1. Fred M. Leventhal and Roland Quinault, ‘Introduction’ to Leventhal and Quinault, eds, Anglo-American Attitudes: From Revolution to Partnership (Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2000), p. 2.
2. Quoted in Victor Rothwell, Britain and the Cold War 1941–1947 (London: Jonathan Cape, 1982), p. 432. This was very different to Macmillan’s confident claim, only a few years earlier, that the ‘Americans represent the new Roman Empire and we Britons, like the Greeks of old, must teach them how to make it go’ (quoted in Alex Danchev, On Specialness: Essays in Anglo-American Relations (Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1998), p. 4).
3. See Alan P. Dobson, Anglo-American Relations in the Twentieth Century: Of Friendship, Conflict and the Rise and Decline of Superpowers (London and New York: Routledge, 1995), pp. 84–8.
4. Quoted in Kenneth O. Morgan, Twentieth-Century Britain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 83.
5. Quoted in John Baylis, Anglo-American Defence Relations 1939–1980: The Special Relationship (London and Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1981), pp. 91, 99.