But his refusal to offer a premium earned a swift rebuff from Anglo.
Under such conditions, however, the Anglo- Americans will continue the war not for their own peoples but solely for the spreading of Bolshevism in Europe.
But it is the six centuries of Anglo-Saxon rule, from shortly after the departure of the Roman colonizers, around A. D. 410, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, that most define what we now call England.
The Anglo-Saxons have no such cushion.
Last week, the Irish government announced the full nationalisation of Anglo Irish Bank, the country's third-largest lender.
The greatest cultural calamity in the meantime occurred in 1860 when the Anglo-French forces invaded Beijing and perpetrated an appalling cultural looting rarely seen in human history.
And how about his generalisations about stuffy, puritanical Anglo-Saxons?
The highlight of the trip should be the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman, a liberal theologian much beloved of Anglo-Catholics.
It is a very delicate and difficult process for a young person to go through. I know because I was born Jewish and part of me wanted to go out into the world and be like all the Anglo Saxons.
Born Lucie-Henriette Dillon in Paris's fashionable rue du Bac and descendant of French and Anglo-Irish aristocrats, Lucie was a woman of intellect, culture and learning.
The dismal English effort in the third Anglo-Dutch conflict of 1672-1674 requires minimal space here.
In the Anglo-American system, of course, precedent is a fundamental precept.
The best American newspapers are certainly superior to their Anglo-Australian counterparts in terms of depth and seriousness.
DRESSED in a floral tea-dress, at a retirement home for Anglo-Indians in Kolkata, rita McDonald, who is 85, is a poignant reminder of Britain's two-century rule over the Indian subcontinent.
It matters a lot that the Anglo-Saxon world has a different memory of that same war: it is a tragic event, but not a cause for shame, nor a reminder of impotence.