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Saki Dockrill
Contents
Foreword: Remembering Saki Dockrill,
by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman i x
List of Key Publications by Saki Dockrill xii
Preface x vi
Acknowledgements x x
Notes on Contributors x xi
List of Abbreviations xxiv
1 Britain and the Origins of the Religious Cold War, 1944–47 1
Dianne Kirby
2 ‘Journey into a Desert’: British Perceptions of Poland’s
Western Territories, 1945–48 2 2
Alastair Noble
3 British Propaganda and Countering Illegal Immigration into
Palestine: The President Warfield or E xodus 1947 4 2
Kate Utting
4 Britain, the United States and the Issue of ‘Limited War’
with China, 1950–54 62
Kevin Ruane
5 ‘To Stay or to Walk’: The British and the Defence of Domestic
Jurisdiction at the United Nations, 1950–56 8 2
Edward Johnson
6 ‘A Cardinal Point of Our World Strategy’: The Foreign Office
and the Normalisation of Relations with Japan, 1952–63 1 00
Antony Best
7 Anglo–American Diplomacy and the Congo Crisis, 1960–63:
The not so Special Relationship 1 19
John Kent
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viii Contents
8 T he US Embassy in London and Britain’s Withdrawal from
East of Suez, 1961–69 1 39
John W. Young
9 ‘ We Were always Realistic’: The Heath Government, the
European Community and the Cold War in the
Mediterranean, June 1970–February 1974 159
Effie G. H. Pedaliu
10 ‘At the Top Table’: British Elites’ Perceptions of the UK’s
International Position, 1950–91 179
Michael D. Kandiah and Gillian Staerck
11 T he British Embassy in Washington and Anglo–American
Relations during the Blair Governments, 1997–2007 198
Michael F. Hopkins
12 B eyond the Horizon 2 18
Peter Hennessy
Index 239
Foreword: Remembering
Saki Dockrill
Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman
I do not think I am the only person to view the Department of War
Studies at King’s College, London, as a sort of extended family. Perhaps
because of its singular subject matter, or its inclusive approach to inter-
ests and disciplines, it creates extraordinarily strong bonds and loyalties.
For so many years at the heart of this family were the Dockrills, Mike
and Saki. This was a remarkable partnership. Mike was recruited to the
department as a lecturer while it was still in its infancy. Saki came as a
graduate student in 1982, the year that I arrived. Both became profes-
sors in the department. Together they enriched not only the lives of
numerous students, by being excellent teachers and excellent company,
but also the lives of their colleagues, through their commitment to the
department and what it stood for, and above all for their friendship and
good humour. The loss of Saki, one half of this partnership, therefore
was not just a matter of losing a valued colleague. It meant losing one of
the family, somebody with whom you could share life’s ups and downs,
somebody with whom there was always lots to talk about.
Saki Namura was first brought to my attention by Mike as we strolled
around Windsor Great Park, in what I guess was October 1985, in the
days when the whole of the department, all staff and students, could
be accommodated at Cumberland Lodge. Two Saki-related issues were
discussed that day. I believed them – quite erroneously – to be closely
linked. The first issue was ‘was it a problem that Mike and Saki were
forming an attachment?’ The second was would I supervise her thesis?
I presumed the second question was to ease the answer to the first. Saki
was no longer a teenager and it was hard to object to the romance, but I
could see why it might be a problem if there was supervision involved.
So, I agreed to supervise. Except, Mike was not her supervisor. This I only
discovered decades later.
Fortunately, supervising Saki was a delight. Looking back, I still
find her achievement astonishing. Here she was, having had a good
solid Japanese education and taught for five years at a private school,
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spending only one year in England, at the University of Sussex, doing
an MA in international relations, before coming to King’s. Yet she chose
a topic – British attitudes to German rearmament – that required making
sense of intense debates over European security at the height of the Cold
War, depending on substantial archival research. She struggled with
the English language only in pronunciation. From her written English
you would never have guessed she was not a native speaker. And so,
the chapters came – thoroughly researched, carefully analysed, clearly
written, with that attention to detail that became the hallmark of all
her work, and providing a new angle on a familiar topic that deservedly
gained the approval of Cambridge University Press.
Every topic she researched, everything task she took on, she brought
this extraordinary industry, care, commonsense. Whether on German
rearmament, or President Eisenhower’s national security policy, or
Britain’s withdrawal from East of Suez, her books became standard texts,
simply because it was evident to any reader – and you can see this in
the reviews – that this was a scholar who set herself exacting standards
and would worry at an issue until she had satisfied herself that she had
a solution.
All this required great ambition and drive. When her thesis was
over and she had returned from a period at Yale University, before
she waltzed through an interview to become a lecturer in the depart-
ment, we managed to keep her on the books through sundry research
projects. I confess that I often portrayed her as an Asian specialist. She
was grateful for the work but I recall her carefully explaining to me, with
one of her steelier looks, that if she had wanted to be an Asian specialist
she would have stayed in Asia and that actually she had come to Europe
because she wanted to study Europe. I should note, however, that we
did eventually collaborate on a piece on Hiroshima. It was a measure of
her growing self-confidence as a historian that she was starting to illu-
minate Asia’s international history, as she had already done for Europe
and North America in her final project on Japan and the Pacific War,
just as it was a reflection of her growing confidence as a commentator
on contemporary affairs that had led her to write her final book on
responses to 9/11. Her sense of her identity and her place, not just in the
College, but among international historians and her new country, was
now secure. Not only did she take on British citizenship, but she also
became a committed Anglican.
Not long before the dreadful diagnosis of leukaemia, my wife and I had
dinner with Mike and Saki. It was a happy occasion, but my strongest
recollection is of a point in the conversation where she insisted, ‘I don’t
