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Article: Blood, Class, and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies.
- Article from:
- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 28, 1990
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THE Anglo-American relationship is entirely asymmetrical. When Britain was top nation, it treated the United States with disdain. America, now top nation, treats Britain with an affection it shows for no other country, save perhaps Ireland or Poland. But it is Britain that clings to the myth of the special relationship; few Americans have heard of the phrase. Never have the two nations been on equal terms. There is a sort of poetic justice in the pleading cajolery of Churchill's wartime letters to Roosevelt, viewed in the light of the brick wall that Lincoln's envoy Charles Adams ran into trying to persuade the British government not to semi-support the rebel South.
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