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Apart from Britain and its empire itself, loans and leases on generous terms from the United States.
by gerikson 5y ago
Apart from Britain and its empire itself, loans and leases on generous terms from the United States.
- yumraj 5y agoBy empire I'm assuming you mean all that they had stolen from India and elsewhere.
- gerikson 5y agoIt doesn't really matter how they had acquired it, they could draw on resources and manpower - Indian regiments, Malayan rubber, Indonesian oil (via the Dutch government in exile)... I'm convinced by reading "Britain's War Machine" by David Edgerton that Britain's darkest hour was not Dunkirk but Japan's entry into the war and its lightning capture of most of SE Asia.
- yumraj 5y agoMy comment was in response of the OP’s “an inherited fortune of a lost hindu prince”. I was making the point that the British gov also used the resources of a Hindu country.