[?]At Britain Has
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Done For The World
IITAIN’s colonial record is too little known, and her policies too little understood, says Sir iston Churchill in a foreword to )ok on British Guiana, published London last month, eferring to the “clouds of mis erstanding and prejudice that 3 gathered round the very idea olonial government,” Sir Winston es: lot since the days of the Roman )ire has a single nation carried reat a responsibility for the lives men and women born outside shores as Great Britain does ay. ook where you will, you will find the British have ended wars, a stop to savage customs, opened *ches, schools and hospitals, : railways, roads and harbours, developed the natural resources Duntries so as to mitigate almost ersal desperate poverty. ’hey have given freely in money materials, and in the services devoted band of civil servants: no tax is imposed upon any he colonial peoples that is not t by their own Governments on ects for their own good.” le book, by Michael Swan, is fourth in a series of illustrated nes about the United Kingdom’s indent territories, written by rent authors and sponsored by Colonial Office.