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From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men
of spirit to take any part in imperial administration . And what was true of the
official world was true also of the commercial . The great monopoly companies ...
From that time onwards it has been next door to impossible to induce young men
of spirit to take any part in imperial administration . And what was true of the
official world was true also of the commercial . The great monopoly companies ...
Page 69
To a Labour Government in power , three imperial policies would have been
open . One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which
meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject
peoples ...
To a Labour Government in power , three imperial policies would have been
open . One was to continue administering the Empire exactly as before , which
meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject
peoples ...
Page 71
Both ignored agriculture and imperial problems , and both antagonized the
middle classes . The suffocating stupidity of leftwing propaganda had frightened
away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval
officers ...
Both ignored agriculture and imperial problems , and both antagonized the
middle classes . The suffocating stupidity of leftwing propaganda had frightened
away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval
officers ...
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