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In a speech in early 1947, Lord Halifax told the story of a European-born American who asked a senator who had just finished an anti-British diatribe why, if the senator was of purely British blood, he was anti-British while the European-born American was pro-British.
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Anthony D. Smith, Theories of Nationalism, 2d edition (New York, 1983), p. 220; idem, The Ethnic Origins of Nations (Oxford, 1986), p. 140.
Henry Kissinger, Diplomacy (New York, 1994), p. 431; Bailey, Man in the Street, pp. 232–4. The British blamed this attitude on ‘jealousy’ born of the ‘latent inferiority complex…of a base and inferior subject.’ By 1947, however, this feeling was largely in decline; a public opinion poll taken during that year showed that 55 percent of those surveyed believed that U.S. diplomats usually held their own in negotiations with the British. Only 27 percent felt that they were usually outsmarted. Ronald Sinclair to Foreign Office, 14 February 1947, F.O. 371/61000 AN 714/1/45; Bailey, Man in the Street, p. 234.
Charles Krauthammer, ‘Beyond the Cold War,’ New Republic 199 (19 December 1988): 14–19.
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Moser, J.E. (1999). Conclusion. In: Twisting the Lion’s Tail. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376762_10
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