Belief That United States And Britain Are Closely Linked In Military Planning

Wanganui Chronicle, 24 February 1949, Page 5

Belief That United States And Britain Are Closely Linked In Military Planning

LONDON, Feb. 23 (Ree. 6 pm).—The London correspondent of the New York “Herald-Tribune,” Joseph Alsop, in a review of Anglo-American relations, says that if British recovery continues as it is doing at present, a lot of the prophets who foretold that .Britain would be unable to continue to play her part as a. great Bowel' ill world affairs will be forced to eat their words, and existing eiileulalions of the world balance of power will have to be made all over again.

Alsop suggests t hat British I policy now recognises that Britain I cannol hope to regain the domin-1 ain-e she once enjoyed, and is eon-1 eentr.ating upon replacing the old |

“Pax Britannica” with “Pax Anglo-Americana. ’ ’ He claims that co-operation in military planning between Britain and the | United States is steadily increasing,

and that lhe once moribund Combined Chiefs of Staff Committee is taking on a new lease of life. He suggests that an unwritten agreement already exists under which in the event of another war, FieldMashal Montgomery would be replaced as Chief of Staff of the Western Union by an American commander, and that the British are now urging the United States to accept the trusteeship of Tripolitania, so that combined Anglo-American defence bases can be established in this territory and neighbouring Cyrenaica.