IMPERIALISM IN WORLD SERVICE
What has been freshly demonstrated in war will remain true in peace: that Great Britain by herself cannot hold her own in the company of such vast political entities as the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R., and the Chinese Republic. Nothing less than the whole British Empire can speak on equal terms with these Powers; conversely, without the world-wide communications of the seabased Empire the weight of the 3 great continental peoples in human affairs cann-ot be made effective. This then is the primary case for holding the integrity of the British Empire after the war to be an indispensable need of the world at large. It is at bottom a strategical case, but one of the lessons taught by war is that there is no contradiction between strategy and morals. “There is only one thing worse than injustice: and that is justice without her sword in her hand.” (Sir Edward Grigg;, i n “The British Commonwealth. Its Place in the Service of the World.”)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 79, 7 February 1944, Page 2
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