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It’s something of a red herring. Britain got the largest slice of the Marshall Plan money, they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. One
by moomin 1y ago
It’s something of a red herring. Britain got the largest slice of the Marshall Plan money, they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. One thing you’d learn from the book is Germany definitely wasn’t in a good shape in 55.
- username332211 1y agoApart from the Suez crisis and the Rhodesian embargo was there any serious British attempt to maintain the empire after the second World War?
- throaway5445454 1y agoMau Mau, Malaya, Kenya
- username332211 1y agoThose were efforts at preventing British colonies from becoming Soviet colonies, weren't they? There was no effort to keep either Kenya or Malaysia as British. In Malaysia, the war continued after independence.
- throaway5445454 1y agoThe entire effort by the British was to keep them as possessions. The wars continued after independence because non-communists took power.
- JackFr 1y ago> they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. they just wasted it on things like nationalizing the coal, gas, electricity, rail, air transport and steel industries.