Imperial amnesia: the British empire. (international perspectives on the demise of the British empire and the nation's current role in world affairs)

The Economist (US) | March 28, 1998 | Copyright

"MR COOK has forgotten that the British mandate over Palestine ended 50 years ago," spluttered an Israeli official in the aftermath of the British foreign secretary's controversial visit to the Middle East earlier this month. Robin Cook must be getting used to having the decline of the British empire pointed out to him in forceful terms. His efforts to be helpful over the conflict in Kashmir so enraged the Indians last summer that the then Indian prime minister was moved to remark that Britain should remember that it was now a "third-rate power".

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