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1 " Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. "
― Christopher Hitchens , Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship
2 " Although war can bring with it great enthusiasm and solidarity, it also brings the reaction to these things. "
3 " Inthe first half of the century, British intelligence was principally a machine for involving the United States in war on the British side. "
4 " It was only when the Britain of great prewar dominions had become a memory that nostalgia for it became possible. "
5 " George Bush is a WASP. George Wallace may have been a white Protestant of Anglo-Saxon descent, and even rather vocal on all three points, but a WASP he was not. "
6 " Why not, in exchange for the pains and humiliations of being superseded, at least exert the influence that the effete may always bring to bear upon the brash? "
7 " In the first half of the century, British intelligence was principally a machine for involving the United States in war on the British side. "
8 " It is beyond doubt that wherever the United States needed to lose any kind of virginity in global affairs, the British were on hand with unguents and aphrodisiacs of all kinds. "
9 " English muffin," a confection so grim that it could not have been sold in England even in wartime. "
10 " When the British fleet patrolled the oceans and upheld Imperial Preference, and the King was the Emperor of India, an overfondness for things English could expose the American addict to ridicule and even contempt. "
11 " The two most obvious English mutations to have occurred in America in the last decade go by the names "punk" and "skinhead. "
