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...under the alias "Richard Bentley," his flight to the U.S. was supposed to be a secret. He had been asked to appear on the CBS-TV panel show I've Got a Secret. The British Foreign Office came to the aid of the producers, Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, by persuading the British Amateur Athletic Board that the trip would help "cement British-American relations." By the time Bannister landed at New York's Idlewild airport, Reuters had broken the story and reporters, radio-TV men and diplomats outnumbered the Goodson & Todman agents, who claimed first crack...
...British-American disunion is deeply significant. Since the cold war began, the anti-Communist side has had the preponderant power-military, economic and moral-but superiority has never been exercised to register proportionate gains in cold-war politics. The Communists have usually had the initiative. When they lost it, they took strong defensive positions and encouraged dissension among the anti-Communist coalition...
Middle East. Day in and day out the British-American conflict seethes through the Middle East. Beside it the joint Anglo-American opposition to Communism is a half-forgotten, far-off thing. Present British Middle East policies have their roots in traditional Tory policies. Britain's prewar Tory policy was to keep the Moslem world divided and weak, politically and economically, so that British traders could operate on terms advantageous to them. The U.S. today sees the Middle East (as it sees almost all international problems) largely as part of the struggle with world Communism; Middle East weakness creates...
...Long Island Sound, a team of U.S. Six-Meter sailors outran the British four races in a row to keep the British-American Cup, which the U.S. has held since 1930. In this week's Seawanhaka Cup competitions, also for Six-Meters, the British challenger Marylette got off to a sad start by snapping her mast in a stiff breeze, while the U.S. defender Llanoria, supposedly left hopelessly behind with a torn mainsail, plodded home to win under Genoa jib and spinnaker...
Kirk begins with Edmund Burke, founder of a great line of British-American conservatives. Son of a Dublin lawyer, devout Anglican, party manager of the Whigs, Burke lived in an England torn and undermined by the philosophy of the French Revolution much as the U.S. in the '305 was torn and undermined by the philosophy of the Communist Revolution. In press, Parliament and public opinion, Burke saw signs that Britain was in danger from the doctrines across the Channel. If his fears now seem exaggerated, that impression is perhaps Burke's greatest achievement. "He succeeded," says Kirk...