It’s something of a red herring. Britain got the largest slice of the Marshall Plan money, they just wasted it on things like trying to maintain the Empire. One thing you’d learn from the book is Germany definitely wasn’t in a good shape in 55.
they just wasted it on things like nationalizing the coal, gas, electricity, rail, air transport and steel industries.
There was no effort to keep either Kenya or Malaysia as British. In Malaysia, the war continued after independence.