Could be ASB, but I always wondered if their existed a popular movement in Allied Occupied Western Europe to petition the US or UK for commonwealth/protectorate/statehood status.
With WW2 being the second genocidal conflict the US had to step in and stop, many survivors completely lost faith in continental diplomacy.
This coupled with the spectre of potential domestic and external communist takeover, petition could also help stave off the red menace.
Thoughts?