Part 26

But it is folly to expect that even our closest friends and truest allies can develop economically and politically along paths similar to those trod by the people of the United States. It is time that we looked on the positive side of Britain's life since the end of World War II. We must remember that this is a going concern. The new nuclear power stations rising throughout Britain are part of the general Western community which we lead. British advances in the sciences or in any other field of human endeavor should not be thought of as the activities of a rival but as the triumphs of an ally that has in the past given incontrovertible proof of her steadfastness in adversity, her willingness to do and dare at the side of the United States.

There they are, fifty millions of them. Kindly, energetic, ambitious, and, too often, happily complacent in peace; most resolute, courageous, and tough-minded in the storms that have beaten about their islands since the dawn of the Christian era.

What is at stake in the relationship between the two nations is something far greater than whether we approve of Aneurin Bevan or the British approved of Senator McCarthy. The union of the English-speaking peoples is the one tried and tested alliance in a shaky world. Three times within living memory its sons have rallied to defeat or forestall the ambitions of conquerors. To understand Britain, to share with her the great tasks that lie before the Western community is much more than a salute by Americans to common political thought, a common tongue, or common memories. It is the easiest and most certain method by which we in our time can preserve the freedom of man which has been building in all the years since King and barons rode to Runnymede.

_INDEX_

Air Force, 239-40

Albert, Prince Consort, 19-20, 27, 30

Alexander, Field Marshal Earl, 235

Amery, Julian, 55, 183

Anglo-American relations, 47-8, 109, 159-86; tensions, 66, 163-76

Anne, Queen, 45

Anson, Sir William, 17, 18

armed forces, 84-6, 238-44; Air Force, 239-40; Army, 238-9; Navy, 239

Army, 238-9

Atomic Energy Authority, 214

Attlee, Clement, 36, 58, 77, 78, 87, 88, 108, 113, 152, 235, 280

Bagehot, Walter, 22, 28, 97-8

Baldwin, Stanley, 55, 74, 95, 152

Beaverbrook, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken), 20, 30, 31, 54, 85, 140; influence of, 224-5

Bevan, Aneurin, 18, 19, 61, 84-9 _passim_, 121, 152; anti-Americanism, 47, 81, 109, 176; opposition to hydrogen bomb, 48; leader of opposition within Labor Party, 72, 73, 78-80, 269; supporters, 82-3

Bevin, Ernest, 62, 77, 80, 108, 143; opposition to communism, 109

Boyle, Sir Edward, 55

Bradlaugh, Charles, 30

British Empire, 91, 107

British Productivity Council, 196

Brogan, D.W., 164

Butler, R.A., 18-19, 49, 52, 54, 58, 59, 74

Cabinet, 43-6

Castle, Mrs. Barbara, 84

Chamberlain, Neville, 17, 35, 37, 63, 74, 95, 152, 166, 259, 280

Charles II, 25, 44

Charles, Prince, 15

China (Communist), 79, 184; British attitude toward, 149-50

Churchill, Sir Winston, 17, 18, 37, 51, 52, 59, 76, 80, 82, 95, 113-14, 133, 152, 200, 235, 239, 252, 259, 279, 285-6; party peacemaker, 35; skill in debate, 40; on monarchy, 276

clubs, 257-9

Commons, House of, 38-43, 46

Commonwealth, 29, 91, 107, 137-41, 283

Communist Party in Britain, 35, 49, 142-4, 146, 147, 164, 179, 180; in labor unions, 72, 82, 83-4, 109, 200, 208-15

Connor, William, 202, 227

Conservative Party, 50-69

conurbation, 6, 7

Cooke, Alistair, 222

Cripps, Sir Stafford, 77, 95, 107, 113

Crossman, R.H.S., 84

Delmer, Sefton, 226, 228

Dilke, Sir Charles, 30

Dulles, John Foster, 170-1; British attitude toward, 47, 48, 155, 167, 172

Eccles, Sir David, 282

Eden, Sir Anthony, 18, 20, 52, 54, 55, 57, 59, 60, 61, 65, 133, 143, 171-2, 183, 224, 280

Edward VII, 27

Egypt, 54, 55, 61, 66, 88, 143, 151, 155, 156, 168, 183, 184

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 37, 41, 60, 80, 183

Elizabeth II, 13-33, 114, 251, 252

Elizabeth, Queen Mother, 22, 27

European Defense Community, 171

Foot, Michael, 56, 84-5

Forrest, William, 228

Foulkes, Frank, 213

France, British attitude toward, 150-1

Franks, Sir Oliver, 85

Freedman, Max, 222

Fyfe, Sir David Maxwell, 52

Gaitskell, Hugh, 18, 20, 36, 49, 56, 73, 77-8, 80, 87, 89, 235, 280; opposed by Bevan, 88, 269

George I, 45

George IV, 25

George V, 16, 19, 25

George VI, 16, 17

Germany, British attitude toward, 151-3

Gorer, Geoffrey, 275

Gort, General the Viscount, 284

Grand Design, The, 282-3

Griffiths, James, 18, 49

Halifax, Earl of, 17

Harding, Gilbert, 107

Hardy, Keir, 36

Horner, Arthur, 210

Howard, Ebenezer, 116

India, 36, 96, 105-7, 170

Italy, British attitude toward, 153-4

Jacobson, Sydney, 202

King, Cecil, 226

Korean war, economic influence of, 192-3

labor unions, 200-13, 215, 266-7; communist influence in, 208-13, 215

Lancaster, Osbert, 225, 226

Laski, Harold, 97, 113

Lloyd, Selwyn, 52, 282

Lloyd George, David, 19, 56

Lords, House of, 39, 42-3, 44

MacLeod, Iain, 52, 130

Macmillan, Harold, 18, 49, 52, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, 65, 89, 155, 269, 282

Margaret, Princess, 15, 22, 26

Massingham, Hugh, 223

Maulding, Reginald, 52, 130

McCarthy, Joseph, 60, 164-6, 167, 286

McCarthyism, 36, 163-4

McKenzie, Robert T., 59

McNeil, Hector, 62

Middle East, 155; British influence in, 156-7

Miller, Webb, 218

monarchy, 13-33, 133, 276; power of, 16, 22; influence of, 21, 37; finances of, 26-8, 30-1

Montgomery, Field Marshal the Viscount, 46

Morrison, Herbert, 36, 51, 77, 87, 88, 89, 278; opposition to communism, 143

Mosley, Sir Oswald, 35

Mountbatten, Earl, 21, 31, 134, 285

Muggeridge, Malcolm, 147

Nasser, Abdel, 54, 155, 156

National Health Service Act, 102-5

nationalization, 97-101, 102, 104-5, 107

Navy, 239

Nehru, Shri Jawaharlal, 106, 166, 235

New Towns, 116-18, 121, 122, 124, 125

newspapers, 77-81, 218-30; _Daily Express_, 31, 219, 225-6; _Daily Herald_, 31, 87, 125; _Daily Mirror_, 31, 87, 125, 202, 210, 219, 220, 226-7; _Daily Telegraph_, 163, 219; _Evening Standard_, 31; _Manchester Guardian_, 163, 218-19, 220, 222-3; _New Statesman and Nation_, 31-2, 84, 85; _Sunday Express_, 15, 20, 31; _Times_, 19, 130, 163, 183, 218, 220-2; _Tribune_, 56, 84-5, 89

Norwich, Viscount (Alfred Duff Cooper), 152

Odger, George, 30

Orwell, George, 252

Parliament, 37-43, 45; Commons, 38-43, 46; Lords, 39, 42-3, 44

Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, 19-20, 21-8 _passim_, 31

Plumb, J.H., 45

public schools, 81-4, 230-7

pubs, 254-7

Reynolds, Quentin, 8

Roosevelt, Franklin D., 37, 82, 174

Salisbury, Marquess of, 18, 44, 49, 54, 58, 59, 134

Sandys, Duncan, 282

Scott, Richard, 223

Shinwell, Emanuel, 77

Smith, Walter Bedell, 172

Soviet Union, British attitude toward, 143-8

sports, 87-9, 244-54

sterling area, 138

Strachey, Lytton, 20

Strang, Lord, 232

Thorneycroft, Peter, 282

Townsend, Peter, 26

Trades Union Congress, 55, 73, 88, 143, 196; power of, 71-2, 86-7, 200-2; communist opposition, 83, 143, 212

Truman, Harry S., 25, 37

Victoria, Queen, 20, 25, 27, 30

Waithman, Robert, 229

Watson, Sam, 200, 210

Wavell, Field Marshal Earl, 108, 152

Webb, Sidney and Beatrice, 73

Welfare State, 101-2, 104, 105, 107, 118, 123, 264, 285, 289

Williams, Francis, 227

Wilson, Harold, 49

Windsor, Duchess of, 15, 31

Windsor, Duke of, 20

Woolton, Lord (Frederick William Marquis), 52, 53

Zilliacus, Konni, 84

A NOTE ON THE TYPE

_The text of this book was set on the Linotype in a face called_ TIMES ROMAN, _designed by_ STANLEY MORISON _for_ The Times (_London_), _and first introduced by that newspaper in the middle nineteen thirties_.

_Among typographers and designers of the twentieth century, Stanley Morison has been a strong forming influence, as typographical adviser to the English Monotype Corporation, as a director of two distinguished English publishing houses, and as a writer of sensibility, erudition, and keen practical sense._

_In 1930 Morison wrote: "Type design moves at the pace of the most conservative reader. The good type-designer therefore realises that, for a new fount to be successful, it has to be so good that only very few recognise its novelty. If readers do not notice the consummate reticence and rare discipline of a new type, it is probably a good letter." It is now generally recognized that in the creation of_ Times Roman _Morison successfully met the qualifications of this theoretical doctrine_.

_Composed, printed, and bound by_ H. WOLFF, _New York. Paper manufactured by_ S.D. WARREN CO., _Boston_.

A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Drew Middleton _was born in New York City in 1913. After being graduated from Syracuse University, he went into newspaper work, and in 1938 became a foreign correspondent. Since then he has been chief of_ The New York Times _bureaus in England, Russia, and Germany. In 1940, during the Battle of Britain, he was in London covering the operations of the Royal Air Force, and he later sent his dispatches from Supreme Headquarters of the AEF. In the decade since the war, Mr. Middleton's reporting and interpreting of the Cold War struggle between East and West have earned him a wide and respectful audience both here and abroad. His earlier books include_ The Struggle for Germany (_1949_) _and_ The Defense of Western Europe (_1952_).