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In Reply to: Precisely so! posted by Charles Hansen on September 13, 2017 at 09:37:51:
Thank you Charles for raising this. All that you say did indeed happen and there were other British innovations given to the USA e.g. jet engine technology. I am not certain it was seen as a reparation, but that the US loaned money to the UK that had to be paid back with interest. Maybe that's just a gloss put on it.We were left almost destitute as a country despite sending one of the great economists, Maynard Keynes, to argue with the US government not to pursue this line of policy.
I was born in 1950, four and a half years after the war had ended yet food was still on ration here . Even staples like bread and meat. I was four years old before all rationing was halted.
Moving to the mid 1960's, while the uSA was enjoying stereo (!), the American record producer Joe Boyd moved to the UK. To paraphrase a section from his book " White Bicycles" from memory: " When I got there I coudn't believe that the people had nothing. Not even refrigerators. If you wanted cold milk you put it outside on the window ledge".
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