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Posted: Wed May 10, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject: The UK announces it's last payment of WW2 debt to the USA |
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On 31 December, the UK will make a payment of about $83m (£45.5m) to the US and so discharge
the last of its loans from World War II from its transatlantic ally. It is hard from a modern
viewpoint to appreciate the astronomical costs and economic damage caused by this conflict. In 1945,
Britain badly needed mone...read more |
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