knowledge of the Curiously enough, it was only when brushing up my rudimentary for had, in I discovered War this Korean that preparation seminar rather we Dr Peter Lowe, in his The Frustrations been warned. admirable essay on obliquely, Acheson Attlee in December 1950 `with Alliance, telling that as communist quotes of bank because '8 balanced books they their not goodwill every night. regimes you could familiar be Anyone who has had occasion to dip into Soviet strategic literature will doctrines it be indiscreet to would whereby as one's proclaim the convention with Super Power. be the to to other attributed own used American We should remember that Franks, a sophisticated analyst of political in Document 25, No. the telegram that suggested, appearing as we never psychology, for future Korea. American It troops to reward any sending was could expect 3 decision he be deep Favours prolonged. that to argued, a negative would, and reaction longer favours In April 1951 denied, unfortunately, than are remembered granted. Washington fending in from London Embassy were off complaints about the the American difficulties British in Persia by to the attitude reminding unsympathetic had had to endure much cautionary Foreign Office that the State Department 9 American in Korea. British advice about conduct of the war In October 1991 International Affairs published Nor was this an isolated phenomenon. by Professor Brenner describing `aggrieved, interesting the article at times an American feelings' `the of public opinion at negligible contribution' of their outraged, Gulf The War. Britain `a but the to author recognised as clear exception', gave allies behaviour Europeans to the the reprehensible of other and of much more attention Japan. 10 beware hindsight. The documents Naturally Mrs the temptations must we of of judgment Yasamee and her colleagues have chosen with such discriminating do tend impression derived from The British Government the to confirm other sources. of the day do seem to have judged the Soviet Union to be readier for general war and the United States to be less disposed, of their own accord, to join in the defence of Western Europe, than later evidence suggests to us was actually the case. The Attlee Government thought they had to pay twice and their advisers accordingly Far East in in for Europe, American the as well as an that now over, commitment have been inevitable feature to to us an of the policy of the United States as seems Power. We Americans Super had but hand, think the may not only a a stronger better. But know less their today cards we played more and we are naturally 8 Peter Lowe, I'hc Frustration of Alliance: Britain, the United States and the Korean War 1950-51' in The Korean War in History (Manchester, 1989), p. 87. 9 jamcs Cable, 34. oĂ&#x;. cit., p. 10 Michael Brenner Alliance: `The Gulf in IntÂŹrnational Affairs, October article 1991, a post-mortem' 672. 669 and pp.
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