Britain may not have had to bankrupt itself or sacrifice the flower of three generations holding the line against the Reds. Somehow the US always gets the credit when the fact is that until the German Socialist Union was caught supplying arms to the Mississippi Workers Brotherhood they sat nice and safe behind thousands of mile of ocean and did nothing but shake their heads and get rich on British Armament orders.
God save the King and long live the Commonwealth.
Say, are there any Nepalese left? How many Gurkhas (along with Sikhs, Zulus, Bengals, Fuzzy-Wuzzies, Wakambas, Boers and other martial caste-rs) have been plucked out of the Himalayas to help keep those poppies fertilized?