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and breads-from everyday sweets to special-occasion show-stoppers

countryside and city

Nell Merlino

line and net-caught fish

World After The War Elaine and breads-from everyday sweets toOne of the great myths of the twentieth century is that after the Second World War Britain simply relinquished its power and America quickly embraced its worldwide political and military commitments. Instead the two allies improvised an uneasy, shifting partnership for twelve long years while most of western Europe lay in turmoil and Russia grew more aggressive. But in 1957 Washington issued a 'declaration of independence' from British authority. It