USA endlease

Churchill fick ju "låna" massor av militärutrustning under ww2, dvs innan USA gick med i kriget. Det var så man angav det för att kongressen skulle köpa det, frågan är ifall USA fick tillbaks nåt? Jag har alltid utgått ifrån att de skrev av det mesta?

Lendlease hette det, alltså ung. "lånhyra". Som sagt så handlade detta om hjälp i krigets startskede, före 1941. Efter Pearl Harbour så var ju USA med i kriget och då var det ingen som ifrågasatte hjälpen. Jag utgår ifrån att allt avskrevs direkt. Finns säkert nån websida om detta.

Njet,

In one of his famous speeches Churchill asked America 'Give us the tools and we will finish the job'. But America wouldn't 'give' anything without payment. After two years of war, Roosevelt had drained Britain dry, stripping her of all her assets in the USA, including real estate and property. The British owned Viscose Company, worth £125 million was liquidated, Britain receiving only £87 million. Britain's £1,924 million investments in Canada were sold off to pay for raw materials bought in the United States. To make sure that Roosevelt got his money, he dispatched the American cruiser, 'Louisville' to the South African naval base of Simonstown to pick up forty two million Pounds worth of British gold, to help pay for American guns and ammunition. Not content with stripping Britain of her gold and assets, Roosevelt now proceeded to 'strip the flesh off the bone'. In return for 50 old destroyers, he demanded that Britain transfer all her scientific and technological secrets to the USA. Also, he demanded leases on the islands of Newfoundland, Jamaica, Trinidad and Bermuda for the setting up of American military and naval bases in case Britain should fall. (Of the 50 lend-lease destroyers supplied to Britain, 7 were lost during the war. After 1943, when no longer useful, eight were sent to Russia, while the others were manned by French, Polish and Norwegian crews)

Lord Beaverbrook was later to exclaim "The Japanese are our relentless enemies, and the Americans our un-relenting creditors".

från Lesser known Facts of WWII:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~gduncan/facts.html

Storbritanien är dessutom fortfarande skyldigt USA stora summor pengar sedan kriget men USA har valt att inte driva in dem (om jag inte missminner mig helt).

Där ser man. Alltid lär man sig nått nytt på Flashback.

Vilket kan vara en av flera förklaringar till att Storbritannien idag är USA:s förlängda arm i Västeuropa och alltid sluter upp på USA:s sida i olika kampanjer (Irak, Libyen m.m.)