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... Malaya and Nigeria, Mombasa and Mandalay. The one-time empire-builders
were reduced to the status of clerks, buried deeper and deeper under mounds of
paper and red tape. In the early 'twenties one could see, all over the Empire, the
older officials, who had known more spacious days, writhing impotently under the
changes that were happening. From that time onwards it has been next door to
impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial
administration.
... Malaya and Nigeria, Mombasa and Mandalay. The one-time empire-builders
were reduced to the status of clerks, buried deeper and deeper under mounds of
paper and red tape. In the early 'twenties one could see, all over the Empire, the
older officials, who had known more spacious days, writhing impotently under the
changes that were happening. From that time onwards it has been next door to
impossible to induce young men of spirit to take any part in imperial
administration.
Page 90
The third was to develop a positive imperial policy, and aim at transforming the
Empire into a federation of Socialist states, like a looser and freer version of the
Union of Soviet Republics. But the Labour Party's history and background made
this impossible. It was a party of the Trade Unions, hopelessly parochial in
outlook, with little interest in imperial affairs and no contacts among the men who
actually held the Empire together. It would have had to hand over the
administration of India ...
The third was to develop a positive imperial policy, and aim at transforming the
Empire into a federation of Socialist states, like a looser and freer version of the
Union of Soviet Republics. But the Labour Party's history and background made
this impossible. It was a party of the Trade Unions, hopelessly parochial in
outlook, with little interest in imperial affairs and no contacts among the men who
actually held the Empire together. It would have had to hand over the
administration of India ...
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duce a workable imperial policy instead of a mixture of humbug and Utopianism,
bring patriotism and intelligence into partnership — for the first time, a movement
of such a kind becomes possible. 11 The fact that we are at war has turned ^x
Socialism from a textbook word into a realizable policy. The inefficiency of private
capitalism has N been proved all over Europe. Its injustice has been proved in
the East End of London. Patriotism, against which the Socialists fought so long,
has ...
duce a workable imperial policy instead of a mixture of humbug and Utopianism,
bring patriotism and intelligence into partnership — for the first time, a movement
of such a kind becomes possible. 11 The fact that we are at war has turned ^x
Socialism from a textbook word into a realizable policy. The inefficiency of private
capitalism has N been proved all over Europe. Its injustice has been proved in
the East End of London. Patriotism, against which the Socialists fought so long,
has ...
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| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius Issue 1 of Searchlight books |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Ams PressInc, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 29 Jul 2009 |
| ISBN | 0404146910, 9780404146917 |
| Length | 126 pages |
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