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“For God’s sake, act like Britain!” Secretary of State Dean Rusk demanded. He was speaking to Foreign Secretary George Brown on the morning of January 11, 1968, and their discussion had become very tense.1 Brown had traveled to Washington with the unhappy task of informing the Johnson administration that Prime Minister Harold Wilson intended to withdraw British military forces from the Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia by the end of 1971, several years earlier than the Labour government and the Johnson administration had anticipated. Rusk was furious. His admonition spoke volumes about the United States’ expectations of its closest ally and betrayed the Johnson administration’s profound anxiety over the repercussions of Wilson’s decision. |
