US, India, Australia: Second fiddle.

Also: Europe, Russia, Ukraine, South Africa, Ecuador, United Arab Emirates and Syria.

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Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate 17th April 1850, Edward Williams Clay, lithgraph, 1850, US Library of Congress, Washington DC.

UNITED STATES. INDIA. AUSTRALIA. Second fiddle.

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