[yarddog]

Then Churchill was wrong.

You may be right. We (England) were actually worse off than before the war.

[MEGoody]

"We (England) were actually worse off than before the war."

Carpet bombing will do that.

[WoofDog123]

I have read that there was rationing into the '50's of some items, and obviously the timing and method of returning colonies to local rule was a direct result.

the world wars pretty much ended european dominance in the world decades if not a century or more earlier than need be.