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...political blocs in Saigon can save him or his regime. If he gains in the countryside, no combination of blocs could do much to remove him. When the U.S. urges Thieu to broaden the political spectrum of his party, we are approaching the Vietnamese scene with a very ethnocentric, Anglo-American eye. It's a political-science-seminar solution that just will not work...
...Though local publications always refer to it as 'the Anglo-American bombing,' there really seems to be very little resentment against either nation. 'No, there's no hatred. We just try to forget about that whole bombing, and when you do that, you forget about who did it,' said a retired engineer. But a local journalist commented: 'We can understand the British more than the Americans because we bombed their cities...
...parallel views of civilization, common traditions of parliamentary democracy and respect for individual rights. When Churchill referred to the relationship in his famed "Iron Curtain speech" at Missouri's Westminster College, he foresaw joint U.S.-British cooperation against the looming Soviet peril, which ultimately might lead to common Anglo-American citizenship. Nobody would go that far today...
...reasoning is the same, the appreciation of the problem is the same, and the courses open to action are judged to be about the same." Despite a few serious exceptions, U.S. and British policies since World War II have been reasonably compatible. In recent months, for example, the Anglo-American position has been fairly close on Nigeria, the Middle East, and the response to Moscow's call for a European security conference...
...been one of those uncommon envoys with a sharply pointed pencil. He was a career diplomat, the fifth son of an earl; he was first married to the daughter of a U.S. Senator, and after her death wed another American. In his last Washington years, he worked to strengthen Anglo-American ties as World War II approached...