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...stage where Italy could not withdraw, could not be neutral. If she were not on the German side, she had to take the Allied side. For Italy had become a vital breach in Festung Europa, an avenue to, and a rampart of, the inner citadel of Germany. The Anglo-American and the German military machines were squeezing her hard...
...London. Never active in his family's business, he was briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
Irked, he called the Canadian Legation in Washington, asked Minister Counselor Leslie Bowles Pearson to appeal to President Roosevelt. President Roosevelt saw his point. Washington's first communique was revised from "Anglo-American" forces to mention "Canadian, British and U.S." forces. Canadian troops, said Mackenzie King, "are entitled to equality in all statements . . . made in reference to military service." The House of Commons cheered. Canadian troops are now mentioned in communiqués from Sicily...
...House of Commons last week a new subject came up for Anglo-U.S. debate : postwar merchant shipping. Laborite Emanuel Shinwell began it by announcing that Britain started the war with 20 million tons of shipping, would end it with no more than 9 million. He believed that the U.S. would probably begin peacetime shipping competition with between 15 and 30 million tons. To "Manny" Shinwell things to come were clear...
...passed to the United States. ... I am all in favor of international cooperation, but we are not speaking in terms of idealism. We must be realistic. ... Is it suggested that there will be international shipping control at the close of the war? ... Is it suggested that there will be Anglo-American shipping control? . . . There is no evidence that there is any desire on the part of those associated either with the American Maritime Commission or American industry for anything of that sort...