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298 TURBULENCE AND TERROR<br />

national scene. Watergate had combined with Vietnam and<br />

the Oil Crisis to create a generally depressing political atmosphere<br />

in Washington. Sykes continued:<br />

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I am sometimes asked by English visitors why the<br />

Americans are in such a difficult and touchy frame of mind<br />

today. In reply, I say that they had to go through the equivalent,<br />

in our terms, of Suez, the Profumo case and the<br />

devaluation of £, not in a timescale of twelve years as we<br />

did, but in not much more than two. It was, therefore, not<br />

altogether surprising that they were being prickly and difficult.<br />

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