Blood, Class and Empire

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by Christopher Hitchens

Trotsky, Leon, ref1

  Truman, Harry, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; and nuclear collaboration with Britain, ref6, ref7

  Truman Doctrine, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  “Tube Alloys, ” ref1

  Turkey, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Twain, Mark, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; Kipling and, ref8

  Types of Naval Officers (Mahan), ref1

  Ultra Secret, ref1, ref2, ref3

  United Nations, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5

  United States, ref1, ref2, ref3; aid to Britain, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; appropriation of Englishness, ref12, ref13; assuming burden, ref14, ref15, ref16; Churchill cult in, ref17; Churchill’s efforts to enlist in aid of Britain, ref18; entry into World War II, ref19; expansion and consolidation of, ref20; foreign policy, ref21, ref22, ref23, ref24; global hegemony, ref25, ref26; Kipling’s approach to, ref27; loss of innocence, ref28, ref29; maritime supremacy of, ref30; moral responsibility of, in administering possessions, ref31; nuclear collaboration with Britain, ref32, ref33, ref34, ref35, ref36; place in postwar power structure, ref37, ref38, ref39, ref40; preparedness for war against England, ref41, ref42, ref43, ref44; quasi-merger with Britain (proposed), ref45, ref46, ref47, ref48, ref49, ref50, ref51; racial/religious composition of, ref52; reaction to World War I in, ref53; replacement of Britain as supreme world power, ref54, ref55, ref56, ref57, ref58 (see also receivership, imperial); replacing Britain in Middle East, ref59; revulsion from foreign entanglement, ref60; self-examination in imperial involvements, ref61; “sphere of influence, ” ref62, ref63; and Suez crisis, ref64, ref65; threats to security of, from immigration, ref66; world role of, ref67, ref68, ref69, ref70, ref71, ref72; and World War I, ref73, ref74, ref75, ref76; and World War II, ref77, ref78, ref79, ref80

  United States Commercial Corporation, ref1, ref2

  U.S. Congress, ref1, ref2; and American language proposals, ref3, ref4; House Foreign Affairs Committee, ref5; Senate, ref6

  U.S. Constitution, ref1, ref2

  U.S. English (lobby), ref1, ref2

  U.S. Inc., ref1

  U.S. military bases, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8; nuclear weapons on, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16

  U.S. Navy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; need for, ref6, ref7, ref8; Pacific, ref9; Special Forces, ref10

  Unity (de Gaulle), ref1

  University Club, ref1

  Untermeyer, Louis, ref1

  van Alstyne, Richard, ref1, ref2

  van Buren, Martin, ref1

  Vanderbilt, Consuelo, ref1, ref2

  van Dyke, Henry, ref1

  Venezuela, ref1; border dispute, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Versailles Treaty, ref1, ref2

  Victoria, queen of England, ref1

  Vidal, Gore, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Viereck, George, ref1

  Vietnam, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7; British policy in, ref8; partition of, ref9, ref10; U.S. in, ref11, ref12

  Vietnam War, ref1, ref2

  Virginian, The (Wister), ref1

  Visson, André, ref1

  Walker, Gordon, ref1, ref2

  Wallace, George, ref1

  Wallace, Henry, ref1, ref2

  Walters, Vernon, ref1

  Wanger, Walter, ref1

  war, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4; and empire, ref5; possibility of, with England, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9

  War and Peace Study Project (CFR), ref1

  “War and the Intellectuals, The” (Bourne), ref1

  war debt (Great Britain), ref1, ref2, ref3

  war fever (U.S.), ref1

  War of 1812, ref1, ref2

  Ward, John, ref1

  Warnke, Paul, ref1

  Warren, Robert Penn, ref1

  Washington, D.C., ref1, ref2

  Washington, George, ref1, ref2

  Washington Disarmament Conference, ref1

  WASP, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; aesthetic of, ref6, ref7, ref8; literary establishment, ref9; term, ref10

  Wasserman, Lew, ref1

  Waugh, Evelyn, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Ways of Escape (Greene), ref1

  Webster, Daniel, ref1, ref2

  Webster, Noah, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Weinberger, Caspar W., ref1, ref2, ref3; and Churchill cult, ref4

  Weizmann, Chaim, ref1

  Wellington, Duke of, ref1, ref2

  Welles, Sumner, ref1, ref2

  Wells of Power (Caroe), ref1

  West Indies, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Westland Helicopter Company, ref1

  What Europe Thinks of America (Burnham), ref1

  Wheeler, Senator, ref1

  Wheeler-Bennett, Sir John, ref1

  “When the English Began to Hate” (Kipling), ref1

  When the Moon Was High (Tree), ref1

  White House Years, The (Kissinger), ref1

  white man’s burden, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; U.S. assuming, ref6

  “White Man’s Burden, The” (Kipling), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Why England Slept (Kennedy), ref1

  Wilhelm, kaiser of Germany, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Will, George, ref1, ref2

  Williams, S. Wells, ref1

  Willkie, Wendell, ref1

  Wills, David, ref1

  Wills, Garry, ref1, ref2

  Wilson Angus, ref1

  Wilson, Edmund, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Wilson, Harold, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8

  Wilson, Woodrow, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11; Americanism, nativism, ref12, ref13, ref14; Borah’s campaign against, ref15; and Chinese immigration, ref16; feeling for England, ref17, ref18; foreign policy, ref19; Fourteen Points, ref20, ref21; nonbelligerency stand, ref22; presidency, ref23, ref24; seduced by British statesmen, ref25; and U.S. forces in Russia, ref26; and World War I, ref27, ref28, ref29, ref30, ref31, ref32

  Wilson-Hunter, Sir William, ref1

  Windscale, Cumbria, nuclear reactor fire, ref1

  Wines, Gerry, ref1

  Winfield House, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wingate, Sir Ronald, ref1

  Winks, Robin, ref1, ref2, ref3

  Wiseman, Sir William, ref1

  Wisner, Frank, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6

  Wister, Owen, ref1, ref2

  WITAN, ref1

  Wolfe, Tom, ref1, ref2

  Wolseley, Sir Garnet, ref1

  Woodhouse, C. M. (“Monty”), ref1, ref2

  Woodrow Wilson Foundation, ref1

  Woolf, Virginia, ref1

  World War I, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6; American reaction to, ref7; intelligence/espionage in, ref8; U.S. in, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12; U.S. neutrality in, ref13, ref14, ref15

  World War II, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5; American neutrality in, ref6, ref7; British intelligence in, ref8; Churchill and, ref9; summit meetings, ref10; U.S. in, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14

  Wren, Christopher, ref1

  Wren, Percival Christopher, ref1

  Wright, Peter, ref1

  Wycoff, Robert E., ref1, ref2

  Wylie, Sir Francis, ref1

  X-2 (XX, “Double Cross” fraternity), ref1

  Yalta conference, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

  Yoder, Edwin M., ref1

  Zahedi, Fazlullah, ref1, ref2

  Zimmerman, Arthur, ref1

  Zimmermann Telegram, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4

 

 

 


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