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The colonies, Chamberlain said, should be self-governing. should stay loyal to the Crown, and carry on trading with Britain using the pound as Because of British industrial, military and financial supremacy, ed the waves — and waived the rules — long atter the gunboats lett. The empire never ended.
For the Tories it was a brilliant scheme and pioneered what was later called 'neocolonialism'. drove the British out were forced to bend the knee because of dependence on British markets for their products, British banks for finance, and British industry for manufactures.
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their friends' British armies went in to back up dictators under threat from revolution. When other powers threatened sions, Britain could fight them off ilaiming to defend sovereignty' for its own colonies.
The system proved its worth in the thirties. The volume of food imported and ped by a third. stumped up for the depression.
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Britain rul- Australian sheep, Those who 'special relationship' La new division of the spoils, sheepdog. "defending At the Teheran and Yalta the three leaders' lochaisi posses'national politics: stayed the same while its price dropBritain's 'partners' But it was after the war that it realIn twenty years over £12½ billion was invested overseas, 60 per cent in South African sweat, words.
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muctals. thing, Indian foods and cotton, and Middle castern vu were tne roundanons or Britain's share of the postwar spoils.
A weakened Britain could not rule its Empire without a Big Brother. The was designed so that Britain could cling to its spoils. Even while fighting with America for rulers ran at its heels like a tame wartime conferences of by Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill - divided up the world bet- guise. ween them. The condition of British control over the Commonwealth was its backing for American interests in parternship of thieves to carry on plundering the Potsdam International Conference, 1945: Truman, Stalin, Bevin, Attlee carve up the world. tatorship about the Malvinas, because it accepts the right of the British government and navy to deal with the dicinstead of promoting world workers' unity.
But not only are they powerless to defeat the Tories' jingoism. Socialist