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ut ju3t British, "
(1)
334.
Another writer declared 01 am an
ardent Imperialist, a hater of pariah pump politics and I
take an intense and living interest in my Erpire* our
Empire. "
(2)
Both letters indicate that Empire had,
for their writara, displaced party loyalties, or rather
that both parties were expected to be equally Imperialistic.
Tho editor of the Daily flail cunmarisod the basic policy
of exploiting Imperialist fooling, . "We discovered at once an
abounding desire for knowledge on all matters affecting
the Empire. 4 de realised that one of the greatest forces
almost untapped at the disposal of the prone, was the depth
and volume of pablic interest in Imperial questions. It
had been overlooked in Pleat Sto how largely the British
Empire is a family affair; that there in hardly a
houao)old or a family circle of any sine-# which does not
have one or more of its members earning a living somewhere in
the outer wards... $Tho British are beyond question an
Imperial race, " (3)
The Mail did not only develop ties
with the emigrants to the colonies howeverg but reminded its
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(1) Di2y Mill 2nd Jana 1¬97.
(2) Ibidg
(3) Kennedy Jonoa, Fleet Street and Downing Street, London 1920,
, ß. 146R