“[It] has had the effect of making us the 49th state”

—  Anthony Eden

of America
On Harold Macmillan's government policies, to Lord Salisbury (28 December 1957), quoted in John Charmley, Churchill's Grand Alliance (Harcourt Brace, 1995), p. 354.

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British Conservative politician, prime minister 1897–1977

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