En relación a [PEN-L:1348] Re: Australia,
el 6 Sep 00, a las 15:16, Brad De Long dijo:
> >
> >Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> Yeah. But the British treated Australia as a source of wool and
> mutton, and Canada as a source of wheat and beef. Being a Dominion
> meant that you had an obligation to send your young men to fight and
> die at Ypres and Gallipoli. It didn't mean that Britain shipped you
> lots of free goodies to help your industrialization...
>
Argentina was spared pressure from Britain to enter the World Wars
because the flow of meat from the Pampas to Smithfield was more
important for London than the help our soldiers would give. It was
reserved to the stupidity of US diplomacy to attempt to force
Argentina into WW II, against the opposition of the British
Ambassador here, Sir David Kelly. Kelly, BTW, wrote this in his very
humorous memories. One of the consequences of American intervention
was Peronism.
Being a Dominion allowed you not to have to stand a Central Bank such
as the one, designed by Sir Otto Niemeyer and rejected even by the
Indian colonial parliament, we had to suffer after the crisis of
1930. This Central Bank was so designed as to drain as much riches
from Argentina as possible.
Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
