Originally from: Ron
                        
Hi Lina,

As I was the one that was partly responsible for the upset, I think I should remind you what I asked Gary to withdraw. His implication that Great Britain had not repaid the Loan that the USA made with Lend-Lease was manifestly untrue. He has still not withdrawn that statement. The terms of the American assistance were very harsh and were responsible for much of Great Britain's financial trouble post-war.

You may not be aware that many items were still rationed until 1953. Great Britain was pumping aid into Europe within weeks of D Day. This was at the expense of the British taxpayer as well as producing shortages in this country.

The Americans pumped aid into Europe because they were scared of you all returning Communist governments. Great Britain in 1945 returned a stable government and therefor didn't get much aid. In effect we lost the war!!!

We were and still are an American aircraft carrier, some of their bases are top secret and not accessible to our forces. Their intelligence services do not let our intelligence services know what is being collected. We are being used for the protection of the USA and you for that matter.

So that is why Gary was asked the question about Menwith Hill.

As far as Farmtalking is concerned, very few people know the input that Jane put into setting it up and still does. I accept her judgement, I apply the rule that I used in similar situations, "If you don't like what I am doing, start your own'.

As I said in an earlier post we British are pretty good at beating our own backs, it's part of our national character. That's why we buy so much foreign junk and allow our own industries to go to the wall. Try and find anything British made in our shops today!!!

As a final comment, Hitler did not want to go to war with us, we declared war to try and stop his invasion of Europe's country's. We could have done a deal with him. At that time we had the most powerful Navy in the World.

In Peace, Ron.

P.s. I will quite happily return to writing 'funny' stories, just please lay of the British. We've got enough to put up with with our B***dy Government.