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Blood, Class and Empire

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by Christopher Hitchens


  McNeil, Hector, ref1

  Mahan, Alfred Thayer, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15; influence on Roosevelt, ref16, ref17

  Making It (Podhoretz), ref1

  Malone, Dudley, ref1

  Managerial Revolution, The (Burnham), ref1

  Manchester, William, ref1

  Manhattan Project, ref1, ref2

  Manifest Destiny, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Manila Bay, ref1, ref2, ref3

  manners, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; American, ref5, ref6

  marital alliances, ref1

  Marlborough, duke of, ref1, ref2

  Marryat, Captain, ref1

  Marshall, George, ref1, ref2

  Marshall, Humphrey, ref1

  Marshall, Thomas, ref1

  Marshall Plan, ref1, ref2

  Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Mason, A. E. W., ref1, ref2

  Masterpiece Theatre (television program) ref1, ref2, ref3

  Maud Committee, ref1

  Maurras, Charles, ref1

  Maxwell, Robert, ref1

  Mayflower complex, ref1, ref2

  Mead, James, ref1

  Mediterranean, ref1, ref2

  Mellon, Andrew, ref1

  Mencken, H. L., ref1, ref2, ref3

  Mersey, Lord, ref1

  Mexico, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and Zimmermann Telegram, ref5, ref6

  Middle East, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; American policy in, ref7; oil resources, ref8, ref9; U.S. replacing Britain in, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  military intervention policy: in Russia, ref1, ref2

  Mills, C. Wright, ref1

  Milner, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Milosz, Czeslaw, ref1

  Mintner, William, ref1, ref2

  Mirrlees, Hope, ref1

  Mobil Oil, ref1

  monarchy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Monroe, James, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Monroe Doctrine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; Anglo-American friction and, ref9; British intelligence and, ref10, ref11; interpretations of, ref12, ref13; protest in violation of, ref14

  Montrose, Lord, ref1

  Moore, Henry, ref1

  Moore, Thomas, ref1

  Morgan, J. P., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Morgenthau, Henry, ref1, ref2

  Morley, Robert, ref1

  Morris, Jan, ref1

  Mossadegh government (Iran), ref1, ref2

  Mountbatten, Louis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Muhlenberg, Friedrich, ref1

  Munich analogy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Murdoch, Rupert, ref1

  Murphy, Robert, ref1

  “Mysterious Mr. Eliot, The” (Mirrlees), ref1

  Napoleon III, ref1

  Nasser, Carnal, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  National Academy of Arts and Letters, ref1

  National Letters, The (Mencken), ref1

  National Review, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  nationalism, ref1, ref2, ref3; U.S., ref4, ref5

  nativism (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  NATO, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “Natural Selection in Literature” (Adams), ref1

  naval treaties, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Navigation Acts, ref1

  Navy League, ref1

  Neff, Donald, ref1

  Nehru, Jawaharlal, ref1

  Nehru, Pandit, ref1

  Neill, Sir Patrick, ref1

  Nelson, Horatio, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Neustadt, Richard, ref1, ref2

  neutrality (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3; British efforts to end, ref4; in Suez Crisis, ref5; in World War I, ref6, ref7, ref8; in World War II, ref9, ref10

  Neutrality Act, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  New Republic, The, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  New World, ref1, ref2, ref3

  “New Year Letter” (Auden), ref1

  New Zealand, ref1, ref2

  Newhouse, S. I., ref1

  Nicaragua, ref1, ref2, ref3 1984 (Orwell), ref4

  Nixon, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; and Churchill cult, ref10

  “No End of a Lesson,” (Kipling), ref1

  Norstad, Laurie, ref1

  North, Oliver, ref1

  North Africa, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Northcliffe, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Northern Ireland, ref1

  Nostromo (Conrad), ref1

  “Not Like This” (Milosz), ref1

  nuclear disasters, ref1

  nuclear missiles: siting of U.S., ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  nuclear weapons, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; and Great Britain as world power, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9; and special relationship, ref10

  Nunn, Sam, ref1

  Nye, Gerald P., ref1, ref2

  Nye Committee, ref1

  Observations (Kissinger), ref1

  O’Connell, Daniel T., ref1

  Ogden, C. K., ref1

  Ogilvy, David, ref1

  O’Hara, John, ref1

  oil, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; Iranian, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Old Money (Aldrich), ref1

  Olmsted, Ceorge, ref1

  Olney, Richard, ref1

  open door, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “Open Letter to the People of England,” ref1

  Operation Boot, ref1, ref2

  Opium Wars, ref1, ref2

  Orders to Kill (Downes), ref1

  Organization of American States, ref1

  Orwell, George, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  OSS, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Our Country (Strong), ref1

  Owen, David, ref1

  Owen Wister (pamphlet), ref1

  Oxford English Dictionary, ref1

  Oxford University, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Pahlavi dynasty (Iran), ref1, ref2, ref3

  Paine, Thomas, ref1, ref2

  Pakistan, ref1

  Palestine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Paley, William, ref1, ref2

  Palmer, Leonard, ref1

  Palmer Raids, ref1, ref2

  Palmerston, Lady, ref1

  Palmerston, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Panama Canal, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Parker, Sir Gilbert, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Parker, Peter, ref1

  Pearl Harbor attack, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Pearson, Drew, ref1

  Pearson, Norman Holmes, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Pearson-Cowdray family, ref1

  “Peculiar Institution,” ref1; see also slavery Peel, Sir Robert, ref2

  Peierls, Rudolf, ref1

  Pelling, Henry, ref1

  Penney, Sir William, ref1

  Pentecost of Calamity, The (Wister), ref1

  Perfect Spy, The (le Carré), ref1

  Perot, H. Ross, ref1

  Perret, Geoffrey, ref1

  Perry, Matthew, ref1

  Pershing, John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Persia, ref1

  Persian Gulf, ref1, ref2

  Peurifoy, John, ref1

  Philby, H. St. John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Philby, Kim, ref1

  Philip, prince of England, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Philippines, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; conquest of, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16; quasi-independence of, ref17

  Pioneer Fund, ref1

  Plumb, J. H., ref1

  Plutarch, ref1, ref2

  Podhoretz, Norman, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Poindexter, John, ref1

  Poisoned Ivy (Hart), ref1

  Poland, ref1, ref2

  political dissent (U.S.), ref1

  political weakness: gentrification of, ref1

  politics, ref1, ref2, ref3

  populism (U.S.), ref1

  Potter, Bishop Henry Codman, re
f1

  Pound, Admiral, ref1, ref2

  Powell, Enoch, ref1

  Precepts of Government (Plutarch), ref1

  Presidential Families of the United States (Burke), ref1

  presidents (U.S.), ref1

  Price of Empire, The (Fulbright), ref1

  Priestley, J. B., ref1

  Prince, Eugene, ref1

  pro-American sentiment (England), ref1, ref2

  pro-British sentiment (U.S.), ref1, ref2: see also Anglophilia

  propaganda, British, ref1, ref2

  propaganda films, ref1, ref2

  Protestant Establishment (U.S.), ref1, ref2

  Protestant Establishment, The (Baltzell) ref1

  Protestants (U.S.), ref1

  public opinion (U.S.), ref1, ref2; British influence on, ref3, ref4; British manipulation of, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10

  Puleston, W. D., ref1

  Purvis, Arthur, ref1

  Quayle, Dan, ref1

  Quebec Conference, ref1

  “Question, The” (Kipling), ref1

  “Question of Our Speech, The” (James), ref1

  Question of the Mind, The (James), ref1, ref2

  Quiet American, The (Greene), ref1

  race, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; in American language question, ref8, ref9; Kipling’s interpretation of, ref10, ref11; in thought of W. Wilson, ref12, ref13, ref14; in U.S. election campaigns, ref15, ref16

  racial kinship, ref1

  racial stock: language and, ref1

  Raeder, Erich, ref1

  Read, Herbert, ref1, ref2

  Reagan, Ronald, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12; knighted, ref13; Stars Wars policy, ref14

  Reagan administration, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Real Spy World, The (Copeland), ref1

  receivership, imperial, ref1, ref2; acceptance of, ref3; British habits and tactics in, ref4; contradictions of, ref5

  “Recessional” (Kipling), ref1

  “Reconstruction in Western Europe” (Rockefeller and Spofford), ref1

  Reed, Philip, ref1

  Reed, Senator, ref1

  Reed, William, ref1

  Reich, Robert B., ref1, ref2, ref3

  Reid, Whitelaw, ref1

  republicanism (U.S.), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; eroded by influence of empire, ref5

  Reston, James “Scotty,” ref1

  Reynaud, Paul, ref1

  Rhodes, Cecil, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; “Seven Wills,” ref9

  Rhodes Scholars, ref1

  Rhodes Scholarships, ref1, ref2; influence of, ref3, ref4

  Rhodes Trust, ref1

  right: British, ref1; U.S., ref2, ref3, ref4

  Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, The (Kennedy), ref1

  Rise of American Civilization, The (Beard), ref1

  Rising American Empire, The (Van Al-styne), ref1

  Roberts, Lord, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Robinson, Heath, ref1

  Rockefeller, David, ref1

  Rodham, D. H. B. (“Roddy”), ref1

  Rogers, William D., ref1

  “Roman Centurion’s Song, The” (Kipling), ref1

  Roman Empire, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Romanization of America, ref1, ref2

  Rome: fall of, ref1

  Room Forty (Beesly), ref1

  Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; and Churchill, ref9, ref10, ref11 (see also Churchill-Roosevelt wartime correspondence); and intelligence/espionage, ref12, ref13; and U.S.-Great Britain nuclear collaboration, ref14; and U.S. receivership of British Empire, ref15; and World War II, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19

  Roosevelt, Kermit, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Roosevelt, Ted, Jr., ref1

  Roosevelt, Theodore, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14; and hyphenated Americans, ref15; and Kipling, ref16, ref17, ref18, ref19, ref20, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24, ref25, ref26; and language question, ref27; and Spring-Rice, ref28, ref29, ref30

  Root, Elihu, ref1

  Rosebery, Lord, ref1

  “Rowers, The” (Kipling), ref1

  Rowse, A. L., ref1, ref2

  Royal United Service Institution, ref1

  royalty, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Rusk, Dean, ref1

  Russell, Lord John, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Russell, Richard, ref1

  Russia: military intervention in, ref1; ref2; see also Soviet Union

  Russin House, The (le Carré), ref1

  “Russia to the Pacifists” (Kipling), ref1

  Russian Revolution, ref1, ref2

  Ryan, Frank, ref1

  Safire, William, ref1

  St. Brides, Lord, ref1

  Salisbury, Lord, ref1, ref2

  Sanderson, James, ref1

  Satire (Juvenal), ref1

  Saudi Arabia, ref1

  Scarlet Thread, The (Downes), ref1, ref2

  Schlesinger, James, ref1

  Schwarzenegger, Arnold, ref1

  Schwieger, Walter, ref1

  Scobie, General, ref1

  Scott, Sir Walter, ref1, ref2

  Scratches on Our Minds (Isaacs), ref1

  Scruton, Roger, ref1

  sea power: American, ref1, ref2; British, ref3, ref4; Mahan’s study of, ref5

  Sedgwick, Ellery, ref1

  self-determination (principle), ref1, ref2

  Seward, William, ref1

  Seymour, Sir Hamilton, ref1

  Shepardson, Whitney H., ref1

  Sherman, Stuart, ref1

  Sherman, William, ref1

  Shoup, Laurence, ref1, ref2

  Shuckburgh, Sir Evelyn, ref1, ref2

  Shultz, George, ref1

  Sidey, Hugh, ref1

  Simpson, Mrs. Wallis, ref1

  Sinclair Oil Company, ref1

  Singapore, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Singapore Grip, The (Farrell), ref1

  Sinn Fein, ref1

  SIS, ref1, ref2

  slavery, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Smart Set, The (Mencken), ref1

  Smith, John Stafford, ref1

  Smith, Leonard B., ref1

  Smuts, Jan, ref1

  social status: language and, ref1, ref2

  Somoza, General, ref1

  “Song of the White Men, The” (Kipling) ref1

  Sonia Live (television program), ref1

  Soviet Union, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; nuclear weapons, ref7

  Spanish America, ref1, ref2

  Spanish-American War, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Spanish Empire, ref1, ref2

  Spanish War, The (Adams), ref1

  Special Operations Executive (SOE), ref1

  special relationship, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; Aldrich as example of, ref14; blood relations in, ref15; bonding in, ref16; British internalization of values of, ref17; Bruces as incarnation of ruling class of, ref18; career of Downes as metaphor for, ref19; Churchill as son of, ref20; Churchill cult in, ref21; Churchill’s appeal for, ref22; Cold War aspects of, ref23; consideration of, in Washington, ref24; in Council on Foreign Relations, ref25; as discordant intimacy, ref26; empire in, ref27; ethnic undergirding of, ref28; exemplified in Ditchley, ref29; founder of, ref30; grammar of, ref31; inequality in, ref32; informal alliance preference of, ref33; intangibles in, ref34; intelligence gathering in, ref35; Macmillan’s efforts to restore, ref36; military half of, ref37; nature of, ref38, ref39; nuclear weapons/technology in, ref40; and objections to immigration, ref41; Rhodes Scholars in, ref42, ref43; as “scratches on the mind, ” ref44; summits in, ref45; superiority/inferiority complex in, ref46; as synthesis of replacement of British Empire by American power, ref47, ref48; unspoken conventions governing, ref49; U.S.-Israel, ref50; vernacular of, ref51, ref52, ref53; in Woodhouse rhetoric, ref54, ref55

  Special Relationships (Wheeler-Bennett), ref1r />
  Spencer, Earl, ref1

  Spender, Stephen, ref1, ref2

  Spofford, Charles, ref1

  Spring-Rice, Cecil, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Spycatcher (Wright), ref1

  Stalin, Joseph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Star Wars, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Stead, W. T., ref1

  Steel, David, ref1

  Stephenson, William (man called “Intrepid”), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Stettinius, Edward, ref1, ref2

  Stewart, William, ref1

  Stilwell, Joseph, ref1

  Stimson, Henry, ref1, ref2

  Stokes, Richard, ref1

  stop and search policy (U.S.), ref1

  Story of the War in South Africa, The (Mahan), ref1

  Straight Deal, The (Wister), ref1

  Strange Death of Liberal England, The (Dangerfield), ref1

  Strong, George V., ref1

  Strong, Josiah, ref1

  Struggle for the World, The (Burnham), ref1, ref2, ref3

  style, ref1, ref2, ref3 class as, ref4; U.S. adaptation of imperial, ref5

  Sub Rosa (Alsop and Braden), ref1

  Suez, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  Suez Canal crisis, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13; ironies of, ref14

  Suez Canal Zone, ref1, ref2

  Sutherland, Graham, ref1, ref2

  “Swarming of the English, ” ref1, ref2

  Syme, Sir Ronald, ref1, ref2

  Taft, Robert, ref1, ref2

  Taiwan, ref1, ref2

  Tanton, John, ref1, ref2, ref3

  taste, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Tattnall, Josiah, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Taylor, A. J. P., ref1

  Taylor, Telford, ref1

  Temperley, H. W. V., ref1, ref2

  Tennant, Bim, ref1

  Thackeray, William, ref1

  Thatcher, Margaret, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; and Anglo-American relations, ref9

  Thatcher government, ref1, ref2, ref3; and Falklands crisis, ref4

  Thomas, Lowell, ref1

  Thompson, “Big Bill, ” ref1

  Times (London), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7

  Tizard, Sir Henry, ref1

  “To the Person Sitting in Darkness” (Twain), ref1

  Tocqueville, Alexis de, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Tower, John, ref1

  Toynbee, Arnold, ref1, ref2

  tradition, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Trans-Persian Railroad, ref1

  transition (Great Britain to U.S.), ref1; hinge moments in, ref2, ref3; irony of, ref4

  transition theories, ref1

  “Treasure Houses of Britain” (exhibition), ref1

  Tree, Marietta, ref1

  Tree, Nancy, ref1, ref2

  Tree, Ronald, ref1

  Trevelyan, Humphrey, ref1

  Trilling, Lionel, ref1

  Trollope, Frances, ref1

 

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