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Originally Posted by Moejoe
You'd be surprised how deep that wound goes culturally. Sometimes I wonder if it isn't so deep that its subconscious on the part of us Brits. You've got to realise that as a nation we were dying and being attacked for a good few years before your country even deemed it worthy to help us out (and then it was all a lot of debt and....).
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And Hang the Kaizer? When the US suggested things to create a lasting peace after WW I, we were laughed at. Who dumped all the war reparations on Germany? All to save political hides in Britain and France... So was it not suprising that the US took the attitude that when it blew up again, it was
your problem?