Yellow Magic , not Yellowcake , marked the shift from Pax Britannica to Pax Americana

I argue that Pax Britannica lingered on into the end of WWII , but as soft culturally-economic power, not hard military- economic power.

The British brand had a lot of strength against the America brand - it still had a lot of moral capital.

Not the least because Britain had stood all alone defending the world's Four Freedoms while isolationist America had yawned like a bored bystander watching a schoolyard bully beat up a pre-schooler.

Winston Churchill had led that fight but in the Fall of 1942 - unknown to most - his party, the Tories, had thrown away most of the global good will , all in an instant.

In 1945, 2/3 of the UK didn't vote Labor - or didn't vote

Only one third of the potential electorate actually went out and cast a vote for Atlee's Labor Party.

WWII Britain self destructs to second-rate status by trusting its airplanes more than its empire

By far far and away the potentially largest army power of WWII was not Russia or America - it was the British Commonwealth!

"You can't end a war, begun in selfishness, by piling on more selfishness" - Martin Henry Dawson

Dawson didn't believe the Allies could hope to sustain a moral coalition to end Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo's war of selfishness by piling on their own examples of selfishness.