Dutch buy ex-Australian vehicles

[Ed Storey]

Part of the wartime Lend-Lease deal was that, once the war was over, Britain and France would dismantle their colonial holdings. Whether this was an indication of an anti-colonial feeling by the Americans or just a long-term move to open up foreign markets for their 'economic empire' can be debated. Fighting communism certainly paved the way to open the door to the United States setting up a 'proxy-empire' supplying arms and goods along with political oversight to several nations world-wide.