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...This week, the Saturday Evening Post's Forrest Davis, claiming to know what was decided at Teheran, predicted: "The first move-presumably a general assembly of the United Nations to agree on the broad outline of the world society-may be expected to follow, not precede a successful Anglo-American invasion...
...Franklin Roosevelt. "Franklin D. Roosevelt, like our own Winston Churchill, is a natural born war leader, a necessary evil, but more alive to constructive ideas than our very Anglicized Anglo-American Winston...
...Anglo-American Relations. "Members of Parliament, including members of the British Cabinet . . . feel that they will not be in a position after this war to carry on alone the job of leadership in policing and financing the world which they have been doing for nearly 200 years. They feel that the Americans and British should work on it together, with or without the Russians. Nobody over there seemed very sure about what the Russians intended to do or whether they would cooperate with anyone...
...Anglo-American has its own peculiar roundabout method of interrogation. We no longer say: sayest thou? The modern form of the question is: do you say? . . . In a few years no one will object to did he ought...
...Those who have been brought up to speak the Anglo-American language have one great linguistic advantage. Their word equipment makes it equally easy for them to take up the study of any Teutonic or any Romance language with a background of familiar associations, because modern English is a hybrid language...