Agreement on Germany and the provision of Marshall Aid without strings might have led to a different outcome.

However, the war left the UK severely weakened and depending financially on Marshall Aid and loans from the United States.

One of the conditions of Marshall Aid was that the nation's leaders must get together to co-ordinate economic efforts and to pool the supply of raw materials.

There was one line of writing in ink: 'Marshall Aid.

The Treasury was sufficiently disgruntled to explore the alternative of dispensing with Marshall Aid altogether in the interest of national independence.

A sequel to Marshall Aid was needed to consolidate what the latter had begun.

The complaints even led to talk of reducing Marshall Aid unless matters improved.

They thought that Congressional leaders were trying to make Marshall Aid to Britain a quid pro quo for larger allocations of British controlled ore supplies.

Furthermore, he saw incompatibility in Britain spending large sums on atomic weapons whilst accepting Marshall Aid.

After 1945, Treviranus advised America on the allocation of loans to German companies as part of Marshall Aid.