The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the British World-System 1830-1970 by John Darwin

Author:John Darwin [Darwin, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: British History, World History, History, Amazon.com
ISBN: 0521302080
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-01-01T15:00:00+00:00

Hughes’ frustration was the greater because, as he readily admitted, ‘there is only one course open to us in practice and that is to follow Britain’.99 Unless Australia spoke as part of the Empire, he told the Australian parliament in September 1921, its voice ‘would be lost across the waste of waters’. ‘But when Australia speaks as part of the British Empire

[w]ith its 500,000,000 of people, its mighty navy, its flag on every sea, its strongholds on every continent, its power and glory shining and splendid, then she speaks in…tones that are heard and heeded…With our hands on the lever of Empire, we move the world, but casting this aside we are shorn of our strength and count for little or nothing.100

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