> .. the #Britannia docked.. #LloydsBankInternational.. had done.. more than.. arrange private financing: it had helped Davy win the bid in Mexico and win government support back home. Neither the supplier, its banker, nor the #UK government intended to let #Sicartsa slip away. #QueenElizabeth came to silence any murmurings of this possibility in #Mexico or elsewhere.. not many steel mills in backwaters..[get] a defense by the #British #RoyalFamily.. devoid of.. sense.
https://journal.probeinternational.org/odious-debts/read-odious-debts-the-book/introduction-the-queen-comes-to-sicartsa/