2007-10-14 09:22:33 · 12 answers · asked by AMii33 B33.. 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Aww, c'mon now. I teach this stuff and we NEVER say that the US saved the UK... we use the word "Allies". We also refer the UK as "our mother country". There is much respect and love for the UK in the US. Given the chance, many people would visit in a heartbeat.
Looking through the eyes of the US at that time, you have to understand that the US saw a horror story unfolding. Invasion of countries by fanatics in Germany. We couldn't even fathom that the Europeans would be so cruel to each other and killl each other. Millions dying in concentration camps. The Japanese raping and pillaging Nanking. An unbelievable world.
But if you give out bad, bad will come back to you. Hitler was persecuting some of his finest scientists, who escaped and let the US in on some of his most important intelligence secrets. They then developed that thingy called the atomic bomb. Not nice.
So please. Have you seen how low the dollar is? Give us a break. We have good hearts.
PS Good friends pay each other back when they borrow. Other countries have not. You did in January. Thank you for honoring that.
2007-10-14 10:37:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Only half correct. In fact the UK paid off the debt for Lend-Lease immediately after the war (The US was already holding £300 billion of British Gold Bullion at the time). However because of this there was insufficient resources left for reconstruction. Attlees Government then had to negotiate a new loan (in the event insufficient), and it is this which has been recently finalised.
2007-10-14 17:43:24 · answer #2 · answered by Hobilar 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The UK payed off it`s debt to the USA in either January or February of this year
2007-10-14 16:26:22 · answer #3 · answered by McCanns are guilty 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The lend and lease was paid off here >>>>>The final payment of $83.3 million (£42.5 million) due on 31 December 2006...ever wonder why we have had our noses up the arses of the americans for so long
2007-10-14 16:32:19 · answer #4 · answered by hanz2602 3 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Last Christmas. Britain was the only country to pay its war debts in full. Let no American tell you that they "saved your ***" in World War II - they were handsomely paid for every ounce of help they gave whilst those of us who saved the world for more altruistic reasons were reduced to penury so that they could grow rich off our backs.
2007-10-14 17:09:36 · answer #5 · answered by Jellicoe 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yeah. I heard some amount in billions was paid
recently. Whether that's the whole debt?
2007-10-14 16:28:03 · answer #6 · answered by RICHARD B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
2006 we were free of war debt to the USA
2007-10-15 01:42:30 · answer #7 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Earlier this year. We are I believe now debt free!
2007-10-14 17:27:18 · answer #8 · answered by The Tenth Duke of Chalfont 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes it was New Years day this year.
Very generous of them to 'give' us all that help wasn't it.
It was due to the Lend-Lease that we lost our empire and they became a super-power. Alterior motive of Dollar signs maybe?
2007-10-14 16:49:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
at the end of last year - everyone thought the USA gave us aid - no they did not!! we have been paying through the nose for it ever since the war .... but we have now paid it off - at last.....
2007-10-14 16:48:45 · answer #10 · answered by The Grima Queen 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋