Re: LOTR and 20th Century Western European Prejudices

On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 07:02:03 -0800, MasterDebater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Yuk Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>> Erm, the US actively worked to deprive Britain of her Empire.
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>I am interested in continuing this subthread only if we can resist this
>unrealistic pro-British, anti-American attitude. Britain lost her Empire
>without any help from the US, and any other line of reasoning is, in my
>opinion, quite biased. 

The US _did_ actively work to deprive Britain of her Empire, and to
supplant her position in the world economic order.

Remember Breton Woods.

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