Word: pro-british
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...year-old, crippled Maharaja of Udaipur became so passionately pro-British that at first he offered his entire kingdom and resources, later was content to grant $28,000 in a lump and $19,000 annually...
...about the U. S.-why our country is so goddam pro-British is more than I can understand. I fear our present sentiments would cause Washington, Hamilton and Patrick Henry to blush with embarrassment. We licked the damn English once, now why the hell do we have to pal around? If we do go in again it will be a bad mistake. One man can keep us out. I think most of us are willing to admit now that Franklin D. Roosevelt is our greatest president. If he keeps us out of this war, he will go down in history...
...this big man, one of our truly big Americans, is pro-British. Why? All the big Butlers, the poet W. Butler Yeats, General Butler in the World War I, Justice Butler of our Supreme Court, to name a few, were and are Irish...
Emotionally most of the northern neutrals sympathized with the Allies. In Stockholm sentiment was frankly pro-British. The Netherlands, fearful of Germany, prayed, guarded its frontiers, laid in food supplies, was ready to flood the lowlands if the worst came. (Germany, also fearful, had electrified the barbed wire on its side of the frontier to catch would-be deserters.) In Brussels motion picture audiences cheered pictures of French and British soldiers. Antwerp held air-raid drills and prepared for evacuation if necessary. Switzerland manned her passes. Nerves were on edge and "accidents" happened. Four bombs plumped into the Danish seaport...
Scandalized Laborites, who consider Lord Perth (former Ambassador to Italy) an arch-appeaser, though others who know him claim he is not pro-Fascist, merely pro-British, demanded to know if there was going to be "censorship." Promised the Prime Minister: "There will be no interference with the British Press by that department." He announced that its peacetime function would be to spread British propaganda overseas...