The presence of Soviet forces would have greatly complicated any postwar settlement from the American perspective.

The postwar settlement saw Greece's territorial expansion, which had begun in 1832, come to an end.

The postwar settlement will hold, if in a more flyblown and tattered shape.

Are we happy to see the postwar social settlement whittled away with no coherent replacement?

Iraq, he said at the time, "should hold a worthy place in the postwar settlement."

Iraq should hold a worthy place in the postwar settlement.

Was there, in reality, no Thatcherite counter-revolution against the postwar settlement?

The postwar settlement ended Greece's territorial expansion, which had begun in 1832.

And the de facto postwar settlement was secured not by treaties but by the passage of time, for which we must thank the cold war.

Within the UK the postwar settlement was to make a home fit for heroes.