Uh, what?

[bjarvis]

Interesting news item... Britain makes final WWII replayments to Canada and US.

I'm not sure what surprised me more:
(a) that I didn't know there was an outstanding debt left from WWII;
(b) that it wasn't paid off long ago; or,
(c) that the US and Canada didn't forgive any outstanding balance decades ago.

I wonder what other financial commitments from WWII (or earlier) are still outstanding by any of the parties involved.

Comments

Re: final repayments

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

I'm so glad you responded like this, otherwise I would have to. The reality of it all is that all of the major players are indebted to each other, the financial entanglements are mind-boggling.
Also, bear in mind, these were loans for re-building the country after the war, which was in the best interest of the US because of the evil threat of the emerging Soviet block. We did the same for France, Italy and Western Germany. Should they have been forgive? Sure, years ago. Should we have repaid OUR debt? Sure years ago.