PRIME Minister David Cameron’s pronouncement in New York last week that during the Second World War, and in particular during the dark days of 1940, Britain was the “junior partner” to the US (Echo, July 22) was a very surprising remark.

It is widely known that after Dunkirk we stood alone against the Nazis and emerged victorious from the Battle of Britain. We were the only country which fought the Germans from beginning to end.

In a TV interview from the Sixties I remember Field Marshal Montgomery saying: “In two world wars the Americans stayed in the pavilion until half-time.”

But Mr Cameron was unlikely to have said that.

LD Wilson, Guisborough, East Cleveland.