Relationship between Britain and the United States during the Eden and

SINCE THE block up OF WORLD WAR II, A ROMANTICISED SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP in the midst of the linked States and Britain has been referenced on countless occasions in speeches, books, and essays by academics and statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic. The relationship has multiple definitions, with no precise doctrine or formal agreement that outlines its tenets, and has been apparent in a myriad of interactions between the two countries. It is visibly apparent culturally as the United States evolved from a nucleus of British settlers to become an English-speaking country, sharing with Great Britain articulate aims and a common heritage, as is often referenced in semipolitical rhetoric, and by David Watt in his introduction to the book The particular descent (D. Watt 1). Yet this perceived relationship between these two countries has gone beyond a joint appreciation for the literature of William Shakespeare and the mollify of a Burger King Whopper to become manifest in politic al and military relations between the United States and Britain. Winston Churchill was first to prominently select an Anglo-American special relationship, stating in the years immediately following gentlemans gentleman War II that he saw the relationship between the US and the UK as an alliance of equals, according to Sir Michael Howard in the Afterward of The Special blood (Howard 387). Howard writes that Britain in general saw the special relationship as a vehicle for the United States to accept and underwrite Britains status as a coequal world power (387). As time passed, however, Britains standing a Great Power quickly diminished. Despite this, British possession of nuclear weapons, United Nations Security Council membership, access to political an... ...Ernest R. and Gregory F. Treverton. defence force Relationships American Perspectives. The Special Relationship. Ed. William Rogers Louis and Hedley Bull. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1986. 161-184. Perkins, Bradford. Unequal Pa rtners The Truman Administration and Great Britain. The Special Relationship. Ed. William Rogers Louis and Hedley Bull. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1986. 43-64. Rothwell, Victor. Anthony Eden. Manchester Manchester U.P., 1992. Walker, Martin. The dust-covered War. London Fourth Estate Ltd., 1993. Watt, D. Cameron. Demythologising the Eisenhower Era. The Special Relationship. Ed. William Rogers Louis and Hedley Bull. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1986. 65-86. Watt, David. Introduction The Anglo-American Relationship. The Special Relationship. Ed. William Rogers Louis and Hedley Bull. Oxford Clarendon Press, 1986. 1-16.