What’s Wrong with Anglo-American Relations [1951]

Addressing an audience of British journalists a few months later, Russell suggested that Look’s choice of title alone had sufficed to make Americans “furious” and that, as a result, “nobody paid the least attention” to what he had actually written. Brinton had recently published a somewhat pro-British history and prospectus of Anglo-American relations in which, however, he could not avoid the telling summation that the United States was like “the child has now reached the stature of the parent. Very few Americans realize the extent to which American newspapers have deliberately misrepresented British affairs ever since the present Labour Government came into power. Most English people have a certain reluctance to boast, and are in fact given to understatement. This gives a bad impression in America, where it is assumed by most people that if each one do not boast it is because all have nothing to boast about.