It was not easy, however, to persuade his Chinese friends that]
Great Britain in her actions in China was acting in good faith. There was the prejudice in their] minds of what was described as "impenalism."
The British empire had undergone great changes during the last 25 years. The year 1900 was a cnn-Yenient date to take as it was the year of the Boxer Rebellion and also the year of the. Boer War. Since then British imperialism had undergone substantial changes amounting almost to a revolution, which was! due to the development of democratic thought in Great Britain itself. Equally in domestic and in foreign policy the purpose of the British
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