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by Christopher Hitchens


  13. NUCLEAR JEALOUSIES

  The Cabinet papers for the Macmillan years are slowly becoming available at the Public Record Office in London. Meanwhile, Dr. Margaret Gowing’s Independence and Deterrence: Britain and Atomic Energy (1974) is an outstanding account of the political aspects of the Atlantic nuclear alliance. (She also contributed an excellent essay to the Louis-Bull “special relationship” anthology cited in the bibliography for Chapter 11.) R. G. Hewlett and F. Duncan’s A History of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission is a necessary and logical counterpart. The Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier by Duncan Campbell (1984) is a fine piece of investigation which should shame the Parliament and press that needed to leave such a task to a lone individual. The Forrestal Diaries: The Inner History of the Cold War, edited by William Millis (1951), shows the panicky and improvised way in which major long-term decisions were (and by extension are) taken in this field.

  Index

  Acheson, Dean, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Adams, Brooks, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Adams, Charles Francis, ref1

  Adams, Henry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12;

  and alliance of 1898, ref13

  Adams, John, ref1, ref2

  Adams, John Quincy, ref1, ref2

  Adams family, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Addison, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Adler, Selig, ref1

  Ajami, Fouad, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Albert, Carl, ref1

  Albertson, Ralph, ref1, ref2

  Aldington, Richard, ref1

  Aldrich, Nelson (Winthrop’s nephew), ref1

  Aldrich, Senator Nelson W., ref1, ref2

  Aldrich, Winthrop, ref1, ref2, ref3

  All Souls and Appeasement (Rowse), ref1

  Allen, Roger, ref1

  Alsop, Stewart, ref1

  America First, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  American Committee for Cultural Freedom, ref1

  American Establishment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; transition from isolationism to interventionism, ref5, ref6

  American Expeditionary Force, ref1, ref2

  American language (proposed), ref1, ref2

  “American party,” ref1, ref2

  American power, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; British opposition to extension of, ref6, ref7, ref8; postwar opportunities for, ref9; replacement of British Empire by, ref10, ref11

  “American Rebellion, The” (Kipling), ref1, ref2

  American Revolution, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  American Scene, The (James), ref1

  American Spelling and Grammar (Webster), ref1

  “Americanism,” ref1

  Americans: attitudes toward the English, ref1, ref2, ref3 (see also Anglophilia; Anglophobia); British views of, ref4

  Americans for Border Control, ref1

  America’s Economic Supremacy (Adams), ref1

  Amery, Julian, ref1, ref2

  Amery, Leo, ref1

  Anderson, Sir John, ref1

  Angleton, James Jesus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Anglo-American alliance, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; in overthrow of Mossadegh government, ref7; post-World War II, ref8; and summit

  Anglo-American alliance (cont.) meetings, ref1; World War I, ref2; World War II, ref3, ref4

  Anglo-American cooperation, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Anglo-American empire (proposed), ref1

  Anglo-American relations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; changes in, ref5, ref6: Churchillian conception of, ref7; conflict in, ref8; critical point in, ref9; deceit in, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; discordant intimacy in, ref14; existed between elites, ref15; gold in, ref16; hinge moments in, ref17, ref18; hinge years in, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23; joint mythology in, ref24; rivalry/collusion in, ref25, ref26, ref27, ref28; see also love-hate relations (Anglo-American)

  Anglo-American system: crisis of, ref1

  Anglo-American unity, ref1; proposals for, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Anglo-Americanism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), ref1, ref2

  Anglo-Japanese naval treaty, ref1

  Anglophile(s), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Mahan as, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Anglophilia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; abolition of need for envy in, ref11; of H. Adams, ref12; antidotes to, ref13; ebb and flow of, ref14; essence of, ref15; as matter of fashion, ref16; and Rhodes Scholarships, ref17; of W. Wilson, ref17

  Anglophobia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; of American military, ref8; decline of, ref9; ebb and flow of, ref10; of J. Edgar Hoover, ref11; and joint citizenship proposals, ref12; Wister on, ref13

  Anglo-Saxon alliance, ref1

  Anglo-Saxon attitudes (U.S.), ref1, ref2

  Anglo-Saxon Century, The (Dos Passos), ref1

  Anglo-Saxondom, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; in American social order, ref8; change to “America First,” ref9; dilution of, through immigration, ref10; ideology of, ref11, ref12; language question and, ref13; reunified (proposed), ref14

  Anglo-Saxonism, ref1, ref2

  Anglo-Saxons, ref1

  Annenberg, Lee, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Annenberg, Moe, ref1

  Annenberg, Walter, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; ambassador to England, ref7

  Annenberg Foundation, ref1

  anti-American sentiment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  anti-British sentiment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  anticolonialism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; and receivership, ref7

  anti-Communism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; and intelligence gathering, ref6

  Anti-Imperialist League, ref1, ref2

  Anzus pact, ref1

  Arab League, ref1

  Arab nationalism, ref1, ref2

  Arbenz, Jacobo, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Arendt, Hannah, ref1

  Argenlieu, Thierry d’ ref1

  Argentina, ref1

  aristocracy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; of labor, ref5; “natural,” ref6

  Armistice, ref1

  Armstrong, Hamilton Fish, ref1

  Army Counterintelligence Corps (U.S.), ref1

  Arnold, Matthew, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Aron, Raymond, ref1

  As It Happened (Paley), ref1

  Ascherson, Neal, ref1

  Asia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Asquith, Herbert Henry, ref1

  “At Home in Washington, D.C.” (Vidal), ref1

  Athenian Complex, The (Visson), ref1

  Atlantic Charter, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Atlantic Conference, ref1

  atomic bomb, ref1; see also nuclear weapons

  Atomic Shield (Hewlett and Duncan), ref

  Attlee, Clement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Auden, W. H., ref1, ref2

  Australia, ref1, ref2

  Aydelotte, Frank, ref1

  Ayer, A. J., ref1

  Baghdad Pact, ref1

  Baldwin, Stanley, ref1, ref2

  Balfour, Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Balkans, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Ballard, J. G., ref1

  Baltic states, ref1, ref2

  Baltzeil, E. Digby, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Barnard, Hugh, ref1

  Barraclough, Geoffrey, ref1

  “Basic English,” ref1, ref2

  Battle, Lucius, ref1

  Beard, Charles, ref1, ref2

  Beatty, David, ref1

  Beesly, Patrick, ref1

  Belgium, ref1, ref2

  Bell, Gertrude, ref1

  Bellow, Saul, ref1

  Berle, Adolf, ref1

  Bettelheim, Bruno, ref1

  Beveridge, Albert, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bevin, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Billington, James H, ref1

  Birnbaum, Norman, ref1, ref2

  Bliven, Bruce, ref1

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sp; blood, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; common, ref8, ref9; ideology of Anglo-Saxondom based on, ref10; order of precedence based on, ref11; in passing of burden of empire to U.S., ref12; as test of national will, ref13; theme of, lacking in Atlantic Conference, ref14

  blood relations, ref1

  bloodlines, ref1; in Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence, ref2, ref3; in London-Washington alliance, ref4

  Blumberg, Paul, ref1

  Blumenthal, Sidney, ref1

  Boer farmers, ref1, ref2

  Boer War, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Bonfire of the Vanities, The (Wolfe), ref1

  Boorstin, Daniel J., ref1, ref2

  Borah, William, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bourne, Randolph, ref1

  Bowden, George, ref1

  Bowman, Isaiah, ref1

  Braden, Thomas, ref1, ref2

  Brecht, Bertolt, ref1

  Breslin, Jimmy, ref1

  Brewster, Kingman, ref1

  Brewster, Owen, ref1

  Brideshead Revisited (Waugh), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Briggs, Asa, ref1

  Bright, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bristed, Charles Astor, ref1

  “Britain at War” (exhibit), ref1

  British Admiralty, ref1; “Room Forty,” ref2, ref3, ref4

  British attitudes toward U.S., ref1, ref2

  British Empire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; in Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence, ref5, ref6, ref7; Churchill’s efforts to enlist U.S. in aid of, ref8, ref9; colonies reconquered in World War II, ref10; Mahan’s apology for, ref11; replacement of, by American power, ref12, ref13, ref14; U.S. receivership of, ref15, ref16, ref17; in vision of Rhodes, ref18

  British Establishment, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; American collusion/rivalry with, ref7; and American imperialism, ref8; and American reaction to World War I, ref9; condescension of, ref10; and intelligence/espionage, ref11; postwar, ref12; resentment against U.S., ref13; and U.S. South, ref14

  British Naval Intelligence, ref1

  British Navy, ref1, ref1, ref2, ref3; and American imperialism, ref4; Mahan on, ref5, ref6; proposed disposal of, in event of conquest, ref7, ref8; size of, ref9

  British Petroleum (co.), ref1, ref2

  British power, ref1, ref2; eclipse of, by U.S., ref3

  British Security Coordination (BSC), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  British Tourist Authority, ref1

  British Tourist Board, ref1, ref2

  Britten, Benjamin, ref1

  Brooke, General, ref1

  Brooks-Baker, Harold, ref1

  Brown, Anthony Cave, ref1

  Brown, Tina, ref1

  Bruce, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Bruce, Evangeline, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Brundrett, Sir Frederick, ref1

  Bryan, William Jennings, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Bryant, Sir Arthur, ref1

  Bryce, Ivar, ref1

  Buchan, John, ref1, ref2

  Buchanan, James, ref1, ref2

  Buckley, William F., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Bundy, William, ref1

  “Burden of Jerusalem, The” (Kipling), ref1, ref2

  Burgess, Anthony, ref1

  Burke, Arleigh, ref1

  Burma, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Burnham, James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; and American Committee for Cultural Freedom, ref12; influence of, ref13

  Burr, Aaron, ref1

  Bush, George Herbert Walker, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Bush, Vannever, ref1

  Butler, R. A., ref1, ref2, ref3

  Butler, Rusty, ref1

  Cambridge University, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cameron, Martha, ref1

  Campbell, Duncan, ref1

  Campbell, John Franklin, ref1

  Canada, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Canadian-Alaskan border dispute, ref1

  Canning, George, ref1

  Caribbean, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Carlyle, Thomas, ref1

  Carnegie, Andrew, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ref1

  Caroe, Olaf, ref1

  Carver, Lord, ref1

  Catholics, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Coto (Addison), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Cecil, George, ref1

  Cecil, Sir Robert, ref1

  Center for Immigration Studies, ref1

  Central America, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Central Committee for National Patriotic Organisations, ref1, ref2

  Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), ref1, ref2

  Century Association, ref1, ref2

  Century Group, ref1

  Chamberlain, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Chamberlain, Neville, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Chandler, Albert, ref1

  “Chapter of Proverbs, A” (Kipling), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Charles, prince of England, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Charlton, William Oswald, ref1

  Chastellux, Marquis de, ref1

  Chateaubriand, Francois René de, ref1

  Chatham House, ref1

  Chavez, Linda, ref1

  Cherwell, Lord, ref1

  Chesterton, G. K., ref1

  Chiang Kai-shek, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Children, The (Kipling), ref1

  China, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Chinese immigrants (U.S.), ref1, ref2

  Chirol, Sir Valentine, ref1

  Chisholm, Hugh, ref1

  Churchill, Lord Randolph, ref1

  Churchill, Sylvester, ref1

  Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24; and American transition from isolationism to interventionism, ref25; and Basic English, ref26; and Cyprus question, ref27; at Ditchley, ref28, ref29, ref30; and Eisenhower, ref31, ref32; Fulton, Mo. (Iron Curtain) speech, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37; iconography of, ref38, ref39; and independence of India, ref40; and Munich analogy, ref41; and nuclear technology, ref42, ref43, ref44; and Operation Boot, ref45; persona of, ref46; proposal for joint union, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50; revenge of, ref51, ref52; and F. D. Roosevelt, ref53, ref54, ref55; and special relationship, ref56, ref57; and Vietnam impasse, ref58

  Churchill cult, ref1

  Churchill Foundation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Churchill-Roosevelt wartime correspondence, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Churchill Society, ref1

  Churchillism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  CIA, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; “front” organizations, ref7

  Cicero, ref1, ref2

  Cincinnatus, ref1, ref2

  Civil War (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; British and, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Clancy, Tom, ref1, ref2

  Clark, Blair, ref1

  Clark, Sir Kenneth, ref1

  Clark, William, ref1

  Clarke, Bouverie, ref1

  class, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; definitions of, ref15; empire and, ref16; and espionage, ref17, ref18; exemplified at Ditchley, ref19; and marital alliances, ref20; special relation as charter for action by unelected, ref21; style as, ref22; tensions regarding, ref23; as test of national will, ref24; and World War I, ref25

  Class (Fussell), ref1

  Clay, Henry, ref1

  Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, ref1

  Cleveland, Graver, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Clifford, Clark, ref1

  Cloak and Gown (Winks), ref1

  Clough, Arthur Hugh, ref1

  Cobden, Richard, ref1, ref2

  Cockcroft, Sir John, ref1

  Cockrell, Francis, ref1

  Cold War, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; and espionage, ref7; nuclear balance of terror in, ref8

  colonialism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref
4

  colonies: British, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; collusion of U.S./British war aims in, ref5

  Colville, Sir John, ref1

  Communism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Confederacy (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; British support for, ref5, ref6

  Conrad, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3

  conservatism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; anti-British, ref5; and Churchill cult, ref6, ref6

  Continental Congress, ref1, ref2

  Cooke, Alistair, ref1, ref2

  Cooper, Duff, ref1, ref2

  Copeland, Miles, ref1, ref2

  Co-Prosperity Sphere, ref1

  Cornell, Louis, ref1

  Comwallis, Charles, ref1

  Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), ref1, ref2

  Country Made by War, A (Perret), ref1

  Cowper, William, ref1

  Crankshaw, Edward, ref1

  Crawford, James, ref1

  Creasy, Sir Edward, ref1

  Creel Committee, ref1

  Cromwell, Oliver, ref1, ref2

  Cromwell, Richard, ref1, ref2

  Cronkite, Walter, ref1, ref2

  Cropsey, Seth, ref1, ref2

  Crossman, Richard, ref1

  Cryer, Robert, ref1

  Cuba, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; Churchill in, ref8

  cultural images, ref1

  cultural cross-fertilization, ref1

  Cunliffe, Marcus, ref1

  Curtis, Lionel, ref1, ref2

  Curzon, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Cyprus, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; U.S. involvement in, ref10

  Dangerfield, George, ref1, ref2

  Davies, Joseph, ref1

  Davis, John W., ref1

  Davis, Norman, ref1

  Dean, Patrick, ref1

  Decatur, Stephen, ref1

  decolonization, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Defence of the Islands” (Eliot), ref1

  de Gaulle, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  democracy, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Democracy (Adams), ref1

  destroyers for bases agreement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  determinism, ref1, ref2

  Dewey, George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Diana, princess of England, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Díaz, Porfirio, ref1, ref2

  Dickens, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Didion, Joan, ref1, ref2

  diplomacy, ref1, ref2, ref3; gunboat, ref4: jackal, ref5

  “Ditchley Papers,” ref1

  Ditchley Park, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Dixon, Thomas, ref1

 

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