1. The Collapse of European Empires
... assisted it. According to Macmillan, there was a common belief that the British had lost the will to continue their once powerful and great empire, a decay in the desire to lead perhaps. Instead, he argued: "But they did not conceive of themselves as having the right to govern in perpetuity. It was rather their duty to spread to other nations those advantages which ... Macdonald in 1939 supports the basis that the self-governance process and gradual decolonisation was all intended by the British government: "The great purpose of the British Empire is the gradual spread of freedom among ...
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