ABSTRACT
3 The British had recognised, even during the War itself, that something of the sort would be necessary. This thinking was summed up most clearly in Sir Orme Sargeant’s famous ‘stocktaking paper’ written in July 1945, in which he argued that, whilst Britain should have its own policy, London should also try ‘to persuade the United States to make it their own as well’. The text is in Documents on British Policy Overseas, Series I, Vol. I, No. 102. The emphasis is in the original.
