Word: anglophiliac
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...that as Britain's power waned, its ruling elite increasingly saw its country's link with the U.S. as akin to that between ancient Greece and Rome. This teacher-student thesis, with its implication that Washington should take on London's global role, found attentive ears within an Anglophiliac American establishment. Hitchens contends that Britain guilefully dominated the relationship by appealing to ties of blood, class, nostalgia and a common tongue...
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