Flatus,
After the war there was Marshall Plan aid for the UK.
However our goverment at the time decided that the money would be better spent in India getting it ready for independence , rather than spend it in Britain. This was stated in a bbc documentary about a year ago, along with the American bewilderment at the British goverment atitude towards the British people.
Come to think of it, the goverments attitude is still the same today.