Record View: War debt lasts.(News)

From: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) | Date: December 30, 2006 | Copyright information

WE have finally paid our debts from World War II.

Six decades after the end of the conflict Britain has paid final loan instalments to the US and Canada.

We owed the two countries nearly pounds 3billion. Over the years, we've paid nearly double that, including in...

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