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Charles Emmerson
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  1. The overall result was drift punctuated by protest.

  2. The long-term integrity of the empire would not be assured by warm words alone. Britain"s own position in the empire had changed. Once, the country been the engine room of empire, the productive heart of the beast. But with Britain becoming more like a boardroom,...

  3. Apparently, a week Japan was laughable; but a strong Japan was immediately transformed into the prime example of a "Yellow Peril". Might Japan forever be stuck in a kind of no man's land between East and West, not allowed to assimilate into the international order...

  4. Constantinople had been changing for sometime before the Young Turks got hold of it. It would continue to change long after they had gone.

  5. The city (of Vienna) had an unerring tradition of celebrating some of it's greatest composers after it had around them to die in poverty.

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