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Churchill and the Great Republic
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INTRODUCTION
TIMELINE
THEMES
  Forebears and Family
Warrior for Empire
Visits to America
American Presidents
The Communicator
The Politician
World War II
Cold Warrior
The Long Sunset
OBJECTS
Image: Chicago Daily Tribune. "America--the Real Center of the World Today," 1942
Chicago Daily Tribune. "America--the Real Center of the World Today," 1942
The Chicago Daily Tribune published this wartime map, which derided the efforts and importance of Churchill's Britain and placed the United States in a new and supposedly more fitting location—at the center of the world. Accompanying text explained: "In the military sense, North America is the strong bastion around which are grouped friendly powers in more or less exposed situations." Such powers included Britain and Australia, which the Tribune felt needed American power to stave off the Japanese and Germans.
Object Details:
Printed map. Geography and Map Division, Library of Congress (157)

Related Theme:
World War II
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