The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-01-04

and organization Thirdly, it was
 held together by sea-power and
 economic fndlities centering in London. Finally, much of 1t re-
 mained within the empire neither by force nor necessity but volun- tarily.
 It was in 1776 that the first not able chunk broke away, namely,
 the United States of America. By
 the Durham report. on Canaoa Q838) a device came into being, namely, the Dominion Formula, by which colonies could be wholly self
 governing and yet be tied to the empire. This device eventually in cluded Canada, Australia, New Zea- land, and the Union of South Al
 rica which had only recently been
 brought in after the Boer War. There was India with a variety of government and arrangements. Then there were number of crown
 colonies, protectorates, concessions, settlements and spheres of influ- ence. It was grand empire, with pomp and ceremony and WoH : derful navy and army and civil service equalled by none.
 By 1914, this colonial system closely tied in with the colonies of France, Holland and Belgium, was in peril. The Prussians, who had come into control of Germany by 1870, were battering the empire for power and trade. German com
 mercial. agents were everywhere and a competent body of men they were. The defeat of Germany III World War I did not aid Great Britain. Rather, it implemented Woodrow Wilson's nationalistis doc Urine of self determination. The British felt the effects Of
 it first in India, where, under the
 Congress Party and the idealism of
 Mohandas Gandhi, a national1stlc
 movement grew into an effective
 ness which challenged British Pow CT between World War I and World War II and finally dismissed 1t after World War II. In China, after the 1925 revolution, the British were forced to give up nearly every pow CT they had eXacted since the treaty of Ranking ir ld42; they
 managed only to hold their colony in kongkong.
 The Malay Peninsula and Bur ma were rife with Communist pro-
 paganda. Egypt was separated but the management of the Suez Canal had been retained. The Arabian kingdoms, so assiduously erected
 during World War I and nutured since, were involved in wars with
 Israel and in intrigues amongst themselves for power. Only the dominions stand firm in 1950-the self governing dom-
 inions, independent, economically stronger than the empire. Canada, Australia, New Zealand, peopled by
 immigrants from England (and
 France in the case of Canada),
 racially, religiously, culturally re- main tied to the British crown. The
 Union of South Africa at times
 gave evidence of weakening but,
 on the eve of 1850, still stands by
 England. And this is interesting to note: Both Hindustan and Pax istan were more kindly in their attitudes toward Britain at the end of 1949 than had been true since 1918.
 Colonialism is not yet dead. The
 greatest colonizing power in 1850
 is Soviet Russia, which has cap
 tured Eastern Europe to the Elbe River and the whole of China, thus
 establishing one of the largest most
 heterogeneous masses of humanity under one rule. The British Empire is smaller but still strong. Japan and the Philippines are closely as sociated with the United States The world is in flux.