Richard Crossman
Articles by richard crossman
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Society
Prague, 1948: the February revolution
- 14 February 2008
Taken from The New Statesman20 March 1948
Society
France and Britain
- 23 April 2007
Taken from the New Statesman 13 September 1947
Whoever wins this spring's presidential election, France's historically awkward relations with Britain are unlikely to be transformed for the better. Richard Crossman, the Labour MP and then assistant editor of the New Statesman, highlighted some of the emotions that have clouded the entente cordiale: the familiar English disdain towards Gallic ways, as well as the French contempt mingled with envy for a neighbour seen as too servile to the US.
Selected by Robert Taylor
