The historian Martin H. Folly argues that Bevin was not automatically pro-American. Instead, he pushed his embassy in Washington to project a view of Britain that neutralised American criticisms. He felt that Britain's problems were in part caused by American irresponsibility. He was frustrated with American attitudes. His strategy was to bring Washington around to support Britain's policies and argued that Britain had earned American support and ought to compensate it for its sacrifices against the Nazis. Folly considers that Bevin was not coldly pragmatic uncritically pro-American or a puppet manipulated by the British Foreign Office.Martin H. Folly, "‘The impression is growing... that the United States is hard when dealing with us’: Ernest Bevin and Anglo-American relations at the dawn of the cold war", Journal of Transatlantic Studies 10#2 (2012): 150–66.
