Complex sentence: Locally cultivated executives of government and commerce crave and usually obtain the material trappings of success without the slightest interest or capability of actually achieving it.Perhaps there was something to be said for the British Empire after all.
Split into simpler sentences: Locally cultivated executives of government and commerce crave and usually obtain the material trappings of success without the slightest interest or capability of actually achieving it. There was something to be said for the British Empire after all.