Promoted as a means for rectifying the problems of a region in
extreme need, the Anglo-American Caribbean Commission (AACC) only
exposed and exacerbated the underlying antagonisms between Britain
and the United States over the economic and political structure of
the post-war world. This study places the AACC, formed in 1942,
within the context of the Anglo-American wartime special
relationship, and examines the political, economic, and security
motives at the heart of this unique and little-known collaboration.
It exposes the determination of the United States to use exigencies
of war to impose its post-war plans upon Britain, and the tenacity
of the British to defend even the smallest and least regarded of
its possessions regardless of local and international
opposition.
The AACC was a battleground of conflicting British and American
visions of a new West Indies, and it would thus serve as a
rehearsal for key debates that would emerge at the end of the war.
For the United States, the AACC was a vehicle for promoting
America's broad postwar ambitions in the West Indies; for Britain,
it was simply part of the price that had to be paid for American
assistance in the war effort. Debates within the AACC over the
future of West Indian sugar, the regulation of tariffs and trade,
constitutional reform and the expansion of civil aviation mirrored
wider British and American differences.
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