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| 589f875 | British diplomats and Anglo-American types in Washington have a near-superstitious prohibition on uttering the words 'Special Relationship' to describe relations between Britain and America, lest the specialness itself vanish like a phantom at cock-crow. | britain diplomacy foreign-relations foreign-relations-of-the-us superstition uk-us-relations united-states washington | Christopher Hitchens |