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The Joint Declaration on the colonies: an issue in Anglo-American relations, 1942–1944

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

J. E. Williams
Affiliation:
Senior Tutor in International Relations, University College of Swansea

Extract

The collapse of the British Empire in south-east Asia in the early months of 1942 brought to the fore in Anglo-American relations the different attitudes of the two countries towards colonialism. Surprisingly, their long standing disagreement about the merits of colonialism was not pushed to one side by the need to defeat Japan. On the contrary, Britain's humiliating setbacks in Malaya and Burma reinforced doubts and confirmed prejudices in the United States about the probity of the British Empire – doubts and prejudices that were powerfully articulated throughout 1942 and succeeding years in the American press as well as in private exchanges between members of the Administration and their British counterparts.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © British International Studies Association 1976

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