Objection from "Helgoland"

In Parliament three British M.P.s from three different standpoints viewed with alarm the emergence of the U.S. as Britain's No. 1 Ally: > Britain would have to choose, said Liberal Edgar Granville, whether she should become "a western outpost of totalitarian Europe or the eastern outpost of an American-controlled civilization." Russia, he felt, was Britain's No. 1. Ally. ". . . It is the Russian cockerel which has saved the necks of the few chickens." > Conservative Sir Archibald Southby, apparently giddy with Lend-Lease, said: "It might have been better if the United States had augmented the defenses of those vitally important places [Far Eastern bases] rather than expend time and material in creation of the bases which we leased them in the West Indies and Newfoundland." > Laborite Richard Rapier Stokes: "I hate to think of the military center of control shifting to Washington. It gives me a nasty feeling . . . that we may find ourselves reduced to what I term occupying the position of America's Helgoland off the coast of Europe."

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