24 November 1964: Alistair Cooke,the Guardian chief US correspondent, talks about the special relationship between the British and the AmericansThe British had an ancient delusion that America was Britain gone wrong, or Mr Alistair Cooke,chief American correspondent of the “Guardian,” said in London final night. This he described as an extension into manhood of the impulse of every child to assume that it was the other person who was odd. No nation - apart from only and always the French - clung to this reflex more tenaciously than the British, or who had been able to impose on the natives of India and Africa the assumption that Windsor soup and toast racks were as normal as coats and ties.
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Source: theguardian.com