British fears of a communist takeover, however, caused the British governor to hold Jagan's more radical policy initiatives in check.

The Prime Minister calmed fears of war by agreeing to an arbitration treaty in February 1896, in which two American judges, two British judges, and a Russian would decide the issue.

The Treaty of Paris ( 1763 ) between France and Great Britain included a clause restricting French rights to fortify Dunkirk, to allay British fears of it being used as an invasion base.

The coincident launch of Tsar Nicholas ' war on the Porte realised the worst fears of British policy-makers and deepened their anger at Codrington.

In 1847 a British bank bought the rights, raising US fears of British colonization in the hemisphere, in violation of the precepts of the Monroe Doctrine.

The British dropped millions of flysheets over Germany to allay fears of a punitive peace that would destroy the German state.

As a result of its fears of communist influence in the colony, the British Government suspended the constitution, declared a state of emergency, and militarily occupied British Guiana on 9 October 1953.

Many books and articles predicted a fearful prospect for any future war, paced by political fears such as those expressed by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin who told the House of Commons early in the 1930s that " the bomber will always get through " no matter what defensive systems were undertaken.

British prime minister Winston Churchill suggested to the incoming Eisenhower administration that Mossadegh, despite his open disgust with socialism, was, or would become, dependent on the pro-Soviet Tudeh Party, resulting in Iran " increasingly turning towards communism " and towards the Soviet sphere at a time of high Cold War fears.

The British Parliament's attempt to impose taxes on the North American colonists raised fears among the Americans that their rights as " Englishmen ," particularly their rights of self-government, were in danger.

The second followed fears of British encroachment, and reduced the replacement time which a ship would remain in service from 25 to 20 years.

After Lisa's return to St. Louis in 1813, he heard fears expressed that British agents would encourage the upper Missouri tribes to attack settlements throughout the northern and western territories.

He used British fears of his dealings with the Americans and the French to extract concessions.

It was replaced by the Social Hygiene Act 1917, although these fears reappeared throughout the British Empire in both World Wars.

There were U. S. fears that the British might try to annex California to satisfy British creditors.

In 1907, the Anglo-Russian Entente was agreed, which attempted to resolve a series of long-running disputes over Persia, Afghanistan and Tibet, as well as helping to address British fears about German expansion in the Near East.

Rather, they are impressed with the British Government's success in forcing -- and helping -- the British textile industry to shrink and to change over to other products.

Later in the 1960s and 1970s, Edmund Leach and his students Mary Douglas and Nur Yalman, among others, introduced French structuralism in the style of Lévi-Strauss ; while British anthropology has continued to emphasize social organization and economics over purely symbolic or literary topics, differences among British, French, and American sociocultural anthropologies have diminished with increasing dialogue and borrowing of both theory and methods.

The oldest-surviving Anglican church outside of the British Isles ( Britain and Ireland ) is St Peter's Church in St. George's, Bermuda, established in 1612 ( though the actual building had to be rebuilt several times over the following century ).

In 1787 a bishop of Nova Scotia was appointed with a jurisdiction over all of British North America ; in time several more colleagues were appointed to other cities in present-day Canada.

Later, rapid social change and the dissipation of British cultural hegemony over its former colonies contributed to disputes over the role of women, the parameters of marriage and divorce, and the practice of contraception and abortion.

* 1916 – Easter Rising: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.

* 1921 – British airship R-38 experiences structural failure over Hull in England and crashes in the Humber estuary.

* Associated British Maltsters, a malting company taken over by Dalgety plc

Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British Empire, which, by 1921, held sway over a population of 470 – 570 million people, approximately a quarter of the world's population at that time.

From time to time there has been debate over repealing the clause that prevents " Papists " ( Roman Catholics ) or those who marry one from ascending to the British throne.

The first ironclad battleship, with iron armour over a wooden hull, La Gloire, was launched by the French Navy in 1859 ; she prompted the British Royal Navy to build a counter.

* 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston

The British evacuation of Afghanistan was settled on the terms proposed, and in 1881, the British troops also handed over Kandahar to the new Amir.

In 1885, at the moment when the Amir was in conference with the British viceroy, Lord Dufferin, in India, the news came of a skirmish between Russian and Afghan troops at Panjdeh, over a disputed point in the demarcation of the northwestern frontier of Afghanistan.

The building was again remodeled by British architect Norman Foster in the 1990s and features a glass dome over the session area, which allows free public access to the parliamentary proceedings and magnificent views of the city.

12. 5 % () of British Columbia is currently considered protected under one of the 14 different designations that includes over 800 distinct areas.

The British Virgin Islands consist of the main islands of Tortola, Virgin Gorda, Anegada, and Jost Van Dyke, along with over fifty other smaller islands and cays.

In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41 % of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

The British Virgin Islands is heavily dependent on migrant workers, and over 50 % of all workers on the islands are of a foreign descent.

The fifth book brings the story up to Bede's day, and includes an account of missionary work in Frisia, and of the conflict with the British church over the correct dating of Easter.