A review of Western World History reveals that in 1949 Great Britain and her
allies were returning to a civilian economy following World War II. Germany
was still digging out from the devastation inflicted by British night
bombing and the almost constant daylight bombing of the U.S. Army Eighth Air
Force. Although there was much devastation in Britain after the war,
Germany's industrial centers were virtually bomb craters. In order to
produce anything, Germany needed to start over. So did Japan, but that's
another story. To get Germany going, the U.S. developed the Marshall Plan,
named after U.S. Secretary of State George C. Marshall. Life and history
are full of unintended consequences. Accordingly, one could ask:
Did the Marshall Plan inflict commercial defeat on the British auto industry?
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