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Book Review

Comparative/World

Greg Kennedy. Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East 1933–1939. (Cass Series: Strategy and History, number 5.) Portland, Oreg.: Frank Cass. 2002. Pp. xiii, 313. $57.50.
Greg Kennedy has produced an interesting monograph on Anglo-American relations with regard to the Far East during the 1930s. Kennedy is by no means the first scholar to focus on Anglo-American relations before and during World War II. B. J. C. McKercher has written Transition of Power: Britain's Loss of Global Preeminence to the United States, 1930–1945 (1999), and other authors—for example, Wm. Roger Louis and Christopher G. Thorne—have focused on Anglo-American wartime relations. Kennedy's contribution is to focus on Far Eastern issues in the run-up to World War II.	1
Anglo-American relations were scarcely cordial during the interwar years, particularly on naval and economic issues. Differences led to ire and mistrust, wreathed sometimes in false smiles and diplomatic politesse. It is well known, for example, that Chancellor of the Exchequer and then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain intensely disliked the United States, an animosity shared by influential civil servants, like Sir Warren Fisher, secretary to the treasury. Even the stalwart "realist," Sir Robert Vansittart (permanent under secretary at the Foreign Office), who wished to negotiate with fascist Italy, the Soviet Union, and the United States in the name of British interests, had a difficult time suffering the Americans. They were no more charitable toward Britain, regarded as an imperialist power shamelessly pursuing its sordid, colonial interests. Yankee hypocrites, the British rejoined, who were unreliable, untrustworthy, and smug, and no less determined to pursue their vested national interests.	. . .

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