Volume 28, Number 20 · December 17, 1981
Washington at War
By Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Washington Despatches 1941-1945: Weekly Political Reports from the British Embassy
edited by H. G. Nicholas, introduction by Isaiah Berlin
University of Chicago Press, 700 pp., $40.00
Very little mattered more to the British government during the Second World War than the American relationship. On that relationship hung survival, the outcome of the war, and, to a considerable degree, the future of peace. Whitehall worried more furiously about American opinion in these years than at any point since about 1783. The observation post was the Washington Embassy, and the Embassy's Weekly Political Summaries became indispensable reading for the highest officials of the British government, from Mr. Churchill down.
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