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The Embassy in Grosvenor Square AlsobyAlisonR.Holmes ‘TransatlanticDiplomacyand“Global”States’,inAlanDobsonandSteveMarsh(eds.), Anglo-AmericanRelations:ContemporaryPerspectives(London:Routledge,2012). TheThirdWay:Globalisation’sLegacy(Leicester:Troubador,2009). AlsobyJ.SimonRofe International History and International Relations, with Andrew Williams and Amelia Hadfield(Oxford:Routledge,2012). ‘Lord Lothian’s Ambassadorship to Washington August 1939–December 1940’, in Michael Hopkins, Saul Kelly and John Young (eds.), British Embassy in Washington between1939and1977(NewYorkandBasingstoke:Palgrave,2009). FranklinRoosevelt’sForeignPolicyandtheWellesMission(NewYork:Palgrave,2007). The Embassy in Grosvenor Square American Ambassadors to the United Kingdom, 1938–2008 Alison R. Holmes InternationalStudiesProgramLeader,PoliticsLecturer,HumboldtStateUniversity and J. Simon Rofe SeniorLecturerinDiplomaticandInternationalStudies,CentreforInternationalStudies andDiplomacy,SOAS,UniversityofLondon Editorialmatter,selectionandintroduction©AlisonR.Holmesand J.SimonRofe2012 Allremainingchapters©theirrespectiveauthors2012 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-28062-5 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6–10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorshaveassertedtheirrightstobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthis workinaccordancewiththeCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-32777-5 ISBN 978-1-137-29557-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137295576 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. AcatalogrecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheLibraryofCongress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 For my family who gave me a compass for the journey, for Duncan who makes the journey an adventure – arh My family; and the joy of having one – jsr This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface ix Acknowledgements x NotetotheCover xii NotesonContributors xiii Introduction 1 AlisonR.HolmesandJ.SimonRofe Part I TheWartimeAmbassadors,1938–1946 19 J.SimonRofe 1 JosephP.Kennedy,1938–40 23 J.SimonRofe 2 JohnGilbertWinant,1941–46 49 DavidMayers 3 W.AverellHarriman,1946 64 MartinH.Folly Part II TheColdWarAmbassadors,1947–1961 85 J.SimonRofe 4 LewisWilliamsDouglas,1947–50 89 JonathanColman 5 WalterShermanGifford,1950–53 103 JonathanColman 6 WinthropAldrich,1953–57 117 AndrewBoxer 7 JohnHayWhitney,1957–61 135 ThomasC.Mills Part III TheColdWarAmbassadors,1961–1981 149 AlisonR.Holmes 8 DavidK.E.Bruce,1961–69 153 JohnW.Young vii viii Contents 9 WalterH.Annenberg,1969–74 171 JamesCameron 10 AmbassadorsRichardson,ArmstrongandBrewster,1975–81 189 AlexSpelling Part IV TheColdWarClosers, 1981–2001 215 AlisonR.Holmes 11 JohnJ.Louis,Jr,1981–83 219 PaulTrickett 12 CharlesH.PriceII,1983–89 238 PaulTrickett 13 HenryE.Catto,Jr,1989–91 257 NicholasJ.Cull Part V ThePost-ColdWarAmbassadors,1991–2001 271 AlisonR.Holmes 14 RaymondG.H.Seitz,1991–94 275 AlisonR.Holmes 15 AmbassadorsCroweandLader,1994–2001 302 JohnDumbrell Part VI ThePost-9/11Ambassadors,2001–2008 317 AlisonR.Holmes 16 AmbassadorsFarishandTuttle,2001–2009 325 AlisonR.Holmes Appendix:TableofAmbassadors,PresidentsandPrimeMinisters 348 Index 354 Preface The volume explores the role played by the American Embassy in London, andtheUSAmbassadortotheCourtofStJames’s,notonlyinthebilateral Anglo-American relationship, but also in wider international relations over theseventyyearsthattheEmbassyhasbeeninGrosvenorSquare.Thevol- umecoverstheperiodfrom1938throughto2008,effectivelycoveringthe lifespan of what has often been termed ‘the special relationship’ from its birth in the Second World War and into the aftermath of war through the challenges of the Cold War and its aftermath to the present day. The the- matic issues of this period include not only debates about the ‘specialness’ oftherelationshipinthepost-warcontext,butalsotheimpactofthedevel- opmentanddemiseofthe‘ColdWar’;theongoingimpactoftheEuropean Project and EU integration, the influence of nuclear weapons and NATO, aswellaswidereconomic,cultural,demographicandenvironmentalforces that have shaped the transatlantic relationship. Within this broad context, theworkseekstoaddressthreeoverachingandinterrelatedquestions:first, to assess the role the Embassy has played at crucial junctures in Anglo- American relations; secondly, to consider the opportunities that arise for a US Ambassador to influence events within the transatlantic relationship; and,thirdly,toestablishwhetheranyrecurringfeaturesorprinciplescanbe identifiedwhichcontributetoanenhancedunderstandingoflong-standing debatesoverAnglo-Americanrelations,USForeignPolicyandInternational Relations. In analysing each Ambassador since 1938 and the Embassy they headed, the work posits Transatlantic Diplomacy as a concept that extends beyondAnglo-Americanrelationsinexplainingtheevolutiondiplomacyin internationalrelationsintothetwenty-firstcentury. ix
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