--Previous Message-- What people fail to realise is that at its weakest time in its economic history in 1946, the British Empire controlled or was responsible for more territory than at any time in history. Quite apart from its own then existing empire and client states like Egypt and Iraq, it had large occupation forces in Germany, Austria and Italy, a token force in Japan, was fighting the communists in Greece, and was also responsible for most of the former Italian colonies, for French South-East Asia, and the Dutch East Indies.
: After the Second World War,Britain was too
: busy trying to rebuild its shattered economy
: and begin the process of de-colonization to
: pay much attention to events in Cambodia and
: Vietnam.
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