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The paper was dealing with the British travels of Franz Ernst of Harrach mainly on the basis of his newly found correspondence in the Austrian State Archives. In total, eight British travels of a different character were documented. The first journey, which took place in 1825 and during which he visited a number of mansions of British nobility and landscape parks, deepened Harrach's tending towards the isles, which was later reflected in the construction of Hrádek u Nechanic and the rebuilding of Prugg Castle. The study has also shown that some of the Count's other stays influenced the shape of Hrádek, for example his expedition of the late 1830s and his two travels to England in 1851 undertaken due to his participation at the World Exhibition in London, the second of which was partly shared with his architect Karl Fischer. An analysis of the Count's correspondence has shown that Harrach continued to visit aristocratic residences and landscape parks in the isles after 1825, made contacts, and that he pursued his business and his interests (as evidenced, among other things, by his participation in horse races in York). The sources also show that Franz Ernst was an Anglophile whose linkage to Great Britain was very strong and who knew the British environment very well. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper reviews the 'Palestinian issue' in Anglo-American diplomacy after the end of World War II (1945- 1948). The author examines activities of the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine and reveals the nature of Anglo-American controversy as to the Palestinian issue for the purpose. The operation of the above Committee resulted in identification of principles of the future structure of Palestine, which implied equitable coexistence of the Arabs and the Jews within one territory controlled by Great Britain, with two autonomous provinces to be subsequently set up under the control of the High Commissioner of Palestine. Since neither the principles developed by the Committee nor the follow-up plans on settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict were never implemented due to sharp criticism of both countries participating in the settlement, resolution of the Palestinian issue was referred to the competence of the UNO in 1947. A new Commission was set up, which comprised representatives of neutral states, who put forward a so-called 'plan of the majority' (which implied a partition of Palestine, based on setting up an Economic Union and turning Jerusalem into an international zone) and a 'plan of the minority' (a federal structure of Palestine, with its capital in Jerusalem, in a plan of three year transition period). The paper examines the political confrontation of the USA and Great Britain as to those plans, which came to an end in November 1947 when the UNO adopted a resolution on the rights of both peoples who lived in Palestine to set up two independent states. By pointing out the complexity and contradictoriness of the Palestine issue in the Anglo-American relations, the author concludes that a constant cause of the split-up between the USA and Great Britain was the loss by London of a decisive role in the global balance of military and political forces. Further, in pursuing their pragmatic objectives, both countries themselves often provoked large-scale Arab-Israeli conflicts, thus departing far from the official goal of their 'settlement'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper introduces the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents in the current UK and some knowledge of British researches focused on the role of psychosocial and environmental variables in the creation, development and maintenance of overweight and obesity. The United Kingdom is country with ethnically more diverse composition, that has always raised doubts about the value of the compared data of overweight and obesity, that has been thus obtained in different ethnic groups living here. This problem and its solution in the current country is devoted one part of this contribution. Further part introduces the researches concerned with the relationships between overweight and obesity of British native population and various ethnic groups and their psychosocial and environmental variables, that are always formed, accompanied or mutual differ in a characteristic way of interpersonal communication. The conclusion of the paper is devoted to the strategies, that are currently applied to address the problem of overweight and obesity in some administrative areas of this country. Creators of project Foresight (Butland et al., 2007) propose solutions of increasing incidence of overweight and obesity, in which are involved various ministries and that could be realised through the responsible institutions. These changes would better fit the (psycho) human biology and so could more naturally lead to a healthier lifestyle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]