Word: anti-imperialist
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Most U.S. Britain-baiting is directed against the British imperial position. Although U.S. strategic planning leans very heavily on the Empire, anti-imperialist U.S. tradition makes it difficult for Americans to understand Britain's very real Empire problems (see below...
Oddly enough, Stalin, Bertie McCormick and Henry Wallace all regard the Empire as peace's public enemy No. 1. Disraeli, who should have known, said: "No Caesar or Charlemagne ever presided over a dominion so peculiar." Attlee's Empire, governed largely by anti-imperialist Socialists and inhabited largely by fiercely independent "dependent peoples," is a lot more peculiar than Disraeli...
...leftist (he was wounded in the Spanish Civil War), he nonetheless includes all leftist creeds among "the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls." A vigorous anti-imperialist (as a youth, he served in the Burma police), he has the courage to affirm that an imperialist like Rudyard Kipling is likely to speak more sanely about imperial affairs than are his liberal critics. Finally, while remaining a skeptical iconoclast, Orwell can insist that "high sentiments always win in the end, leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those...
Peppery little (5 ft. 7½ in.) Emanuel Shinwell, Labor M.P., always had a diagnosis, if not a cure, for Britain's ills. "Manny" was always anticapitalist, anti-imperialist and against Britain's conservative governments, be they Labor, Tory or coalition. He was a leading Leftist in World War I, a vitriolic antidote to Labor's "traitorous" moderates in the years between the wars. He did not change his tune after World War II hit England: Churchill's coalition Government was "Winston's beauty chorus...
...virtual oblivion (they were banned from 1934 to July 23, 1942) to challenge the Hindu Mahasabha as India's third strongest political party. Their internal program is for land division, higher wages, a breaking down of all restrictions of caste, creed and custom. Externally their policy is basically anti-imperialist, but to Joshi, trading British imperialism for Japanese slavery is foolish. The average age of party members is 27. Claimed membership: 16,000 regular party members, 400,000 peasant "supporters," 39,000 students...