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"I believe in the British Empire, and in the second place I
believe in the British race,. I believe that the British race
in the greatest of governing races that the world has over
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And by a Church of England clergyman in 1897,
"I especially believe in men of my own kin. They are a royal
people;
the masterfulf
noble peoples "the lords of human kind",,
they rule by right divine on every land and sea. "
Racial ties were a basic for colonial federation, - as Lecky put
its
- ".. how unspeakably important it in to the future of the
world' that the English race, through the ages that are to come
should cling an closely as possible together. "
were included with the British as "the highest type of
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The Americans
human being, 44)
Chamberlain advocated an Anglo-American alliance# and there was
a good deal of support for American Imperialism during the
Amorican"3panich War of 18981 the links between the two nations
wore illustrated by a tableau at the Lord Mayorto Show in the
shape of a chip, - "Britannia stood on the dock clasping the hand
Chreiberlnin. Foroipn and Colonial Spoachoa, p. 89.
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(4) Nineteenth Century1 February 1$999 ppn. 216-2259 Tl. F. Wyatt'
"Wer an a tout of national
value, " p. 216.