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... empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life outside it . Still , the Empire was under ...
... empire and a world - wide financial network , drawing interest and profits and spending them - on what ? It was fair to say that life within the British Empire was in many ways better than life outside it . Still , the Empire was under ...
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... British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Well - meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and black felt hats , with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm ...
... British Empire . By 1920 nearly every inch of the colonial empire was in the grip of Whitehall . Well - meaning , over - civilized men , in dark suits and black felt hats , with neatly rolled umbrellas crooked over the left forearm ...
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... British Empire intact and British sea- power barely affected . But ideologically it is not possible ; were Hitler to make an offer along those lines , it could only be treacherously , with a view to conquering England indirectly or ...
... British Empire intact and British sea- power barely affected . But ideologically it is not possible ; were Hitler to make an offer along those lines , it could only be treacherously , with a view to conquering England indirectly or ...
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