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by Christopher Hitchens


  Donovan, “Wild Bill,” ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Dornan, Robert, ref1

  Dos Passos, John (senior), ref1

  Doubleday, Frank, ref1, ref2

  Downes, Donald, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Dreiser, Theodore, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Dreiser Bugaboo, The” (Mencken), ref1

  Dukakis, Michael, ref1

  Dulles, Allen, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Dulles, John Foster, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  “Dumb-Bell World, A” (Ascherson), ref1

  Duncan, F., ref1

  Duncanson, Dennis, ref1

  Dymally, Mervyn, ref1

  economic royalism, ref1, ref2

  Economist, The, ref1, ref2, ref1, ref1

  Eddy, William A., ref1

  Eden, Anthony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; and receivership, ref15; and Suez crisis, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20; and Vietnam impasse, ref21

  Education of Henry Adams, The (Adams), ref1, ref2

  Egypt, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Eisenhower, Dwight D., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; Aldrich and, ref12; Churchill and, ref13, ref14; and intelligence/espionage, ref15; and Suez crisis, ‘ ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20

  Eisenhower administration, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Eisenhower Doctrine, ref1

  Elgin, Lord, ref1

  Eliot, T. S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  elites, ref1, ref2; mutually sustaining, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Elizabeth II, queen of England, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Ellmann, Richard, ref1

  empire, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; American, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; American veneration of, ref16; and class, ref17; in influence of Britain on U.S., ref18; Kipling as bard of, ref19; passing to U.S., ref20 (see also receivership, imperial); and special relationship, ref21; tensions regarding, ref22; as test of national will, ref23; and war, ref24

  Empire Marketing Board, ref1

  Empire of the Sun (Ballard), ref1

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, ref1, ref2

  Endicott, Mary, ref1, ref1

  England: appeal of, in America, ref1; deceit in relations with U.S., ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; decline of, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; dependence on U.S., ref14; influence on U.S., ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19; Mahan’s reception in, ref20; and U.S. imperialism, ref21, ref22, ref23; see also British Empire; Great Britain

  England’s Decadence in the West Indies (Adams), ref1

  English connection, ref1, ref2, ref3

  English History, 1914-7945 (Taylor), ref1

  English language, ref1; see also language

  English-language legislation (U.S.), ref1

  English-speaking peoples, ref1, ref2

  Englishness, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; Wister’s defense of, ref7

  Enigma Machine, ref1

  Erben, Admiral, ref1

  espionage, ref1

  Europe Without Baedeker (Wilson), ref1

  expansionism (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; Anglo-Saxon bloodlines and, ref15; and language question, ref16

  FAIR, ref1

  Falklands conflict, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Fall, Bernard, ref1

  Fall of the Roman Empire, The (Grant), ref1

  Farrell, J. G., ref1

  Farrow, John, ref1

  Fascism, ref1, ref1

  FBI, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Fenianism, ref1, ref2

  Fenton, James, ref1

  fiction (espionage), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Field, Marshall, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Fighting Without a War (Albertson), ref1, ref2

  Fillmore, Millard, ref1

  film(s), ref1, ref2

  Fish, Hamilton, ref1

  Fitzgerald, F. Scott, ref1, ref2

  Fleming, Ian, ref1, ref2

  Foreign Affairs, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Foreign Agents Registration Act, ref1

  Foreign Economic Administration, ref1

  Forrestal, James, ref1

  Forster, William E., ref1

  France, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; as ally of U.S., ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; colonialism, ref9; decolonization, ref10, ref11; in Indochina, ref12, ref13; and U.S.-Great Britain nuclear collaboration, ref14, ref15; in Vietnam, ref16, ref17, ref18; in World War II, ref19

  Francis, Samuel, ref1

  Franco, Francisco, ref1, ref2

  Franks, Oliver, ref1

  Free World Association, ref1

  French, Philip, ref1

  French Union, ref1

  Freud, Sigmund, ref1

  Friedman, Sonia, ref1

  Frisch, Otto, ref1

  “From Sea to Sea” (Kipling), ref1, ref2

  Fuchs, Klaus, ref1

  Fulbright, J. William, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Fulbright scholarships, ref1

  Fussell, Paul, ref1

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, ref1, ref2

  Garfield, James, ref1

  Gay, Edwin F., ref1, ref2

  Genius, The (Dreiser), ref1

  George, king of Greece, ref1

  George, Lloyd, ref1, ref2

  George III, king of England, ref1, ref2, ref3

  George V, king of England, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  German-Americans, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; attacks on, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Germany, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; British collusion with, ref7; sentiment toward, in U.S., ref8, ref9, ref10; in World War I, ref11; in World War II, ref12

  Gibbs, James, ref1

  Gladstone, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  globalism, ref1, ref2

  God and Man at Yale (Buckley), ref1

  Godfrey, J. H., ref1

  gold standard, ref1, ref2

  Goldberger, Paul, ref1

  Goldwyn, Sam, ref1, ref2

  Gompers, Samuel, ref1, ref2

  Gorbachev, Mikhail, ref1

  Gowing, Margaret, ref1, ref2

  Gracey, Douglas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Graeco-Roman succession analogy, ref1, ref2; in intelligence gathering, ref3; and nuclear collaboration, ref4; rhetoric of, ref5

  “Grand Area” concept, ref1

  Grand Strategy of the Roman Empire, The (Luttwak), ref1

  Grant, Mary, ref1

  Grant, Michael, ref1, ref2

  Grant, U.S., ref1, ref2

  Graves, William S., ref1, ref2

  Grayson, Cary, ref1

  Great Britain, ref1, ref2; in China, ref3, ref4; decolonization, ref5, ref6; dependent on U.S. for security, ref7, ref8, ref9; foreign policy, ref10; as junior partner, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17; place in postwar power structure, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25; propaganda effort (WWI), ref26, ref27; turning over leadership to U.S., ref28, ref29, ref30 (see also receivership, imperial); U.S. pressed for economic concessions, ref31, ref32; as world power, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36, ref37, ref38, ref39; see also British Empire; England

  “great game,” ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Great-Heart” (Kipling), ref1

  great powers: rise/fall of, ref1, ref2

  Great War, see World War I

  Greece, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; Anglo-American dispute over, ref9; British handing over to U.S., ref10

  Greets Invading the Roman Government (Syme), ref1

  Greene, Graham, ref1

  Greenland, ref1

  “Greeting from the Nineteenth to the Twentieth Century, A” (Twain), ref1

  Grenfell, Morgan, ref1

  Grey, Sir Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Griffith, D. W., ref1, ref2

  Guam, ref1

  Guatemala, ref1, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
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  Gullion, Edmund A., ref1

  Guthrie, Sir Connop, ref1

  Hagerty, Jim, ref1

  Halberstam, David, ref1, ref2

  Hale, Nathan, ref1

  Halifax, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Hall, Sir William Reginald (“Blinker”), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hallmark (co.), ref1

  Harding, Warren, ref1

  Harney, General, ref1

  Harriman, Averell, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Harriman, Pamela, ref1

  Harrison, Benjamin, ref1

  Hart, Benjamin, ref1, ref2

  Hart, Jeffrey, ref1

  Harte, Bret, ref1

  Harvard University, ref1

  Harvey, William “Coin,” ref1

  Hawaii, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Hawke, Admiral, ref1

  Hay, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11

  Hay-Pauncefote Treaty, ref1

  Hayakawa, S. I., ref1

  Hazard of New Fortunes, A (Howells), ref1

  Heart of Darkness (Conrad), ref1

  Heath, Edward, ref1, ref2

  Hellenism, ref1, ref2

  Hemingway, Ernest, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Henderson, Loy, ref1, ref2

  Henry, Patrick, ref1

  Henry, William, ref1

  Henty, G. A., ref1

  Heritage Foundation: “Third Generation” project, ref1

  Hewlett, R. G., ref1

  history, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; images in, ref6; shared, ref7, ref8, ref9

  History of the American People (Wilson), ref1

  History of the Second World War (Churchill), ref1

  Hitler, Adolf, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Hockaday, Sir Arthur, ref1

  Hodson, H. V., ref1, ref2

  Holland, ref1, ref2

  Holland, Sir Henry, ref1

  Hollywood, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hoover, Herbert, Jr., ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hoover, J. Edgar, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hopkins, Harry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  House, Edward, ref1, ref2, ref3

  House, H. M. P., ref1

  Hovde, Frederick L., ref1

  Howells, William Dean, ref1, ref2

  Hudson, Edward, ref1

  Hughes, Charles, ref1

  Hull, Cordell, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Humphrey, George, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Hungary, ref1

  Hunt, E. Howard, ref1

  Hurley, Patrick, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Huxley, Aldous, ref1

  Hyde, H. Montgomery, ref1

  hyphenated Americans, hyphenation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Image, The (Boorstin), ref1

  images: of Englishman/American, ref1, ref2; subliminal mastery of, ref3, ref4

  immigration (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; and language question, ref7; legislation governing, ref8

  Imperial Brain Trust (Mintner and Shoup), ref1

  imperial context, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Imperial Federation, ref1, ref2

  Imperial Preference, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  imperial styles: U.S. adaptation of, ref1

  imperialism, ref1; vicarious, ref2, ref3; see also empire

  “Imperialism” (Arendt), ref1

  imperialism (British), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; in nuclear age, ref6

  imperialism (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; anti-imperial, ref9; Burnham’s role in, ref10, ref11; Churchill and, ref12; in Saudi Arabia, ref13

  “Imperialism Without Splendor” (Ajami), ref1

  India, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; British debacle in, ref10; independence of, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  Indochina, ref1, ref2, ref3; U.S. in, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Inequality in an Age of Decline (Blum-berg), ref1

  Influence of Sea Power upon History, The (Mahan), ref1, ref2

  Institute of International Affairs (IIA): Round Table groups, ref1

  intelligence, ref1; bond of, ref2

  International Civil Aviation Conference, ref1

  International Episode, An (James), ref1

  International Wheat Meeting, ref1

  internationalism, ref1, ref2; CFR and, ref3, ref4

  interventionism, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Iran, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; overthrow of Mossadegh government in, ref7, ref8

  Ireland, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; Home Rule, ref14, ref15, ref16

  Irish-Americans, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Irish Republic, ref1

  Iron Curtain, ref1

  Iron Curtain speech (Churchill), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  irony(ies): in Anglo-American relations, ref1; in Anglo-American transition, ref2; in Kipling’s stance, ref3, ref4; in loss of American innocence, ref5; in U.S. entry into World War II, ref6; in U.S.British nuclear collaboration, ref7, ref8; in special relationship, ref9

  Isaacs, Harold, ref1, ref2

  Isaacs, Rufus, ref1n

  Isherwood, Christopher, ref1, ref2

  isolationism, ref1

  isolationism (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; of conservatives, ref9; intelligence gathering and, ref10; transition to interventionism, ref11; in World War II, ref12, ref13, ref14

  Israel, ref1, ref2

  Izoulet, Jean, ref1, ref2

  James, Henry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  James, William, ref1

  Japan, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Japanese-Americans, ref1

  Jefferson, Thomas, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Jenkins, Roy, ref1

  Jerome, Jennie (Lady Randolph Churchill), ref1, ref2

  Jerome, Leonard, ref1

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

  Jews, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Johnson, Louis, ref1

  Johnson, Lyndon, ref1, ref2

  Johnson, Representative, ref1

  journalism, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Juvenal, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Kaiser, Phillip, ref1

  Kaledin, Aleksei, ref1

  Kemble, Fanny, ref1

  Kennan, George, ref1

  Kennedy, John F., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Kennedy, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Kennedy, Paul, ref1

  Kent, Tyler, ref1

  Kerr, Philip (later Lord Lothian), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Key, Francis Scott, ref1

  Keynes, John Maynard, ref1

  Keynesianism, ref1

  Kiernan, Victor, ref1

  Kimball, Warren, ref1

  King, Admiral, ref1, ref2

  kinship, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Kinsley, Michael, ref1

  Kipling, Caroline, ref1

  Kipling, Rudyard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21; admired in U.S., ref22; approach to U.S., ref23; bard of empire, ref24; “great game,” ref25; and T. Roosevelt, ref26, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36; and Twain, ref37; visiting Congress, ref38

  Kirkpatrick, Jeane, ref1

  Kissinger, Henry, ref1, ref2, ref3

  kitsch (British), ref1

  Knopf, Alfred A., ref1, ref2

  Knox, Alfred, ref1, ref2

  Knox, Frank, ref1

  Kolchak, Aleksandr, ref1

  Korda, Alex, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Korean War, ref1, ref2

  Kossuth, Lajos, ref1

  Kraft, Joseph, ref1

  Kristol, Irving, ref1

  Kruger, Paul, ref1, ref2

  Ku Klux Klan, ref1

  Kubrick, Stanley, ref1

  Lacouture, Jean, ref1

  Lady of the Lake (Scott), ref1

  Lamont, Thomas W., ref1

  Lancaster, Osbert,
ref1

  language, ref1, ref2, ref3; common, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10; relation to racial stock and social standing, ref11

  Lansing, Robert, ref1

  Lauren, Ralph, ref1

  Law of Civilization and Decay, The (Adams), ref1

  Lawrence, T. E., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Lazarus, Emma, ref1; myth/principle of, ref2, ref3

  League of Nations, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Leahy, William, ref1

  Lebanon, ref1, ref2

  le Carré, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lee, Robert E., ref1

  left (the), ref1, ref2

  Lehman, John, ref1, ref2

  Leisure of an Egyptian Official (Cecil), ref1

  Leiter, Mary (later Lady Curzon), ref1, ref2

  Lend-Lease, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; destroyers-for-bases agreement, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; terms of, ref15, ref16

  Lend-Lease agreement, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Lend-Lease supplies, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “Lenin’s Heir” (Burnham), ref1

  Leopard’s Spots, The (Dixon), ref1

  Lessons of the War with Spain (Mahan), ref1

  Lewis, Anthony, ref1

  liberals, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Libya, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Liddy, C. Gordon, ref1, ref2

  Lincoln, Abraham, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Lindbergh, Charles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Lindsay, Ronald, ref1

  Lippmann, Walter, ref1

  literature, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; special relation in, ref6

  Little, Admiral, ref1

  Lodge, Henry Cabot, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; Spring-Rice and, ref10, ref11

  Loeb, John, ref1

  Long Day Wanes, The (Burgess), ref1

  love-hate relations (Anglo-American), ref1, ref2, ref3; class images/stereotypes in, ref4

  Loved One, The (Waugh), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Luce, Clare Booth, ref1

  Lusitania, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; misinformation about, ref8, ref9

  Luttwak, Eddie, ref1

  Lutyens, Sir Edwin, ref1

  Lynch, Andre, ref1

  Lyttelton, Oliver, ref1

  Maas, Peter, ref1

  MacArthur, Douglas, ref1

  McCarthy, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3

  McCarthy and His Enemies (Buckley), ref1

  McCormick, Colonel, ref1, ref2

  McCormick, Jay, ref1

  McCormick, Robert, ref1

  MacDonald, Ramsay, ref1

  McFarlane, Robert, ref1

  McKinley, William, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  McMahon Act, ref1, ref2

  Macmillan, Harold, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; and/on special relationship, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; and Windscale nuclear reactor fire, ref15, ref16, ref17, ref18

  McNamara, Robert, ref1

 

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