Friends With Benefits: A History of the Relationship Between Great Britain and the United States

Winston Churchill called the alliance between the United States and Great Britain a “special relationship.” In his 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech in Fulton, Mo., he said that the peace of the postwar world would depend on “the fraternal association of the English-speaking peoples…a special relationship between the British Commonwealth and Empire and the United States.” The empire …

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