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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Reference | FCO 82/64 |
| Department/Office | Foreign Office |
| Title | Political relations between UK and USA (1971) |
| Description | Notes on future relations with the US including background notes on US introversion and social and economic problems resulting in a reduction of overseas commitments, the fragmentation of the monetary and trading relations between the industrial countries of the free world and the risk of a slide into protectionism. SALT and the Soviet Union achieving nuclear parity with the US as well as the increasing tendency for bilateral dealings between the US and the Soviet Union, the growth in Japanese economic strength and the strains in Japanese-US relations, the emergence of China, Soviet efforts to exploit the possible weakening of US determination to defend Western Europe, the enlargement of the European Community. |
| Date | 1971 |
| Collection | The Nixon Years, 1969-1974 |
| Region | North America, Europe |
| Countries | China, Soviet Union, United States, Japan |
| Places | Britain; China; Europe; France; Germany; Ireland; Japan; Malta; Middle East; Northern Ireland; Rhodesia; Russia; Soviet Union; United Kingdom; United States of America; Vietnam |
| People | Annenberg, Walter H; Cromer, 3rd Earl of; Douglas-Home, Sir Alec; Greenhill, Sir Denis; Laird, Melvin R; Rogers, William P |
| Topics | Agriculture; Aid; British Embassy; Burden sharing; Common Agricultural Policy (CAP); Common Market; Defence; Department of State; Draft; East-West relations; Economic policy; Economy; EDIP (NATO Defence Programme); Energy; European integration; foreign policy; Group of Ten; Inflation; Isolationism; Japanese; Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR); North Atlantic Treaty Association (NATO); Oil; organisation; Protectionism; Protectionist; State Department; Strikes; Textiles; Trade; Treasury; troops; United Nations; Warsaw Pact; White House |
| Copyright | Crown Copyright documents © are reproduced by permission of The National Archives London, UK |
