Britain and the Modern World

THESE are days in which we occasionally read, either in friendly or in critical language, of a concern whether the British people can continue to play their part in the devel opment of the modern world. Grave as any thoughtful person must admit the situation to be, we in Britain, to whatever po litical faith we may subscribe, do not share these doubts. We feel that we have heard them before. We heard them when Philip of Spain's Armada was threatening our southern coast, when Napoleon was massing his forces across the Channel at Boulogne, and when Hitler carried almost all before him in 1940. We are therefore by nature and training skeptical of these forebodings. This, however, does not mean that we are complacent, or that we ignore the dangerous instability of present international relations and the stern reality of our domestic problems. If we are to understand the contribution that the British Isles

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  Open Access•Edwin G Pulleyblank•Bulletin of the School of…•1953

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