Word: imperialist
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England as a whole simply did not have any serious thought whatever about the Empire. England was unanimously non-imperialist-and unanimously unprepared for the break-up of her Empire...
...that "the unification of this country has not yet been perfected." Many of the isolationist sentiments of young people, he remarked, must be attributed to the postwar historians, who were unable to fix the guilt for the last war and so spread the conviction that this was a purely imperialist struggle. "Things would have been different if we had joined the League," he concluded...
...Faces East. Britain has long shown India two different faces. One face has been ruthlessly imperialist. The harshness of this face can scarcely be exaggerated. During the Mutiny of 1857, the last widespread, violent revolt against the British Raj, Britons slaughtered harmless elderly Hindus of both sexes by the score (and were sometimes slaughtered themselves by the sepoys-see cut, p. 28). They seized Moslems, whose religion forbids contact with pork, and sewed them into pig skins before killing them. They tied some rebellious sepoys to the muzzles of cannon, and then fired the cannon. As late...
...liberals make perhaps the strongest possible case for extreme caution in Britain's India policy. The fact that the same case is adopted hypocritically by some archimperialists obviously does not impair its merits as a case. It rests on the undeniable major premise that the wrongs of the imperialist past cannot be undone, that present and future are what matter. The text is taken from the inscription on the $10,000,000 palace in which the Viceroy waited last week : "Liberty will not descend to a people ; a people must raise themselves to Liberty." The case goes...
Last week British democracy allowed Jock McGovern and the other two Independent Laborites, Campbell Stephen and James Maxton, their day in Parliament. They blamed the war on capitalist greed. They attacked Prime Minister Churchill as a "commercial imperialist." Jock McGovern called the Churchill-Roosevelt Atlantic Charter "one of the grossest pieces of deceit in modern times" since "it is to be applied to the nations that have been overrun by Hitler while the independent government which it proposes to give them is denied to territories overrun in the past by Britain." He said that anything except guaranteed "independence...