U.S. Policy in the Greek Civil War and the British Media (1947)

The subject of the study is the reflection of the policy of the United States regarding the civil war in Greece in 1947 in British media publications using the example of central British newspapers: The Daily Herald (a newspaper that supported the Labor Party), The Times, The Observer (a centrist newspaper) and The Daily Mirror, the left-liberal The Manchester Guardian, The Spectator (a conservative newspaper), the right–wing The Sunday Times and regional - The Yorkshire Observer (British edition of liberal views), The Belfast News-Letter (conservative daily). The article examines how objectively the British media covered the emerging US policy towards the Greek Civil War in 1947, and what positions the British publications took in covering the US actions in Greece. The questions raised are considered in a problem-chronological plan. The article analyzes the reflection of the formation and implementation of Washington's political course in Greece, the depth of coverage of this topic. The main conclusions of the research conducted for the first time in Russian science are that in the British selected publications, when covering the problems of US policy in the Greek conflict, objectivity and impartiality were not present in all cases, and the same events received different assessments. Sometimes the ascertaining side prevailed over the analytical one. British newspapers described the Truman Doctrine in different ways, and sometimes covered the Greek conflict in the context of Anglo-American relations. The analysis of the international aspects of the Greek war in the context of the Cold War (the "promotion" of anti-communist, anti-Soviet motives) was traced. The research materials can be used in further study of the Greek civil war of 1946-1949, the propaganda aspect of the Cold War and regional conflicts of the post-war period.