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Eccles 15Th Annual DWB Lecture V2:1073 ECCLES 10Th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 1 Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 1 ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY By Simon Jenkins at the British Library 17 May 2010 THE ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES www.bl.uk/ecclescentre The Fifteenth Annual Douglas W Bryant Lecture under the auspices of The Eccles Centre for American Studies Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 2 Published by The British Library The design, setting and camera ready copy was produced at The British Library Corporate Design Office ISBN: 0 7123 4458 6 Copyright © 2011 The British Library Board Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 3 ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY By Simon Jenkins at the British Library 17 May 2010 THE ECCLES CENTRE FOR AMERICAN STUDIES www.bl.uk/ecclescentre The Fifteenth Annual Douglas W Bryant Lecture under the auspices of The Eccles Centre for American Studies Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 4 Simon Jenkins is a journalist and author. He writes a column twice weekly for the Guardian and weekly for the Evening Standard. Previously he wrote columns for the Sunday Times and the Times. He was editor of the Times between 1990 and 1992. His career began on Country Life magazine and continued on the Times Educational Supplement, the Economist (political editor) and the Sunday Times (books editor). He was Journalist of the Year in 1988 and Columnist of the Year in 1993. He served on the boards of British Rail and London Transport in the 1980s and was deputy chairman of English Heritage and a Millennium Commissioner. He has served as chair of the National Trust since November 2008. His books include Thatcher & Sons (2006), England's Thousand Best Churches (1999), England's Thousand Best Houses (2003) and Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles (2008). Douglas W Bryant (1913–1994) was educated at Stanford, Munich and the University of Michigan. Following service as a US naval officer in World War II, he served as Associate Librarian of the University of California at Berkeley. He was recruited into the US Foreign Service to manage the American libraries in Britain and arrived in London in 1950. In 1952 he began a long career at Harvard University during which he maintained an association with the British Library. In 1964 he became University Librarian of Harvard and, in 1972, Director of the University Library, a post he held until his retirement in 1979 when he helped found the American Trust for the British Library. This was established to augment American materials in the British Library’s collections. He served as a Trustee and Executive Director of the Trust between 1979 and 1990 and as its President between 1990 and 1994. In recognition of his work and support for the British Library, the Eccles Centre annual lecture was named in his honour in 1995. Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 1 DOUGLAS W. BRYANT LECTURE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY 17 MAY 2010 1 ANTI-AMERICANISM IN THE 21ST CENTURY I think that most of the lectures that you have had in this series have been about Americanism, and I am terribly aware that I have injected the word ‘anti’ before Americanism. Any title that has the word ‘anti’ in it runs a very severe risk of offending people, so I just want to say in advance that, whatever I am about to say, I don’t mean to offend. I want to start by taking you all back to the summer of 1885 in Newport, Rhode Island, in America, where a number of plutocrats were holidaying in the summer, as they are wont to do. One of them was a very rich woman called Consuela Vanderbilt. She was much in love with a very rich and beautiful young man called Winthrop Rutherfurd and, to the delight of their friends, they decided that summer to announce their engagement. Consuela’s mother was appalled. Rutherfurd was an American and the Vanderbilt millions were meant to do better than that. They required the adornment of European blood, indeed of English blood, indeed of ducal blood. Mrs Vanderbilt was not Mrs Vanderbilt for nothing; she already had a duke conveniently to hand, the twenty-four year old Duke of Marlborough. He had two additional qualifications. He was in town at the time and he was extremely short of money. Mrs Vanderbilt would not be balked. She demanded that her daughter marry him. When Consuela refused, her mother collapsed in hysterics and a compliant doctor was duly summoned. He told the girl that her mother’s heart was very weak and that it would not survive a shock so severe as that of her daughter marrying an American. Indeed, Mrs Vanderbilt was so upset that she even rambled that she would have the hapless Rutherfurd murdered. Consuela, being a dutiful daughter, relented. She married the duke upon whom 2.5 million dollars was promptly settled. They were not suited, were very unhappy, and later separated, but Blenheim Palace was saved. For half a century from 1890 aristocracy was the most lucrative product traded en masse across the Atlantic. It has been calculated that one hundred and four British peers married American heiresses in the fifty years to 1939. Probably not since the Conquistadors had so much American loot travelled from the New World back to Europe. This bizarre marriage market fed anti- American hysteria. An outraged British press declared that this tide of rich, Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 2 2 DOUGLAS W. BRYANT LECTURE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY 17 MAY 2010 promiscuous American girls embodied all that was most undignified in their homeland. They were diluting the blue blood of England by their sexual forwardness, said the Daily Mail. They were weakening the national stock, said the Daily Express. They were using birth control to have smaller families and risking an absence of heirs! It seemed as if wealth in America somehow needed to make itself less American, and that anti-Americanism in Europe was reflecting a sort of anti-Americanism in America. So what on earth was going on? Four years ago, I gave a lecture at the embattled American Embassy in London. It was like getting into Fort Knox via the Tel Aviv Security Control. The lecture was called “Why I love America” and the title at the time was considered mildly odd, even faintly patronising. No-one seemed to love America then, least of all in Europe and least of all, certainly, in Tony Blair’s supposedly left-wing England. America was still undergoing a national nervous breakdown, a collective psychosis of insecurity following 9/11. A shocking attack on New York and Washington had produced a global upsurge of sympathy for America and Americans. Briefly. The attack was deplored by every country and regime in the world, with the exception of Iraq and Afghanistan. Even Iran sent a message of support. It was a remarkable upsurge of sentiment and yet within six months it had evaporated. It had been overturned and become the reverse – a swelling tide of worldwide anti- Americanism. To the bafflement of most Americans, they found themselves publicly excoriated and more unpopular than at any time since the Second World War. Statements generalising abuse of America and Americans had become widespread across Europe and Asia. Over a period of six years around 9/11, that is from 2000 to 2006, the famous Pew Research Center’s survey of global attitudes showed favourable opinion of America collapsing. In the UK, pro-American sentiment fell from 83 per cent in 2000 to 56 per cent in 2006. In France, it fell from 62 percent to 39 percent: in Germany, from 78 percent to 37 percent: in Spain, from 50 to just 23 percent. I’ll come on later to the obvious need to distinguish between attitudes to a country, attitudes to its people, and attitudes to its government. The so-called new history holds that the true narrative of a country should be buried not in its leadership but in its society, its economy, its trade and its social mores, in the condition of the people and their culture, in the treatment of women and immigrants. It evolves largely untouched by Eccles 15th Annual DWB Lecture v2:1073 ECCLES 10th DB Lecture 04/01/2011 10:56 Page 3 DOUGLAS W. BRYANT LECTURE AT THE BRITISH LIBRARY 17 MAY 2010 3 the identity and antics of those in power. Those who tell a nation’s story should therefore eschew the traditional syllabus of dates, kings and battles; they should concentrate on historical substrata. I disagree with this. I’m currently trying to write a history, a short history, of England and telling it as a narrative mostly in terms of dates, kings, battles and governments. The reason is that I want to restore the primacy and centrality of power in a nation’s story. The reason is that leadership does matter in this question of image. It conditions almost everything that happens in the public realm. Even in the era of democracy, who is in charge determines how a country regards itself and how it is regarded abroad. Attitudes towards a country are conditioned by politics, by the world’s perception of a leader.
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