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Re: Wot No Screaming About Cameron's Gaffe?
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Point is in 1940 the US were giving support but not being the senior partner, we couldn't convince them to get more involved.
The Destroyers for Bases agreement was in 1940 for instance.
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America was not a partner in any sense of the word as we stood alone in 1940 while the US supplied us with 50 old destroyers under lend lease which actually started in March 1941
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Originally Posted by Xaccers
Except he didn't say "during the battle of britain we were the junior partner to the US" but hey, why let facts get in the way right?
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You cannot be a junior member to the US in a war that they were not actually involved in and that actually is a fact.
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