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...
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