There they are, fifty millions of them. Kindly, energetic, ambitious, and, too often, happily complacent in peace; most resolute, courageous, and tough-minded in the storms that have beaten about their islands since the dawn of the Christian era. What is at stake in the relationship between the two nations is something far greater than whether we approve of Aneurin Bevan or the British approved of Senator McCarthy. The union of the English-speaking peoples is the one tried and tested alliance in a shaky world. Three times within living memory its sons have rallied to defeat or forestall the ambitions of conquerors. To understand Britain, to share with her the great tasks that lie before the Western community is much more than a salute by Americans to common political thought, a common tongue, or common memories. It is the easiest and most certain method by which we in our time can preserve the freedom of man which has been building in all the years since King and barons rode to Runnymede. _INDEX_ Air Force, 239-40 Albert, Prince Consort, 19-20, 27, 30 Alexander, Field Marshal Earl, 235 Amery, Julian, 55, 183 Anglo-American relations, 47-8, 109, 159-86; tensions, 66, 163-76 Anne, Queen, 45 Anson, Sir William, 17, 18 armed forces, 84-6, 238-44; Air Force, 239-40; Army, 238-9; Navy, 239 Army, 238-9 Atomic Energy Authority, 214 Attlee, Clement, 36, 58, 77, 78, 87, 88, 108, 113, 152, 235, 280 Bagehot, Walter, 22, 28, 97-8 Baldwin, Stanley, 55, 74, 95, 152 Beaverbrook, Lord (William Maxwell Aitken), 20, 30, 31, 54, 85, 140; influence of, 224-5 Bevan, Aneurin, 18, 19, 61, 84-9 _passim_, 121, 152; anti-Americanism, 47, 81, 109, 176; opposition to hydrogen bomb, 48; leader of opposition within Labor Party, 72, 73, 78-80, 269; supporters, 82-3 Bevin, Ernest, 62, 77, 80, 108, 143; opposition to communism, 109 Boyle, Sir Edward, 55 Bradlaugh, Charles, 30 British Empire, 91, 107 British Productivity Council, 196 Brogan, D.W., 164 Butler, R.A., 18-19, 49, 52, 54, 58, 59, 74 Cabinet, 43-6 Castle, Mrs. Barbara, 84 Chamberlain, Neville, 17, 35, 37, 63, 74, 95, 152, 166, 259, 280 Charles II, 25, 44 Charles, Prince, 15 China (Communist), 79, 184; British attitude toward, 149-50 Churchill, Sir Winston, 17, 18, 37, 51, 52, 59, 76, 80, 82, 95, 113-14, 133, 152, 200, 235, 239, 252, 259, 279, 285-6; party peacemaker, 35; skill in debate, 40; on monarchy, 276 clubs, 257-9 Commons, House of, 38-43, 46 Commonwealth, 29, 91, 107, 137-41, 283 Communist Party in Britain, 35, 49, 142-4, 146, 147, 164, 179, 180; in labor unions, 72, 82, 83-4, 109, 200, 208-15 Connor, William, 202, 227 Conservative Party, 50-69 conurbation, 6, 7 Cooke, Alistair, 222 Cripps, Sir Stafford, 77, 95, 107, 113