Roosevelt agreed when his ambassador to Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, described de Gaulle as “an apprentice dictator”. There is a chilling echo in Trump’s description of Volodymyr Zelensky as a ...

Fidel Castro's life story is not the story of the leader of a poor underdeveloped ... The United States, already concerned with Castro's anti-American rhetoric, saw the agreement as a betrayal ...