'It is a Matter of Getting the Mixture Right': Britain's Post-War Relations with America in the Middle East

Abstract

Judge Patterson, [U.S.] Secretary of State for War, had said...that if... [Britain] could not raise an extra division to put the solution in Palestine through, we must be at a pretty pass. [It] corroborates the... advice which the Embassy and North American Department have consistently given, namely, that in utterances which will get wide currency in America, we should not admit weakness (except financial weakness which is now understood) and that we should always seek to show that our policy is based on some 'principle'.2