Re: Hudson again

["Devine, James" <jdevine@xxxxxxx>]

Title: RE: [PEN-L] Hudson again

Gabriel Kolko has a whole book about the US mistreatment of Airstrip One during the immediate post-World War II period which fits with the quote below.

Of course, we should be careful: the ECONOMIST may be referring to the US willingness to break up the British Empire.

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Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxx &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine

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> Robert Gassler preferred my accident post of a quote to my
> question.  Here
> is another Hudson gem:
>
>
> 269-70: "Not many people in this country," The Economist
> concluded in 1947
> when the totality of British capitulation had become clear,
> "believe the
> Communist thesis that it is the deliberate and conscious aim
> of American
> policy to ruin Britain and everything that Britain stands for in the
> world.  But the evidence can certainly be read that way.  And if every
> time that aid is extended, conditions are attached which make it
> impossible for Britain ever to escape the necessity of going back for
> still more aid, to be obtained with still more self-abasement
> and on still
> more crippling terms, then the result will certainly be what the
> Communists predict." citing Anon. 1947. "Inconvertible Again." The
> Economist, 53, p. 306; quoted in Gardner, Richard N. 1969.
> Sterling-Dollar
> Diplomacy: The Origins and the Prospects of Our International Economic
> Order (NY: McGraw-Hill): p. 339.
>
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