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‘United States policy is exaggeratedly moral, at least where non-American interests are concerned’

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In April 1955, after a long struggle of wills with Churchill, Eden at last got his wish to become Prime Minister. The Americans, who knew Eden well, had very mixed feelings about him. He was exactly the kind of Englishman they suspected of trying to patronise them.

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Notes and References

  1. Keith Kyle, Suez (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991) pp. 62, 75.

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  2. Miles Copeland, The Game of Nations (Simon & Schuster, 1969) pp. 159–60.

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  3. FRUS, Vol. XVI, pp. 62–71; PRO, PREM 11/1098, f. 184; Selwyn Lloyd, Suez 1956 (Jonathan Cape, 1978) p. 98.

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Renwick, R. (1996). ‘United States policy is exaggeratedly moral, at least where non-American interests are concerned’. In: Fighting with Allies. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379824_22

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