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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 un ...
... 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 un ...
Page 45
... 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 , were ...
... 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 , were ...
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... Empire exactly as before , which meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject peoples " free " , which meant in practice handing them over to Japan , Italy and other pre- datory powers , and incidentally ...
... Empire exactly as before , which meant dropping all pretensions to Socialism . Another was to set the subject peoples " free " , which meant in practice handing them over to Japan , Italy and other pre- datory powers , and incidentally ...
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