"Denyav" wrote in message
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The empire was an idea who's time had past, Britains
didnt want to be the slavemasters of the world.

Really?,I think the British empire officially ended during Suez crisis
when US
told British rather unexpectedly (at least for the Brits) "stay at home or
else".

Hardly, Egypt had been grantd full independence before
Suez, the intervention was over Egyptian nationlisation
of the canal. Just as the US has intervened to protect
the Panama canal

US engagement in WWII had two goals:
1)Defeating Nazi Germany
2)Destroying British Empire


ISTR a little matter of revenging Pearl Harbor

Till Suez crisis Brits hoped that US might want to forget second goal,but
US
had other plans.

You are fantasizing again I fear

By the time of Suez, India and Pakistan were independent
and the remaining colonies were already in the
process of getting independence. The time table for
Malayan and Singaporean Independence was
agreed in 1955 for example.

Keith




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