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El gran historiador inglés, Hugh Thomas, pronunció este verano una conferencia magistral en el Campus FAES sobre los tiempos inciertos que acechan a Europa y las similitudes y diferencias de España y el Reino Unido en su camino en la Unión Europea. Así, por ejemplo, analizó las actuales reticencias del partido conservador de Cameron hacia el proyecto europeo o las implicaciones del proceso de independencia de Escocia. ; The eminent British historian, Hugh Thomas, delivered a lecture this summer at the FAES Campus on the uncertain times that threaten Europe and the similarities and differences between Spain and the United Kingdom on their road to the European Union. He thus analysed, for example, the current reluctance of Cameron's Conservative Party toward the European project and the implications of the Scottish independence process.

Fulgencio Batista was a tyrant becoming increasingly unpopular and who was losing the guerrilla war to insurgents led by Fidel Castro. The only US policy which could have worked in Cuba in 1958 would have been the dispatch there of a sufficiently large number of troops to enable Batista's army to defeat Castro and to guarantee free elections afterwards. This would have subjected the US to criticism in Europe, and strong centrists capable of thwarting Castro were lacking