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Posts Tagged ‘World War II’

Building Bush House: Britain and America’s ‘Special Relationship’

By Téa Emily Carter | 7 July 2021 | 1
Bush House in early construction; statues are not yet erected

Before Bush House was home to the BBC or, more recently, to King’s students, it was a personal project of one Irving T. Bush within his larger agenda of cementing America and Britain as pillars of international trade.  Bush’s vision for an international trade centre was unlike the primarily electronic centres of exchange we might…

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