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Congress was in no mood "to bolster up a red dictatorship, or equally perverse, to subsidize welfare measures." British Consul General Frank Evans expressed dismay. He said he "could not but be depressed by the violent dislike and distrust manifest by these men toward the British experiment in social democracy."
Today it's a shadow of its former self. Washington wanted it curtailed. Pressure was exerted to cease nationalizations. In July 1947, America's UK ambassador Lewis Douglas said:
"It would help the US obtain obtain from Congress the help which the United Kingdom required if it were made clear that there would be no further nationalizations of great industries in this country."
In June 1948, the Foreign Office recommended postponing iron and steel nationalization for the sake of "Anglo-American relations."
None of this gets discussed today. Myth substitutes for reality. It's no different on what's now ongoing.
A Shock to the System
Back when he was a secondary school student, Cromwell recounted his shock when he learned the truth about "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland. People living through them understood well.
Reports others got were falsified. They whitewashed a "tragic aberration." BBC notoriously produces state-sponsored propaganda. It has to. It's state funded and controlled.
Bloody Sunday was especially infamous. On January 30, 1972, UK soldiers shot 27 unarmed civilian protesters and bystanders.
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