Henry Butterfield Ryan - The Vision of Anglo-America, Książki USA
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THE VISION OF ANGLO-AMERICA
THE US-UK ALLIANCE AND THE EMERGING
COLD WAR, 1943-1946
Dr Ryan's innovative study demonstrates with great clarity the
importance of the decline of British power in the creation of the Cold
War. The author subjects to detailed analysis the concerted attempts
made by the British wartime coalition to forge a perpetual merger
with the USA in international affairs to arrest this global decline. He
reveals for the first time the origins of this policy, the great efforts
made towards its realisation, and the ultimate impossibility of its
aims.
The vision of a permanent Anglo-American combination is shown
as central to British diplomatic activity during the latter stages of
World War II, superordinate even to the concerted British attempt
to engineer a shift in American-Soviet relations, from accommodation
to confrontation. Checking Soviet expansion was to be simply the
first, albeit vital item on the agenda of this new Anglo-American
entity, and despite the ultimate failure of the overall policy, the
British effort to alter American-Soviet affairs must be counted
among the causes of the Cold War. An even more important factor,
however, was Great Britain's decline in strength, which eliminated
the possibility of triangularity in big power relations, leading to the
polarity that prevails today.
Dr Ryan uses the Polish and Greek crises of the mid-1940s as case
histories to demonstrate his thesis that both the Churchill and Attlee
governments recognised the need for the American connection and to
provide examples of how they set about obtaining it.
THE VISION OF
ANGLO-AMERICA
THE US-UK ALLIANCE AND
THE EMERGING COLD WAR,
1943-1946
HENRY BUTTERFIELD RYAN
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First published 1987
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Ryan, Henry Butterfield.
The vision of Anglo-America
Bibliography.
Includes index.
1. United States - Foreign relations - 1945-1953.
2. United States - Foreign relations - Great Britain.
3. Great Britain - Foreign relations - United States.
4. World War, 1939-1945 - Diplomatic history.
5. World politics - 1945-1955. 6. Great Britain - Foreign
relations - 1936-1945. I. Title.
E813.R93 1987 327'.09'044 87-9570
ISBN 0 521 32928 0 hardback
ISBN 0 521 89284 8 paperback
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
page
vi
INTRODUCTION
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PART I STRENGTHENING THE TIES:
THE EFFORT AND THE PROBLEMS
1 The need
2 Problems with American public opinion
3 The mixing process
4 Economic issues
PART II FOREIGN CRISES THAT DEMONSTRATE GREAT
BRITAIN'S PROBLEMS
INTRODUCTION
SECTION I THE POLISH CRISIS
5 Background and build-up
6 Involvement of Great Britain and the United
States
7 Yalta and after
8 Truman: the new factor
9 The gathering for the San Francisco
Conference
10 Between San Francisco and Potsdam
11 Concluding thoughts on the Polish crisis
SECTION 2 THE GREEK CRISIS
12 Background of the crisis
13 1944, the critical year
14 The role of the press
15 The crisis peaks
America dives in
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CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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