Certain officials anticipated a war between the British Empire and the United States in the 1920s
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Historical sources note that some commentators and observers suggested an Anglo-American war was a distinct possibility during the late 1920s, amidst broader post-WWI naval and geopolitical tensions.
I asked Dr. Moser, who provided the following, and permitted me to post it here. There were some in 1928-29 who suggested that an Anglo-American war was a distinct possibility. The quote itself comes from an issue of Literary Digest (vol. 100, February 9, 1929, pp. 5-7). See also Christopher Hall, Britain, America and Arms Control, 1921-37 (1987), William R. Braisted, "On the American Red and Red-Orange Plans, 1919-1939," in Gerald Jordan (ed.,) Naval Warfare in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1945 (1977), and David Richards, "America Conquers Britain: Anglo-American Conflict in the Popular Media during the 1920s," in Journal of American Culture, vol. 3 (Spring 1980).
The present international situation is characterized by the division of the World in two power blocs. The countries of the Western World have united themselves in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as the first effective large scale example of regional collective security in world history. The spiritual foundation of NATO is the idea of the Atlantic Anglo-American community based on mutual friendship and cooperation between Great Britain and the United States. But it was by no means certain that these two great powers of the Anglo-Saxon race should cooperate in close association with each other in world politics. After World War I, the British Empire found its world supremacy - undisputed so far – challenged by the potential and increasing strength of the United States. Great Britain had then to make her decision whether she was to antagonize the United States or to become her cooperative partner in international politics. The test-case was offered by the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. The global importance of this Alliance cannot be over-estimated. It was one of the strongest pillars of Britain's foreign policy, and contributed, to a substantial degree, to Japan's ascendancy in the Far East; it influenced decisively United States foreign policy immediately after 1919 - being to a large extent one of the deeper causes for the isolationist withdrawal of the United States from the system of international cooperation as established at the Paris Peace Conference -, and presented Gr
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