The Diplomacy of Critical Dependency, 1940
The Diplomacy of Critical Dependency, 1940
This chapter examines how far British supply diplomacy in 1940 reflected genuinely critical military needs, and how far it served broader diplomatic goals. In his correspondence with Roosevelt, Churchill repeatedly raised the prospect of British defeat without American aid. These assertions of critical dependency informed aircraft supply, which remained at the forefront of the Anglo-American supply relationship through Roosevelt's ‘all aid short of war’ support for Britain throughout the crisis of 1940 and the evolution of Lend-Lease which followed.
Keywords: British diplomacy, defence policy, American aid, aircraft supply
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