Word: imperialistically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Abroad. What is not yet clear to those responsible for American foreign policy is that capitalism in other countries of the world is either dead or dying, that it cannot be revived, and that the peoples of the world will not be won for an American imperialist rule more interested in a favorable balance of trade than in the welfare of the impoverished masses...
...America's foreign policy shapers did not the UN Charter specifically list as one of the three types of trusteeship territories: "Territorities which may be detached from enemy states as a result of the second World War." (Article 77). Another source of annoyance was the action of old-time imperialist nations, such as England, France and Belgium, along with Australia and New Zealand in giving to the authority of the Trusteeship Council former mandate territories (another group specifically mentioned in the Charter as potential trustee lands) with a total area of 710,000 square miles and a population of almost...
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...
...even the East India Company, which harbored more peculiar individualists than any stock-company in history, had ever had to deal with so strange an imperialist as Raffles. While his fellow nabobs made their fortunes in spices and property, or sank into fatty degeneracy under the stewing sun, Raffles immersed himself in tireless study of his surroundings-establishing a tradition of government research that has made Indonesia one of the best documented areas of the British Empire. Botanist, cartographer, linguist, historian, Raffles tramped the jungles of Sumatra, Java, Batavia-areas wrested from the Dutch by Napoleon and, in turn, taken...