It’s something of a red herring. Britain got the largest slice of the Marshall Plan money, they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. One thing you’d learn from the book is Germany definitely wasn’t in a good shape in 55.

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JackFr 12 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire.

they just wasted it on things like nationalizing the coal, gas, electricity, rail, air transport and steel industries.

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username332211 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Apart from the Suez crisis and the Rhodesian embargo was there any serious British attempt to maintain the empire after the second World War?

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throaway5445454 12 hours ago | parent [-]

Mau Mau, Malaya, Kenya

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username332211 11 hours ago | parent [-]

Those were efforts at preventing British colonies from becoming Soviet colonies, weren't they?

There was no effort to keep either Kenya or Malaysia as British. In Malaysia, the war continued after independence.

	▲	throaway5445454 9 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The entire effort by the British was to keep them as possessions. The wars continued after independence because non-communists took power.