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Words Without Warning. Halifax's audience liked it. Ontario's Premier George Drew, an imperialist of the old school, led Toronto businessmen to their feet, applauding. Said he: "A great speech that may well change the thinking of our people...
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...
...same bluntness was bound to alienate many Indians before he had mounted the throne. Indians could-and did-point out that a starving India could be neither an efficient base nor a willing ally. With no real evidence as yet, they were already branding him as another imperialist whipping master. And many Britons at home, horrified at the failure of the Raj to control the famine, were loud-voiced for the release of the Congress leaders jailed by Linlithgow, the removal of Indian Secretary Leopold Amery...
...Hispanidad to the New World and reestablish Spain as the dominant cultural, economic and political influence in Latin America. El Caudillo dreamed of empire. In this exuberant period, there must have been at least a half-dozen occasions when Falange extremists almost carried the day for war, for an imperialist adventure to unify and recreate Spain. But Franco always decided to wait a little longer...
...issue the Congress reached a stalemate: the character of World War II. Two motions on this were voted equally-one, that it is a democratic, antiFascist, liberating war; the other, that it is an imperialist war among the great powers for world control. Fascism had convinced Latin American students of its evils; the Allies had not yet convinced them of Allied aims...