I think not. Stumbling over names is of variable levels, and that particular stumble revealed an awesome clumsiness matched only when Jimmy Carter eulogized Hubert Horatio Humphrey as "Hubert Horatio Hornblower."
I could read Cameron's "1940" as a slip for "the 1940s", which is far less awkward than the above; or as a cool acknowledgment of the fact that, US material assistance to the UK already being well under way, the junior partnership had already started; or, and I think this by far the most likely, as a way of buttering up his hosts.
The last fits in far better with the image of Cameron as slick and smarmy (see the above reference to him as "Smoothiechops") than as clumsy and stumblefooted like Brown, which is what treating it as dumb ignorance paints him as.
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I could read Cameron's "1940" as a slip for "the 1940s", which is far less awkward than the above; or as a cool acknowledgment of the fact that, US material assistance to the UK already being well under way, the junior partnership had already started; or, and I think this by far the most likely, as a way of buttering up his hosts.
The last fits in far better with the image of Cameron as slick and smarmy (see the above reference to him as "Smoothiechops") than as clumsy and stumblefooted like Brown, which is what treating it as dumb ignorance paints him as.