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Britain, America, and the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
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Britain, America, and the Vietnam War (Hardcover)
Series: International History
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Isolated by much of the world for its conduct of the war in
Vietnam, the United States saw British support as a key component
of its efforts to sway public opinion. This is the first serious
examination of the impact of the Vietnam War on the Anglo-American
"special relationship" during the years of the Johnson presidency.
Using recently released government papers, oral interviews, and
transcripts of presidential phone conversations, Ellis discusses
the discord between the United Kingdom and the United States over
the war in Southeast Asia. She focuses on the pressures placed on
Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor Government to provide material
aid to the war and to remain squarely behind the U.S. war effort in
public. Britain's refusal to send troops to Vietnam and Wilson's
insistence on trying to mediate the conflict were both sources of
tension between the allies. This study explores the extent to which
the United Kingdom was pressured to send troops to the combat zone,
the part that the personal relationship between Wilson and Johnson
played in the tensions, and the evidence that a deal was done to
link the maintenance of British defenses East of Suez with U.S.
support for the pound sterling. It concludes that Wilson managed to
walk a political tightrope on Vietnam, providing just enough
diplomatic support for the Americans to keep Washington satisfied
and putting just enough limits on that support to keep an
increasingly vociferous domestic anti-war movement at bay.
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