In <199705062137.RAA28944@server1.ols.net>, Charles Edwards wrote:
>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 he U.S. Army Eighth Air Force. 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?
I believe that intensive historical research has proven unequivocally
that trade unions and Lucas were both involved in the British car
industry before the war, hence your hypothesis is invalid.
A. B. Bonds
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