We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us to be so. The stronger we are, the better partners we shall be; and I feel certain that as the months pass we shall draw continually closer together with mutual confidence and respect.
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Broadcast to the nation, London, 17 January 1957,—Vital Speeches of the Day (1 February 1957), p. 247. This was his first broadcast as prime minister. Reported in Suzy Platt (ed.) Respectfully Quoted (1989), p. 104, no. 531