A short history of England . Wesl 60 from JO Greenwich20. THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY 6jy that is to say, a plan to organize a closer, more permanent, andmore equal union among the different parts of the British Empire,has been much discussed. With this view several conferences ofprime ministers of the various colonies have been called by theBritish foreign secretary, although not much has been so faraccomplished by them. The diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, which occurred in1897, was celebrated with the greatest heartiness in all parts ofthe empire. To England itself came representatives of all
A short history of England . Wesl 60 from JO Greenwich20. THE GROWTH OF DEMOCRACY 6jy that is to say, a plan to organize a closer, more permanent, andmore equal union among the different parts of the British Empire,has been much discussed. With this view several conferences ofprime ministers of the various colonies have been called by theBritish foreign secretary, although not much has been so faraccomplished by them. The diamond jubilee of Queen Victoria, which occurred in1897, was celebrated with the greatest heartiness in all parts ofthe empire. To England itself came representatives of all thecolonies and of all the races living under the British crown, anda new realization of the significance of the widespread empirecame over British statesmen. Poets like Kipling, as well as min-isters like Chamberlain and colonial men of enterprise like CecilRhodes, have devoted themselves to the extension of the ideal ofimperial unity. When Victorias long and useful reign finallycame to an end in 1901, and the prince of Wales succeeded tothe throne as
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