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16. and 17.
Communism on the March.
Chinese Red Army troops during the assault on Shanghai, May 1949; Korean refugees fleeing from Communists in the north, with frozen rice paddies in the background, January 1951

18. and 19.
Hungary 1956.
Partisans with the corpses of secret policemen, Budapest, November 1956, and a Soviet tank in Budapest later in the same month

20. and 21.
Colonial delusions.
French African troops at Port Said (the shortly to be blown up statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps in the background); British troops posing for a street photographer in a different part of the same town, November 1956

22. and 23. and 24.
Leaders.
Georgy Malenkov about to watch Arsenal play Manchester United during a visit to London, March 1956; Nikita Khrushchev and Władysław Gomułka at the United Nations, September 1960; John F. Kennedy and Dwight D. Eisenhower leave the White House for the former’s inauguration, January 1960

25. and 26.
The non-Atlantic in the ascendant.
Two symbols of Communist glamour: Yuri Gagarin and Fidel Castro; the Berlin Wall at Potsdamer-Platz, August 1962

27. and 28.
The Atlantic in trouble.
Some of the hundreds of thousands of white settlers fleeing Algeria, May 1962; captured American airmen being paraded through the streets of Hanoi, July 1966

29. and 30.
The new Europe.
Ludwig Erhard and Charles de Gaulle at a dinner hosted by Konrad Adenauer, September 1962; Willi Stoph and Willy Brandt, May 1970

31. and 32.
Prague 1968.
Nicolae Ceauşescu and Alexandr Dubček, Prague, August 1968; Prague later in the same month

33. and 34.
The 1970s.
Leonid Brezhnev, southern Russia, summer 1971; Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger, Paris, December 1972

35. and 36.
Cold War spin-offs.
Salvador Allende with his new head of the Chilean armed forces, Augusto Pinochet, August 1973; Sheikh Yamani and Edward Heath in London to discuss the oil crisis, November 1973

37. and 38.
Awkward social occasions.
President Carter, King Hussein and the Shah, Teheran, January 1978; President Tito and the Prime Minister, James Callaghan, Heathrow, March 1978

39. and 40 and 41.
Good and bad populism.
Helmut Schmidt, April 1977; Jimmy Carter, September 1978; Süleyman Demirel, the great Turkish survivor, May 1977

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