Word: saxondom
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...essay on the contemporary French fascist Charles Maurras is also an examination of the French school that connects Gallic tradition with purely Greek and Roman origins and abhors the "barbarian" influences of Anglo-Saxondom. The study of General De Gaulle (written when the Free French had their headquarters in London) has much to say about the traditional reluctance of the French to accept a leader whose feet are not actually on French soil. And in addition to his wealth of purely French material, Author Brogan draws constantly and easily on analogies and contrasts from British and U.S. history and characteristics...
Rough, strong-headed Cecil John Rhodes who dug a fortune out of Africa was a strong believer in Anglo-Saxondom. One day he took seriously a conversational suggestion by the late Editor William Thomas Stead of the British Review of Reviews that the British Empire join with the U. S. Republic under a constitution based on the U. S. Cried Rhodes: "I take it-I take it! ... Dear me, how ideas expand. I thought my ideas were tolerably large, but yours have outgrown them. Yes, yes, you are quite right!" So Cecil Rhodes set up a ?1,000,000 trust...
...given by the English-speaking Union, Lord Lee of Fareham, the rich soldier-states-man who gave Chequers Court to the nation as a country home for her badly paid Prime Ministers, was expected to make some encouraging references to the satisfactory relations which governed Anglo-Saxons in Anglo-Saxondom...
Perhaps the greatest service that the Rhodes scholarships can do this country is the promotion of international good understanding, and a sympathetic appreciation of England is a good acquisition for any of us. But let no one fear that Oxford will feed him with sentimental ideas about Anglo-Saxondom or inoculate him with any brand of imperialism. Much nonsense of that sort is being written in this country at present, with quotations of certain rash utterances of that amazing genius, Cecil Rhodes. Rhodes saw one thing clearly, that mutual understanding between this country, Great Britain and the dominions, having...
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