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Britain, the United States and Military Aid

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Congress and US Military Aid to Britain

Part of the book series: Southampton Studies in International Policy ((SSIP))

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[The MDAP] was viewed as a viable means to help others help the United States to support the ultimate objective of preserving world peace, as well as a less costly alternative to direct military involvement, both financially and politically.1

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  1. E. Graves and S. A. Hildreth (eds.), US Security Assistance; the Political Process (Lexington, Mass.: Lexington Books, 1985), p.39.

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  2. H. Morgenthau, ‘A Political Theory of Foreign Aid’, American Political Science Review, 56 (1962), no.2, pp.301–309; 302.

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  3. Ibid, p.303.

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  4. Public Papers of the Presidents: Harry S. Truman 1947 (Washington, 1963), p.179.

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  5. US assistance to other countries from the standpoint of national security, Joint Chiefs of Staff Paper 1769/1, 29 April 1947, in T. H. Etzold and J. L. Gaddis, Containment: Documents on American Policy and Strategy, 1945–50 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978).

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  6. C. J. Pach, Arming the Free World: the Origins of the US Military Assistance Program, 1945–50 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), p.5.

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  7. See J. Baylis, Anglo-American Defence Relations, 1939–80 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1981).

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  8. D. Acheson, Present at the Creation (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1970), p.308.

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    Helen Leigh-Phippard (Lecturer in International Relations)

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Leigh-Phippard, H. (1995). Britain, the United States and Military Aid. In: Congress and US Military Aid to Britain. Southampton Studies in International Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23919-1_1

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