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...Friendly Anglo-American relations have tended to have been taken for granted during the last century, according to May. These friendly relations have been based, with the exception of strategic alliances during the two world wars, on a rather vaguely defined ethnic identification...
...Canal Users Association plan, or to the U.N. But by relating the traditional U.S. position on colonialism to Suez, Dulles touched off a mighty difference of opinion with the newspapers, pundits and editorialists of London and Paris, who resented his linking of the two problems. "A grave disservice to Anglo-American unity," growled the London Times; pouted Paris' L'Aurore, "Mr. Dulles has not used the language of an ally...
...with varying ideas but a common interest. Their interest was to find, through diplomacy rather than war, the way to remove the Suez from the sole control of Egypt's Nasser. The immediate objective was to equip that common interest with a workable bargaining instrument fashioned from the Anglo-American plan for a canal users' association...
...blasts by offering Parliament the "American excuse." To counter any clamor at Britain's humiliation by Egypt, Eden might well bare his breast to the foe, move to the brink of war, and then, upon anguished outcries from the U.S., refrain from fighting in order to save the Anglo-American alliance...
...forces from 2,800,000 men to 2,000.000 by 1960, in keeping with the development of nuclear weapons. To Germans the so-called Radford plan-and Sir Anthony Eden's prompt hints that Britain, too, planned to "go nuclear"-clearly foreshadowed a reduction in the number of Anglo-American troops stationed in West Germany, possibly even-in the excitable conclusion-jumping of the German press (and the New York Times)-a neo-isolationist U.S. retreat to "Fortress America." Adenauer had argued that conscription was necessary to raise the twelve divisions West Germany had promised NATO. Then Dulles himself...