Show re- re 9 I Empires s That A Abide i e I. I I Y C EORGE Y YOUNG UNG a British diplomat and author recently wrote a book pook discussing K the the clash dash of th the British imp imperialism in ill the he Near E East t with the Ru Russian i n scheme of proletarian proletarian prole prole- dictatorship After remarking that the conflict will belong be long and stubbornly contested he jie adds That cT army of empire builders builders' will vill win Yin who build within the mind of man the empire that abides There is is' is something arresting about that fent nce sentence especially to tb Americans who according according according ac ac- ac- ac cording to all aU are are now building a gre great t world world empire It suggests that Wall Wallstreet street treet banking ho houses ses ton tOll crUl cruisers ers and b b battalions ns s of faultlessly drill drilled d mar marines may v not nol be the best implements with which ito tto build an an empire e after ill all jh che Spanish h held ld an n overseas e empire pire t that at v was vas s quite as s' s large larg and that lasted tasted on ort the whole about the British as long as empire empire em- em pire pie ye yet th the world tad today y h has s almost completely com com- ty ly f forg forgotten Uen about t it It was a money money- v bags ag J empire that at was held together by arn armies ies the fleets Y Yet f the Uie British empire ey even n if it J heu fall fall to pieces t tomorrow will he be r reL re- re eed for centuries centuries not not because its i L for of f farri arri rs and merchant t kings but because of h 1 its litS Sli its Swifts its Shelleys and andr r its s f ra s. s I J In the anci ancient nt world there were many nip te and small Today we remember be ber bi Jwo wo with especial admiration remember admiration remember J then them and admire rethen the i so much ch indeed that J men sp spend their I entire lives trying ing to ta add dd aI a I r jT f fw w. w more facts to fa our knowledge a about out them r ese empires were the empires of Gr Greece e e f and Ild Isra Israel l. l Yet in their day they were small and and f impotent in a material nd sense E Each ll w soul Cranked t by mot more glittering kingdoms each t teX eX except ept for a brief period of independence nd I Mas as s subjugated bj gated by foreign armies aut ut each Al p built ut an empire that tha is still stin ii in existence If America Ameri tais is building an Ul empire we m b riS it stop t a and ft figure i g gui t o out but t wb what t ki kind d it is going go- go lpg ing t to be W We can rule the worlds world's indus indus- k v t d in fe it finance nc and our our ur fI fleet t l can i. i be supreme on alf i the seven seas ea bu but unless 1 g our ur r empire is of df the kind that is is' built II within 1 the rhind n it wont won't do us or r anybody e c n g good 4 1 |