The decline of Britain's interests in Latin America.

Explains how and why Great Britain's links with Latin America declined so rapidly after 1914, and why it has been so difficult to rebuild contacts since the mid-twentieth century. Incompetence of British government and business; Details of the formidable economic position Britain built up in Latin America in the nineteenth century; Economic displacement of Britain in Latin America by the United States; How the Second World War accelerated the process of decline; Those who suffered most; Influence in Argentina; Lack of influence for British industry at high levels of British government.