Fighting for relevance: Economic intelligence and special operations executive in Spain, 1943–1945
This article examines the work of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in Spain during the latter part of the Second World War. Unlike SOE's broad mandate to sow dissent and disarray in occupied countries, in Spain agents were forbidden from any involvement in direct action and sabotage. Diplomatic concerns, namely the maintenance of Spanish neutrality in the war, overrode all other strategic issues in Iberia. SOE agents and leaders in Madrid, therefore, attempted to create a different role for themselves. Drawing on files released in the Public Record Office in 1998, the article highlights SOE's limited success in the effort to establish for itself a part in the Allied strategic and diplomatic campaign against German wolfram smuggling. Success proved fleeting, however, and SOE's ultimate failure, in the face of hostility from the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), to prove its usefulness beyond the wolfram campaign, would lead to its withdrawal from Spain. The story of the SOE in Spain represents, on a small scale, the failure of the organization to find a niche in the British intelligence community after the Second World War.
Diplomacy and Strategy of Survival: British Policy and Franco's Spain, 1940-41
1. Britain and and the birth of Franco's Spain, 1936-39 2. Defining a policy 3. Opposition 4. The Spanish scene 5. Strategic diplomacy: September-October, 1940 6. Economic diplomacy: September-December, 1940 7. The Tangier crisis 8. The limits of attraction 9. The exhaustion of diplomacy.
Women writers of traditional china :an anthology of poetry and criticism
Editorial conventions Abbreviations Maps Introduction: genealogy and titles of the female poet Part I. Poetry: 1. From ancient times to the six dynasties (222-589) 2. Tang (618-907) and five dynasties (907-60) 3. Song dynasty (960-1279 4. Yuan dynasty (1264-1368) 5. Ming dynasty (1368-1644 6. Qing dynasty (1644-1911) Part II. Criticism: 7. Female critics and poets 8. Male critics and poets Appendixes Notes Bibliography Index of names.