Description - Anglo-American Strategic Relations and the Far East, 1933-1939 by Greg Kennedy
This volume charts how the national strategic needs of the United States of America and Great Britain created a "parallel but not joint" relationship towards the Far East as the crisis in that region evolved from 1933-39. In short, it is a look at the relationship shared between the two nations with respect to accommodating one another on certain strategic and diplomatic issues so that they could become more confident of one another in any potential showdowns with Japan. The evidence presented reveals that, because of the Far Eastern question, the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britian was indeed a reality before it was allowable even to admit that such a relationship existed. With parallel goals, similar strategic evaluations and common approaches to the problem of what to do about Japan, the British Empire and the United States began to work together towards establishing and maintaining a balance of power scheme in the Far East. Those ties, forged in the troubled waters of the Pacific, were the first crucial steps in the construction of the more famous Churchill/Roosevelt "special relationship" and as such are the true origins of the Grand
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