Harry, At 00:24 12/10/02 -0700, you wrote: <<<< This failed Britain of some 40 million people, entered the 30's controlling some 25% of the earth. The depression and another war was enough to finish the Empire, the white man's burden, and the rest.
If I had to place a finger on the beginning of the end, I would suggest the Ottawa Agreements in 1932. This is when free trade Britain finally folded its tents and crept silently away. >>>> Yes, and when our Bloomsbury aesthete of incredible intellectual pretentiousness (typical of the upper-class crowd that actually pulled England down from 1900 onwards) tried to patronise Harry Dexter White in the 1940s by wanting to retain Imperial Preference at the same time as begging heaps of money from the USA, he was soon slapped down. But here's a little story from that time. This arose from a speech that Keynes gave in Savannah when the IMF was launched: Keynes: "I hope no malicious fairy will spoil the christening." Vinson (one of the American top negotiators who, like White, was not at all fazed by Keynes' so-called brilliance): "I don't mind being called malicious, but I do mind being called a fairy". Keith ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Keith Hudson, General Editor, Handlo Music, http://www.handlo.com 6 Upper Camden Place, Bath BA1 5HX, England Tel: +44 1225 312622; Fax: +44 1225 447727; mailto:khudson@;handlo.com ________________________________________________________________________
