TO-DAY MAY 24th IS EMPIRE DAY Originally started in the late 19th century in Canada, Empire Day spread to the U.K. and then around the Empire. Here is my list, (1920-1960 - what we can say were the last 40 years of its circa 250 years history) of significant Britons, and other people, who really BELIEVED in the British Empire. They fought domestic and foreign enemies to preserve it. Let us remember these EMPIRE heroes today. Julian Amery Leo Amery Max Beaverbrook Arthur Bryant Ernest Bevin Brendan Bracken Nirad Chaudhuri (U.K./India) Winston Churchill George Curzon Anthony Eden Douglas Haig Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall Robert Menzies (Australia) Stewart Menzies Bernard Montgomery Enoch Powell George Santayana (U.S./Spain) Jan Smuts (South Africa) Gerald Templar George Kennedy Young. Look up any names you dont know. (N.B. What wikipedia says about Nirad Chaudhuri is not reliable). And its Santayana article does not mention Santayanas famous quote about the British Empire - Never has the world had such a sweet, just, and boyish master. Below... a photo from 2 cities - London and Hong Kong. The commercial buildings you see here on Hong Kong island, under The Peak, (top right) are a sign of the prosperity the British Empire and its ideas brought to Hong Kong. Once, as Palmerston said, a barren rock.
Posted on: Sat, 24 May 2014 04:22:23 +0000
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