Word: macnaghten
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...Manila; the British had heavily reinforced Rangoon with British and Indian troops of all arms and services. In Bangkok, capital of little Thailand, tension was drumhead-tight in the place that might be the Belgium of a Far East war. The British attitude, as broadcast by Aberdeen Economist Lindley Macnaghten Fraser this week: "If the Japanese regard the present moment as appropriate for a tremendous act of national harakiri, we in the British Empire will cooperate without limit...
...body of Shanghai was international, its backbone was British. The city's really big names-Sassoon, Macnaghten, Keswick-were British; so were its attitude toward natives, its philosophy of polite but huge profits, and, in the last three years, the main part of its resistance to Japanese imperialism...
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