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The Sun Set on the British Empire Not for Lack of Interest
One of the symptoms of the fall of the British Empire was their inability to hang onto India. Why? I suppose it had something to do with a little war which took a wide swath of Asia and put it under the control of the Imperial forces of the Empire of Japan. Kind of hard to hang on the Burma, Singapore, etc. And the Indians were playing games with their rice exports -- I think they made sure they went to Japan. So how do you hang on to an empire when the subjects are making common cause with your enemy? India broke away as a direct result of the war, in the late 1940's. By that time, British people in the Mother Country were still on rations, and were into the 1950's. It's very simple: Britain did not lose her empire because of lack of interest, but because of lack of principal -- money that is.
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Mar 19 2008, 12:17 AM EDT by
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T'other way round
Many of us brits would prefer integration into a worldwide anglo-saxon state instead of the EU. Especially if the Candadians, Aussies and Kiwis were up for it too. Not America to become a part of a new British Empire but precisely the opposite. Given population sizes by default such a democratically run republic would be lead by the citizens of the former U.S.
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Feb 16 2008, 4:44 PM EST by
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British Empire Theory
British Empire Theory The biggest empire in world history centered on London, England, but fell apart as the British became uninterested in imperialism and sought an allegedly more equitable system called the Commonwealth of Nations. However
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