agreeable variety of stations to our soldiers, and to indulge in the sentiment that the sun never sets on our Empire.）”一家斯里兰卡的新闻报纸引用了科尔文·R·德·西尔瓦所做出的着名回答：“那是因为上帝不信任黑暗中的英国人。（英语：That's because God does not trust the British in the dark.）”但到了20世纪中叶，尤其是第二次世界