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The documentary record shows that a British media consensus over Greece was less spontaneous than previously thought. The fact that the first major crisis of the Greek situation in December 1944 occurred during the high tide of Leftist/resistance enthusiasm, and in the continuing Anglo-Soviet wartime honeymoon that probably peaked in 1943, means that British tools of media persuasion and manipulation were extremely important in building acceptance for British policy. The presentation of the Greek political crisis in the pages of the British press reflected the dynamics that were developing in the relations between the British government and the media.
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Capell, Richard. Simiomata. A Greek Note Book, 1944–1945. London: MacDonald, 1946, 64.
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There are two approaches to the interpretation of the British policy to get tougher with the Soviet Union. One argues that the British government preserved some faith in negotiations beyond the end of 1947; the other, a revisionist view (Victor Rothwell), that the decision to break with the Soviet Union had been defined by Imperial and Great Power dynamics (John Kent); see Jenks, John. British Propaganda and News Media in the Cold War. Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 27, 39.
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McDonald, Iverach. A Man of the Times: Talks and Travels in a Disrupted Word. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978, 114–115.
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Jenks, British Propaganda and News Media, 29–31.
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Koutsopanagou, G. (2020). Orchestrating a Cold War Public ‘Consensus’ in the British Press. In: The British Press and the Greek Crisis, 1943–1949. Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55155-9_9
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