Word: anti-british
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...Twist a Tail. What put the Lion in such an uproar? In the U.S., for the best part of a year, there had been less than usual anti-British criticism. At year's end, British policy in Greece had disturbed Americans. But no Briton had been more eloquent than the New York Times, among others, in pleading for U.S. understanding of Britain's power-political necessities...
...silence had one great effect: it gave U.S. Anglophobes-and isolationists-a new lease on life. In the Senate, Illinois' C. Wayland Brooks, the Chicago Tribune errand boy, let loose with a gusty anti-British blast: "The American people did not send their sons abroad to fight and die for the safety of Britain or the triumph of Russian influence." And in the House, Pennsylvania's squat, aggressive Leon Gavin cried: "It's about time for Uncle Sam to get tough with Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden...
Then up rose Kentucky's cocky, talkative Happy Chandler, always ready to go a few rounds when the spotlight is on. Happy Chandler had appeared in the Senate ring, on occasion, as anti-British, anti-Russian, anti-New Deal. This time he was anti-rich folks. Cried he: "Mr. President, I sometimes wonder who won the election. . . . Instead of poor folks obtaining jobs, the Wall Street boys are obtaining jobs, and we are clearing everything with Harry Hopkins. ... I know very little about these nominees, [but] there are some questions I should like...
...districts, whipping off his coat under the expert Langer management, bluntly predicted that Nye was through. But Washington observers-especially those who watched Gerald Nye's shrewd progress from a young bumpkin in bulbous yellow shoes to a sleekly tailored politician who drew down handsome lecture fees for anti-British, anti-Russian tirades-still believed strongly in the Nye talent for self-preservation...
...Star-Spangled Banner . . . this ponderous piece . . . was written in celebration of a minor engagement in an inconsequential war-and a war, moreover, against our present allies, the British. From the looks of things, we are going to be fighting on the British side in future wars-far oftener, at any rate, than on the anti-British side. Surely we ought to be able to round up a song which better voices the 20th-century mood of the American people...