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Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From a speech in the House of Commons during a debate on the Wootton Report, by Conservative MP Patrick McNair-Wilson, 27 January 1969. This report recommended the legalisation of cannabis. I have listened to the arguments of those experts outside this House who have tried to persuade me and others that the smoking of cannabis is no more than a social pastime. But I think that we are accepting too many kinds of social changes, not so much because w...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From a speech given to the United Nations Security Council, by the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, 23 October 1962. I have asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to bring to your attention a grave threat to the peace of the world. Last night, the US President reported alarming military developments in Cuba. In view of the transformation of Cuba into a base for offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction, he ann...

ection A Answer Question 01. Source A From a speech given to the United Nations Security Council, by the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, 23 October 1962. I have asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to bring to your attention a grave threat to the peace of the world. Last night, the US President reported alarming military developments in Cuba. In view of the transformation of Cuba into a base for offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction, he anno...

ection A Answer Question 01. Source A From a speech given to the United Nations Security Council, by the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Adlai Stevenson, 23 October 1962. I have asked for an emergency meeting of the Security Council to bring to your attention a grave threat to the peace of the world. Last night, the US President reported alarming military developments in Cuba. In view of the transformation of Cuba into a base for offensive weapons of sudden mass destruction, he anno...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From a report of a speech by Jesse Jackson to the Republican Party, in the New York Times, 21 January 1978. This left-leaning newspaper is renowned for high journalistic standards. ‘Blacks will vote Republican if Republicans will go after their votes and look after their interests’, the Rev Jesse L Jackson told the Republican National Committee today. A standing ovation greeted the message from the Chicago‐based civil rights leader, who had b...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From an interview with Jing Shenghong, an eminent Chinese historian, in China, in 2006. Jing describes events at Nanjing University on 3 June 1966, where he had been a student. Several professors were criticised at first. Among them was Professor Lin from the Philosophy department, Professor Hu from the Chinese Literature department and Professor Su from the Foreign Language department. All these professors were in their thirties. It was believed t...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From the diary of Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, 10/11 November 1938. Goebbels kept this private diary with the intention of publishing it at a later date. Ernst vom Rath’s death is reported; now everything is ready. I bring the matter to the Führer. He decides: let the demonstrations go on, withdraw the police. The Jews should get to feel the anger of the people. Some cowards hesitate but I keep pushing on; we cannot leave unanswered t...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From ‘I Chose Freedom’ by Viktor Kravchenko, 1946. Kravchenko was a Red Army captain during the Great Patriotic War but defected to the USA in 1944. Had the Nazi invaders displayed good political sense, they would have avoided a lot of the fierce guerrilla resistance that plagued them day and night. Instead, the Germans proceeded to kill, torture, burn, rape and enslave. Upon collectivisation, which most peasants abhorred, the conquerors now imp...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From the minutes of a Cabinet meeting, 23 August 1931. The Prime Minister informed the Cabinet that he was strongly in favour of accepting the May Committee’s recommendations. The Bank of England needed to restore confidence in sterling. He warned the Cabinet of the dreadful consequences that would inevitably follow from a financial panic and a run on the pound. He was confident that a majority of the Party was in favour. If the government inflict...

Section A Answer Question 01. Source A From a memo sent to members of the Polish Government by Polish Foreign Minister, Jozef Beck, 23 August 1939. Today’s announcements about the intended Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact prove conclusively that the Soviet government has been playing a double game for a long time, seeking to break our negotiations with Paris and London. We cannot be blamed for what is happening. In view of the significance of today’s events, I believe that the only an...