One can damn imperial and colonial attitudes and the onsequences of them, but they were very much of their time.

The only one of them we are remotely in a position to judge was the last. Given that the horror of WWI was still alive in that generation's memories, their desire to do anything to avoid a repeat in europe was understandable. Quite simply, they had got to the point where the englishman's burden of civilising europe was too expensive in lives to consider doing except in the face of dire national threat..

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