
When Shrimps Learn to Whistle
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All the major institutions of the post-war scene - NATO, the European Community, the United Nations - have been turned upside down. The stock-market crash of 'Black October' 1987 revealed the desperate instabilities of the global financial system. In this maze of intricate new problems and opportunities Denis Healey speaks with unique authority. A major political journalist in the late 1940s and 1950s, a leading player on the world stage for a quarter-century, he is now far and away the most distinguished Opposition commentator on foreign affairs.
His hugely successful The Time of My Life - 'the best political autobiography since Rab Butler's eighteen years ago' (Roy Jenkins, Observer) - was widely acclaimed as a masterpiece. Taking up the most powerful political themes that emerge from it Denis Healey now gives us this stimulating companion volume. In an added new chapter he looks at the wider implications of the Gulf War, the unification of East and West Germany, and the continuing unrest in Eastern Europe. In When Shrimps Learn to Whistle he offers a typically trenchant set of 'signposts' to help us all face the key international issues of the 1990s.
'Forty-three years of ruminations ... by the greatest foreign secretary (as the author quietly and reasonably implies) we never had' - Ben Pimlott in the New Statesman & Society
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Person
After obtaining a degree from Oxford, he served in the Second World War with the Royal Engineers, in the North African Campaign, the Allied invasion of Sicily and the Italian Campaign, and was the military landing officer for the British assault brigade at Anzio.
Healey was a photographer for many years and enjoyed music and painting.
Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Nationalism and a World Society
- Power Politics and the Labour Party (1952)
- Beyond Power Politics (1955)
- Nationalism and Liberty (1956)
- 2 Communism and Social Democracy
- The New Russian Empire (1951)
- Socialism (1953)
- European Socialism Today (1957)
- 3 European Unity
- Feet on the Ground (1948)
- Britain and Europe (1987)
- Enlarging the European Community (1989)
- 4 Dilemmas of the Cold War
- Cards on the Table (1947)
- Neutralism (1955)
- Britain and NATO (1959)
- 5 Searching for Solutions
- A Neutral Belt in Europe? (1957)
- A Non-Nuclear Strategy (1985)
- 6 The Economic and Financial Revolution
- The Economic Dimension (1985)
- Black October (1988)
- 7 Gorbachev and After
- Gorbachev and Soviet Foreign Policy (1988)
- Britain after the Cold War (1989)
- Revolution that Could Lead to Anarchy (1989)
- The Rich can Beat Tanks into Ploughshares (1989)
- Time to Shut Down the Arms Bazaar (1990)
- The Caravan of History Will Leave us Behind (1990)
- Asking the Right Questions (1990)
- 8 Things Fall Apart
- The Return of History (1990)
- Peace after Victory (1991)
- A New World Order? (1991)
- 9 Epilogue
- Footnotes
- A Note on the Author
- Also by Denis Healey
- Imprint
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